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!

[Hank Rearden]

Nils Lofgren. Man, that guy kicked ass in the 70s, didn't he?

And I had the opportunity to see George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers in San Francisco in about '76, just before they broke through. That was when you could get drunk with the band after the show because everybody else had just wandered away.

I also remember walking down Telegraph Avenue on a Friday night with a shoebox full of tickets, trying desperately to get someone, anyone, to come to the UC Berkeley campus to see some new band from overseas. Supertramp, it was. Hell of a show in Zellerbach hall; I think there were about 200 of us there.

Getting blasted with Journey, trying to get Tom Waits to look up from his shoes and stop chainsmoking long enough to do an interview, supplying Kleenex after Kleenex to an incredibly flu-ridden Debbie Harry, drinking at the Rathskeller with Eric Idle, wondering how long it'd take for somebody to recognize him (about an hour).

Good times. Name-droppin' times. Now, only my dog appreciates me. And you know what? That's enough.

[Mike-o-Matic]

-dm = "Dead Milkmen" (song was "Punk Rock Girl")

Nice guess though :)

[ewing]

CBS I think had a moment of silence last year, but the show was in LA.

[ewing]

Close but no cigar...

[Mike-o-Matic]

Um... okay!

[gg188]

The mother of the guy who offed himself blames Sheryl, as do his friends, I understand.

[dfwgator]

Pat Metheny does it again!!!! Best Jazz Album for "Speaking of Now."

[ewing]

Glad to see Foo Fighters won as well..

[rintense]

I could be. To me, its a cross between Radiohead, Pink Floyd and someone else I can't quite think of. I took a while to grow on me but I listen to it all the time now.

[rintense]

[rintense]

Was that YOU???? I just visited over there. Can you guess what my screen name is? LOL.

[ewing]

Gwen displaying her usual tone deaf fashion sense..

[Chunga]

You were at the Mothers' '68 Berlin concert??

That's a legendary show.

The German communist student leaders demanded that Frank Zappa incite the audience to set fire to an Allied fuel dump near the Berlin Sportpalast and when he refused they started rioting, throwing stuff at the Mothers onstage and damaging their equipment. The students took over the stage and led the audience in chants of "Ho-Ho-Ho-Chi-Minh" before the police came and gave everyone ten minutes to leave the premises. Which they did.

Did you stick around to see the whole spectacle?

[Queen Jadis]

LOL

You know, that photo almost makes me wish she HAD run her mouth off about "no war". It might have been a career ender for her...but she knows how to look out for #1...

[slomark]

I've got a web site I just put up last week (becuase I'm so pissed at these hollywood celebs) that catalogs all the stupid things these people say--currently it's mostly anti-war. Let me know what you think: www.hollywoodhalfwits.com.

It's just a hobby site--nothing commercial. It's actually kind of a political release for me.

[rintense]

That's not true. The musician, who Sheryl was dating at the time, died due to some sexual experiment that went wrong- and no, it wasn't with Sheryl. The song, 'All I Wanna Do' was based on a poem that the members of the Tuesday Night Music Club (her jam session buds) found in a book. The writer of that poem gets royalties to this day.

[dfwgator]

I was glad to see them win too. I think Dave Grohl is 10 times more talented than Kurt Cobain could have ever dreamed of being.

[Hank Rearden]

My two biggest regrets - Missing the Original Lynyrd Skynrd and Original Van Halen lineups.

I caught Lynyrd for the first (and only, as it turns out) time at the Concord Pavilion about 3-4 weeks before their plane went down. They were damn good live, as a matter of fact.

Do you remember that the week they crashed the plane, their new album came out, with them standing surrounded by fire and the top single was 'That Smell', about death?

Man, that was very weird at the time.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

"All I Wanna Do" is a ripped off groove in itself - it's "Stuck in the Middle With You" with different lyrics.

[RummyChick]

yeah that is me...