Django Reinhardt

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1971

First Recording: 1945

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Django Reinhardt
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
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🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 1992 (ranked #23 in the Influences - Pre-Rock Era category) .
Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Paris 1945 (1945)☆☊
Django Reinhardt et ses rythmes (1953)☆☊
Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Minor Swing (1937)☆☊
Nuages (1940)☆☊
I'll See You in My Dreams (1946)☆☊

Django Reinhardt @ Wikipedia

Will Django Reinhardt be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Totally inexcusable omission from the Early Influences category. He has influenced guitar players across a diverse array of styles and genres - Les Paul, Chet Atkins, BB King, Jimi Hendrix, etc. Django melded the gypsy and jazz styles (first swing, than later bebop) seamlessly and played both acoustic and electric with equal technique.

Seriously people, start directing your attention towards legitimate giants instead of outdated schlock like the Kingston Trio when you want complain about who isn't in the HOF. YouTube Django Reinhardt sometime and prepare yourself for musical pleasure that is rarely equalled by others.

Posted by Zach on Sunday, 02/22/2015 @ 14:11pm

With an all-star lineup of guitarists all crediting Django Reinhardt as an influence (Tony Iommi, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, and Jerry Garcia, to name some), there really is no justifiable excuse for Reinhardt not to be an EI inductee.

Oh, wait, this is the R'N'R HOF we're talking about, whose nominating committee has less of a collective intelligence than a bowl of worms and slugs.

Posted by Zach on Saturday, 07/16/2016 @ 21:12pm

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