re: Rock Hall 2024 inductees

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This might be the most depressing post ever

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Man, it all depends on how old you are. I’m old enough to remember a 10 year span when you couldn’t turn the radio on without hearing Foreigner or S Miller.

By the time The Pixies and Joy Division came along I’d quit listening to radio….any radio. In fact, I’d stopped listening to the vast majority of new music all together based on (in my humble opinion) a lack of musicianship.

As a musician, it would take me days to learn many of those old Foreigner songs. It would take me minutes to learn a Nirvana song.

But every generation is different and I’m not here to say which era or bands had more of an influence. It’s all music regardless of the chord structure or lyrical content, and because it is, it’s inspiring to folks even if it isn’t to me personally.

It’s still rock and roll to me.

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I have every one of Foreigner's first six albums. I couldn't name one song from The Pixies, Joy Division, or Sonic Youth. I can hear a Foreigner song on the radio every day. To the best of my knowledge I have never heard The Pixies, Joy Division or Sonic Youth on the radio. The only people those bands ever influenced are music critics and Depeche Mode.

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I don't even hate Foreigner, but man, this is a pretty bad indictment of your horrible taste in music.