The esteemed rockers, like Brady Quinn, Derek Anderson and the rest of the country, want nothing to do with Cleveland.
This years inductees included the multi-decade spanning art/prog rock masters Genesis, Sweedish pop pioneers Abba, British invasion rockers the Hollies, Jamaican Reggae king Jimmy Cliff, Punk darlings the Stooges, David Geffen, Barry Man, Cynthia Weil, Otis Blackwell, Mort Shuman, Larry David, everyone who was at the Beatles' Ed Sullivan performance, 4 out of the 5 roadies who toured with Led Zeppelin on their 1979 American tour, Kyle Stevens, who wrote a 2 page review of a Deep Purple show for his college newspaper and Brenda Waters who slept with 50% of the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
The induction ceremony opened with Hall of Fame president Joel Peresman announcing that
"We'll pretty much let anyone in the hall at this point... as long as its not Rush. We've been scouring the depths and dregs of rock and roll to find even the least deserving bands and artists, as long as their not associated with Rush, they can just walk right in and we'll give 'em entry. We can't wait until 2022 when we can start letting in bands like the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, but until then we will continue picking all the not-Rush eligible bands, regardless of their achievements in rock music."
Rush, who remain one of the most successful bands of all time, will have to theoretically wait another year to not get recognized. Rush frontman Geddy Lee told TTM that "It's just an honor to be nominated." It was then made known that they had never been nominated, to which Geddy replied, "well it would have been an honor to be nominated... if we had been."
