The Petition
The Rock Hall is continually behind in inductions and the times. As of now thousands of bands and fan favorites, still being played on the radio are not inducted. Its time us, the fans that support them, sign this petition to get these bands inducted.
“We the People of the Rock and Roll Capitol of the World and the fans of Rock all over the world hereby decree…
We want The Bands in our Rock Hall Immediately”
SIGN THE PETITION NOW!!!
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Let your voice be heard!!!
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June 14th, 2011 3:45 am
I wanna start an induction to the Rock Hall by Eminent Domain! So with people here in the Rock and Roll Capitol of the World, Cleveland, who feel like I do we started this website.
If enough people get behind it and we get a huge worldwide petition signed on behalf of the 40 artists, I think they might just have to do it. Get enough attention to pressure them too!!
June 14th, 2011 5:30 pm
These bands are all originals and important in their individual genres. They deserve to be in the hall
June 14th, 2011 6:14 pm
Every band listed is deserving, and long overdue
June 15th, 2011 8:08 pm
I support the efforts of this petition.
June 20th, 2011 12:33 am
Yes, these bands are long overdue. Catch-up mode… Now!!!
June 30th, 2011 6:20 pm
These original bands represent a time when music radio and concerts were really just beginning to make an impression on culture, those played a very important part in our lives still today. Now Rock, Rythm & Blues, Urban and Jazz concerts and a Multi-billion dollar industry. These Bands deserve their place in Rock Hall History for reconigtion marking the beginning of an original music movement that is ver so thriving still today WORLDWIDE!
July 4th, 2011 1:35 pm
Sign the Fucking thing !!
July 5th, 2011 5:43 pm
IUm all for the idea of this document.
August 23rd, 2011 3:47 pm
Good list, but what about Jethro Tull?
August 23rd, 2011 3:51 pm
@Michael – I couldn’t agree with you more. Jethro Tull DEFINITELY deserves to be in. I remember very fondly falling in love with Thick As A Brick in college and it was all over for me.
September 29th, 2011 2:58 am
I can’t believe that I forgot the mighty Tull… They should be inducted on the strength of Aqualung alone!!
September 8th, 2011 5:04 pm
I am shocked that these bands have been snubbed, it’s a disgrace and these bands need to be recognized now before they are forgotten – (Hopefully that will never be)
September 29th, 2011 10:48 am
A new article about the petition:
Music Fans Protest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees for 2012
http://www.suite101.com/news/music-fans-protest-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-nominees-for-2012-a390959#ixzz1ZKu8c5rH
September 29th, 2011 3:00 pm
Ive added my electronical signature to the petition when I read the list I was appalled at who hadnt been inducted this is so needed but sadly it is needed I guess its just about the money over at the Hall or is it about the rock and roll?
September 29th, 2011 3:53 pm
These people making these choices need to go. It is clearly they are not doing their job. They have taken the liberty that belongs to the people that pay, support, love, these bands. They have taken the people’s voice and the people must get it back, don’t let the freedom of choice be taken away by these people, vote and be heard and if not then protest/boycott.
December 24th, 2011 5:49 pm
Um, hello? What about Linda Ronstadt?
She was The Queen of Rock in the 1970s who was the FIRST female solo artist to pack stadiums and was hands down the most successful female star of the 1970s, and whose career as a rock and pop singer has lasted from the late 1960s to today.
Folk, Country, Country-Rock, Pop-Rock, Rock, New Wave, Big Band, Operetta, Broadway, Mariachi, Salsa, she’s done it all.
The excuse used against her that she wasn’t a songwriter or covered other songs would exclude more than half of the inductees already in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame.
As far as innovation goes, David Bowie and Madonna and Prince and Elvis Costello are all lauded by the critics for changing styles and taking chances. When Linda does it, she’s criticized for being topical, superficial, fickle, dilletantish, and cashing in.
It’s ridiculous that artists whom I like -U2, the Beastie Boys, The Pretenders, Springsteen, Guns ‘n Roses, et al, who came on the scene years after Ronstadt, are already in the hall, but not her.
And other artists who are great in their own right but not rock ‘n rollers, like Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Diana Ross and Madonna, are in but Ronstadt isn’t.
What does Rolling Stone have against female rockers of the 1970s and 1980s? Ronstadt, Heart, Joan Jett, Pat Benatar, and Stevie Nicks are not in the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame.
What’s the problem?
February 22nd, 2012 11:01 pm
Yeah,let’s wait until some of our musical treasures are dead and we will never get a chance to see them get their just desserts that we should see them get.
March 14th, 2012 1:19 am
@larry jester – well said. We definitely need to take action now before it’s too late!
March 14th, 2012 2:14 am
we are starting with this 50, and will start another 50 when we turn these in. What we are trying to do is get everyone in but at the snail rate they have been induction they are 10′s of thousands behind so I fugure 50 a year should be a good start.
January 3rd, 2013 1:15 am
AGREED! Most of us will probably be dead and buried before our fav. band gets inducted. ROCK ON D.P., KISS, THE HAT, PAUL ROGERS and B.C. and ANNE and NANCY!Along with dozens of others! I mean Z.Z.TOP before KISS and DEEP PURPLE?
March 21st, 2012 1:04 pm
Wow. I had assumed most of these bands were already in! I most definitely support this petition. How can KISS not be in already?
April 11th, 2012 4:18 pm
Many of these bands are deserving. I can probably think of another 15-20 who could be inducted.
April 11th, 2012 10:50 pm
Kiss and Rush should be inducted TODAY. the others on the list should be considered as well. how can their track record of sucess and influence be ignored? you dont have to like them to see the facts and admit the truth.
April 13th, 2012 5:39 pm
yesssss
April 12th, 2012 12:38 pm
I support this petition. Several of the bands listed have musicians that are in the top ten all time in their specific instruments. Many blazed the trail that current members followed. Leave the corporate politics out of it.
April 12th, 2012 5:29 pm
Judas Priest!!!!
April 13th, 2012 5:38 pm
really ZZ TOP before kiss???
April 16th, 2012 10:21 pm
Slighting Rush and Deep Purple is a crime against Humanity.
April 20th, 2012 12:28 am
All the bands mentioned should have been inducted into the Rock Hall lonnnnggggg before Madonna and Abba. A crime indeed.
June 17th, 2012 1:14 am
Has Heart been inducted ?
May 13th, 2012 4:02 am
I am very surprised that a number of very influential bands hae not been inducted. Deep Purple’s innovative techniques and singer rated as one of the top ten voices in rock and roll demonstrate that it is high time this band was recognized!
June 4th, 2012 11:41 pm
Sheer nonsense the absurd absence of such Heavy Metal icons such as IRON MAIDEN and Judas Priest..I want them in!!
June 5th, 2012 12:05 am
JUDAS PRIEST
June 9th, 2012 2:33 pm
Judas Priest, KISS, RUSH, and Moody Blues RIGHT NOW !
June 9th, 2012 2:34 pm
Deep Purple too!!
June 21st, 2012 3:38 am
Can U believe that the Pretty Things,Troggs,Golden Earring,Seeds,Beau Brummels, and Them have been overlooked?.
July 19th, 2012 3:39 am
Considering previous entrants? No offense to anyone mentioned or not-mentioned, but if Blondie .. The Pretenders….Traffic ..(the list goes on) make the cut? Considering the sample sizes of these and so many more artists already inducted, there are SO MANY acts that have been overlooked. Major snubs that are obvious to anyone with common sense include .. Kiss, Deep Purple, Yes, Rush, Moody Blues, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cheap Trick, The Cars etc … Obviously the ridiculous bias of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock is blatant and ignorant. Specifically … Iron Maiden – Rush – Kiss – Deep Purple. I can only think that it was conspired long ago by the people behind The supposed Hall of Fame that you cant induct one of these, or you would have to induct all. Hopefully a time will come when it truly is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
August 3rd, 2012 9:18 am
Kiss, Rush, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Styx, Boston, Heart, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, Jim Keltner, Wolfman Jack, Donna Summer, Hall and Oates, Rick Rubin, Megadeth, The Cure, Willie Nelson, New Order, The Smiths
August 4th, 2012 4:29 pm
Up the Irons!
August 19th, 2012 5:30 pm
D-E-V-O deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! Who will ever EVER! forget about those energy dome hats, the yellow radiation suits and the robotic jerky movements that they do on stage and overall inventions that they have done to their instruments? A band way ahead of their time, they are also one of the first groups to go wireless on stage and they have a hit song “Whip It” that EVERYONE on this PLANET EARTH loves!!! (Not to mention this group has bunch of other great songs as well.) They were about de-evolution and the funny thing is —– 30 years later—–THEY WERE RIGHT!!!!!!
In short, I will sum it up with this: YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!…..YEAH! YEAH! YEAH!
(youtube DEVO’s Uncontrollable Urge and you will know what I mean. One of the best rock performances I have ever seen.)
October 16th, 2012 7:57 pm
Weird Al Yankovic Needs to in the rock and roll hall of fame! His career has outlived most musicians he’s parodied! He also write many timeless original songs as well!!!! The monkey’s need to be in there as well.
November 26th, 2012 12:58 am
Rush, kiss, Maiden. This should be a no-brainer. Obviously selection committee has no brains
November 27th, 2012 12:40 pm
Some REAL rockers:
Steppenwolf (A no-brainer, wrote the anthem for an entire segment of the population as well as selling millions more records than many bands already in the “Hall”)
Spirit (One of the premier bands of the sixties, when Rock was saved from becoming Elvis in Vegas)
13th Floor Elevator/Roky Erickson (If you have to ask, you are on the wrong site)
Paul Revere and the Raiders (If it wasn’t for the goofy costumes, they’d be recognized as one of the heaviest bands of the Sixties (Kicks, Hungry, Good Thing, Just Like Me…)
Dire Straits (another no-brainer)
And maybe even Blue Cheer, the FIRST heavy-metal band, virtually invented Acid Rock)
December 12th, 2012 11:35 am
Holy gamole! Those kooks at the R’n'R H.O.F. aught to have their ears and history books checked!
December 21st, 2012 12:33 pm
It’s incomprehensable that Jethro Tull, primarily Ian Anderson and Martin Barre, have not been inducted. Ian Anderson is one of THE most talented musicians (he plays at least a half dozen instruments, prolific on the flute and acoustic guitar) and composers in the past 45 years, and he’s still writing music and selling out shows. If you haven’t seen his collaboration with orchestras, search YouTube for orchestral Aqualung or Bouree. The guy is a musical genius with more talent than MANY inductees. It’s time Jethro Tull was ackknowledged for their contribution.
December 31st, 2012 2:51 pm
@Kirby – couldn’t agree with you more. Jethro Tull should be inducted on the strength of “Think As A Brick” alone!!!
January 3rd, 2013 1:04 am
DEEP PURPLE, the band that practically created hard rock and boosted early metal…..still not in? What are these people thinking? KISS still not in? Absurd! BAD COMPANY?, FOGHAT? All 70′s giants! Thi is quite disturbing to most.
January 8th, 2013 11:21 am
There are several not mentioned on the list who should have been there 20 years ago!! Grand Funk Railroad, Yes, Uriah Heep, other mentioned such as Deep Purple, Foghat, Chicago, Kiss, Boston. There are others I would thing deserve to be inducted as well…….I can’t understand for the life of me why people who are in charge of such things are not musicians..if that is the case what is the use of having a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame if it’s politics in which it has NO Place in the RRHOF. I’m I wrong here????
Thanks for listening………
January 9th, 2013 1:03 am
dont forget BADFINGER,FOGHAT ,KANSES, TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELS, STEPPINWOLF, NAZARATH, HUMBLE PIE, TEN YEARS AFTER, LETS DO WHAT WE CAN FOR THEM TO GET NOTICED
January 20th, 2013 10:50 pm
Anyone who has lived these days have at least heard of most if not all of the bands listed. The ROCK AND ROLL Hall of Fame needs to stop inducting rap, hip hop and pop bands and start inducting the real rockers.
February 13th, 2013 11:35 am
Long live The Moody Blues! They belong in the Hall of Fame.
February 16th, 2013 1:09 am
Lets not forget Ronnie James Dio (if he is eligable)and Pantera R.I.P Dimebag and Ronnie
March 7th, 2013 10:47 pm
The Moody Blues MUST be inducted into the Hall.
March 7th, 2013 10:47 pm
Induct the Moody Blues!
March 10th, 2013 10:13 pm
With unparalleled talent,the fact that Yes isn’t in the Hall yet is illogical and ludicrous.
March 11th, 2013 9:53 pm
An induction of Ronnie James Dio into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is LONG OVERDUE.
March 25th, 2013 9:32 pm
I learned about the Rock Hall last year when I heard of METALLICA’S induction and their subtle plea to have more of their influences inducted (Black Sabbath being the sole metal act).
On researching the list of previous inductees, and the more reading I do into its history, the more upset and angry I am becoming at the blatant omissions, namely:
IRON MAIDEN – JUDAS PRIEST – MOTÖRHEAD
Somebody needs to seriously give those old fogies a damn good shake, if I got hold of one of them God help me I would probably choke the life out of the old codger!
April 19th, 2013 5:44 pm
My Top 5 Snubs
Deep Purple
Yes
Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
The Flaming Lips
April 23rd, 2013 12:49 am
KISS.
That is all.
May 8th, 2013 11:49 am
Deep Purple should have been in the hall 15 years ago.Ritchie Blackmoore the best lead guitarist ever.
May 11th, 2013 7:09 pm
Steve Perry with Journey and without Journey should be inducted, because he is the best singer in the world, in every song he has sung.