Jann Wenner Removed from Rock & Roll HOF Board After Remarks on Black, Female Artists

Rolling Stone’s founder simply misplaced his vote on decision-making within the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame — all as a result of he referred to as Black and feminine artists inarticulate … TMZ has realized.

A rep for the Corridor tells us Jann Wenner has been booted from the famed HOF’s Board of Administrators for his or her Basis — this after a vote was taken among the many present members.

Sources with direct data inform us the one dissenting vote was from Jon Landau.

Jann Wenner — who helped launched RS Journal means again in 1967 — did an interview with the NYT this week wherein he talks about who he interviewed for his forthcoming providing, ‘The Masters,’ which accommodates wide-ranging sit-downs with 7 rock and roll gods.

That features Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Jerry Garcia and Pete Townsend … all of whom, because the NYT journo famous, are all white and male.

The Q: “There are seven topics within the new e book; seven white guys. Within the introduction, you acknowledge that performers of shade and ladies performers are simply not in your zeitgeist. Which to my thoughts will not be believable for Jann Wenner. Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Surprise, the record retains going … What do you suppose is the deeper rationalization for why you interviewed the topics you interviewed and never different topics?

Wenner’s reply is telling. He says, “After I was referring to the zeitgeist, I used to be referring to Black performers, to not the feminine performers, OK? Simply to get that correct. The choice was not a deliberate choice. It was type of intuitive through the years; it simply fell collectively that means. The individuals needed to meet a pair standards, nevertheless it was simply type of my private curiosity and love of them.”

He provides, “Insofar as the ladies, simply none of them had been as articulate sufficient on this mental degree.” The reporter pushes again, incredulously asking if he actually would not suppose Joni Mitchell was articulate sufficient to speak music on an mental degree.

Wenner responded, “It’s not that they’re not artistic geniuses. It’s not that they’re inarticulate, though, go have a deep dialog with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin. Please, be my visitor. You already know, Joni was not a thinker of rock ’n’ roll. She didn’t, in my thoughts, meet that check. Not by her work, not by different interviews she did. The individuals I interviewed had been the type of philosophers of rock.”