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[Aleck Cobbs]

cant really say mainstream acceptance is #1 for the hall when bands like the ramones are in. and notice how MC5 are nominated this year - clearly some level of influence is factored into that decision.

crimson basically invented prog rock - you may not dig the tropes (long songs, little to no pop sensibility, mellotron), but the influence is there, and the influence extends beyond prog rock. ask david bowie

I think an artist either needs to be extremely influential or popular. Crimson's purported influence on someone like Bowie notwithstanding, I just don't see them being a HoF band, unless HoF is a synonym for "someone who their fans like."

one of the things that made ELP's billing as a "supergroup" was greg lake's stint as crimson's frontman. granted, for american audiences they wouldn't have been a supergroup at all - crimson, the nice, and atomic rooster really only made waves in england

Over their career, Grand Funk has had 19 charted singles, 8 Top 40 hits and two Number One singles (We're An American Band and Locomotion, both selling more than one million each). The group has now accumulated 13 gold and 10 platinum records with record sales in excess of 25 million copies sold worldwide

If we're talking about 70's glam rock, T. Rex(Bolan) is the second most important act after Bowie. Although they are a one-hit wonder band in the US(in Europe and Britain they have a few hits), they had a big significance on the 70's music scene. And they were critically acclaimed and pretty influential: -rex-mn0000005882/related (see 'Followed by' section).

I'm just basing that on what I've heard on the radio. ELP has lucky man, from the beginning, still you turn me on, and 4 minutes of karn evil 9. grand funk has locomotion, american band, im your captain, some kind of wonderful. obviously that's totally anecdotal

If we're talking about 70's glam rock, T. Rex(Bolan) is the second most important act after Bowie. Although they are a one-hit wonder band in the US(in Europe and Britain they have a few hits), they had a big significance on the 70's music scene. And they were critically acclaimed and pretty influential: (see 'Followed by' section).

Don't get me wrong. I own and love Electric Warrior. But I don't think the fact that Def Leppard says in an interview that they grew up listening to T. Rex means that T. Rex is itself a HoF band. JMO.

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