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Grammy Nominated Band Avenged Sevenfold Skipping Ceremony Because Rock Gets ‘No Respect’
Variety ^ | 28 Jan 18 | Variety Staff

Posted on 01/28/2018 3:26:35 PM PST by SkyPilot

Hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold are up for a “Best Rock Song” Grammy on Sunday night for “The Stage” off of their 2016 album of the same name. But while it’s their first ever Grammy nomination, they’ll be sitting out the ceremony, says frontman M. Shadows, mainly because their category won’t be televised.

Texting to radio personality Eddie Trunk, singer M. Shadows says the trip to New York City for the Grammy Awards would be a “waste of time and money” for the band, which is currently on tour with Breaking Benjamin and Bullet For My Valentine.

Per metal site Blabbermouth, Shadows doesn’t consider their sitting out the ceremony on Jan. 28 to be a “protest,” but rather, a financial decision (travel expenses would have cost over $150,000 said Shadows) in addition to a statement on the marginalization of rock music, which he noted on Twitter is relegated to the non-televised portion of the Grammys.

Said Shadows, according to Trunk: “‘Rock Song’ of the year can’t get two minutes? … And they put us in some side venue no one gives a f— about? F— that waste of time and money.”

Also nominated for Best Rock Song are Metallica, Foo Fighters, K. Flay and Nothing More.

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KEYWORDS: avengedsevenfold; grammyawards; music; rap; rockandroll
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To: OttawaFreeper

Cecile McLorin Salvant poses in the press room with the best jazz vocal album award for "Dreams And Daggers" at the 60th annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, in New York.

Not too many Trump fans at this year's Grammy Awards I guess.

41 posted on 01/28/2018 5:52:29 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Not who, but rather, what, is that?


42 posted on 01/28/2018 6:06:05 PM PST by wastedyears (US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
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To: Professional

Please tell you’ve listened to Iron Maiden.


43 posted on 01/28/2018 6:07:24 PM PST by wastedyears (US out of the UN, UN out of the US.)
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To: wastedyears

Reminds me of that song Teenage Dirtbag. “I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden”


44 posted on 01/28/2018 6:12:12 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: wastedyears

I’m thinking about it...


45 posted on 01/28/2018 6:15:42 PM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: SkyPilot

I’m watching CBS’s telecast of the final round of the PGA tournament at Torrey Pines and the final groups are playing slow as molasses. So the announcers, Nantz and Faldo, are half apologizing to the audience that has been deprived of at least a half hour’s worth of “Red Carpet Arrivals” as the Uppity Worthless arrive in their limos to the Big Show and besides enjoying a thrilling tournament finish (if you play golf, anyway) and laughing my ass off at the hundreds of thousands of non-whites and Caucasian oxygen wasters who are getting their undergarments all twisted because they are missing the last hippity-hoppity Easter’s on it’s way Grammy nominee arrive with his b*tches in a two million dollar Maybach stretch limo. I can hear the mass moans “F*cking white man game meesin’ up ma Grammies!”


46 posted on 01/28/2018 6:19:39 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: VietVet876

Lol!


47 posted on 01/28/2018 6:25:38 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: wastedyears

I agree. Every time I had to see one of those crappy melodic medal bands like Avenged Sevenfold at LoudPark (a yearly Tokyo festival), I just walk out and hang at the bar until a better band is up. I haven’t gone for the last few years because of too many crap “rock n roll” bands on the lineup. I even skipped seeing Alice Cooper headline last year because I didn’t want to spend the time and $120.00 to see so many crappy bands just to see two that I would have liked. The last great big concert I went to was Iron Maiden’s Book Of Souls in Tokyo. I’m so proud that I finally got to see Maiden after all these years of being a big fan.


48 posted on 01/28/2018 7:18:33 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: dfwgator

>>Or when Jethro Tull beat out Metallica.

And that was in the “Heavy Metal / Hard Rock” category. I love Jethro Tull too, but yeah, come on. That was a ridiculous thing to do to Metallica.


49 posted on 01/28/2018 7:20:11 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Rebelbase

I first heard Greta Van Fleet this summer. They absolutely killed it. Rock on young bucks!!!!


50 posted on 01/28/2018 7:29:31 PM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: wastedyears
I mean come on, how can you beat this?

With a... ‘Rock’?

51 posted on 01/28/2018 9:07:40 PM PST by RedMonqey (“Rockets... Lottsa Rockets..”)
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To: GOPe Means Bend Over Spell Run
Yup. Here is a news link to some of these "winners."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/adeles-album-win-grammys-change-tune-150337973.html

53 posted on 01/29/2018 3:11:06 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

No one is allowed to say what killed MTV.


54 posted on 01/29/2018 3:23:46 AM PST by Salamander (And Ezekiel Smiles Again....)
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To: SkyPilot

I’ve never heard of any of these groups. [sigh]


55 posted on 01/29/2018 4:06:56 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: wastedyears

Heck, Grand Funk Railroad isn’t even in the RNR HOF. That’s crazy - they outsold Zep during the 70’s and were the people’s RnR band.


56 posted on 01/29/2018 5:01:15 AM PST by circlecity
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To: SkyPilot

Never heard of ‘em before. I don’t listen to radio much; too much crap on it.

But I’m willing to give anybody a fair liste ... just watched a video of “Hail to the King” on youtube.

YEAH!!! Metal is still alive!!!

BTW, if you like “Avenged Sevenfold”, you might also want to check out “Disturbed”.


57 posted on 01/29/2018 5:11:29 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

nice, thanks for sharing. I hadn’t even bothered to look at who won!


58 posted on 01/30/2018 4:28:50 PM PST by Katya
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To: Rebelbase

Those kids are gonna be great! I hadn’t heard them before. The things you find on Free Republic. Thanks!


59 posted on 01/30/2018 5:05:36 PM PST by antidisestablishment ( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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To: antidisestablishment

They remind me of the old days when rock was rock.


60 posted on 01/30/2018 5:08:36 PM PST by Rebelbase
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