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re: Musical taste is dead
Posted on 2/13/17 at 12:54 pm to The Spleen
Posted on 2/13/17 at 12:54 pm to The Spleen
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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.
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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.
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Posted on 2/13/17 at 3:12 pm to 19
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Whatever credibility the Grammy's had went out the window in 1989
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I had a chance to speak to The Recording Academy's Senior Vice President, Awards, Bill Freimuth on Tuesday, shortly after the nominations were announced. The first thing I spoke about with Freimuth was the "Best Rock Performance" category and we asked him how Beyonce and Disturbed ended up in the same category.
"When you exclude metal, the rock category is one of our biggest umbrellas." Freimuth notes. "Not quite as broad as pop, but maybe the next up in terms of what constitutes rock – it can be blues rock, folk rock, ballads. All of that. I think what we found this year is that so many artists that were in rock or adjacent to rock were really taking more sonic risks this year than ever before, and it made for a really exciting dynamic landscape in that field."
He went on to defend the Beyonce performance as a rock performance: "That [Beyonce] recording has Jack White in it and it has Led Zeppelin samples in it and I think it's Beyonce really stretching. It's an artist at the height of her musical powers, really reaching in many different directions and we are all the better for it."
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