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X for R&R Hall of Fame!

ronbwilson

About Me

I am just a humble X fan.

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TAKE THIS POLL:http://www.futurerockhall.com/artist.php?artist_id=X

My Interests

Getting X into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Send your postcards and letters to: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation 1290 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10104AND/OR...To Jann Wenner Wenner Media LLC 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10104 .... Jann the Mann's got PULL...AND/OR...Contact Rolling Stone and Spin at the following sites and let them know you want X inducted into the RRHoF:http://www.spin.com/about/contact/ = Spin [email protected] = Rolling StoneAND/OR...Go to the Radio Locator website to find the e-mail addresses of your local rock 'n' roll radio stations, then send those stations an e-mail asking them to support X for the hall of Fame! What the heck, e-mail as many radio stations as you can.http://www.radio-locator.com/AND/OR...You can use the following newspaper search site to find the music/arts/entertainment contacts at various dailies around the world.Contact them to let them know you want X inducteded into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! http://www.nettizen.com/newspaper/In fact, try them all! It's time for this GREAT band to be recognized by the Hall of Fame.THANK YOU! -RonTAK THIS POLL: http://www.futurerockhall.com/artist.php?artist_id=X

I'd like to meet:

The folks involved with the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame nomination process!TAKE THIS POLL:http://www.futurerockhall.com/artist.php?artist_id=X

Music:

X, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Who, The Clash, Neil Young, The Ramones, Julie London, Ella Fitzgerald, Lou Reed (and V.U.), AC/DC, Sun Records - the whole roster!, Janis Martin, Charlie Feathers and all of the other rockabilly cats and kittens, Solomon Burke, James Brown, Garnet Mimms, Otis Redding, Joan Jett, The Swans, Undercity, Little Puppet, Wes Montgomery, Lionel Hampton, Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, The Jam, The Dream Syndicate, Jim Hall, Bob Dylan, Billy Zoom Band, The Last Days of May, The Sex Pistols, DC3, Barnes and Barnes, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus,Jean-Michel Pilc, Brad Meldhau, Hank Snow, Dick D'Agostin and the Swingers, Buddy Holly, Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine, Milt Jackson, Klaus Schulze, The Doors, David Bowie,The Kinks, NWA, The Stiff Little Fingers, Charlie Christian, The Ron Eschete Trio, Social Distortion, Dead Kennedys, Hank Williams, Sr., Wynton Marsalis, The original Rollins Band, Bill Evans, Earl Hines, Lucy Reed, Mal Waldron, Herbie Hancock, Harold Mabern, Isaac Hayes, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, The Smut Peddlers, The Germs, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Ray Charles, Sly and the Family Stone, Echo and the Bunnymen, Bow Wow Wow, Nathan Payne, The Ramonetures, King Records roster and many more...

Movies:

Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Bring Me the head of Alfredo Garcia, Life on a String, Jackie Brown, Akira, Hana-bi, Violent Cop, Street Fighter Series, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Magnificent Obsession, Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Alien, Taxi Driver, Apocalypse Now, Scarface, Le Samourai, Au Hussard Balthazar, Blue Velvet, The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing, The Bad Lieutenant, Alphaville, Breathless, Manhunter, Reservoir Dogs, Ghost World, The Thin Red Line, Used Cars, The Pawnbroker, The Wild Bunch, Suspiria, Inferno, anything by Bunuel, The Blue Angel (German version), Le Cercle Rouge, La Regle de Jeu, Dawn of the Dead (1978 and 2004 versions), Crash (the Cronenberg film based on JG Ballard's book), The Shooting, Cockfighter, China 9, Liberty 37, Iguana, Black Christmas, The Mothman Prophecies, Rocco and His Brothers, Once Upon a Time in the West, Fitzcaraldo, Aguirre the Wrath of God, The Seven Samurai, Ran, Rashomon, Stray Dog, Johnny Guitar, The Warriors, Purple Noon, Badlands, Rancho Notorious, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Searchers, Night of the Hunter, The King of New York, The Funeral, Comanche Station, Ride the High Country, Shock Corridor, The Big Red One,The Harder They Fall, In the Heat of the Night, Race With the Devil (original), Mishima, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (director's cut),The Limey, and many, many others...

Television:

Simpsons, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks, Gunsmoke, Kung Fu, Strangers With Candy, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Get Smart, The Rifleman, The Westerner, Reno 911, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Get a Life, The Ben Stiller Show

Books:

The Concrete Island, Moby Dick, Of Human Bondage, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, Brotherhood of the Grape, Ham on Rye, Junky, Day of the Locust, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Crash, The Day of Creation, Slaughterhouse 5, Go Tell It On the Mountain, Dead Babies, Naked Lunch, Empire of the Sun, Sweet Soul Music, 2.13.61, End To End, Polio Flesh, The Sun Also Rises, Ask the Dust, Wait Until Spring Bandini, The Road to Los Angeles, Invisible Man, The Devil Tree, Being There, Cockpit, The Painted Bird, Pinball, Steps, Passion Play, The Man With the Golden Arm, Songs of the Silent Snow, Watership Down, The Lazlo Letters, Seize the Day, The Drowned World, Interzone, Lolita, Disneyland of the Gods, Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail '72, The Great Shark Hunt, The Curse of Lono, The Spider's House, The Collected Short Stories of Paul Bowles, Let It Come Down, The Sheltering Sky, Head of a Sad Angel, The various Mencken collections currently available, etc.

Heroes:

Warren Oates, Monte Hellman, Billy Zoom, Pete Townshend, Joe Strummer, Anne Sexton, Douglas Sirk, Richard Nixon (because he was the weirdest in a long line of weird presidents), Hunter Thompson, Johnny Ramone, Sam Peckinpah, John Coltrane, DJ, Exene, John Doe, JG Ballard, William Burroughs, Delmore Schwartz, Antonin Artaud, Eugene V. Debs, Randolph Scott, El Indio, Alain Delon, HL Mencken, etc.

My Blog

2007 RRHoF Nominees Named...

X didn't make it this year, but the fight goes on. Meanwhile, we will all have to scratch our heads at the inclusion of Chic among the nominees...At least they had the sense to nominate the Stooges an...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:11:00 PST

Billy Zoom Indie 103 Hosting Gig Campaign

Okay, while the "X For Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame" campaign gestates, let's see if we can get the powers-that-be at Indie 103 to let Billy have a go at hosting his own show. He's erudite and well-sp...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:56:00 PST

X For RRHoF Campaign & Radio Locator

Go to the Radio Locator website to find the e-mail addresses of your local rock & roll radio stations, then send those stations an e-mail asking them to support X for the hall of Fame! What the he...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Wed, 24 May 2006 04:27:00 PST

E-mail Campaign for X Induction into RRHoF

A Friend interested in the X For Rock & Roll Hall of Fame campaign suggests that we have a mass e-mail campaign that would be date-specific, much like a political e-mail campaign. I think thi...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Fri, 19 May 2006 08:42:00 PST

Smut Peddlers, Missy Roback, Nathan Payne

Check out the music by these artists on my "Friends" list. They are all great! -Ron
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:33:00 PST

Wenner Media LLC Address

Jann Wenner Wenner Media LLC 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10104-0298...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:07:00 PST

Wenner & Marsh & the RRHoF

Ive found a couple of references that indicate Dave Marsh and Jann Wenner are the primary movers behind the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. If anybody has any info on how one can most effectively cont...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:47:00 PST

Kristi sends info on X postcards...

Kristi sent this site which carries X postcards:   http://home.mindspring.com/~mhyatt2/fotopost/port/xtb/topmen u.htm.    ...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:27:00 PST

Pilot Project

Here's a little pilot program for the RRHoF campaign. Spin Magazine's contact page is: http://www.spin.com/about/contact/ . You can e-mail their editorial staff from here. Rolling Stone can be reached...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:18:00 PST

Info Julia Sent, Re: RRHoF Nomination process

A friend of mine found this in a Google search:To be nominated, the 2001 inductees had to have released an album in1975 or earlier. The nominees are picked by a 70-member committee ofrock 'n' roll his...
Posted by X for R&R Hall of Fame! on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:30:00 PST