Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame "As It Should Be" - 2000, Part Three - The Inductees

Six artists were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2000 and since none of them came from the "Class Of 2000", the year was a clean-up year of past oversights. My Hall is no different, with only one first time inductee making it in along with five previous nominees.


The following "Class Of 2000" were inducted in their first year of eligibility:

Television - One of the most artistic and challenging bands of the New York '77 scene, Television don't have any hit songs and the average rock fan has never heard of them, but they were one of the first great bands of the alternative rock scene and among the most influential bands of the early days of punk.


The following artists has been inducted into the Hall Of Fame in 2000:

Joe Cocker - The gravel-voiced classic rock singer who managed to improve on a couple Beatles songs and a classic from Traffic, Joe Cocker is among the most popular singers of his generation and one of the greatest singers to come out of the 1960's.

Judas Priest - One of the first truly great metal bands of the late 70's and early 80's golden age of metal. The band has a legendary track record and even managed to put a few metal songs onto the classic rock playlist, an honor that not even Motorhead could achieve.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Another great classic rock band from the 70's makes the Hall this year. BTO is hardly the most artistic band of their era, but they put forward a workman-like effort on album after album and had just enough wit to their songwriting to put them over the top.

The New York Dolls - One of the first great bands in the proto-punk movement, The New York Dolls were rough and undisciplined, wild and incomprehensible at times. In short, they were brilliant and exactly what rock n roll needed as they started to venture into the prog and corporate rock wildernesses.

Supertramp - And no sooner trashed than inducted, Supertramp was both corporate rock and prog rock at times, but their lyrics were among the best of the late 70's and they were one of the few artistic bands to make a splash during the disco era.