The Time Steve Miller Destroyed the stupid rock n' roll hall of fame.

0:00 - Pre Rock Hall 2016
1:10 - Steve Miller's Rant
2:46 - Aftermath

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Some call it pointless, others call it incredibly pointless, I’m of course talking about the rock n’ roll hall of fame. With the hall of fame ceremonies going on this week I thought it would be a perfect time to look at the rare times an artist has stood up to the rock hall and told them to shove it. That’s exactly what Steve Miller did half a decade ago and were going to explore the full story in today’s video.

In 2016 Steve Miller would be inducted into the rock n’ roll hall of fame with other overdue acts including Cheap Trick, Chicago and Deep Purple. Rap group NWA would be inducted the same year.. The rock hall has long been criticized for ignoring hugely influential acts, having a mysterious governing body that chooses who gets in and who doesn’t in addition to giving fans limited say and inducting rap and hip hop acts who aren’t considered rock n’ roll.

The run up to Steve Miller’s induction seemed like any other year. Even the ceremony seemed to go off without a hitch despite Miller’s gentle criticism during his induction speech saying : “I encourage you to keep expanding your vision, to be more inclusive of women,” since his induction year had no women. He also push the hall to support music education. Then, it all changed as he talked ot the press backstage.

Here’s what he had to say backstage. Keep in mind the person trying to interrupt him is the publicist for the rock hall.

Following his rant backstage, the rock hall put out a statement that read

Rock ‘n’ roll can ignite many opinions,” . “It’s what makes it so great. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was honored to induct Steve Miller tonight and congratulates him.

Following the ceremony he would be interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine. During the interview he slammed the rock hall for being an amateur production. He would slam the rock hall over time constraints put on the artists during their performances, what they can say and who they can invite. Each inductee gets two free tickets with subsequent tickets costing around $10,000 each. He would elaborate further on his frustrations with the exchange with rolling stone going as follows

What do you mean by “amateur production”?


“A hundred thousand phone calls; the contract work. The licensing still isn’t signed and isn’t complete. Everybody is kind of a dick and an asshole. And every artist you talk to will tell you that. You’re lucky that everybody didn’t fing walk out. It was very, very close. If you’re an investigative reporter, get fing busy. K? Got enough?

He would go on to criticize the committee who selects the inductees for not being transparent and that they should be replaced.

Miller would be inducted by The Black Keys with Miller would telling Howard Stern

“I never was introduced to the Black Keys,”“I didn’t know who they were personally. I walked in through security, and there’s this guy [Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach] looking at me, making goo-goo eyes at me or something. I walk up to him, and I go, ‘What are you doing tonight?’ And he says, ‘I’m reading your speech.’ I say, ‘Oh, great. I can’t wait to get the f out of here.’ And I didn’t know who he was!

The Black Keys made their feelings known with guitarist and frontman Dan Aurbach telling Rolling Stone “I don’t know, we read a lot of things and we got a really uncomfortable feeling when we first met Steve,” the frontman said. “He had no idea who we were. No idea. The first thing he told us was, ‘I can’t wait to get out of here.’ He knew that we signed up to do this speech for him. And he made no effort to even — he didn’t even figure out who we were.”

So why show up anyways? Miller would tell the magazine he came for his fans. NWA’s Ice Cube shared a similar sentiment as Miller according to the Wrap saying in a statement “We really didn’t feel like we were supported enough to do the best show we could put on.”

Several weeks after his investigation Miller claimed to howard stern he was planning on investigating the rock hall, but the story seemed to die down shortly after t
Sources

https://pitchfork.com/news/64693-steve-miller-rips-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/amp/

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/steve-miller-on-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-im-gonna-get-these-guys-32969/amp/