{"id":3833,"date":"2005-11-29T07:18:47","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T07:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2005-11-29T07:18:47","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T07:18:47","slug":"ozzy-and-miles-together-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/ozzy-and-miles-together-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozzy and Miles, together at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\"> NEW YORK &#8211; After snubs that drove Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne to dismiss the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vote as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153totally irrelevant,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the heavy-metal pioneers are finally in, joined by Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Sex Pistols and Blondie.<\/p>\n<p>Ozzy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1970s group was first nominated in 1996. But until Monday, the panel of musicians, industry professionals and journalists who vote on inductees kept the door barred. Except for Led Zeppelin, the hall has largely ignored metal since the organization was founded in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, Osbourne requested that Black Sabbath be taken off the list of nominees.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10238958\" class=\"external external_icon\">The nomination is meaningless, because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not voted on by the fans,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the soon-to-be reality TV star said at the time. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voted on by the supposed elite of the industry and the media, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never bought an album or concert ticket in their lives, so their vote is totally irrelevant to me<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Davis, the late trumpeter, is the first jazz musician accepted as a full inductee. Louis Armstrong (1990), Dinah Washington (1993) and Billie Holiday (2000) were previously honored as being early influences on rock \u00e2\u20ac\u2122n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 roll.<\/p>\n<p>Davis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hard glare and restless innovation gave him a style that rockers appreciated, and he embraced rock and hip-hop sounds in his later recordings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I refuse to acknowledge Lynyrd Skynyrd cause I&#8217;m sick of every backwater yelling for that damn &#8220;Free Bird&#8221; song at every concert or local musician gig.<\/p>\n<p>Fucking blight on The Land, that is.<\/p>\n<p>(via b55seddel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; After snubs that drove Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne to dismiss the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vote as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153totally irrelevant,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the heavy-metal pioneers are finally in, joined by Miles Davis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Sex Pistols and Blondie. Ozzy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 1970s group was first nominated in 1996. But until Monday, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}