Not sure why people are so bent out of shape about this. Actually, I'm not sure I ever understood why people get so upset over genre. I don't even know what the genre "Rock n' Roll" means anymore. It can be applied to stuff by Little Richard to stuff like Metallica. I'm pretty sure there are soul bands, r&b bands, hip hop bands in the R&R hall of fame too. Its more like a music hall of fame anyways. Rock n' Roll is such a vast variety of music, to apply it only to music with thick guitar riffs is pretty shortsighted. I think by this point most popular music we associate with is all under the "Rock n' Roll" umbrella anyways, its just constantly being split up and subdivided into new categories as it grows. I don't think they need a new hall of fame for alt-country, emo, trip hop, hillbilly funk or anything like that.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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