Recently, the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame suspended its curator, Craig Inciardi, after he was charged with two other men of possessing handwritten lyrics and notes allegedly stolen from Eagles co-founder Don Henley. Loudersound.com reports: “Inciardi, Glenn Horowitz and Edward Kosinski are accused of involvement in a plot to sell almost 100 pages of Henley’s handwritten notes and lyrics from ‘Hotel California’ and ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ to potential buyers. The documents are believed to have been stolen from Henley by an unnamed biographer, and it’s claimed that the 74-year-old musician had been pressed by the men to buy back his stolen papers.”
The “Motor City Madman,” Ted Nugent, addressed the issue in his latest edition of “The Nightly Nuge” and also offered his take on why he has been excluded from the Rock Hall. “Well, isn’t that fascinating, that there’s dishonesty and criminal behavior going on within the confines of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame?,” he said. “My comment on the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is I never speak from a personal anger that I’m not in it; I never reference that I should be in it, though obviously I should be in it,” he continued. “But that Grandmaster Flash and Madonna and ABBA are in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame? I speak on behalf of the fan club of the founding fathers that the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame should always pay homage to and respect, and that’s Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and Little Richard and Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis and the founding fathers of this most exciting, throttling, defiant, irreverent, uppity, fun soundtrack in the world. And that they would put people in there that are not just not rock and roll, but they’re anti rock and roll. So that this guy is being caught with his hands in the cookie jar is no surprise.”
Nugent continued: “Let me go ahead and say this… Nobody can sue me because if they try to sue me, we’ll prove that my words are accurate. There’s a lot of dope smoking going on at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, and the more dope you smoke, the dumber you get, the more irresponsible you get and the more criminally inclined you will get. And the statistics to prove what I just said are irrefutable, unless you’re so stoned that you can irrefute truth, logic and common sense, which I get a big kick out of. So this is a spotlight on a cockroach that, unfortunately, represents too much of those in charge of making decisions at the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. And again, it’s not because I’m angry that I’m not in; I’m angry that they’re dishonest and that they’re not paying respect to the Chuck Berrys and the Bo Diddleys and the Elvis Presleys and the Little Richards and the Jerry Lee Lewises of the world, because rock and roll means something, and ABBA and Grandmaster Flash ain’t it.”
Nugent’s co-host offered that his “politics” are the main reason he hasn’t been inducted, to which Nugent replied: “Let’s examine the foundation of that observation, very accurate observation. I’m not in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame because of my politics. My politics are the U.S. Constitution. Thank you very much.”
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