Rock and roll hall of fame

[Jules]

Does it says Dire Straits?

I was kind of convinced that it was just my opinion 

 

[Stanko]

"I was in Cleveland, Ohio being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a great time was had by all. Except Mark, of course, who stayed at home. John (Illsley) did an exemplary job of dealing with Mark's absence. I'm humbled by the attention and the praise I/we have received. Thanks!"

Source: Alan Clark official website.

I'm starting to really dislike Alan too

To me, Alan was quite polite.

Clearly a dig at Mark.

His behaviour goes like this:

Lots of digs at Mark during all the tribute band stuff.

HOF announced - AC starts sucking up to Mark, hoping he'll come to the ceremony.

MK doesn't come, back to digs again.

yes endless digs by AC

oh, this has come to true love will never fade now eh!

[Trawlerman]

So Alan had his 10 minutes of fame now he goes in keyboard warrior modus. Why didn't he tell anything that night ? It would have been the right time. Or maybe he doesn't have the guts. Childish. I'm glad MK didn't have anything to do with him.

[JF]

Does it says Dire Straits?

I was kind of convinced that it was just my opinion 

 

 

[allen]

Regarding John doing the induction. Why didnt the HOF have a host of the event who could act as backup in a situation like this?  Seems very strange and like extremly lack of planning. Whoever was supposed to induct them and who pulled out last minute left the situation to be even worse than MK not attending.

Very unprofessional on the HOF promoters part.

Sorry, on the contrary, I think this year's ceremony is the best organized one, compared with any other previous one. 
This year, they had OFFICIAL RED CARPET LIVE STREAM, which they did it for the first time.  And DS was included.  We fans are lucky to see John, Guy and Alan walked off the van and did an interview.
They had Klipsch for professional Audio, HBO for professional Video, Getty/Wire for professional Image.
They had a wonderful stage and functional big screens.
They had back stage interview for every band/artist.
They planned other artists to do the induction speech for this year's inductees.

The things listed above were all facts.  I don't think they were unprofessional.

Yes all those things were professional and well done but still DS were inducted by none, it's some kind of revenge or at least something surely not handled professionally

Maybe here we should make it clearer.

RRHOF asked some people to do the induction speech.   They did ask, and the people did accept the job initially.  But the people changed their mind not to do the speech due to knowing MK's absence before the show. 

RRHOF did not have enough time to find another person who could take this task in such a short time, so they contacted John.  After discussion, John agreed to do the speech.

Inducted by none never happened in the history of RRHOF. You want to believe it casually happened only to DS ? Go ahead, but I don't believe it.

I believe what John spoke in the speech and what Guy wrote on his forum in terms of the ceremony this time.  If anyone else told me this, I may not believe.  I also hoped there would be a guest who did the speech for the band, not from the band.

[cannibals]

according to intel from Billboard, Keith Urban and Neil Young were asked but declined.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/rock-hall-2018-why-musicians-refused-to-induct-dire-straits.html

[allen]

according to intel from Billboard, Keith Urban and Neil Young were asked but declined.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/rock-hall-2018-why-musicians-refused-to-induct-dire-straits.html

Thanks, and a great find. 

[allen]

OK, now Alan has modified his words from

"I was in Cleveland, Ohio being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a great time was had by all. Except Mark, of course, who stayed at home. John (Illsley) did an exemplary job of dealing with Mark's absence. I'm humbled by the attention and the praise I/we have received. Thanks!"

to

"I was in Cleveland, Ohio being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a great time was had by all. Except Mark who, as you're probably aware, stayed at home. John (Illsley) did an exemplary job of dealing with Mark's absence. I'm humbled by the attention and the praise I/we have received. Thanks!"

(Source: http://www.alanclarkmusic.com)

[basilbunting1108]

I think MK's totally punk rock for skipping the ceremony and thumbing his nose at the big, bad American Rock N'Roll establishment. I've developed a new respect for him, actually.

[Jules]

Yes, he's the new badass of the British songwriters.

[dustyvalentino]

Totally punk rock was the Sex Pistols calling the HOF a piss stain.

But MK snubbing was also cool.

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[dustyvalentino]

Does it says Dire Straits?

I was kind of convinced that it was just my opinion 

 

Well MY opinion is that is was pretty stupid of the HOF to use a pic showing three people who didn't turn up...

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[JF]

Yes, he's the new badass of the British songwriters.

[Jules]

Does it says Dire Straits?

I was kind of convinced that it was just my opinion 

 

Well MY opinion is that is was pretty stupid of the HOF to use a pic showing three people who didn't turn up...

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First, Dusty, it was just a joke

Secondly, I agree with you. Even the four in the picture were being inducted, only one of them was there so they might used at least a 85 or 92 picture of DS instead.

[allen]

Talking about the pics, there is no such a pic of all six DS inductees only without anyone else, to my knowledge.  If all could attend, they could not find a proper pic.

And I think it's ok to show the original four piece band pics, and that's the way RRHOF does for every year, for all bands.  John also mentioned the four piece in his speech.  Why not show those four guys on screens?

Sex pistols and Dire Straits are totally different things.  Mark didn't say anything.  Sex pistols had a negative comment about RRHOF. 

No one knows for sure the real reason(s) why MK was absent.  Paul McCatney didn't show up for Beatles Induction, but he showed up for his solo induction.  Eric Clapton did the same.  Maybe MK will do the same.