Ethics

25th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert

By Ed Brayton

In my longstanding tradition of reviewing the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction shows, I thought I'd review HBO's 25th anniversary hall of fame concert, which aired Sunday night. Yes, I know the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is something of a joke because of all the people who aren't in it, but there are still a lot of great people in it that make great music and the induction shows are usually worth watching for that reason.

Sunday night's show, from Madison Square Garden, was over four hours long but it started pretty slowly. For the first hour it looked as though the show was mostly going to be a litany of old singers who'd lost their voices. Stephen Stills has the vocal range of Steven Hawking at this point, which made the Crosby, Stills and Nash set almost painful to listen to, even with James Taylor's help. And Jerry Lee Lewis was practically a corpse.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 05, 2009 (boomark / email).