The RRHOF is just another "awards show" that is nothing more than a marketing campaign for the Industry, much like the Emmy's, Grammy's, etc. It's always been that way. Here's a scene from Almost Famous where "Lester Bangs" (owner of Cream Magazine) tells a young "Cameron Crowe" to beware of the game:
I've never seen this movie. Good post for s/MovieScenes
It's a loose auto-bio made by, and about, Cameron Crowe who was a respectable early music writer who travelled with and interviewed a lot of the famous bands of the early '70's (Poco, the Allman Brothers Band, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, and Lynyrd Skynyrd). The movie gets a little "chick movie" feel to it but tolerable.
Stillwater was a real band albeit one of those movie punks deals. Crowe used a composite of the bands he had known to create Stillwater
Peter Frampton served as a technical consultant on the film. Crowe and his then-wife, Nancy Wilson of Heart and her sister Anne, co-wrote three of the five Stillwater songs in the film, and Frampton wrote the other two, with Mike McCready of Pearl Jam playing lead guitar on all of the Stillwater songs. Crowe took a copy of the film to London for a special screening with Led Zeppelin members Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. After the screening, Led Zeppelin granted Crowe the right to use one of their songs on the soundtrack—the first time they had ever consented to this since allowing Crowe to use "Kashmir" in Fast Times at Ridgemont High—and also gave him rights to four of their other songs in the movie itself.
You remind me of the Goat who would add little factoids like that to posts in v/60sMusic and v/70smusic. Is that you?
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