As serious case of WTH

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This is about as much "celebrity" type news as you're ever going to get out of me.

This year's list of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees is:

Guns N' Roses
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Donovan
Laura Nyro
The Small Faces/Faces
Beastie Boys
The Crickets
The Famous Flames
The Midnighters
The Comets
The Blue Caps
The Miracles
Early Influence:
Freddie King
Sidemen:
Don Kirshner
Cosimo Matassa
Tom Dowd
Glyn Johns

Notice anyone missing? Of course you do. There are many performers and groups not on this list.

But there is one group which is more conspicuous by its absence than any other.

I look at this year's list and note the presence of such bands as, yes, Guns & Roses. Yes they were a major band. Yes they had a major influence. Yes, Axl is a major idiot and probably needs to have his knees introduced to sledgehammer.

But including them before KISS? WTH?

I do not believe any single band can adequately define the music genre of heavy metal, but KISS comes closer than any other group. Why has KISS be overlooked year after year?

How does this happen? The R&RHOF is not very forthcoming.

While I am not generally a fan of Wikipedia, this article does a pretty good job of explaining the nomination process.

Gene Simmons had this to say about it a few years ago. "There's nobody in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- in fact, if you took all of them and put them together -- they couldn't match all the licensing and merchandising we've done and the legacy we've left." He echoed many outsiders' critiques of the Hall by identifying a few famous inductees that aren't as "rock"-oriented as his own band. "I mean, yes, Madonna's important. I have no [darned] idea what she's doing in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Or Grandmaster Flash or any other disco or rap artist."