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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is about as difficult to get into as a McDonald's restaurant, inducted the latest of those band members who have fulfilled the requirement for admittance. The requirement is simply to be around long enough until it's your turn.

Don't get me wrong, these bands, "REM" and "Van Halen", at least most incarnations of it, deserve recognition. The whole concept of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame though, is a joke; everyone who says they're a rocker gets in, eventually.

Even rappers get in. Where there's any correlation between rap and rock is beyond even my vivid imagination, but, according to "Grandmaster Flash", who I admit is quite entertaining doing his scratchy thing, there are rock influences in rap.

Yeah, and all music derived from classical composers but I don't see the day coming when there's a Mozart award going to "The Bangles."

Van Halen's Michael Anthony and former band member, Sammy Hagar, who looks like Peter Ustinov, as "Old Man" in "Logan's Run", are the only members of the band who are still able to stand, were on hand to accept the award.

Actually David Lee Roth can also stand but he was having another hissy fit somewhere else in the building.

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