Annual Rock & Roll Hall Nominee debate

As usual, someone called you on your fantasyland bullshit. Must be a fun world to live in to get two free tickets to a band you apparently can't stand on opposite sides of the country.

And, for the record, even though it doesn't matter ... three times I've seen them. Never thought it was an all-white crowd ... because it wasn't.

 

So you can't be called "names," but you can broadbrush a group of people with a racial slur and defend it with a half-ass apology?

You truly are an amazing individual.

 

Flash in the pan would be someone like Vanilla Ice, who's here and gone. Beastie Boys have made relevant music for 20-plus years now. Whether you like them is irrelevant to calling them a flash in the pan, which is flat-out wrong.

As for the wannabes part, they rapped about girls, beer and White Castle ... white boy things. They didn't try to be anything they weren't, which is why is why the rap world -- not to mention fans -- embraced them so quickly. When they picked up the instruments, it simply meant them going back to their punk roots, but creating a sound no one else in rap did. It was a style all their own.

 

Not that it is any of your business but in one case I was with someone reviewing the concert, in the other, the person had an extra ticket. You saw them three times and paid three times. Good for you. They never got a cent of my money, not even for food. Also for the record, the times that I saw them was about four-year apart.
You have nothing Gutter but an antagonistic tone and I am "calling you" on it.
I never said it was an "all white" crowd. I said you could count the number of colored faces in the audience. I do believe that you're having a hard time proving that the beastie boys didn't use the Elvis formula to make it big.

 

Oz you said it best. They talked about white boy things. They didn't appeal to people of color. I've never heard a beastie boys song in a black club. I've heard it in a mixed club and when their songs came on, the people of color left the floor. What does that tell you?

 

Slappy, I think you've pretty much gotten enough mileage out of this line of conversation. It pretty much ended with your posts while back, wouldn't you say?

 

It's a good thing I don't ban people for being, pardon the expression, morons, because you, my friend, would be at the top of the list.

 

A black club? A mixed club?

 

You can always make an exception. We won't tell.

 

Trust me, I'm close.

 

Yes, a predominately black club.
A mixed club meaning people of all races.
Let me guess, this is the first time you've heard of this?

 

I'm just glad that this year, the worst rancor in the Rock Hall thread wasn't directed at the sustained greatness of Rush, and its fans.