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The 2012 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees: Beastie Boys, Guns ‘N Roses and Red Hot Chilli Peppers

By Daniel Saynt on | From fashionindie.com

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will get a thunderous dose of testosterone when it inducts the Class of 2012, featuring noted bad boys Guns ‘N Roses, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and the Beastie Boys on April 14.

The 2012 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees: Beastie Boys, Guns N Roses and Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Make that testosterone tempered by the calming effects of age and rehab. To wit, Chilli Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis called his dad crying when he heard the news. Kiedis also expressed his happiness over what this means for late guitarist Hillel Slovak who “picked up a guitar in the 1970s and didn’t make it out of the 1980s,” saying this was really “his induction.”

Meanwhile, the original lineup of Guns ‘N Roses might get all touchy-feely as well. Drummer Steven Adler, who left the band in 1990, hopes they can just hug it out, if only for one night:

“I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl [Rose]. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn’t created because of some stupid grudge…Can’t we just be fucking people who played music and accomplished a huge goal in their life and just play a couple songs? It’s only rock and roll, my god! It’s not rocket science.”

Rose, for his part, has not completely ruled out the possibility but said that it’s “up in the air.”

Other Hall of Fame inductees include Laura Nyro (whose Gonna Take a Miracle LP with LaBelle is essential listening for any and every one), The Small Faces/The Faces — perhaps best known for launching the career of one Mr. Rod Stewart — and 60s pop icon Donovan.

Fifteen acts were nominated for the Hall this year who, in order to be eligible for consideration, had to release their first albums by 1986. Ballots were sent out to 500 voters who wittled the list down, meaning that fellow nominees — The Cure, Donna Summer, Eric B. & Rakim, Heart, War, The Spinners, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and my personal favorite, Rufus with Chaka Khan — will have to wait another year. The 27th annual ceremony will be held at Cleveland Public Hall and broadcast on HBO in early May. [Rolling Stone]