Originally Posted by
Rylan1
I disagree with you, GrandMaster Flash is very significant to the music industry. The reason why most people oppose his induction into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame is because they don't know what he had done. His contributions are much bigger than just Hip Hop or Rap, but are scene in many other genres of music. One question I have though is, is the Rock N' Roll HOF just strictly for Rock N' Roll, or for other musicians/artists who do what is known as popular music?
His contributions are he transformed the disc jockey of the past who simply played records to what we know today by inventing "cutting" which is what we know now as "scratching". He used duplicate copies of a single record and two turntables (for cutting) but added a dexterous manual edit with a mixer to promote the break (the ordinary playing of the record would be interrupted to overlay the break, the break could be repeated by using the mixer to switch channels while the second record was spun back.
Now there are numerous rock bands and rap artists that used this and still are. Are there any bands that you guys enjoy that have some form of this in their music???
Limp Bizkit, Beastie Boys, BloodHound Gang, Gorillaz I'm not a rock fan but here are a few. As well as it started/influenced other genres such as hip hop techno, etc.....Anyhow this invention dramatically changed music!
rock and roll involves guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. unless the Grandmaster is in a band that incorporates all of those, he doesn't belong in a Rock and Roll HOF anymore than Babe Ruth belongs in the Football HOF. Gorillaz is not considered a rock band. the other 3 you mentioned ARE rock bands, because they use rock instruments. scratching on a record is a hip hop instrument. whether or not it happens to be used in a rock band setting still doesn't make it rock and roll.
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