Cher has done a lot of things. She scored her first Hot 100 chart-topper in 1965 and her last in 1999. (At 52, Cher was the oldest woman to land a #1 hit until last week, when Brenda Lee broke the record.) Cher sang backup on “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” and “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.” She helped modernize the variety show in the ’70s and defied expectations in the ’80s. She won an Oscar for Best Actress. The ubiquitous robotic Auto-Tune effect? Cher did that first. But Cher is not in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and she thinks that’s some bullshit.
Being real though, the fact that Rosetta godsblessed Tharpe was not in the very fucking first induction is proof the whole thing is bullshit. Sister Tharpe gave fucking birth to rock n roll. The fucking BEASTIE BOYS were in there before her. I fucking love them, but they aren’t rock n roll at all.
You can look at how many foundational rock n roll artists still aren’t listed, while non rock acts get in for hype.
It’s an empty, bullshit entity created to make money, not give real respect to artists.
Jimi Hendrix was the keystone transformation in rock and paved the pathway to metal, as well as bringing electric guitars into the mainstream and being the first known artist to incorporate distortion into his music as he did. The whammy bar was a novelty before Hendrix. And before he used a whammy bar, he’d produce distortion by holding his guitar specific ways around his speakers to use the feedback purposefully.
I swear Jimi Hendrix must have been a savant…
I agree that the rock n roll hall of fame is a sham organization, but Jimi Hendrix was the greatest influence on rock and I will die on this hill!
Did you reply to the wrong comment? Because I don’t get how arguing that one person should be in the hall of fame is an argument either for or against an argument that other foundational people should also have been in the hall of fame from the start.
Jim’s great, no argument there, but he’s much more a transformational force in a later generation of Rock 'n Roll than anything like a founding father/mother.
I was responding to the “gave birth to rock n roll” part. Maybe I mistook what you meant by that. And fair enough for Hendrix being more a transformational force. I was meaning in the sense of impacting the genre overall, and all the sub-genres he spawned.
But I wasn’t arguing that she should not be in the hall of fame/from the start. I didn’t say anything like that.
Oh, well then you misspelled CHUCK BERRY