{"id":330,"date":"2009-02-09T06:15:52","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=330"},"modified":"2009-02-09T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T13:32:09","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-the-grammys-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about the Grammys 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we give you some play by play and chatter during<br \/>\nthe Grammys&#8217; 51st ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get to what they broadcast last nite, I&#8217;ll<br \/>\nmention that Leo Fender&#8217; wife accepted his Technical<br \/>\nAward for designing guitars &amp; amps.<\/p>\n<p>And my friend Martha&#8217;s Saxophonist, Randy Brecker won<br \/>\nthe grammy for best contemporary jazz rekkid.<\/p>\n<p>Daft Punk is a noshow at the Grammys? Dork.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/napster_cdr2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-332\" title=\"napster_cdr2\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/napster-graf-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly NARAS is putting all their extra energy into the non-profit world just as the economy tanks?\u00c2\u00a0 &#8212; Predictable.<\/p>\n<p>The Grammy backing band is earning their salary today &#8211; lots of no-shows<\/p>\n<p>Did I just see Winona Ryder dancing in the front row to Heavy D? Bach had 20 children&#8230; something about pulling out all the organ stops? No offense dude, but really dumb frickin&#8217; joke.<\/p>\n<p>Bela Fleck &amp; The Flecktones win for Best Pop Instrumental for their Christmas CD &#8211; Victor Wooten accepts in a pirate costume<\/p>\n<p>Pete Seeger wins for best traditional folk &#8211; $5 if you know<br \/>\nwho accepted for him &#8211; [ hahaha. was eating. Bruce Stringbean? ]<\/p>\n<p>Watching Coldplay&#8217;s CBS interview footage in a plane I<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t help but think about Josie and the Pussycats<br \/>\nwith the planecrash intro.<\/p>\n<p>Is Bono making fun of teleprompters and lip syncers??<\/p>\n<p>Al Green is rockin&#8217; it; and jeez, Justin Timberlake is<br \/>\nNOT sucking tonite.<\/p>\n<p>I saw Kid Rock at Harley&#8217;s 100th anniversary. He&#8217;s very<br \/>\nuntalented. Just sayin.<\/p>\n<p>John Corbett&#8217;s still doing Applebee&#8217;s ads I see. That seems<br \/>\nlike quite a gig for him.<\/p>\n<p>Coldplay seem to have nothing to say. Just sayin &#8211; maybe<br \/>\nthey should&#8217;ve said the reason they didn&#8217;t steal those beats<br \/>\nwas they&#8217;d never lift such a horrible sound. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>KidRock, less heroin, ok? Sorry Kid, you&#8217;re no Ricky Medlocke.<br \/>\nTo his credit, I have to say he&#8217;s not sucking like he did at<br \/>\nHarley100 but I do wish he&#8217;d amp less. What the HECK was the<br \/>\nclap-4-the-wolfman stuff he put in there with his backing<br \/>\ntracks???<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the #grammys official AA dry peoples&#8217; room is full<br \/>\nthis year?<\/p>\n<p>Is that Billy Ray rockin&#8217; the mullet directly behind Miley there<br \/>\nstage right? I never liked Taylor Swift until New Years, she<br \/>\nimpressed me greatly then. She&#8217;s helping Miley not suck too.<br \/>\nMiley&#8217;s major talent since she was 5 has been reading cue cards<br \/>\nvery conversationally as if she&#8217;s improvising each every phrase.<br \/>\nWhoever taught her RW&amp;A should B proud<\/p>\n<p>Guitar Hero ad. Well produced. Too affected. Good try though.<\/p>\n<p>Oh no the Jonus Brothers&#8230;Mute quickly!<br \/>\nJonas Bros and Stevie this is like when Clive or someone made<br \/>\nJohn Denver team up with Pavarotti.or Domingo or someone on a<br \/>\nwhole album. Stevie Wonder playing with the Jonas Bros. My mind<br \/>\ncannot fully process the essential wrongness of this.<\/p>\n<p>Blink 182. What&#8217;s my talent again?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the Obama girls are watching the Jonas Brothers now singing<br \/>\nwith Stevie Wonder and I bet they&#8217;re tring to find some diplomatic<br \/>\nway to go, &#8220;WTF?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I will never get these minutes of my life back. Damn you Jonas Bros.<\/p>\n<p>RT: @PnutButter downturn really hit me 2day when I saw a lady w\/ sign<br \/>\nin front of Wholefoods: &#8220;Will work 4 organic arugula &amp; pinot grigio.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Katy Perry kinda doesn&#8217;t sing good.<\/p>\n<p>OMG. Just gave kudos 2 a talented chubby person! [Adele] I think<br \/>\nMario Lanza was the last time NARAS allowed something like that!<\/p>\n<p>Todd Rundgren for Carnival Cruise Lines. Surreal. I think I&#8217;ll<br \/>\ntake drugs now.<\/p>\n<p>Tribute to Bo Diddly &#8211; Couldn&#8217;t you have done that when he was<br \/>\nstill alive and everyone was stealin his beats???<\/p>\n<p>Paul, promise me you won&#8217;t sing that &#8220;Freedom&#8221; song you hacked<br \/>\nto pieces? I hid for 5 days. Wow, he&#8217;s still got that high G<br \/>\nfalsetto thing going on. It&#8217;s like watching Beatlemania with<br \/>\n25% of the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Bale rant was possibly staged. Says Hollywood catching<br \/>\non 2 how 2 use social media: http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/csgle9<\/p>\n<p>Oops, more Silverlight rebuffering\\sync problems again. I thought<br \/>\nMicrosoft worked that out a couple major events ago! Wow, someone<br \/>\nsimply playing a guitar really well, and someone singing really<br \/>\nwell. Is it that hard for everyone else???<\/p>\n<p>OMG I&#8217;m gonna buy a Sugarland rekkid just &#8217;cause of this. Don&#8217;t<br \/>\nthink I&#8217;ve done that since I was like 10 &amp; Roger Miller swept<br \/>\nor something<\/p>\n<p>I bought the Radiohead album when it was free. That felt safe<br \/>\nand warm.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/napster-graf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-334\" title=\"napster-graf\" src=\"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/napster_cdr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well we found something new that Silverlight doesn&#8217;t handle<br \/>\nwell. Bleeping. &gt;:| !<\/p>\n<p>PARAPHRASING THE PREZ &#8220;In times like these people turn to us<br \/>\nfor hiding their gross income on a tax dodge,&#8221; No one&#8217;s demanded<br \/>\nmore cowbell yet. Alright. Lemme be the first. Just sayin.<br \/>\nOh no he didn&#8217;t. did NARAS president say &#8220;yes we can&#8221; to suing<br \/>\nthe pants off preteens who Napster??? Neil Portnow is so last<br \/>\nMillenium. Woah, so is Neil Diamond. Where&#8217;s screech when you<br \/>\nneed him? http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c5ro3d<\/p>\n<p>And who remembers when C. Michael Greene abruptly resigned<br \/>\nin the wake of sexual harassment allegations? Oops.<\/p>\n<p>And the Grammy for most murder charge acquittals goes to<br \/>\nPhil Spector<\/p>\n<p>Seeing 5 seconds of Odetta made me sooo happy. Imagine if<br \/>\nthe Grammys gave her a minute or 2; especially seing as<br \/>\nhow she died last month before her #inaug09 gig. I can&#8217;t<br \/>\nhelp but think about how much Odetta wanted to sing at Obama&#8217;s<br \/>\ninauguration &#8211; and she almost made it<\/p>\n<p>News Reports coming in that Chris Brown did in fact beat up<br \/>\nRihanna.<\/p>\n<p>Is lil wayne wearin&#8217; uggs? OK, they&#8217;re BKs or something.<br \/>\nI thought they uggs! Hahaha<\/p>\n<p>Great. CBS is recycling this embarrassing forever young<br \/>\npepsi jingle. wil i am and bob dylan are prolly squirming<br \/>\nwith heavy groans like me! Should I be happy that Dylan<br \/>\nis still relevant enough to headline a Pepsi ad, or sad<br \/>\nthat vintage Dylan is in a Pepsi ad? I&#8217;m feeling both.<br \/>\n(happy\/sad about the Dylan renaissance&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>So Chris Brown beat Rihanna nearly to death. Who does he<br \/>\nthink he is JAMES Brown??? Small-brained coward<\/p>\n<p>Page and Plant wrote this? It sounds like they stole it<br \/>\nfrom Roy Orbison!<\/p>\n<p>RT @postrock Oh no, the Dylan\/will.i.am. commercial that<br \/>\nmakes me reach for the Grey Goose. And it&#8217;s EMPTY!!!!<\/p>\n<p>T-Bone Burnette is the GE Smith of the Grammys tonite.<br \/>\nPlant and Krauss deserve this one just for putting up<br \/>\nwith his hairdo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;and Rounder Records who are working against all kinds<br \/>\nof stuff that is terrible.&#8221; Understatement of the Millenium.<br \/>\nThanks Mr. Plant!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re running perfectly on time and still feel the need<br \/>\nto put music over Robert Plant and T-Bone Burnett? C&#8217;mon,<br \/>\nproducers.<\/p>\n<p>The following twitterers contributed to this report:<\/p>\n<p>@ShannonRenee<br \/>\n@FolkAlley<br \/>\n@andylevy<br \/>\n@PnutButter<br \/>\n@crinkle_LC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we give you some play by play and chatter during the Grammys&#8217; 51st ceremony. Before we get to what they broadcast last nite, I&#8217;ll mention that Leo Fender&#8217; wife accepted his Technical Award for designing guitars &amp; amps. And my friend Martha&#8217;s Saxophonist, Randy Brecker won the grammy for best contemporary jazz rekkid. Daft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,6,10,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-humor","category-music-and-stuff","category-news","category-tech","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}