Anointing Rock Legends From the Coasts [View all]
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Source: NY Times
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, a gleaming glass pyramid on the shores of Lake Erie, has become a proud symbol of this city. And Cleveland’s rock fans turned out in droves for the hall’s 27th induction ceremony on Saturday, only third time it has been held here.
But this year much of the show’s music was rooted squarely in the country’s entertainment capitals of New York and Los Angeles. Guns N’ Roses and the Red Hot Chili Peppers represented two branches of California rock in the 1980s, metal and punk. And the Beastie Boys and the mercurial songwriter Laura Nyro, if they have anything in common, were celebrated as but two slices of New York’s huge, multifaceted musical culture.
The ceremony, at the incongruously stately Public Auditorium — a 1920s Beaux Arts monolith a few blocks from the museum — also honored Donovan; the blues guitarist Freddie King; the linked British invasion bands Small Faces and the Faces; the music executive Don Kirshner; and an array of sidemen and backup groups.
And in between blistering jams, encomiums and shaggy dog stories about rockers’ early years, musicians spoke of their home cities as inspiration, common ground or hell.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/arts/music/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inducts-guns-n-roses-beastie-boys-and-red-hot-chili-peppers.html?pagewanted=all
From left, Gilby Clarke, Matt Sorum, Duff McKagan, Slash and Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses at the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland on Saturday. (Getty Images)
(Title has now been revised for print, previously was "A Ceremony in the Midwest Honors Rock Legends From the Coasts"
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