WTF?? Are they deaf??!!

Someone at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been sleeping on the job. No, not someone. Everyone, apparently.

I'm sitting here listening to Jim Croce and wondering (for the millionth time) how they've managed to snub him all these years. Yeah, some could argue that he wasn't rock & roll, that he was more folk than anything. But he's got quite a few songs that are more rock than folk. OK - I'll compromise - we'll go with rockabilly. But hello?! Carl Perkins is more rockabilly than rock & roll. And for crying out loud, if James Taylor can get inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame, why not Croce??!! Don't get me wrong. I don't have an issue with James Taylor, but hey, he's not the first name that comes to mind when I think of rock & roll. Croce was a great American singer/songwriter. We lost him way too early. I would have loved to see what he would have added to his catalog of songs.

As long as I'm on the subject of snubs at the R&R Hall of Fame...

What about the Moody Blues?? Justin Hayward is a guitar god that doesn't get anywhere near the recognition he should. (And this has nothing to do with the R&RHoF but he's still pretty damn hot at 59.) And John Lodge?! He's one of the best bass players out there. (And also off the subject, he still looks pretty sweet in leather pants.) But back to the music...in 1993, the chief astronaut from NASA flew to LA to present the Moodies with a plaque. The plaque had original pictures of different American shuttle missions and had a tape mounted to it. The tape contained the albums "Days of Future Passed" and "Seventh Sojourn" Why, you ask? Because the astronauts take those albums into space with them. Every time. That's over 10 million miles. If you've never seen the Moodies live, do it before it's too late. They put on an incredible show, even without Ray Thomas, who retired a few years ago. I pray they never find the lost chord.

And what about Warren Zevon?? He's another one we lost way too soon. Sure, everyone knows "Werewolves of London" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and a few others. But the guy wrote an incredible collection of songs. "Excitable Boy." "The Envoy." "Searching for a Heart." ("They say love conquers all, you can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun...") "Gorilla, You're a Desperado." "Mr. Bad Example." I could list songs all afternoon.

And Jimmy Buffett?? Don't even get me started on that! The Beach Boys have been inducted (as they should have been), but they don't have a corner on the Trop-Rock market. Radio has done to Buffett what they did to Zevon. They play 2 or 3 songs to death and ignore the rest. It's just not right.

Well, let's just hope someone over at the R&RHoF pulls the cotton out of their ears pretty soon and gives credit where credit is due.