Grammys

[bluewine]

Originally Posted by 4001

I'm sure Super-Unknown will not be nominated for best tribute band. And if it were to happen, I'm very sure I wouldn't make the trip. I'd supply the rest of the band with a life-size cutout of me to stand with them.

I have never been a fan of awards shows. I think they all suck.
Bunch of people celebrating how 'great' they are. Puke.

No sour grapes at all blue.

I detest the music 'industry'.

Just like the Rock and roll Hall Of Fame, I think it is a pile of horse dung.

It's just young and very talented people getting their props and promoting the industry I happen to love, performing arts.

I thought the show was a breath of good fresh air, one of the best grammy shows I've seen in years.

Blue

[bluewine]

Best "bad ass" look of the show.

Hands down, Prince.

Loved the hoody and shades.

Blue

[bluewine]

Originally Posted by michael_atw

I never thought I could be so out of touch with modern music. I don't know who half these people are.

The vocals on most every performance are buried.

-Taylor Swift couldn't be heard due to the huge amount of background singers (not that I'm complaining)
-I didn't realize Fun. was so popular (yay for generic anthem bubblegum pop)
-The Black Keys sound like every hard blues rock band from the 70s
-Mumford and Sons make the same song over and over
-Bruno Mars tries too hard to be James Brown

I'm 60 and I realized a long time ago I was not going to get stuck in the 60s, 70s, 80s or the 90s.

I embrace all these new young talented artist doing new things.

There wasn't a performance I couldn't find value in.

Blue

[pasta4lnch]

Originally Posted by michael_atw

I never thought I could be so out of touch with modern music. I don't know who half these people are.

I was thinking the same thing . . .

[Root 5]

Carly Rae Jepsen was robbed huge. She should have won "Song of the year."

Can anyone think of a song that was bigger than hers last year??? Good luck.

[bassbully]

Originally Posted by michael_atw

Yeah...but The Black Keys take "generic" to another level. Even The White Stripes - who do garage rock way better - predate them. I don't get what the hub-dub about them are. They rehash everything common about hard blues and bring absolutely nothing new to the table.

+1 I have never dug the Black Keys and for that matter just don't get the big deal with them at all. Some of their early stuff sounded like my old high school rock band with me on guitar and we thought we suked

Anyhow, I watched some of the show and Jack White killed it IMO...loved the guitar work the whole thing. The Black keys should be jealous.

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by Richland123

It was nice to see Stanley Clarke (on upright bass), Chick Corea, and another guy on sax play Take 5 but it was too short.

That was Kenny Garrett on sax.

[The Owl]

Originally Posted by 4001

Great. Another awards show where celeberties get to pat themselves and each other on the back. No thanks.

Exactly, Grammys are as big a waste of time as the Stupor Bowl, haven't seen the Grammys in 23 years and plan to keep it that way, totally worthless.

[nutso42]

Originally Posted by bluewine

I'm 60 and I realized a long time ago I was not going to get stuck in the 60s, 70s, 80s or the 90s.

I embrace all these new young talented artist doing new things.

There wasn't a performance I couldn't find value in.

New favorite TB'er!

I didn't watch the telecast itself (no access to TV where I am) but reading the list of nominees, I thought it was possibly the best and most diverse list of nominees in my lifetime.


Also, how did Mumford & Sons win Album of the Year, but lose Best Americana/Roots Album?
Wouldn't winning Album of the Year kind of guarantee your album would be the best in another category?

[Virgil]

Originally Posted by grumpyfunk

You had 3 basses on stage with Justin Timberlake.
What bass was his (electric) bass player playing? Jazz style, black block inlays, but with a full pick-guard (no metal control plate). He had 2 black knobs, and 2 silver . . couldn't recognize it. . .

It looked like a Performance Bass. I couldn't see the headstock clearly, but the black knob with the silver ring around the bass boost is very similar configuration that Performance uses.

[georgiagoodie]

I liked Katy Perry's exposed bulbous flesh (take THAT Grammy memo!).
Please stop complaining about Black Keys. Do you want EVERYONE to be like
Talyor Swift? They are at least still playing Rock 'n' Roll....Jack White IS better I know, but a tad bat-sh*t crazy, no?

[bluewine]

Originally Posted by The Owl

Exactly, Grammys are as big a waste of time as the Stupor Bowl, haven't seen the Grammys in 23 years and plan to keep it that way, totally worthless.

For me it's never a waste of time to see artists that have a high level of success and have done something to influence millions of music lovers and sell to millions?

I'm in this business, but even at the local level I want to be informed on whats going on now. The world I grew up in musically in the 60s & 70s in many ways is gone.

I'm not going to be that 60 year old walking around saying "I'v never heard of them".

Out with the old in with the new.

Blue

[Jhengsman]

Originally Posted by nutso42

Also, how did Mumford & Sons win Album of the Year, but lose Best Americana/Roots Album?
Wouldn't winning Album of the Year kind of guarantee your album would be the best in another category?

What are the rules? Does everybody vote for everything or would Americana/Roots members vote in that catogory at a greater percentage and tend to overlook the groups who branched out to the mainstream?

[ugly_bassplayer]

Originally Posted by nutso42

New favorite TB'er!

I didn't watch the telecast itself (no access to TV where I am) but reading the list of nominees, I thought it was possibly the best and most diverse list of nominees in my lifetime.


Also, how did Mumford & Sons win Album of the Year, but lose Best Americana/Roots Album?
Wouldn't winning Album of the Year kind of guarantee your album would be the best in another category?

I think you just realised on your own that the Grammies are total freakin garbage.

[gjbassist]

Originally Posted by georgiagoodie

I liked Katy Perry's exposed bulbous flesh (take THAT Grammy memo!).
Please stop complaining about Black Keys. Do you want EVERYONE to be like
Talyor Swift? They are at least still playing Rock 'n' Roll....Jack White IS better I know, but a tad bat-sh*t crazy, no?

+1
I was glad too see The Black Keys win four Grammys! IMO what they are doing is way better than most of the generic pop music being done today!

[grumpyfunk]

Originally Posted by Virgil

It looked like a Performance Bass. I couldn't see the headstock clearly, but the black knob with the silver ring around the bass boost is very similar configuration that Performance uses.

Thank's Virgil,
That's exactly what it was!
steve

[jbybj]

There are two distinctly different things going on in a Grammy telecast; Awards, and performances. Thanks to the magic of TIVO, and before that VCR's, for as long as I can remember, our family has had great fun, and on occasion, had our minds blown, by the performances.

The awards and acceptance speeches are just a surreal high speed snowy image, flying by in fast forward. Approached in this fashion, I love the Grammys.

Great performances this year? Jack White, Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson, Chick, Stanley, and Kenny, Chuck D and the boys, Bruno, Sting and the Marleys. (Sting has acknowledged that he cannot separate the vocals from the bass with Police material. He can't remember the words unless he also plays the bassline. So I don't think they had his bass up at all, but he couldn't have performed that song without it to pluck on........) Oh yeah, who the hell is Miguel? and where did he get those chops?

Saddest performances; What kind of a name is "Wiz"? Poor Alicia Keys, it's like she injured her voice years ago, and it never recovered. And, if I had to guess, I would think that the monitor mixer was playing a cruel joke on Frank Ocean. You know, the one where they put his vocal feed through a harmonizer, so he hears it a 1/4 step sharp in his earphones, and compensates by singing flat.

[4001]

Originally Posted by The Owl

Exactly, Grammys are as big a waste of time as the Stupor Bowl, haven't seen the Grammys in 23 years and plan to keep it that way, totally worthless.

I don't think I've spent more than a half an hour, total time in my entire life, watching the Grammys.
And I didn't watch a minute of the Super Bowl, but I did watch the championship games because those are usually two great games every year.

I just dont like shows like the Grammys and popularity contests. There is more to life, musically, that what the industry presents as "the best".

But to the rest of the viewing public, they see that and then fall into the camp of "they must be the best because they were on the Grammy's". And then there's the silly attitude of "well, your band isn't on the Grammy's" and all of that nonsense thinking.

I'll just put on Rush Hemispheres and fart in the Grammy's general direction.

[jbybj]

Originally Posted by 4001

I just dont like shows like the Grammys and popularity contests. There is more to life, musically, that what the industry presents as "the best".

But to the rest of the viewing public, they see that and then fall into the camp of "they must be the best because they were on the Grammy's". And then there's the silly attitude of "well, your band isn't on the Grammy's" and all of that nonsense thinking.

I think you attribute way more power and influence to an event like this than actually exists. IME people think music/art is "good" when it connects to them on a very personal/subjective level. Never solely because some reviewer, or institution declares something "good".

Go ahead and hate the Grammy's, but don't think that they have the power to take your average music enthusiast and mold their tastes.

From what little anecdotal evidence I have collected, the vast majority of professional attendees see it as nothing more than a good excuse to go out and party, and your employer is picking up the tab. Good food and drink, some good music, beautiful people, and a hired driver for the night. Sounds like a good time to me.......

[bluewine]

Whether we like it or not, none of those artist got to where their at because they don't have talent.

Are we saying that Bruno Mars can't sing?