2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

[William]

Dammit, is this thing not over yet? What will you do with your spare time Yakovic???? Start a Cohen for Pope campaign?

[liverpoolken]

Whoa!! Hold on there William.

William Blake and our postman are way in front of any pope for induction.

In an attempt to comfort poor Yankovic as his world collaspes about him I have a suggestion.

Now that Maddona and the Dave Clark 5 are looking doubtful to perform at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Shame howsabout Luton's finest -John Hegley standing in for them.

http://www.johnhegley.co.uk/

I saw John in Liverpool last Saturday and he played a storm. Besides being one of England's most popular performance poets he also picks a mean guitar,mandolin and uke. I think on the night if asked in will also do a bit of that air kissing stuff that Leonard seems to have adopted of late.

Nothing on youtube with John reciting any of his stuff but here he is enjoying himself down at the Hackney city farm last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtJA4t4LYfA

If all else fails you can join my 'Real Poets Don't Air Kiss' campaign.

Ta Ken

[damellon]

Dammit, is this thing not over yet? What will you do with your spare time Yakovic???? Start a Cohen for Pope campaign?

Jeez, William - what on earth happened to you between 8.13 and 8.27? You're forgetting your manners.

[William]

Dear Lady, put it down to weakness of the bladder!

[Yankovic]

The names of the artists who will be giving the 2008 Rock Hall induction speeches have been announced!! Let me know if you're happy!!

http://www.futurerockhall.com/preyear.p ... _year=2008
http://www.people.com/people/article/0, ... 88,00.html

Lou Reed for Leonard Cohen
Billy Joel for John Mellencamp
Justin Timberlake for Madonna
John Fogerty for The Ventures
Tom Hanks for The Dave Clark Five
Ben Harper for Little Walter
Jerry Butler for Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff

I should have known it would be Lou Reed! He's there every year with Robbie Robertson.

Leonard Cohen in the same room with Madonna, John Mellencamp, Lou Reed, John Fogerty, Billy Joel and Jerry Butler.

[marvin42]

I'm going to tape the ceremony and put it on youtube.

Please don't forget and post a link here (incl. Lou Reed)

[dick]

Thanks for keeping the news coming!

Sorry William -- I appreciate what Yankovic is doing

Dick

[lizzytysh]

Maybe Madonna's disappointed that a relative newcomer like Justin Timberlake is introducing her? I don't know. I like it that Billy Joel and Tom Hanks are speaking, and Lou Reed's introducing Leonard sure works for me!

I'm SO glad and grateful to you, Yankovic, for taping this show. I had certainly intended to watch it somewhere, somehow, but don't know of anyone who has those... so! It looks like, once again, it's all up to you, Yankovic! You're VERY appreciated in these parts !

William! Damellon's got her stopwatch out with you. What in the WORLD is going on? Do you have a bee in your bonnet?


~ Lizzy

[Yankovic]

I'm going to tape the ceremony and put it on youtube.

Please don't forget and post a link here (incl. Lou Reed)

Yes, indeed!


Artists inducted by Lou Reed: Frank Zappa and Leonard Cohen; 1995, 2008.

Here is Lou Reed giving the induction speech for Frank Zappa, from 1995.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_McaUor0G0

[Yankovic]

This just keeps getting better and better!

http://www.futurerockhall.com/blog.html ... try-id-131

Spinner.com aired The Rock Hall Ceremony online last year. This year it will be the electronics chain store, BEST BUY that will stream the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony live on their website. That's really odd! It will start at 8:00 PM, Monday, March 10!!

So everyone will get to see it!!

But no word yet on their site! http://www.bestbuy.com

[lizzytysh]

Now THAT is awesome. Thanks for the info so quickly. Maybe I can get my computer working fully properly by then.


~ Lizzy

[Yankovic]

From 1Heckofaguy.com
http://1heckofaguy.com/category/media-m ... ink-1-1085

Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen Together In New York Again
Filed under: Leonard Cohen, Music | By DrHGuy | February 27, 2008 at 9:47 am

Lou To Laud Lenny At Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction

A hustle here and a hustle there
New York City is the place where they said
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said hey Joe, take a walk on the wild side

- Lou Reed, Take A Walk on The Wild Side

Yesterday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released the list of the artists who will induct this year’s new members on March 10 in New York.

For those of us who think of the 2008 group of honorees as “Leonard Cohen et al,” the important name on the list is Lou Reed, who met Cohen a few years ago under different circumstances in the same town.

The Other Guys
Those introducing et al follow:

Introducing

Madonna: Justin Timberlake
Little Walter: Ben Harper
John Mellencamp: Billy Joel
Ventures: John Fogerty
Dave Clark Five: Tom Hanks
Gamble & Huff: Jerry Butler

After reviewing that roster, I have the Cohen-Reed duo, even in their current moderately mellowed phase, as 8 to 5 favorites in the Toughest Guys In The Room competition1 and 20 to 1 favorites for Way Cool prize.

Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, and Nico - The First Time In New York
There are at least a couple of different stories floating around the Internet about how Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed met, and straightening that out necessitates (delightfully) bringing Nico into the picture. This excerpt from “Leonard Cohen” by Scott Cohen in his book, Yakety Yak (1994), summarizes the action in Cohen’s own words:

In 1966 I borrowed some money from a friend in Montreal and came down to the great empire, America, to try to make my way. I had written a few books and I couldn’t make a living. I played in a country band and I loved country music and I had a few songs I thought were country songs and I was on my way ultimately to Nashville but I got ambushed in New York by the folk renaissance — and got my first public appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. In New York I found this huge explosion of things and I was interested in this enlightened community being promoted in the east side of New York and I would go down there but I couldn’t locate it. I walked into a club called the Dome and I saw someone singing there who looked like she inhabited a Nazi poster; it was Nico, the perfect Aryan ice queen. And there was a very handsome young man playing for her; he turned out to be Jackson Browne. I just stood there and said forget the new society, this is the woman I’ve been looking for. I followed her all around New York. She led me to Max’s Kansas City. I met Lou Reed there and he said something very kind to me which made me feel at home. I had no particular clout in that scene. I was just a guy who was a little older than the other guys, just sniffing around like everybody else. I was very lonely and mostly interested in finding a girl. Lou came over and introduced himself and said, “I love your book.” I never knew anybody knew my books because they only sold a few thousand copies in America. We were sitting at a table and some guy was bugging me, in a polite sort of way, and I was responding in a polite sort of way, and Lou Reed said to me, “Hey, man, you don’t have to be nice to this guy. You don’t have to be nice to anybody. You’re the man who wrote ‘Beautiful Losers.’” Nico eventually told me, “Look, I like young boys. You’re just too old for me.

Footnotes

Without Madonna in the mix, Cohen and Reed would be favored at 50 to 1

[kokenpere]

My only question is: How does Tom Hanks connect with the Dave Clark Five?????????

[friscogrl]

Remember that funky little movie he did years ago about a band in the 60's? I think that was a take off on The Dave Clark Five. A stretch i know.

[kokenpere]

That Thing You Do was about a mid-60's garage band imitating English Invasion bands to some success with Tom's character providing the inspiration and new time signature.

Thanks friscogrl. I was trying to think of a person who would be "contemporary" with the DC5 (Tom Jones? Donovan?
Billy J. Kramer?) but no one was an 'American' musician of the time (Brian Wilson occurs to me now).

I just think of Mr. Hanks as an actor and not as a musician.

Thanks again

michael