First I loved it. My 82 year old mother even posted about it on Facebook decades after her and my father forbade me to listen to them, after which I saw this as some sort of of triumph.
But was this really a tribute or sort of demeaning? It took 40 years for the Grammys to finally “accept” arguably the most uncompromising popular band of all time that has received mostly good reviews time and time again, and sold millions of records?
Oh and let’s not forget the front rows of hot chicks wearing the demeaning glowing devil horns wile their 80 year old boyfriends/husbands try to pretend they enjoy the live act.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved seeing AC/DC take their rightful place in the music pantheon. But this way too late.
Doubtful, the 80 year old’s are more into the Beach Boys and Elvis era. The hot chicks more probably like and appreciate AC/DC because it’s classic rock that they are likely familiar with it from radio airplay. That and AC/DC still rocks, I saw many young people at there concert about 5 years ago with their parents and by themselves, they still connect. What young person doesn’t appreciate being knocked out by those American thighs or being shook all night long!.
Also, I don’t see many people there that I would call 80 year old’s. Mostly 60’s and 50’s, which would be their demographic.
I have an acquaintance that’s probably in his 70’s. In his younger days he saw the Door twice and told me about the time he saw a band where it’s said the singer ‘bit the head off a bat’…he said it just like that, as if he didn’t expect me to know who Ozzy/Black Sabbath is.
People are always surprised by the music I listen to as well. Back around 2000ish, I would have been about 20. I was eating an ‘Eat A Peach’ t-shirt and someone commented that I wasn’t old enough to know who that was. I think he was surprised when I told him I bought the shirt at the concert.
Maybe it’s a sign of victory since the Grammys were formed to fight that awful rock and roll music that snobs like Frank Sinatra, Steve Allen, Stan Freberg and Tom Lehrer couldn’t stand.
