re: Musical taste is dead

quote:

---

Reading Facebook last night during the Grammy's was funny

---

Whatever credibility the Grammy's had went out the window in 1989 with that retarded "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" award going to Jethro Tull over Metallica.
I was 17 and glued to the TV to watch Metallica play "One" live, and I'll never forget the look on Alice Cooper's face, Lita Ford all-out laughing, and the crowd's extremely negative reaction.

quote:

---

The result, considered an "embarrassment" for the Academy, generated much controversy.[16] In response to the criticism they received over the award, Jethro Tull's record label took out an advertisement in Billboard magazine with a picture of a flute (part of their trademark sound) lying amid a pile of iron rebars and the line, "The flute is a heavy, metal instrument!"[17] Metallica also added a sticker to subsequent releases of ...And Justice for All, reading: "Grammy Award LOSERS".[18][19]

---

I haven't watched The Grammys since.