So I learned from Fashion Police Fergie’s black undies under the dress are an exact copy of the fashion runway version! She didn’t make it up, that’s the way its supposed to look!!! :eek:
She’s not, no. I think I remember a New Yorker profile mentioning that she planned to be a songwriter, not a performer. She or someone else obviously realized she’d be very marketable because she’s young and pretty. So she knows singing isn’t her strongest suit, everybody else knows she’s not a great singer, but it’s mean for anybody to say anything about it. Gee, I wonder how stars lose touch with reality.
A New York Times music critic savaged the show because - get this - it wasn’t up-to-date and hip enough for him.
No, really. The Grammies staged a conservative show. This has never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever happened before in all history. He writes, “Forget women. Forget black or Latin stars or those of any other ethnic background.” Who did this? Not the Grammies. But in that very same article, he writes off Katy Perry (female), Nicki Minaj (female and Asian), and Christ Brown (black) in a single sentence.
He also writes, “And when the kids were left to their own devices, they were hung out to dry, as on the disastrous live collision that included David Guetta, Deadmau5 (pronounced “dead mouse”), Chris Brown and Lil Wayne.” What does “hung out to dry” mean? I think it’s code for: they sucked. You know who also sucked? Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, and Chris Brown.
“In a year in which the Grammys could have reasonably tried to sell progress as a narrative, it chose to end the night with a phalanx of older white men playing guitars, a battalion guarding the rickety old castle from attack, a defiant last stand of yesteryear.”
You know who didn’t suck? Those old white men playing guitar. They brought down the house.
Everybody makes fun of the Grammies, and rightly so. But this article is so wrong-headed that I want to watch the show again just to spite him.
I’m sure someone will correct me, but I don’t seem to have heard much about Hillary Scott’s weight and she is not exactly Taylor Swift thin.
I actually thought her outfit was super cool. Orange is the spring color, so I sort of dug seeing it mixed with a lace print.
I’m fat and have appreciation for the zaftig, but she was crammed into that dress like it was a sausage casing. Then there was the too-much eye makeup that was flaking off and her accent. Did she remind anyone else of a young Jackie Tyler?
I really liked McCartney’s bit. The guy is the Energizer Bunny and can still rock it. But I still can’t get a straight answer on who all the guitarists on stage with him were. I only recognized Springsteen. Any help, left-to-right on names?
Also, Adele who? Yeah, I’m too old.
Springsteen, Joe Walsh (Eagles), some dark haired guy, Sir Paul, Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters), some blonde guy. I assume the guys I don’t know are studio/session musicians Paul’s used to working with, but I’m probably wrong.
I think it was Joe Walsh next to Bruce.
Paul has a regular working band; his guitarists are a couple of seasoned pros, Rusty Anderson (dark-haired guy) and Brian Ray (blonde-haired guy)…been with him for years.
Was Anderson the guy with the beard? He was shredding that thing pretty well. Springsteen played like an amateur garage band musician.
I Googled “Paul McCartney performing on the Grammys” to look at photos - Rusty Anderson was dark hair, no beard and playing a blond guitar with f-holes (a great old ES-335). I didn’t see “the guy with the beard” (sorry I didn’t actually see the performance) but some of the photo captions mention that Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters/Nirvana fame joined in - he has a beard, typically has been playing a metallic blue (officially Pelham Blue) guitar with F-holes - his Gibson signature model. He is thought of as a great rhythm guitarist, not as a shredder, but he is a great overall musician, for sure.
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Bruce is actually an excellent guitarist, rhythm and lead - so if he looked like he was goofing off/amateur, that was more about the fact that there were a bunch of guitar players on stage for a fun event, I am sure…
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In one photo, it appears that Paul is playing a left-handed sunburst Gibson Les Paul. To my knowledge he has one of the maybe 8 or 10 left-handed 1958 - 1960 Gibson Les Pauls. At one point, John McEnroe was offered the guitar (another rich, left-handed guitar player, although not of Macca’s caliber ;)) and passed on it…
ETA - okay, here is a video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhR4zDOa8Zc
1:51 in - that’s Brian Ray
1:52 in - that’s Rusty Anderson
3:50 in - Paul straps on his lefty LP (worth hundreds of thousands of $$ at this point, with both guitar rarity and the Macca association going for it); Joe Walsh picks up a 50’s Les Paul Junior (blonde guitar with 1 pickup) and there’s Grohl with his blue guitar head-banging, and Bruce playing his trusty Telecaster.
Nice equipment, good musicians, pretty decent jam, IMO.
No argument - they look like they’re having fun.
Now, it isn’t the RRHoF jam when they inducted George Harrison as a solo artist and Prince took over on lead guitar, but few jams are…
(link to youtube; Prince’s solo starts ~3:25 in…)
Part of the fun in that jam session was that you could tell McCartney was looking for a way to wrap up the song and get to the finale, but he couldn’t cue everybody at once and everybody kept taking another turn. So it was just like most other jam sessions.
Was that Jack McBrayer (Kenneth from 30 Rock) dancing in the front row? Who was that pretty blonde he was with?