Dear Redbone Warriors:
Fall is just around the corner - and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will hold its induction ceremony without Redbone. Again. I mean, what's up with that?
Check out which acts made it this year (2022) according to the RRHF website - In order of total vote tally: Duran Duran, Eminem, Pat Benatar, Eurythmics, and Dolly Parton.
Check out my Redbone/RRHF TikTok protest video here.
You can peruse my TikTok (@jim.Hoffmann) for other regularly posted videos about the Redbone Memoirs: Come and Get Your Love (Pat "Redbone" Vegas and Jim Hoffmann), King Kong Pete (Pete De Poe and Jim Hoffmann), and My Search for 'Niki Hoeky: Granddaddy of Swamp Rock (Pat "Redbone" Vegas and Jim Hoffmann). Be a part of this historical movement.
Please, if you feel so inclined, send your own TikTok protest video to the RRHF via email (info@rockhall.org/Subject: John Sykes).
It's truly time to get "on the warpath" - so put on your war paint, grab your communication weapons, and...
1. SIGN/SHARE this petition.
2. WRITE that letter or postcard to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame requesting Redbone's long overdue nomination. If you don’t “rattle the teepee” - who will?
ATTN: John Sykes
The Nominating Committee
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc.
750 Lexington Avenue
9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
3. LISTEN to Pat "Redbone" Vegas and Acela Cortese on the Chance to Have it All radio show (ChancetoHaveItAll.com) LIVE every Friday afternoon at 4 PM. Here is the link for the show: https://youtu.be/akxZEZMv45U SUBSCRIBE AND REQUEST NOTIFICATIONS. You can even call in live to speak to your favorite Tribal Elder, the Prime Minister of Rock and Roll - Pat Vegas and his co-host, Acela. This is the closest you can get to the tried and true history of Redbone and our Tribal Elders of Rock 'n' Roll.
4. WATCH/SUBSCRIBE to Barbara Kauss’ YouTube channel for regular video uploads about Redbone.
5. Get educated on one of the greatest Rock 'n' Roll bands in history. READ the Redbone Memoirs on Amazon...
Come and Get Your Love: A Celebratory Ode to Redbone (Pat Vegas with Jim Hoffmann) - 2017
King Kong Pete: Redbone and Beyond (Pete De Poe with Jim Hoffmann) - 2017
My Search for 'Niki Hoeky': Granddaddy of Swamp Rock (Pat Vegas with Jim Hoffmann) - 2020
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band (Christian Staebler, et al.) - 2020
Redbone Warriors: This is our civil rights struggle. Together, we - hundreds of million strong worldwide - will change the hearts and minds of the power structure in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . . . and world history.
Niki Hoeky!