The Official Grammy Thread

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Actually, I thought Rascal Flatts didn't do too bad a job on those Eagles tunes, but the guitarists seemed like they learned the songs from tabs about an hour before the show. I would've liked to have heard MORE Bob Wills tunes instead though. "Right Or Wrong" maybe? And, why didn't Ray Benson get a feature? His work with Asleep At The Wheel has kept the Bob Wills sound alive all these years...didn't even get face time. I thought that was the "snub of the evening".

Because Rascal Flatts moves product. They are the face of WHAT is wrong with the music business. Spiked hair, and mixing rap with "what they call" country. ALL marketing, IMO. That singer, Gary "Whatever", doesn't have a country note in his body!!!! He's singing R&B, or something.....doing the "black" vocal inflections, squeezing 27 notes into every syllable.
(I got to see the bass player get out of his SUV-limosine, in Nashville, a couple weeks ago. Everyone was taking his pic. I was very impressed )

Asleep at the Wheel is the real deal, and their demographic is too old, therefore the machine has no interest in them. I love AATW, and Bob Wills. Of course, the record companie's aren't marketing to me.

[estranged4life]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Because Rascal Flatts moves product. They are the face of WHAT is wrong with the music business. Spiked hair, and mixing rap with "what they call" country. ALL marketing, IMO. That singer, Gary "Whatever", doesn't have a country note in his body!!!! He's singing R&B, or something.....doing the "black" vocal inflections, squeezing 27 notes into every syllable.

is just the teen-boy-band for the country music industry, unfortunately they suck major amounts of ass. Their music is as lifeless as it is souless.

Btw, I agree with everything you said

edit: As for power trio's, would the Jimi Hendrix Experience count? How about the much underappreciated but yet musically talented geniuses of King's X???