Tom Morello shares Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s “most egregious oversight”

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Tom Morello has shared what he feels has been the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s “most egregious oversight”: Iron Maiden.While on The Eddie Trunk Podcast, shared yesterday (November 12), Morello spoke passionately about the heavy metal veterans being snubbed to this day.

Morello’s former band Rage Against the Machine entered the Hall last year, with the guitarist accepting the honour on the band’s behalf.“I will chew my leg off like a coyote in a trap if I can’t get Iron Maiden in,” Morello declared. “While there are many other deserving acts, Iron Maiden for me is the most egregious oversight in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.”He called the band “the gold standard of metal bands”, but added that he knows their vocalist Bruce Dickinson has “said he doesn’t really care.”“Well I care as a fan.

I care very, very much about it,” he continued. “So I’m gonna do all I can to get, [with] whatever limited influence I have, to get Iron Maiden in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.”In 2018, Dickinson told The Jerusalem Post that he “will refuse” if the band was offered a spot in the Hall of Fame. “They won’t bloody be having my corpse in there.”“Rock & roll music does not belong in a mausoleum in Cleveland,” Dickinson added. “It’s a living, breathing thing, and if you put it in a museum, then it’s dead.

It’s worse than horrible, it’s vulgar.Morello knows about the extent of Dickinson’s feelings too: “I’m sure there are some people who are thinking about, ‘What will the show be if one of the headliners doesn’t show up?’” Morello told podcast host, in the event Iron Maiden does get nominated.Greg Harris, the CEO of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, addressed Iron Maiden’s absence from their list in both 2021 and 2023.