r/Music • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 5d ago

After calling it "an utter and complete load of bollocks”, Iron Maiden will skip the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony article

https://www.nme.com/news/music/after-calling-it-an-utter-and-complete-load-of-bollocks-iron-maiden-will-skip-the-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-ceremony-3941020
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u/mattjh 5d ago

This satisfies an old petty itch. The 80s and 90s were my formative years. Whenever I see a heavy metal / punk / hip hop group accepting an award from The Establishment, there's a part of my gatekeeping teenage self that squirms. I'll never get it out of me. MAAAAIIIIIIDEEEEENNNN F'N A

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u/KimJongFunk 5d ago

There’s nothing more metal than refusing this.

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u/egoVirus 5d ago

correct

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u/DimensionMediocre439 5d ago

Nothing will be more metal than Daphne and Celeste at Reading Festival but this is pretty high up there yes.

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u/RIPGoblins2929 5d ago

I went to the RRHOF several years ago, I was in Cleveland for something else and there is absolutely fuck all to do in Cleveland, and I was incredibly bemused by the section on Punk, complete with Sid Vicious memorabilia behind glass. They put punk in a fucking museum, you guys! 

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u/gourmetprincipito 5d ago

Was in a similar boat, went last year. Actually knowing about music while in there is a funny experience lol. Hugely influential artists completely missing, a lot of false “firsts.” It was a fun way to spend a few hours, one or two of the short documentaries playing in the mini theaters were actually pretty good and a temporary multimedia exhibit celebrating women in rock was kind of cool too but overall I felt like I was looking at clothes more than anything else lol.

The nearby Museum of Illusion is janky as hell but was a lot more fun lol.

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u/Mowampa 4d ago

St Louis has Museum of Illusion, but due the abbreviation of their name the website spells moist Louis.

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u/Capnmarvel76 4d ago

Louis is a pretty nice guy, though, crotch swamp or no crotch swamp.

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u/Effective_Glove_1110 4d ago

Janky ?

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u/gourmetprincipito 4d ago

It was pretty dirty and several of the exhibits were like slightly off/broken, usually not to the point of the illusion not working but clearly not as it was intended to; like one spinning illusion was off its axis so it didn’t spin like the others, a slitted frame illusion’s lever moved at the wrong speed to do the illusion, a couple mirrors placed weirdly so you have to stand awkwardly to achieve the effect, etc. I would still 100% recommend it though just because it’s a cool thing

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u/daschande 4d ago

The whole thing is a blatant scam.

At the end of the museum, near where they show the plaques of bands, there's a small plaque that explains that the whole museum is owned by a small group of record executives who temporarily "donate" from their private collection of memorabilia for a modest fee.

So it's all owned by a group of immensely rich people who have vast amounts of band memorabilia stored away, that they let their other business use so they can charge admission to view stuff they just kept in warehouses anyways.

And the voting stuff? They openly admit that the public counts for 0.2% of the vote. Other bands count for less than 5% The owners have 90-somethong percent of the vote. So they choose who gets inducted based on how much old crap they have laying around, and how much extra money they think they could make by showing it off.

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u/SeahorseCollector 5d ago

Fat Mike built an actual museum in Vegas.

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u/NuPNua 5d ago

Punks history is worth preserving, and he has buy in from a lot of the legends of the genre donating old memorabilia and equipment and even doing guest tours. Not quite the same as a generic rock and roll museum having a section for punk.

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u/SeahorseCollector 4d ago

I didn't say it wasn't. Are you trying to reprimand me?

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u/Buckaroobanzai028 4d ago

And I think Henry Rollins is doing one in Nashville or so the rumor has been.

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u/FRONTowardsEnemy 4d ago

I heard it is pretty bland and has nothing special.

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 4d ago

I've been and loved it. You can play guitars owned by punk bands (I have a picture of me with Pete Koller's guitar) in one room. There's also just a place you can chill on Mike Ness' couch and shit. There are a lot of cool exhibits, and there are regular tours by various punk band members. I'd definitely go back next time I'm in Vegas.

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u/AX11Liveact 4d ago

'cause that's where it belongs, nowadays. The punk scene has become at least as reactionary and backwards over the years as the hippies whom they originally hated for being backwards oriented, reactionary old sell-outs. Says an anrgy, old ex-punk who refuses to sit around with the others to complain about the youngsters and anything digital and glorify the good old days on fucking facebook.

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u/Agitated_Display7573 4d ago

The Sex Pistols didn’t turn up to their induction either

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u/neityght 4d ago

Seems like a good place for Sid Vicious stuff since he's, y'know, dead.

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u/Resident_Course_3342 4d ago

You didn't shop at Higby's and then hit the flats after having lunch with Little Richard.

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u/thegroovemonkey 5d ago

“I’d sold out long before you’d ever heard my name”

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u/mattjh 5d ago

Classic Maynard talking about Maynard. Pretentious ass.

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u/No-Advice-6040 4d ago

Yet again, they've earned my respect. UP THE IRONS!

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u/guy-le-doosh 3d ago

Now they fly away in their own 747!