Mac Murphy wrote:
This is all politics, moreso I'd guess than even the baseball Hall of Fame.
It took Black Sabbath, the most influential act in an entire major genre of music, many years to make it, and only after Ozzy Osbourne brought the name back to prominence through an MTV reality show.
Off the top of my head, I don't think Alice Cooper has ever been inducted. And anyone familiar with other inducted artists and Alice Cooper's catalog knows that is a crime.
The Alice Cooper band is very underated, one of the great rythm sections of all time. Teenage Lament '74 is one of the great songs of all time.