I watched most of the show, and was in near-physical pain for all of it. Whoever was responsible for sound engineering and sound reinforcement on that broadcast should be shot. I've never seen a Grammy show with worse sound. Drop-outs (and I'm not talking about Eminem's profanity
), hums, feedbacks, poor micing in general, poor mixing (like Kelly Rowland sounding perfect and Nelly sounding like he was whispering into a tin can, the two of them literally 4 inches apart). Horrible all around. I expected better from an award show dedicated to music.
Did anyone else think that Robin Williams was a little off? Or maybe he was "on", but the rest of the crowd in the stadium couldn't hear him due to the aforementioned sound engineer goofs.
I thought that Coldplay performance with the orchestra was a complete snoozer. If spasmodically beating on a drum set and spasming the same piano chord over and over while moaning into a microphone is all it takes to get a Grammy, sign me up.
I missed the Dixie Chicks doing "Landslide". Too bad, that is one of my all-time favorite songs, though I don't think anyone can do it better than Stevie backed up by Lindsay Buckingham on acoustic.
Still can't understand why they didn't just bleep the profanity instead of trying to pot down the volume in time to the music.
I thought Fred Durst was hilarious...what a complete tool. "Agreeance"...yeah, right. And what's with the crappy clothing? I realize it's supposed to be "cool" not to dress up for the Grammy's, but I think that is just silly. You can be "cool" and still look dressed up. The whole "we're a heavy metal band so we're just going to skuz along with t-shirts and cutoffs because that's the really cool way to be" vibe is pathetic. Good example: Dave Grohl...casually dressed all in black, he looked cool while still managing to look dressed up. Bad example: Mr. Durst again, or Erykah Badu. Really sad.
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