Reply To: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2026 Nominees are Up for Voting. What Do You Think?

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On William Heins said

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Kansas

Styx

….and other real rock acts…

Isn’t it a complete disgrace that ELP isn’t in the Hall of Fame? I mean, I think every serious keyboardist can acknowledge that Keith Emerson was brilliant. I’d still say the greatest rock keyboardist of all time. Some have called him the Hendrix of the keyboard. ELP was the first rock concert I ever saw. I fell in love with ELP with the Trilogy album when I was, I don’t know, maybe 7. For the son of a music teacher who was a piano student, hearing the piano — and organ — on the Trilogy album was an incredible blend of rock and classical that I immediately fell in love with and my mother did too.

As far as Kansas, Steve Walsh, he had one of my favorite rock voices of all time on the classic Kansas stuff (70s). He had serious vocal issues from the mid 80s and beyond. I think I’ve seen Kansas live five times, unfortunately, though, it was all after Steve starting having vocal issues. As a prog rock fan, I feel Kansas never got the recognition they deserved. But the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hasn’t had a lot of respect for progressive rock. While I grew up a Styx fan and think they deserve to be there, I feel way more strongly about ELP than any other group, followed by Kansas, then Styx. They’ve overlooked so many important rock and prog rock bands, it’s really ridiculous.  King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Procol Harum, and Supertramp are worthy of being in there, IMO.

They should change their name to the pop music hall of fame.

That said, I took my family there for a visit several years ago and it was a good time.

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