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Boomer Respite Open Thread: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

by Anne Laurie|  November 7, 20216:12 pm| 56 Comments

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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

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    November 7, 2021 at 6:17 pm

    Boomer Respite Open Thread

    You funny, AL.

  2. 2.

    sab

    November 7, 2021 at 6:20 pm

    Only now Tina Turner? That gobsmacks me.

  3. 3.

    Anne Laurie

    November 7, 2021 at 6:24 pm

    @sab: Only now Tina Turner?

    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.)

  4. 4.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:25 pm

    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.

  5. 5.

    gwangung

    November 7, 2021 at 6:25 pm

    @sab: Right? (And certainly she’s a selection you don’t quibble about at all….)

  6. 6.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:26 pm

    @Baud: Yea maybe numbnuts will drive by and bitch about old people.

  7. 7.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:28 pm

    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.

  8. 8.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    @gwangung: If I never hear fucking Proud Mary again it will be too soon.

  9. 9.

    laura

    November 7, 2021 at 6:36 pm

    The Roadie Brothers have worked for Carol King and hold her in the highest regard.

  10. 10.

    James E Powell

    November 7, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    @raven:

    See also Grace of My Heart. Illeana Douglas played a character that was not expressly based on Carole King, but kinda sorta was.

  11. 11.

    sab

    November 7, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    @raven: Yes!

  12. 12.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    @laura: She often comes here to campaign for progressive candidates.

  13. 13.

    debbie

    November 7, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    @raven: 

    Me neither.

  14. 14.

    James E Powell

    November 7, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    Still no Pat Benatar. What could they be thinking?

  15. 15.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:38 pm

    @James E Powell: Cool, I like her.

  16. 16.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:39 pm

    @debbie: Check him out on Play That Funky Music White Boy!

  17. 17.

    sab

    November 7, 2021 at 6:41 pm

    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?

  18. 18.

    laura

    November 7, 2021 at 6:41 pm

    @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.

  19. 19.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:43 pm

    @sab: I went to there Grammy Museum in LA and it was really cool.

  20. 20.

    lowtechcyclist

    November 7, 2021 at 6:45 pm

    Wikipedia’s list of who’s been inducted, by year

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    November 7, 2021 at 6:45 pm

    @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.

  22. 22.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    @Elizabelle: Yea, he’s in The Concert For George a good bit. Here’s Billy Preston doing My Sweet Lord.

  23. 23.

    raven

    November 7, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    @Elizabelle: My SIL was at the last Petty show.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    November 7, 2021 at 6:51 pm

    From the Does. Not. Compute. file of performances.

    :)

  25. 25.

    Wag

    November 7, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    @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.

  26. 26.

    Craig

    November 7, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    @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.

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    November 7, 2021 at 6:56 pm

    @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.

  28. 28.

    Percysowner

    November 7, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @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.

  29. 29.

    Percysowner

    November 7, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    @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.

  30. 30.

    Wag

    November 7, 2021 at 7:03 pm

    @raven:   F’ing amazing

  31. 31.

    eclare

    November 7, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    @raven:  Prince was brilliant on every instrument he played.  I saw him at the Fox in ATL!

  32. 32.

    prostratedragon

    November 7, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    @NotMax:  I’ve always thought Welk was trolling us. He’d been playing gigs around for decades when they recorded that.

  33. 33.

    Alison Rose

    November 7, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I still feel a pang of loss every time I see or hear Tom Petty, and Prince.

    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.

  34. 34.

    Elizabelle

    November 7, 2021 at 7:20 pm

    @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.

  35. 35.

    Alison Rose

    November 7, 2021 at 7:24 pm

    @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.

  36. 36.

    phdesmond

    November 7, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    @raven:

    wow.

  37. 37.

    Betty

    November 7, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    I love Carole King, as a musician and a person. Boomer here.

  38. 38.

    Miss Bianca

    November 7, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    @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.

  39. 39.

    phdesmond

    November 7, 2021 at 7:33 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    and, i assume, to catch the guitar at the end,  when Prince throws it into the audience.

  40. 40.

    eclare

    November 7, 2021 at 7:39 pm

    @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.

  41. 41.

    Craig

    November 7, 2021 at 7:42 pm

    @phdesmond: there was a different guy up in the truss over the stage for the catch. Master Showman.

  42. 42.

    Dan B

    November 7, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    @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.

  43. 43.

    phdesmond

    November 7, 2021 at 7:54 pm

    @Craig:

    ah!

  44. 44.

    debbie

    November 7, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    @raven:

    It’s surreal!

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 7, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    @raven: ​
      He is also straight up wearing Sly Stone’s look there.

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 7, 2021 at 8:07 pm

    @Elizabelle: I saw Prince four times.  Over a long period.  Every show was amazing.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    November 7, 2021 at 8:08 pm

    @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.

  48. 48.

    Elizabelle

    November 7, 2021 at 8:08 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:   Lucky bug.

  49. 49.

    Elizabelle

    November 7, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    @Craig:  I love that you warned us to look for that moment.  I missed it first time.  Fun.

  50. 50.

    Miss Bianca

    November 7, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @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.

  51. 51.

    debbie

    November 7, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @debbie:

    He reminds me of the way Hendrix played, rarely looking down at his guitar.

  52. 52.

    debbie

    November 7, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @Miss Bianca:

    I cried when Lennon died. I remember exactly what I was doing: folding the damn laundry.

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    November 7, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    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.​​​

  54. 54.

    Glory b

    November 7, 2021 at 9:43 pm

    @raven: You didn’t? Fun fact, he cut his first album at 19 and played ALL of the instruments.

  55. 55.

    oldster

    November 8, 2021 at 1:43 am

    @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.

  56. 56.

    oldster

    November 8, 2021 at 1:46 am

    @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.

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