Crabb Bits: Grammy Wrap Up

I really could care less about the GrammysTM but since my GF wanted to watch it and there wasn't anything else worth seeing I decided to be a capture audience.

In the end Adele pretty much cleaned house and she was majestic on stage when she sang Rolling In The Deep. Yep, I heard this song time and time again on KDAT or even KZIA and who knows, she might be here to stay.  As for that Nicky Miraj train wreck before the album of the year.  It was over the top and it was bad.  Bad in its own particular way.  She's a flash in the pan and her performance is as bad memorable as was Bruno Mars who was great memorable.  Put away the autotuner and plastic beats and stick him in a R and B band that James Brown had in his years and Mars will be a legend.

Whitney Houston's death may have cast a big shadow over the whole events but it's not the end of the world.  Even if I Will Always Love You changed your life, it became a earworm for me all day as I continue to hear the grand finale in my ears for the past three hours.  Leave it to Bonnie Raitt to tell folks that Etta James also passed away.  Gotta hand it to Bonnie, she's the caretaker of the blues.  And we love her for it.

As much as seeing the Beach Boys on stage, meaning Al Jardine, Brian Wilson and the odious Mike Love gave a sense of Wilson was getting on stage jitters or he was getting already tired of Love's goofing around on Good Vibrations.  Perhaps it is time to retire The Beach Boys for good although it was good to see Glen Campbell smiling and waving to them from the crowd.

I think The Civil Wars got their point and song across in one minute more than Nicky Miraj did in that 10 minute whatever the fuck she was doing on stage.  I've seen better performances at cat houses than that freakfest of Miraj.

Bob Lefsetz didn't like Adam Levine or the guy from Foster The People very well.  But then again they are not his type of music.  They're about 40 years too late to his party.

I wasn't wowed by Bruce Springsteen's lead off song but I was impressed of the Abbey Road Medley that Paul McCartney did with Bruce, Rusty Anderson, Dave Grohl and Joe Walsh who looked like he was having mucho fun on stage.

The Glen Campbell medley was another Lefsetz boo hiss, and The Band Perry may have been overwhelmed by Gentle On My Mind, they probably would have done better with Try A Little Kindness but I thought Blake Shelton did a fine job of Southern Nights.  Even though Glen blew a few words in Rhinestone Cowboy, he had lot of fun signing with the other folk and telling somebody to shut up after admitting he forgot a word or two and improvised. 

Overall, we had the good with the bad and Lady Gaga with another outrageous outfit although I didn't think she took home any awards.  But even she couldn't overtake the country cool and class of Miranda.  And so it goes.