Journey In the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
(Check out the playlist at the bottom!) Journey was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Then they were selected to be one of 2017’s inductees. The other acts who will be enshrined in the Rock Hall are Pearl Jam, Yes, Electric Light Orchestra, Joan Baez and Tupac Shakur. In addition to the aforementioned six acts, veteran musician and producer Nile Rodgers will receive the Award for Musical Excellence. For me, Journey was the band that changed music from being someth
Pearl Jam & The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame
Seattle in the 1980’s was a mere shadow of the Seattle we all know today. There was no Microsoft or Starbucks to speak of. No Amazon. The most Seattle had to offer besides Boeing was an NBA championship in 1979, a retailer named Nordstroms that was growing in popularity and a football team that was forever the bridesmaid, but never the bride. It was a big deal when bands came to Seattle. We were so far north of Los Angeles, many bands didn’t think it worth the expense to make
Halls of Fame
I’m passionate about a few things. Two of them being Rock n Roll and baseball. There will be a lot of baseball references in these blogs. The old saying is athletes want to be rock stars and rock stars want to be athletes. This is true in a lot of cases. One of the coolest events I’ve ever been a part of was the yearly TJ Martell sports week in Los Angeles. TJ Martell was the son of a music industry guy that tragically died from leukemia . His dad started this weekend to rais