Well, Dave Grohl is going into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame…..again. This time, as a Foo Fighter. Grohl, as we all know, was first known to Rock fans as the drummer of Nirvana. He got into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame with Nirvana in 2014 with his band mates Kurt Cobain and Krist Novaselic. Little did he know in 1994, when he played all of the instruments and wrote all of the lyrics for the first Foo Fighters album, that he would be in the Hall Of Fame nearly thirty years later with his new band. It’s richly deserved. The Foo Fighters, with their slow build thru the 1990’s, and then meteoric rise into the 2000’s, have been the world’s biggest Rock band for some twenty odd years. Huge songs, “My Hero”, “Everlong”, “Learn To Fly”, “Monkey Wrench”,  “Times Like These”, “Big Me”, “I’ll Stick Around”, have dominated on Rock and Alternative radio for decades. It doesn’t matter where this band plays live across the planet, they sellout, and they play stadiums. Grohl is also an accomplished documentary maker, and really, the true “Ambassador” of Rock N’ Roll. We simply love him here in Peoria. And we’re still waiting for that first Foo show here in the River City!

Huge congrats going to The Go-Go’s, the all female Pop-New Wave band that scored huge hits in the 1980’s, and helped spawn MTV. JAY-Z, with a dominant career in music and business is one of the most inspirational artists in Hip-Hop in the 1990’s and the 2000’s, with huge songs and albums, and multiple Grammy Awards, also, richly deserved! Tina Turner getting into the Rock Hall in 2021 seems like it should have happened years ago, as a solo artist. She is in the Hall with her ex-Husband Ike Turner, but Tina is a force on her own. Huge albums, big number one songs, and one of the greatest comeback stories in music history, a true legend. Todd Rundgren and Carol King are also getting in this year, both with massively successful careers, and big songs and album sales, especially in the 1970’s. On another cool note, the late Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads will receive the ‘Musical Excellence Award’ this year, along with Billy Preston and LL Cool J. The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony will be in Cleveland this Fall, and will be shown on HBO a few weeks after the ceremony concludes. It’s a good year!

-Bahan