{"id":220,"date":"2007-02-04T21:49:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T02:49:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-04T21:56:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-04T21:56:01","slug":"grammy-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grammy-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall&#8217;s First Annual GRAMMY Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/grammy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/div>\n<p>All right, <strong>Townspeople<\/strong>, fresh off the high of our <em>First Annual Super Bowl Halftime Show Commentary<\/em>, we would like to announce, in our role as industry watchdog, <strong>Rock Town Hall&#8217;s First Annual GRAMMY Bash<\/strong>, kicking off on <strong>Friday, February 9<\/strong>, and running through <strong>Monday, February 12<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>You may have heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">GRAMMY Awards<\/a>. Chances are, if you&#8217;re a visitor to the Halls of Rock, <em>you don&#8217;t give a damn<\/em>. In fact, you <em>so<\/em> don&#8217;t give a damn that that vein in your forehead bulges out whenever people in the office ask you &#8211; Big Music Fan they know you are &#8211; who you think&#8217;s going to win a GRAMMY. Who are you kidding? We suspect you&#8217;re incapable of completely shutting this inherently horrendous event out of your mind. If you were that kind of well-adjusted person, you wouldn&#8217;t be checking in here.<\/p>\n<p><em>No pain, no gain<\/em>, they say, and if there&#8217;s one thing both the GRAMMY Awards and Rock Town Hall promise it&#8217;s pain. The pain of too wide a swath of genres for even the &#8220;I like all kinds of music!&#8221; fraud to appreciate. The pain of <strong>Jethro Tull<\/strong> winning an award in the Heavy Metal category long after we knew this unlikely folk-rock-prog band any longer existed. The pain of seeing Elvis Costello &amp; the Attractions lose out to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Taste_of_Honey_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">A Taste of Honey<\/a><\/strong> for Best New Artist. Pain.<\/p>\n<p>This Friday we&#8217;ll begin rolling out in-depth GRAMMY coverage, but little of the stuff you have no business caring about. Again, let&#8217;s be real. For example, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammy.com\/PressReleases\/368_378_MGMTop3Release_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this press release<\/a><\/strong> is the sort of <em>hook<\/em> we would never stoop to cover. Come on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammy.com\/Recording_Academy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recording Academy<\/a>, stop sending us this stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Look for historical overviews, keys, trends, prognostications, analyses, fashion, and a treasure hunt. The night of the big event, we&#8217;ll encourage you to log into Rock Town Hall for Live Commentary. We&#8217;ll probably take it through the night and into next Monday morning. Until then, bone up on your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammy.com\/GRAMMY_Awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">nominees<\/a>, your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammy.com\/GRAMMY_Awards\/News\/Default.aspx?newsID=2352&amp;newsCategoryID=1\" target=\"_blank\">historic moments<\/a>, and your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grammy.com\/GRAMMY_Awards\/Moments\/\" target=\"_blank\">moments<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, Townspeople, fresh off the high of our First Annual Super Bowl Halftime Show Commentary, we would like to announce, in our role as industry watchdog, Rock Town Hall&#8217;s First Annual GRAMMY Bash, kicking off on Friday, February 9, and running through Monday, February 12. You may have heard about the GRAMMY Awards. 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