This April, Pearl Jam will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame but former drummer Dave Abbruzzese won't be with them, and he's pretty upset about it.
This year, for the first time, the Hall specified which members of each act being inducting will be honored, and even though Dave was in the band when they won Grammys, AMAs and MTV Awards, performed over 275 shows with them and drummed with them from 1991's Ten tour to 1994's Vitalogy recording sessions, he wasn't named as an inductee.
According to The Hall, they choose inductees based on "who was present and active during the most influential recording years,” criteria Dave is certain he meets.
Dave took to Facebook to express his frustration writing, "I challenge anyone to justify why I am not worthy of a place in the history of Pearl Jam. The official reason given from the RRHOF makes it bull***t. It makes my years of hard work appear to be worthless towards the success born of the formative years of Pearl Jam. This is simply not the case."
Abbruzzese has also appealed to the members of the band that are being inducted, Eddie Vedder, Mike McCready, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and founding drummer Dave Krusen, to take a stand against the Hall for excluding him.
He wrote, "They can’t justify ignoring my contributions. Like me or not. If there is still a part of that band that remembers how hard we worked, how much blood and how much sweat… They will do the right thing.”
We'll find out what happens when the induction ceremony takes place in April.
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