{"id":1220,"date":"2008-02-13T18:47:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T23:47:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T23:38:00","slug":"the-rth-rock-and-roll-foyer-of-fame-pres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rth-rock-and-roll-foyer-of-fame-pres\/","title":{"rendered":"The RTH Rock and Roll Foyer of Fame Presents: The First Annual Bob Seger Memorial Partial Lifetime Achievement Awards and Chili Cookoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2aBOTNGWMY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>The time has come.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The GRAMMYS coughed up its 21st-century entertainment hairball, complete with glowing sunglasses, embalmed Beatles producers and &#8212; God help us &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=a_grammy_highlight&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=a_grammy_highlight&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Kid Rock scatting with Keely Smith<\/a>.  Meanwhile, in the Rock Town Hall Neutral Zone, <strong>Captain Oats of the Starship Rockulon<\/strong> sparked up one glowing dilithium crystal in the communal love bong and posited the question:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=one_and_done&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=one_and_done&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">&#8220;which rock artistes deserve both our love for having succeeded so mightily on their first album&#8230; *and* our scorn for then having let us down &#8212; continually, perennially, and depressingly &#8212; in that one brilliant album&#8217;s aftermath?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I say again:  the time has come!<br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/segertat.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"311\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Let me explain:  every now and again, the stars line up, my brothers and sisters.  For it was in the midst of all this universal chaos that I finally &#8212; FINALLY &#8212; scored a Holy Grail of thrift store vinyl; an album that would provide a foundation for a formalized, annual, soul-searching exercise where we shove our collective thumb in the eye of the rock and roll Establishment by nominating:  not <strong>The Best<\/strong> of anything, but the acts that simultaneously prove Rock&#8217;s ability to heal, ignite, inspire, purge, and lift up &#8212; as well as Rock&#8217;s tendency to depress, disappoint, let down, and generally crawl up its own ass in a most embarrassing fashion.  The album I found, in near-perfect condition, for 99 cents, in a Korean thrift store was:  <em>Ramblin&#8217; Gamblin&#8217; Man<\/em>, by <strong>The Bob Seger System<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Finding this record &#8212; reputed (and rightly so) to be Bob Seger&#8217;s one Great statement of &#8220;underground&#8221; promise &#8212; set into motion a cascading series of events involving <strong>The Back Office<\/strong>; various <strong>Townsmen<\/strong>, who got a sneak preview of the record in order to correctly ascertain the magnitude of its excellence; and, finally, our redoubtable <strong>Mr. Moderator<\/strong> himself.  It was determined that the existence of this Rock document ought to  stand for something &#8212; ought to, if you will, exemplify the <strong>&#8220;rock, as you love it and hate it&#8221; credo<\/strong> that powers the Hall.  And, more specifically, that it ought to empower us to reach out to the world, in the middle of the upcoming Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame canonization\/circle jerk, to say:  <strong>&#8220;Hear, world, and be comforted:  the real, eternal value of this thing we call Rock is found in the half-baked, the impulsive, and the fleeting efforts of momentarily inspired dipshits like you and me &#8212; and like Bob Fucking Seger!&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><br \/>\nSo it is that we come to the <strong>RTH Rock and Roll Foyer of Fame<\/strong>, and its First Annual Bob Seger Memorial Partial Lifetime Achievement Awards and Chili Cookoff.  The task at hand is twofold:  first, to listen attentively to the tracks I furnish below.  After those of you <strong>SUMMONED<\/strong> to opine and generally show off have had your say, we need to turn to some serious business:  winnowing through the thoughts and general bullshittery that accompanied Oats&#8217; fine &#8220;One and Done&#8221; post to yield four finalists in the &#8220;GOD, but this band was a major fucking disappointment!&#8221; category, so that we might &#8220;vote&#8221; on them and subsequently issue an honest-to-God press release, in time to rightfully steal a celestial pound or two of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&#8217;s thunder in March.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/segertat.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"155\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I shall leave it up to Mr. Mod and the Back Office to set up the <strong>machinery<\/strong> for the nominations and voting that need to occur between now and <strong>March 10, 2008<\/strong> &#8212; that being the day that the RRHoF is due to tell us that (among others) The Ventures, Johnny Cougar Mellencamp, and Madonna will be inducted into their pantheon of Greats.  For now, in an effort to get us all on the same wavelength about what <em>really<\/em> matters, I ask the following Townsmen to stand up and tell us what they think of the following tracks from The Bob Seger System&#8217;s 1968 debut album, <em>Ramblin&#8217; Gamblin&#8217; Man<\/em>:<br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/segercycle.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<p>First, <strong>2000 man<\/strong>, I ask you to share your thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Down_home.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Down_home.mp3\"><strong>&#8220;Down Home&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturnismine<\/strong>, we really need to hear your opinions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/White_Wall_128.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/White_Wall_128.mp3\"><strong>&#8220;White Wall&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexmagic<\/strong>, please tell us what you think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/2_plus_2.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/2_plus_2.mp3\"><strong>&#8220;2+2=?&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Mod<\/strong>, tell us how your hippie sympathies inform your opinions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/The_Last_Song.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/The_Last_Song.mp3\"><strong>&#8220;The Last Song (Love Needs to Be Loved)&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, <strong>General Slocum<\/strong>, I want to hear your thoughts on the one song from this LP that we all know and (presumably) love:  the title track, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Ramblin.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Ramblin.mp3\"><strong>&#8220;Ramblin&#8217; Gamblin&#8217; Man&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>.  Why <em>exactly<\/em> is it so good?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses, and I thank you for your cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rth-rock-and-roll-foyer-of-fame-pres\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rth-rock-and-roll-foyer-of-fame-pres\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rth-rock-and-roll-foyer-of-fame-pres\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rth-rock-and-roll-foyer-of-fame-pres\/4\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">4<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time has come. The GRAMMYS coughed up its 21st-century entertainment hairball, complete with glowing sunglasses, embalmed Beatles producers and &#8212; God help us &#8212; Kid Rock scatting with Keely Smith. Meanwhile, in the Rock Town Hall Neutral Zone, Captain Oats of the Starship Rockulon sparked up one glowing dilithium crystal in the communal love <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rth-rock-and-roll-foyer-of-fame-pres\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[79,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}