Post by TM on Jan 23, 2014 21:42:34 GMT -5
The only thing worse than the Grammy's themselves is all the drivel about Tull winning it in 1989. But ask Ian what happened back in 1989 and he'll tell you this:
according to Billboard here:
Ian on the Grammy's
“Everybody thought Metallica would win. I was recording in the studio at the time -- so we stayed at home. Late at night, the phone rang and it was a breathless Chrysalis Records employee saying, 'You won the GRAMMY!' I said, 'Thanks a lot, but I've got to get back to this mix.' We were thousands of miles away -- nothing we could do about it.
"The following day I became aware it had created something of a fury. Poor Alice Cooper, who collected the GRAMMY on our behalf. He walked onstage to a chorus of boos because Metallica didn't win and a lot of their fans were there. They were upset, as were members of the media. The fact that we weren't really a hard rock band seemed glossed over when we were nominated. But when we won, people got their knickers in a serious twist. I would've been in my element walking onto the stage to boos and catcalls. I'm not sure what I would've said, but it would've been piffy, to say the least.
"My view on peer awards is simple. It's churlish to dismiss them as being unimportant. Any of them -- especially the GRAMMYs -- is a system based on voting by professionals in the music industry -- producers. musicians, record-company people. We got a GRAMMY not for being the best hard rock metal band. We got a GRAMMY for being a nice bunch of guys who had never won a GRAMMY. It was gratefully received and something I feel quite good about."
"The following day I became aware it had created something of a fury. Poor Alice Cooper, who collected the GRAMMY on our behalf. He walked onstage to a chorus of boos because Metallica didn't win and a lot of their fans were there. They were upset, as were members of the media. The fact that we weren't really a hard rock band seemed glossed over when we were nominated. But when we won, people got their knickers in a serious twist. I would've been in my element walking onto the stage to boos and catcalls. I'm not sure what I would've said, but it would've been piffy, to say the least.
"My view on peer awards is simple. It's churlish to dismiss them as being unimportant. Any of them -- especially the GRAMMYs -- is a system based on voting by professionals in the music industry -- producers. musicians, record-company people. We got a GRAMMY not for being the best hard rock metal band. We got a GRAMMY for being a nice bunch of guys who had never won a GRAMMY. It was gratefully received and something I feel quite good about."
according to Billboard here:
Ian on the Grammy's