Grammy's Last Night

[McLovin]

What in the hell was up with Sly and the family Stone last night??????? Also, I have never been a fan of Mariah Carey but she really impressed me with her performance, and lastly, Jamie Foxx now actually believes he is Ray Charles, Kane West is borderline retarded and they both suck together onstage.

[rhjanes]

given all the post around the drum-forum's, I'm glad I went to band practice and skipped the whole thing....

[tcraw1010]

I watched American Idol and LOST . . . I couldn't have cared less about the Grammy's this year.

[FullCollapse]

Originally Posted by tcraw1010

I watched American Idol and LOST . . . I couldn't have cared less about the Grammy's this year.

i second that. with a vengence.

[JLee]

Originally Posted by rented mule

What in the hell was up with Sly and the family Stone last night??????? Also, I have never been a fan of Mariah Carey but she really impressed me with her performance, and lastly, Jamie Foxx now actually believes he is Ray Charles, Kane West is borderline retarded and they both suck together onstage.

For starters, let me just say that I am still not jaded enough to say that I did not watch the Grammys. However, normally I watch and am disappointed. Last night contained some of the best live performances I have seen in quite some time on an awards show.

However, to me ALMOST everything Rented Mule said was absolutely correct. I am a big fan of Sly Stone's music, but after seeing him last night, I felt more said than nostalgic. He would likely be somewhere in his 60's I would think, but the odd way he carried himself (almost like he was not paying attention to what was going on) ws pretty off putting. I have a feeling, judging from the forward posture of his head, that he has health issues as well.

Mariah Carey is way over the top as a personality, but I have to say, last night she did tear it up on that gospel song. I know she has trouble with some of the high notes, as her voice cracked a few times (yet oddly enough, she handled the really really high notes without a problem).


Jamie Fox has done a 180 over the last year or two in my book. Now EVERYTHING is about him - how he feels about this and that, how this performance is going to change life as we know it, etc. Sad, actually, as I know a former publicist that worked with him and said that, at one time, he was one of the nicest and most easy to work with performers she had ever seen. Now, it is quite different, and I know that, during the filming of one of his recent TV specials, he pitched a fit over a number of different issues behind the scenes.

I would not say Kanye West is retarded, but he also seems to think a lot of himself. I am not a fan of rap in general, but I will say that some of the compositions he uses as music are a lot more interesting than what is out there today.

On the bright side, there were a lot of good performances. Country is not really my thing, but I thought Keith Urban did great (and that guitar work, while singing, is no picnic), Sugarland did really well, Springsteen was outstanding both by himself and backing Sam Moore. Joss Stone is starting to great on my nerves - she is amazingly talented, but going berserk on every line of every song is a little much. Christina Aguilera is undeniably talented as well, but when sang that Leon Russell song last night, I actually got lost and would not have been able to tell what song it was if I did not already know it.

Sam Moore and Irma Thomas sounded great, I thought. All in all, one of the best Grammy shows I have seen in a while.

[McLovin]

i actually only saw the mariah carey set and the tribute sly (the only thing i was waiting for) and i wondered into the foxx\west set. i saw a clip of springsteen and was unimpressed, i thought his guitar sounded like crap. You are right about joss stone, i fear she is another one that may be reading too much of her own press. Oh, sly stone is 61.

[JLee]

Music is a subjective medium, after all . . .

[moosryan]

keith and sugarland played? and i missed it? darn...

[ange d mange]

So Sawyer got Charlie to follow Locke so they could find where Locke hid the guns.
Well now Sawyer has the guns and..........

Oh sorry. I watched LOST, not the Grammys

[drummaman1]

this relates more to the "nostalgia" of seeing bands re-unite that haven't in a while:

Last year, the Police was inducted into the RnR Hall of Fame. I was so psyched to see them perform their three song set. When they finally showed the playing the tunes, it sounded good, but I couldn't help but feeling "tired" throught the whole thing. They looked tired, it sounded tired, though Stewart still managed to break his snare drum batter during the choruses to "Roxanne".

It was then that I decided that it is better that they DON'T play or re-unite, especially if it's going to sound like that. Very anti-climactic, if not dissapointing.

Which furthers a thing said to me by an old high school friend of mine:

Bands NEVER break up. Never. Except Nirvana, because...well, they have no choice.

I heard that Herbie Hancock was playing piano with Christina Aguilera. How did that go?