We're on the same page buddy. I'll never figure out why bands like ABBA get into the RNR Hall of Shame while real rock bands just like you mentioned don't.
c 'mon, the MC5 are probably the biggest baddest most influential most referenced and least acknowledged band in Rock History! They wrote the book and then burned it! The MC5 have to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012!
The R n R Hall of Shame has been a joke for years. They don't even know what Rock is. Is Leonard Bernstein Rock? Not in my world but he's in. That says it all.