Sources: People
Tom Morello is ready to get Iron Maiden into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
"I will chew my leg off like a coyote in a trap if I can’t get Iron Maiden in," Morello, 60, said in a recent appearance on The Eddie Trunk Podcast. "While there are many other deserving acts, Iron Maiden for me is the last most egregious oversight in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame."
“Iron Maiden is like the gold standard of metal bands and they’re not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And I know Bruce Dickinson said he doesn’t really care. Well, I care as a fan. I care very, very much about it. So I’m gonna do all I can to get, [with] whatever limited influence I have, to get Iron Maiden in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.”
The band has been eligible since 2005 and has been considered twice, both times not being voted in by the institution's voters.
There is a chance if the band is ever inducted, they'd refuse. In a 2018 interview with The Jerusalem Post, Dickinson said, "I’m really happy we’re not there and I would never want to be there. If we’re ever inducted I will refuse – they won’t bloody be having my corpse in there."
He laid out his gripes with the Hall of Fame, saying, "Rock & roll music does not belong in a mausoleum in Cleveland. It’s a living, breathing thing, and if you put it in a museum, then it’s dead. It’s worse than horrible, it’s vulgar."
Sources: People