Well, to start off we'll need to add at least 50 bands/artists/performers to have a great pavillion (in the mentioned building I suppose). In the meantime, we should discuss the place to erect (sic) the said construction: Paris, Amsterdam, Rome, Québec (sic), London???

 

Later (after the 50 plus additions by royal decree) we should think about new inductions: 5-8 per year for acts with 20 years 'on the road': Anglagard, Symphony X and Porcupine Tree will need to wait a bit, no?

 

For the induction ceremony, bands must gig in the YYYYY (insert name here) Auditorium... and since one of the first bands to be inducted will be Genesis, they'll have to perform together to validate the induction.

 

Again, Uncle Gates will be the sponsor, releasing the silver to make Gabriel and Collins play together.

 

James wrote: febus wrote: 45107 posts???James.......How did you manage that number??/ whoah!! I think that should be: rather than And don't ask... Just posting rubbish mostly... well, not here, I mean in some other section that is evil and corrupt.

 

The Evil section? Ya mean the non-music related forums dealing with Politics, religion, sex and violence (as opposed to sax and violins!)

 

Ask Clive Nolan

 

http://www.progressiverockhalloffame.com/ - http://www.progressiverockhalloffame.com/

 

What I can't figure, in a year of excellent and original jazz rock releases, that  Mahavishnu Project (not bad admittedly but effectively a covers album) Return to the Emerald Beyond wins the prize. Does this come from having to subscribe before you can have voting rights therefore selection is by comparativley few??

 

Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Rush, Jordan Rudess all won awards

 

Atlantis would be perfect place, equal distance from each site in world

 

Even if the event isn't held there, I nominate this beautiful, beautiful venue that is chock full of prog love for an award in it's own right!

 

It would be just plain rude not to surely?

 

 

 

So back to the "venue" debate, it should be hosted in a secret location and broadcast over the web...... it's the only way to please the "why isn't in my back yard" brigade........

 

 

W x

 

I suspect it is piddling organisation, and certainly the need to pay money to be part of it, before you get voting rights is off-putting. I was shocked  when the art director for Holdsworth's 16 Men Of Tain, told me he was seriously thinking of nominating his artwork for a Grammy - I hadn't appreciated you could nominate your own work for these so-called pretigious award - but he didn't in the end. So I'm cynical in the extreme wrt to these awards with so few involved with nomination and then voting - I would far more faith if the whole of the membership of  Prog Archives, Prog Ears, Gibaltar, etc. . were asked to nominate and then vote. Also remember too mnay of the top 10 or 100 polls read in magazine or on TV, are based on comparatively biassed small committees coming up with 150% of the necessary names (and you can guess done in the local pub), and then limiting voters to those nominees and no others.

 

Are those the same 16 men of Tain; http://www.tain.org.uk/glenmorangie-distillery-g.asp - http://www.tain.org.uk/glenmorangie-distillery-g.asp  - if so, they surely deserve an award for bringing so much pleasure to mankind

 

Your probably right Dick. I have met Laurie Larson before whose idea this was and she in no musicoligist .  Notice how slanted to just English and American artists it is?  I agree they should get other sponsors than asking people to pay to vote.  It is a good idea but just like the R&R HOF it is just a select few who will control it.  Too bad.