Taylor Swift and former U.S. President Barack Obama lead tributes in a star-studded Rock Hall of Fame ceremony https://t.co/1HsNI6dR5E pic.twitter.com/2JGpqR3Rt7
— Reuters (@Reuters) November 2, 2021
Retweets do not imply endorsements, but here’s some entertainment for a Sunday evening…
"Rhythm and blues was foundational to what the white guys were doing." Carole King discusses diversity and the history of rock 'n' roll at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. pic.twitter.com/EB5D0UJYSc
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) November 4, 2021
Brandi Carlile says it's "heartening" to see the diverse group of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. pic.twitter.com/RN1Bv3FM8L
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) November 1, 2021
SIMPLY THE BEST: @ImAngelaBassett inducted @LoveTinaTurner into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (@RockHall) and says that, years after she played her on screen, Tina is still setting an example of how to live. pic.twitter.com/uinmpxV3GS
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) November 1, 2021
Stars of music – including Carole King, Jay-Z and Foo Fighters – enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ?https://t.co/tRH3cgnPwp pic.twitter.com/Uf62hACI5j
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) November 1, 2021
"I don't have anything new to say": Newly-inducted Hall of Famer @Carole_King says she's focusing on activism, not songwriting. pic.twitter.com/CJJNp4wsGl
— AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) November 1, 2021
Baud
You funny, AL.
sab
Only now Tina Turner? That gobsmacks me.
Anne Laurie
If I understand correctly, Turner was inducted as half of ‘Ike & Tina’ some years ago. The new induction is for her solo work.
(IIRC, if only because the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame is mostly about publicity, there are several artists who’ve been ‘rewarded’ more than once. The Beatles were an early choice, but I think at least three of the four also have stand-alone awards.)
raven
In the 1978 film American Hot Wax Laraine Newman played a character based on Carole King. The film had made up bands along with Screamin Jay Hawkins, Freddie Cannon and Chuck Berry. Here’s a picture of Laraine and Chuck.
gwangung
@sab: Right? (And certainly she’s a selection you don’t quibble about at all….)
raven
@Baud: Yea maybe numbnuts will drive by and bitch about old people.
raven
It’s a good time to post the video of Prince doing My Guitar Gently Weeps at the Hall. I really had no idea the dude could play like this.
raven
@gwangung: If I never hear fucking Proud Mary again it will be too soon.
laura
The Roadie Brothers have worked for Carol King and hold her in the highest regard.
James E Powell
@raven:
See also Grace of My Heart. Illeana Douglas played a character that was not expressly based on Carole King, but kinda sorta was.
sab
@raven: Yes!
raven
@laura: She often comes here to campaign for progressive candidates.
debbie
@raven:
Me neither.
James E Powell
Still no Pat Benatar. What could they be thinking?
raven
@James E Powell: Cool, I like her.
raven
@debbie: Check him out on Play That Funky Music White Boy!
sab
I live 40 miles from Cleveland and I have never been to the Rock Hall. I always thought I don’t want to see guitars and costumes on display. Has anyone been there? Is it interesting?
laura
@raven: if her activism includes performance, I hope you get to see her, if her activism includes candidate forums, I hope you get to talk to her.
raven
@sab: I went to there Grammy Museum in LA and it was really cool.
lowtechcyclist
Wikipedia’s list of who’s been inducted, by year
Elizabelle
@raven: Enjoying that. Dhani Harrison looks uncannily like his late father. Like a twin.
And Tom Petty sings lead. I still feel a pang of loss every time I see or hear Tom Petty, and Prince. Should have been here longer. Now, back to the vid.
raven
@Elizabelle: Yea, he’s in The Concert For George a good bit. Here’s Billy Preston doing My Sweet Lord.
raven
@Elizabelle: My SIL was at the last Petty show.
NotMax
From the Does. Not. Compute. file of performances.
:)
Wag
@raven: It is always a good time to post that version of the song. This piano sound check before a Prince show in Osaka in 1990 is really awesome, as well.
An amazing and versatile musician.
Craig
@raven: I always love that clip, that smirk he throws out, and when he just throws the guitar up and it never comes down as he just walks off stage left… such a genius showman, master of his craft.
Elizabelle
@raven: Cool.
As always. It is Prince, and everyone else is a good backing band.
He looked like he was having fun. And a quick tribute to Chuck Berry; a moment of duck walking, I thought
ETA: And the roadie who was there to prop him up when he leaned back way far.
Percysowner
@sab:
I’m stunned that Carol King just made it. Tapestry remains one of the best regarded albums of all time. Even without it her song writing credits are legion. Glad she finally got the recognition.
Percysowner
@NotMax: Ah, Lawrence Welk, making every song as vanilla as possible. Don’t get me wrong, I watched it with my granny, who was an immigrant from Hungary and loved the show when I was 5. I later came to realize that it was, basically something a 5 year old could love.
Wag
@raven: F’ing amazing
eclare
@raven: Prince was brilliant on every instrument he played. I saw him at the Fox in ATL!
prostratedragon
@NotMax: I’ve always thought Welk was trolling us. He’d been playing gigs around for decades when they recorded that.
Alison Rose
@Elizabelle:
Saaaaaaaame. I’ll probably never get over Petty. One of my faves throughout all the different iterations of my musical preferences. Even at the height of my goth years, TPHB was still always on my playlists. Just so glad I got to see them live numerous times, including twice at The Fillmore in SF, which was the most amazing experience.
Never did get to see Prince, or Bowie, two that I’m super sad about having missed out on.
Elizabelle
@Alison Rose: You are lucky to have seen TPHB numerous times! I saw them once, at the Hollywood Bowl, ZZ Top (RIP Dusty) opening for them.
And got to see Bowie on the Let’s Dance tour.
But never Prince. A real regret. Funny, I figured I would see him a few years in the future, perhaps once it was not so hard to get tickets … as if that would ever happen. And then his time ran out. Way too soon.
Alison Rose
@Elizabelle: That was me with Nirvana. I was SO into them in middle school, and they were playing a New Years Eve show in Oakland, what would turn out to be Cobain’s last NYE. My brothers were going and I begged my mom to let me go too, but she said I was too young. “There will be plenty of other chances” she said.
To her credit, she felt awful later. Not that she should’ve been psychic, but you know.
phdesmond
@raven:
wow.
Betty
I love Carole King, as a musician and a person. Boomer here.
Miss Bianca
@Elizabelle: Prince’s death, for some reason, hit me a lot harder than either Bowie’s or Petty’s. I was never a big Tom Petty fan, although I grew to appreciate his music later in life. Bowie I admired but never *loved* the way some of my friends did. Prince always blew me away.
phdesmond
@Elizabelle:
and, i assume, to catch the guitar at the end, when Prince throws it into the audience.
eclare
@Miss Bianca: I was in high school when Purple Rain came out. I had heard him before that…1999, DMSR, Controversy, etc., but that album was the backdrop of my youth. My friends and I listened to nothing else for at least six months.
Craig
@phdesmond: there was a different guy up in the truss over the stage for the catch. Master Showman.
Dan B
@Alison Rose: My partner’s old house was a block from Cobain’s. Once we were in the backyard and some kids came by on the street, which was 25 feet below us. One kid pointed up at my partner’s house and said, “That’s Kurt Cobain’s house!” Ah youth.
phdesmond
@Craig:
ah!
debbie
@raven:
It’s surreal!
Omnes Omnibus
@raven:
He is also straight up wearing Sly Stone’s look there.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elizabelle: I saw Prince four times. Over a long period. Every show was amazing.
Elizabelle
@Miss Bianca: I bet you can remember where you were when you heard that Prince had left us. I certainly do. And what a shock it was, although, there was that time his private jet had to make that emergency stop for medical care … so maybe the rumor is true …
But such a loss, and always a loss.
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus: Lucky bug.
Elizabelle
@Craig: I love that you warned us to look for that moment. I missed it first time. Fun.
Miss Bianca
@Elizabelle: Yep, I sure can. I was at work, desperately trying to fill e-commerce orders while also desperately seeking solace with like-minded mourners right here at BJ. A full-service blog indeed.
debbie
@debbie:
He reminds me of the way Hendrix played, rarely looking down at his guitar.
debbie
@Miss Bianca:
I cried when Lennon died. I remember exactly what I was doing: folding the damn laundry.
trollhattan
When “Tapestry” was the thing I had not clue one about Carole King’s history as songwriter extrodinaire, the Brill Building, etc. Eventually, I learned and have come to revere her. Everything Peak Carole came together at the Kennedy Center Honors. Hi, Aretha.
Glory b
@raven: You didn’t? Fun fact, he cut his first album at 19 and played ALL of the instruments.
oldster
@debbie:
Heard about Lennon’s assassination while driving on the DC beltway between calls in my locksmithing van. Yup, remember it too clearly. He’d been on the radio quite a lot because of the new album.
I was also driving around DC the day that Hinkley shot Reagan. Saturating a country with guns is a good way to make it a violent place.
oldster
@Miss Bianca:
“Bowie I admired but never *loved* the way some of my friends did.”
Agreed. I thought he was incredibly cool, brilliant musician (who knew how to surround himself with brilliant musicians), but to my mind not someone I would ever love. Too intentionally distant, too aloof. Very little human warmth. Hell, he was not trying to be a figure of comfort and intimacy — he wanted to shock, disrupt, change things. And he did. I admire him for that. But don’t love him.