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Kirk Buchner ("Committe Chairman") - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Darryl Tahirali (“DDT”) - DDT is a freelance writer living in Orange County, California. Originally from Canada, DDT enjoys writing about music, baseball, and other areas of Western pop culture from the tasteful to the trashy. DDT can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

 

Aaron KeKidd (“NHLKiDD”) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Lisa McDonald (“Live Music Head”) - Otherwise known as Live Music Head, Ms. McDonald is a vegetarian who enjoys practicing yoga and pilates, but it’s an enormous passion for music that keeps her tapping away at a keyboard.  A freelance music writer living in downtown Toronto, Lisa is currently in conversation with musicians and entertainers, sharpening interview skills and publishing articles at web-based magazines.  She may be contacted at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Phil Lebeznick - Life-long music lover and blogger. Phil can be contacted at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Charles Connor - The Original Drummer for Little Richard

It isn’t every day that you get to speak to a legend.  Recently, we here at notinhalloffame.com had the opportunity to chat with Charles Connor, the original drummer for Little Richard.  Our conversation with Charles allowed us to speak to a man who was not only a witness to the birth of Rock and Roll, but also the man who created its engine.

Charles Connor

Charles Connor was born in the cradle of American Music, New Orleans, Louisiana, to a Creole mother and a Merchant Marine father from Santo Domingo.  Connor jokes that when his mother would walk by a funeral procession, he would “be kicking in the womb along with the music.”  Recognizing his talent at a young age (Connor earned money as a toddler tap dancing for white tourists), his parents bought him his first drum set.  Even when he was not at his set, Connor would literally bang out beats on whatever was in front of him.  This included school desks that drove teachers crazy, but Charles couldn’t resist the temptation as he “just loved the sound those hollow desks would make.”

RIP: Adam Yauch

After a long bout with cancer, the music world has lost Adam "MCA" Yauch who was one third of the recent Hall of Fame inductee; The Beastie Boys.  We have made reference on this website to the pioneering efforts of the group and our belief that they should be Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.  This is another tragic loss in the music community and one that hurts us deeply.  Yauch was only 47.

RIP: Junior Seau

As you may already be aware, Junior Seau was found dead today of what could eventually be ruled as suicide.  Seau was a dominating defensive player who many have pegged for the Hall of Fame.  Likely, when he is eligible for Canton, he will have a high place on our list.  However, if this death is in fact suicide, it again raised the concern of the game of football and the affect it has on those who play it.  Was the first thing you thought of when you heard of Seau's death was that it could be from the head trauma he would have incurred?  I admit it was for myself.