Holy crap.... Yep... that's my first thought about this concert! I still can't even believe that I was there! What an amazing class this year too! Inductees included:
- Cat Stevens
- Kiss
- Linda Rondstadt
- Peter Gabriel
- Nirvana
- The E Street Band
- Hall and Oates
Wow.... I am still getting chills thinking about Cat Stevens performing Peace Train. It was a surreal experience! Plus... I SAW PETER GABRIEL!!! What??! So cool. He did In Your Eyes with Youssou N'Dour and the crowd was singing along like crazy. Kiss did not perform due to diva issues but they had a great speech and they were all very supportive and cordial which was nice to see! Linda Rondstadt did not come to the ceremony so in tribute to her Bonnie Raitt, Cheryl Crow, Carrie Underwood, Emmylou Harris and FREAKING Stevie Nicks did some of her songs. The E Street Band with Bruce Springsteen was great but their thank you speeches went on for probably over an hour... it had me yawning and pondering if I could get away with taking a short nap. Their performance was excellent though! Seeing Joan Jett with Nirvana was so cool! There were so many artists that I have never seen live before and it was really cool and so interesting with all the different genres! So many awesome celebs and surprise guests!
- Chris Martin from Coldplay
- Questlove from the Roots
- Glenn Frey from the Eagles
- Art Garfunkle
- Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine
- Michael Stipe from REM
- Bruce Springsteen
- Courtney Love (who seems intoxicated as usual)
- Joan Jett
- Lorde
- St Vincent
- Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth
I'm pretty sure that I saw Taylor Swift there in the audience... just saying... It was an all around awesome concert minus the people in our row that had to pee and get beer 300 times. Also those same up and downers were a bunch of chatty Cathy's. I actually had to tap the guy on the shoulder and tell him that I couldn't hear the concert because he was too damn loud. I hate to do that kind of thing but I paid a lot of money and came a long way across miles of scary subway to get there. The subway is a scary scary place full of scary people and confusing letters and numbers and colors.... hate it!
In synopsis, the concert was amazing and I will be going again as soon as Styx gets inducted! Hopefully next year! :-) I'll leave you with some pictures that I didn't take... I wasn't that close...lol
