# AC/DC opens 2015 Grammys: sellout or tribute? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514 "2021-01-26T09:58:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stuccosuperstar2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@stuccosuperstar2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuccosuperstar2020)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/1 "2021-01-26T09:58:45Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/j9oTTkjYcng/hqdefault.jpg "ACDC Rock or bust and Highway to hell Live Grammy 2015") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9oTTkjYcng) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/2 "2021-01-26T10:31:51Z")
How are AC/DC different from any other rock band that’s played the Grammys? > [@stuccosuperstar2020](#): > > 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. No offense, but the 80-year-old men are more likely to be AC/DC fans than the hot chicks. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/3 "2021-01-26T13:16:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/4 "2021-01-26T13:45:37Z")
What does the Grammy Awards have to do with music? I thought it was a popularity contest. ---
**Author:** ![FigNorton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fignorton/32/5619_2.png) [@FigNorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FigNorton)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/5 "2021-01-26T14:34:56Z")
I prefer music awards based on science too. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/6 "2021-01-26T14:42:46Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![TiberiusNeroClaudius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@TiberiusNeroClaudius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TiberiusNeroClaudius)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/7 "2021-01-26T18:06:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/8 "2021-01-26T19:43:38Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > 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. Yikes, I must have typed this really fast, you’ll have to excuse the multiple typos. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/9 "2021-01-27T08:20:57Z")
How is this NOT a zombie??? You been formentin’ this for six years? ---
**Author:** ![Keith1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Keith1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith1)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/10 "2021-01-29T12:44:58Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > ‘Eat A Peach’ t-shirt If you’re referring to The Allman Brothers, I think Eat A Peach came out around 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/11 "2021-01-29T17:10:32Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I was eating an ‘Eat A Peach’ t-shirt and someone commented that I wasn’t old enough to know who that was. You were eating a tee shirt and all he asked about was the band? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/12 "2021-01-29T22:21:43Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > You were eating a tee shirt and all he asked about was the band? Yeah, he’s kind of an oddball. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/13 "2021-01-29T22:30:20Z")
Is selling out something that matters? I guess you could say it was a tribute to sellout act AC/DC. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ac-dc-opens-2015-grammys-sellout-or-tribute/931514/14 "2021-01-29T22:33:53Z")
As any real band will tell you, a gig’s a gig.