Induction in The IRRMA Hall of Fame
The Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Music Association (IRRMA) was formed in 1997 and is a non-profit educational and entertainment organization honoring Iowa rock and roll music. The organization's headquarters in Arnolds Park, Iowa is about 100 miles West of the cornfield where an airplane crash took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and their young pilot on February 3, 1959, "the Day the Music Died".
Spurred by "Project GONN" of The PSPOT (an internet-based resource dedicated to the '60s music underground), a grassroots campaign led to the nomination of GONN in The Iowa Music Association Hall Of Fame And Museum. The band was inducted in a ceremony in 2004 and, as with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, was celebrated with a live concert by the inductees.
The IRRMA post on the induction of GONN describes the band this way: "GONN quickly evolved into a heavily English and West Coast-influenced no-holds-barred garage band; taking their sound and attitude from the likes of the Yardbirds, the Rolling Stones, the Chocolate Watch Band, the Doors, and the Raiders."
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