2012 Grammy Awards

Foo Fighters' guitar player Pat Smear's career trajectory never ceases to amaze. From getting booted from just about every L.A. club in the the 70s with The Germs to hooking up with Nirvana and now walking on the stage at the Grammy's. Holy hell, what a ride for that dude.

 

I'm sorry, I just don't get all the Dave Grohl love.

Nirvana was overrated but at least they created an entire genre of music (at least in the public's consciousness, if not in the reality that they were one of many original grunge bands) which makes them the Sex Pistols of the 90s.

But the Foo Fighters make PiL seem as ground breaking as The Clash. And the Foo's frontman is, from what I've read (see his Glee comments, among others) a world-class ass. For screeching guitars, give me the Manic Street Preachers or Kaiser Chiefs over the Foo Fighters seven days a week.

 

I remember an interview where Grohl said that basically anytime something needed a harder edge or to be rocked up a little bit the Smear would get a call.

 

Is she waiting for the pimp hand from Whitlock?

For the Canadians of a certain age who may have been watching...

Did anyone think back to the Nestor Pistor classic when Glen Campbell was performing?

 

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Nirvana didn't create a whole genre. All of that infrastructure for what the media labeled "grunge" was in place well before Nirvana got together. Just as the Sex Pistols didn't create punk. Both were simply popular bands who had a bit more critical and commercial success than their peers.

And PiL are pretty damn good in their own right. I didn't carry a high opinion of the band until I saw them a few years ago, but the things John Lydon did with his voice...I don't know...I imagine it was like seeing Hendrix playing guitar. I mean this in all sincerity. The roars, the shrieking, the yelling, the barking...unlike anything I have ever come across.

 

I've always thought the religious connection with entertainers, especially musicians, was hugely hypocritical. How much drugs and alcohol and illicit sex has been done by the ones who even bowed their heads during LL's prayer? I remember in the documentary Madonna made about her world tour in 1991 or so how she would be cussing like a sailor during rehearsals, dropping MF and GD every other word, then joining hands with her dance team and praying to God for a good performance ... then going out and including simulated sex and masturbation in her act.
Whitney Houston grew up as a gospel singer. But when she was doing drugs and chugging booze, where were those religious roots in her life? But I'll bet she'll get the church sendoff to end them all in a few days.
I believe in letting artists do their thing. You know, freedom of expression and all that. It if's too much over the top for me, I just change the channel, change the radio station or don't listen or watch in the first place. But some of them need to quit implying they have some kind of spiritual relationship that doesn't quite jibe with the lifestyle.

 

I was under the impression that Christianity recognizes that humans sometimes give into temptation? Is it necessarily hypocritical to show weakness?

 

This is a hoot.

 

Only saw a little but loved the Glen Campbell tribute. It was cool to remember how back in the 70's a young Asian boy could enjoy "Gentle on My Mind" and "Rhinestone Cowboy" on ABC while listening to Earth, Wind & Fire and Motown on AM radio. Somehow these days I doubt that kids are listening to Sugarland and Jay-Z.

 

If you look closely you can see bits of seaweed and dead carp still entangled in the net.

 

Great point. Shoot, you could even have Partridge Family, Archies and Olivia Newton-John albums and not be ostracized as a preteen boy.

Really. I'm not lying. It's true.

 

Some of these people don't just "show weakness." They tackle it, roll around in the dirt with it and then take it home with them. Maybe if some of them who had succumbed to the weaknesses had, you know, kicked the crack and coke and booze for good, then they'd be in a better position to invoke Deities and pray and all that. Christianity recognizes that humans give into temptation. But Christianity (and probably every other religion) would really like it if you stopped giving into the temptations after one or two or more falls from grace ... or before it killed you.