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Fans react after Phish snubbed by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame despite winning fan vote by huge lead
Phish fans have taken to social media to voice their disappointment at the band being snubbed for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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Fans of Phish have taken to social media to react to the band being snubbed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Yesterday (April 28), the Rock Hall announced the inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025. While the likes of  The White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast, Soundgarden and more are being honoured later this year, fans were shocked to discover that Phish will not be inducted this year.
AdvertisementPhishâs snub is all the more surprising, as the band led the Rock Hallâs fan vote by a huge lead, scoring a whopping 330,000 votes compared to runner-up Bad Company, who scored 281,000 votes. However, Bad Company were yesterday named as one of the several acts to be inducted this November.
Phishâs Trey Anastasio. Credit: Keith Griner/Getty ImagesWhile Phish won the fan poll by a wide margin, all fan votes collectively only account for one single ballot, with a total of 1,200 ballots making up the Rock Hallâs selection committee. The remain ballots are made up of artists and industry professionals.
Following the inductees being announced yesterday, fans took to social media to air their grievances â check out a few reactions below.
One fan wrote: âPhish is the only fan vote winner not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. An all-time snub. Few bands have been as successful and culturally relevant for so long⊠itâll happen one day, we are everywhere.â
RecommendedAnother wrote: âThe audacity of @rockhall denying @phish their rightful spot in the hall of fame, while their famous hot dog is on display in the LOBBY is beyond comprehensionâ.
Also commenting on Phishâs iconic hot dog float being on display at the Rock Hall building, another fan wrote: âThe rock & roll hall of fame should be required to give the hot dog back if they arenât going to actually induct phish inâ.
AdvertisementAnother hit out at the music industry: âA reminder that we donât need to seek validation from an industry that never understood phish or took them seriously in the first place. WE know they are the greatest band in the world, thatâs all that matters. Its a club and they ainât in it.â
Others have called the rock hallâs decision âbullshitâ, an âabsolute jokeâ and âmockery of the entire institutionâ, and âpiss poor judgementâ. See more reactions below.
Among the other high-profile acts who made the longlist but ultimately did not make the cut for induction in 2025 are Oasis, Mariah Carey, Phish, Billy Idol, The Black Crowes and Joy Division/New Order. It marks the second time that Oasis and Joy Division/New Order have been snubbed from induction.
Similarly, Oasis fans took to social media to comment on the Britpop iconsâ snub: âTypical, innit? Outkastâs good, but Oasis practically invented Britpopâmissed a trick there.â Some also suggested that the band wouldnât care about their omission anyway, with one writing: âI think Noel is far more concerned about Man United to be honest.â Check out more reactions below.
Despite being snubbed for the second time, it doesnât appear as though Oasis will really mind, as frontman Liam Gallagher reacted to the news of Oasisâ nomination this year saying: âRNR hall of fame is for WANKERS,â in a post on X/Twitter. One fan replied to his tweet and asked: âWhat are you gonna do if you win?,â with the âWonderwallâ hitmaker saying: âObv go and say itâs the best thing EVERâ.
Noel and Liam Gallagher in 1995. CREDIT: Dave Hogan/Getty ImagesIt echoes comments he made after being nominated for the first time in 2024: âFuck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS,â he wrote on X, going on to tell a fan who was planning on voting to not âwaste your timeâ, adding that âas much as itâs appreciated itâs all a load of bolloxâ.
As for Phish, they just wrapped up a tour of the US on April 27 with a trio of shows at the Hollywood Bowl. A vocal supporter of the band has been US game show host Drew Carey, who last year compared Phishâs Las Vegas Sphere to U2âs history-making residency at the venue: âIt blew my mind how great it was⊠three songs into Thursday night with Phish at the Sphere, I honestly was kinda mad. I wanted to call U2 and get my money back. It made them look like a bar band.â
Careyâs comparison of U2 and Phish at the Sphere comes after he previously proclaimed last month that he would âstick his dick in a blenderâ after seeing Phish. After being introduced to the band at the Sphere, Phish took the liberty of sending him a blender and signed it too.
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 â Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said he discussed Pete Rose with President Donald Trump at a meeting two weeks ago and he plans to rule on a request to end the sport's permanent ban of the career hits leader, who died in September.
Speaking Monday at a meeting of the Associated Press Sports Editors, Manfred said he and Trump have discussed several issues, including Manfred's concerns over how Trump's immigration policies could impact players from Cuba, Venezuela and other foreign countries.
Manfred is considering a petition to have Rose posthumously removed from MLB's permanently ineligible list. The petition was filed in January by Jeffrey Lenkov, a Southern California lawyer who represented Rose prior to the 17-time All-Star's death at age 83.
âI met with President Trump two weeks ago, I guess now, and one of the topics was Pete Rose, but Iâm not going beyond that, Manfred said. Heâs said what he said publicly, Iâm not going beyond that in terms of what the back and forth was.â
Trump posted on social media Feb. 28 that he plans to issue âa complete PARDON of Pete Rose.â Trump posted on Truth Social that Rose âshouldnât have been gambling on baseball, but only bet on HIS TEAM WINNING.â It's unclear what a presidential pardon might include â Trump did not specifically mention a tax case in which Rose pleaded guilty in 1990 to two counts of filing false tax returns and served a five-month prison sentence.
The president said he would sign a pardon for Rose âover the next few weeks but has not addressed the matter since.
Rose had 4,256 hits and also holds records for games (3,562) and plate appearances (15,890). He was the 1973 National League MVP and played on three World Series winners.
An investigation for MLB by lawyer John M. Dowd found Rose placed numerous bets on the Cincinnati Reds to win from 1985-87 while playing for and managing the team. Rose agreed with MLB on a permanent ban in 1989.
Lenkov is seeking Rose's reinstatement so that he can be considered for the Hall of Fame. Under a rule adopted by the Hallâs board of directors in 1991, anyone on the permanently ineligible list canât be considered for election to the Hall. Rose applied for reinstatement in 1997 and met with Commissioner Bud Selig in November 2002, but Selig never ruled on Roseâs request. Manfred in 2015 denied Roseâs application for reinstatement.
Manfred said reinstating Rose now was âa little more complicated than it might appear on the outside and did not commit to a timeline except that âI want to get it done promptly as soon as we get the work done.â
âIâm not going to give this the pocket veto, he said. I will in fact issue a ruling.â
Rose's reinstatement doesn't mean he would automatically appear on a Hall of Fame ballot. He would first have to be nominated by the Hall's Historical Overview Committee, which is picked by the Baseball Writersâ Association of America and approved by the Hall's board. Manfred is an ex-officio member of that board and says he has been in regular contact with chairman Jane Forbes Clark.
âI mean, believe me, a lot of Hall of Fame dialogue on this one, Manfred said.
If reinstated, Rose potentially would be eligible for consideration to be placed on a ballot to be considered by the 16-member Classic Baseball Era committee in December 2027.
Manfred added he doesn't think baseball's current ties to legal sports betting should color views on Rose's case.
âThere is and always has been a clear demarcation between what Rob Manfred, ordinary citizen, can do on the one hand, and what someone who has the privilege to play or work in Major League Baseball can do on the other in respect to gambling, he said. The fact that the law changed, and we sell data and/or sponsorships, which is essentially all we do, to sports betting enterprises, I donât think changes that. Itâs a privilege to play Major League Baseball. As with every privilege, there comes responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is that they not bet on the game.â
Manfred did not go into details on his discussion with Trump over foreign-born players other than to say he expressed worry.
Given the number of foreign-born players we have, we're always concerned about ingress and egress, Manfred said. We have had dialogue with the administration about this topic. And, you know, they're very interested in sports. They understand the unique need to be able to go back and forth, and I'm going to leave it at that.â
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