How The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominates it’s Inductees [OPINION]

Something has finally come to light that I've felt for many years.The fact that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee is run by people who are unqualified to hold such a position. It's always been my belief that an artist or band should be nominated according to what they have done to contribute to rock and roll, and nothing else. In addition, I feel the artists or group should be nominated by their peers, not by a panel of so called experts. The people who know you best are the same people who are in the trenches with you, not so called experts, or writers.

In a recent article in USA Today, the president and CEO Joel Peresman acknowledges that the Rock Hall's nominating committee, which consists of about 40 music industry executives, musicians and journalists, handles each decision about group membership on a case-by-case basis, in consultation with outside scholars. What or who is an outside scholar?

"It's a little bit of opinion, but you have to go with the opinion of people who know these genres of music and can form a truly educated opinion," he says.

"Going forward, we'll be more clear-cut from the beginning and more public about who's being inducted," Peresman says. "(The next time) we announce the nominees, we'll make sure to say, 'Here are the people being nominated.' "

It's time for a change, and I'm hopeful the changes made will allow the many individuals and groups who are so deserving and have been overlooked, the opportunity for nomination. They deserve that much.