Steve Miller blasts Rock and Roll Hall of Fame immediately after induction

by Jeremy Mersereau

April 11, 2016

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Miller cites a lack of female nominees and his bandmates' $10,000 ticket cost for the ceremony.

Talk about biting the hand that strums: The joker/smoker/gangster of love Steve Miller wasted no time in taking the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to task for both its gender disparity in inductees and what Miller characterizes as its lack of respect for artists.

Just minutes after being inducted into the HoF’s hallowed halls on Friday, April 8th, Miller slammed the institution as a whole during a post-induction interview. “The whole process needs to be changed from the top to the bottom. They need to get their legal work straight. They need to respect the artists they say they’re honouring, but they don’t,” Miller said. The classic rocker singled out the lack of female inductees at the 2016 ceremony as well as his own shoddy treatment by Hall of Fame organizers, saying that he would have had to pay $10,000 per ticket to the event to get more than the two he was given.

“It’s time for them to turn it over to new people,” said Miller. “I’ve said this about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 30 years.”

The classic rocker was one of six acts inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016, along with Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, Chicago, and N.W.A. *cue Sesame Street “One of These Things (Is Not Like The Others)” theme*.

N.W.A, a contentious choice for induction to some due to their music being perceived as ‘not rock and roll enough’, earned the ire of KISS founder/notorious lunkhead Gene Simmons, who stated in a recent Rolling Stone interview that he was “looking forward to the death of rap.”

“I want to say, to Mr. Gene Simmons, that hip-hop is here forever. We’re supposed to be here,” N.W.A.’s MC Ren said as his group was inducted, with Ice Cube adding: “Are we rock ‘n’ roll?’ And I say—you’re goddamn right we’re rock ‘n’ roll”.

Simmons’ response?

We can sit here all day and argue if hip-hop artists belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (they do, there’s plenty of HoF inductees who definitely aren’t rock), or we can just agree that anything that pisses off Gene Simmons is worth it just for the entertainment value. I know which side I’m on.

[h/t Newsweek]

Tags: Music, News, rock and roll hall of fame, steve miller

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