Grammy Awards, Live Thread! Let the parade of fools begin.

2-23-03

[Partisan Hack]

BB King was just asked about political comments during the war and he said "I think that there are going to be alot of things said tonight that I don't agree with."

Way to go B.B!

[ewing]

ROTFLOL! She couldn't even pull off a non-violent protest..

[eddie willers]

I think we could swap record collections.

[HHFi]

Don't hold the Sandinistas' politics against the Clash. A friend of mine was one of the major radio DJs playing New Wave music in the South (just about the only one in fact) in the late '70s-'80's, and he knew all those musicians and interviewed them many times. They would hang out at his house and go through his massive record collection, and that's how I got all my Clash, Ramones, Devo, etc. LPs autographed.

Anyway, he told me he once asked Strummer about the name "Sandinista," and Joe said it was just a word he'd heard in the news and thought it sounded really cool. He said he didn't even know what it was, he knew nothing about the politics of Nicaragua, and it literally could've meant anything. Only after it came out did all the leftist rock critics start assigning a lot of political meaning to it.

P.S. -- You should also hear Johnny Rotten laughing and ridiculing all the socialist rock critics who read so much into the Sex Pistols.

[jhofmann]

Oh, I said Marxist, I think... If I said communist, sorry. Wasn't one of their albums named "Give them enough rope"... who said that, anyway?

[bootless]

Hmmm... I'm looking now to see when it started here in CA. Was it before or after Faith Hill's performance (who is singing right now). Thanks!

BTW, my first "big" concert was John Denver at the Garden in 1973 or 74.

Have also seen: Billy Joel (twice - one in a small concert hall in Hartford. Great show. Second time at New Haven Coliseum, after "The Stranger" made him a star)

The big Roosevelt Raceway concert in summer 1973 with CSN&Y, the Beach Boys with a cameo by Elton John on "Help me Rhonda", Joni Mitchell, and Tom Scott & the LA Express (when they were dating I think). Fantastic show.

Since then, in CA: John Mellencamp - he made some great anti-Clinton references, great show

Earth, Wind & Fire - also a terrific show

Moody Blues - aged, but still wonderful

Jimmy Buffett about six times - I know. I'm a piker.

James Taylor in Sept. 1995, when he previewed the songs from Hourglass, just wonderful

James Taylor not too long after September 11th, with my son. That was his first concert. :-)

[arjay]

Make up your own mind:
BORN IN THE U.S.A.

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering up

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "Son, don't you understand"

I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone

He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go

Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone Daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking Daddy in the U.S.A.

[ewing]

See post #193

[CedarDave]

Is it over? Did Norah win best album?

[jhofmann]

OK, I stand corrected... they were ignorant which I guess is a step above Marxist.

[RobFromGa]

That's a Wrap!

Third Star: Bonnie Raitt (blue ribbon+early comments)

Second Star: Fred Durst- Limp Bizkit (stupid comments)

First Star: Sheryl Crow: Peace Diamonds + No War guitar strap

All in all, a pretty good night. Thay must have figured out that they aren't popular feelings outside their little clicque.

[philetus]

Faith Hill looks like a $10 dollar hooker and sounds like an injured cat.

[RandallFlagg]

Please, please, PLEASE! Someone has GOT to graphic up that Crow pic! Registered? Anyone??

[weegee]

Johnny was a Republican and Joey voted for Reagan but was less conservative. CJ Ramone put himself somewhere inbetween (possibly libertarian but that wasn't how he identified it).

Dee Dee wasn't active politically but I don't think that he'd call himself a Republican (I just finished his autobiography and he opposed a lot of things because he didn't get along with Johnny, who was the designated band leader and had to be a hardass at times to get the band in line).

[babaloo999]

Yeah, those wacky kids and their politics. I can tolerate the leftist drivel present in some stuff I listen to.
Unfortunately, some stray into the anti Christian and "I hate Catholic school" type crap.

[CedarDave]

You answered my question on album of the year.

[Poser]

"I think we could swap record collections."

Probably. Oddly, I have a bootleg Great White album from the early '80s with fabulous covers of Been a Long Time Since I Rock n Rolled, Money, I Don't Need No Doctor and an excellent version of Red House. It is from before they were a hair band. Back then they had talent.

My two favorite versions of Money were by the Kingsmen and the Flying Lizards. I have both albums.

Hmm. I think I'll get out my old black Humble Pie album and listen to the original I Don't Need No Doctor. Steve Marriot and Peter Frampton were actually good at one time.

[ewing]

The Boss and Costello jamming on 'London Calling'

[eXe]

What pic and what do ya want done.. hehe i can try to "play" the pic.

[Mr. Mojo]

Just got home. Have any leftists spouted off?

[Dan from Michigan]

Since then, in CA: John Mellencamp - he made some great anti-Clinton references, great show

Mellencamp is anti-Clinton? That's suprising since he's a self-proclaimed liberal.

I'll have to play his CD again.