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#1 2005-02-13 12:01 am
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Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
And about time. 
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#2 2005-02-13 12:03 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
oh boy. the grammy's. excitement.
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#3 2005-02-13 12:05 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
yeah, I can't remember any particular Grammy-winning songs I've ever liked.
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#4 2005-02-13 2:16 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
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#5 2005-02-13 5:02 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
The time to give them Grammy awards was thirty-odd years ago.
At the time, Led Zeppelin was never even nominated. Now the experts of Grammyland want to redeem themselves for ignoring Led Zeppelin for most of a lifetime. Is it me, or does that sound a wee bit hollow?
Last year they gave a "Best Rock Vocal" award to Dave Matthews. Dave Matthews. Ponder that.
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#6 2005-02-13 8:27 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
I was listening to the Current the other day, and they were sitting around going through the grammy nominations and making fun of most of them. Now thats my kind of radio station.
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#7 2005-02-13 9:11 am
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meaningless trophy
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#8 2005-02-13 9:51 am
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Grumpy wrote:
meaningless trophy
Do you have one?
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#9 2005-02-13 1:23 pm
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Aren't Lifetime Achievement awards reserved for people that had long productive careers, not just people that had careers long ago? When was the last new Zeppelin tune? For that matter, was there a tune or was it just shreiking with guitar accompaniment?
If the same six tired old Zeppelin songs on the radio constitute achievement, God help us all. However, musical popularity and Grammy awards are often inversely proportional to quality and talent so... whatever. Please feel free to tear me to pieces because I don't like to hear high-pitched non-singing recorded on old equipment that high-pitched everything anyway.
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#10 2005-02-13 1:26 pm
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barredreality wrote:
Aren't Lifetime Achievement awards reserved for people that had long productive careers, not just people that had careers long ago?
Did you ever?
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#11 2005-02-13 2:13 pm
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
snore snore. Who cares?!?
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#12 2005-02-13 4:52 pm
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Congrats to them. But, Led Zeppelin does not need validation from some lame-ass award.
And no, I don't have one. But, Milli Vanilli won a grammy, for chrissakes. It's not that big a deal, as they usually ignore the artists who deserve the awards.
BTW, Robert Plant doesn't shriek. Shrieking is for people who don't have his vocal range.
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#13 2005-02-13 5:45 pm
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Shrieking is for hardcore and schremo.
On the other end of the rope, Robert Plant makes me shiver when I hear Stairway to Heaven. I think there is a major difference.
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#14 2005-02-13 6:52 pm
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have appeared on Austin City Limits at least once each. 
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#15 2005-02-14 10:36 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Egress wrote:
The time to give them Grammy awards was thirty-odd years ago.
At the time, Led Zeppelin was never even nominated. Now the experts of Grammyland want to redeem themselves for ignoring Led Zeppelin for most of a lifetime. Is it me, or does that sound a wee bit hollow?
Last year they gave a "Best Rock Vocal" award to Dave Matthews. Dave Matthews. Ponder that.
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#16 2005-02-14 10:49 am
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barredreality wrote:
Aren't Lifetime Achievement awards reserved for people that had long productive careers, not just people that had careers long ago? When was the last new Zeppelin tune? For that matter, was there a tune or was it just shreiking with guitar accompaniment?
If the same six tired old Zeppelin songs on the radio constitute achievement, God help us all. However, musical popularity and Grammy awards are often inversely proportional to quality and talent so... whatever. Please feel free to tear me to pieces because I don't like to hear high-pitched non-singing recorded on old equipment that high-pitched everything anyway.
You sir, are dead to me.
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#17 2005-02-14 10:58 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
barredreality wrote:
If the same six tired old Zeppelin songs on the radio constitute achievement, God help us all.
If you base your opinion of Led Zeppelin on what's played on the radio God help us all. 
Listen to Zep I. And bear in mind that Plant and Bonham were nineteen years old when the album was recorded. What did you do when you were nineteen? Did you happen to record one of the greatest rock albums ever? No? They did.
If you think Zeppelin is nothing but screeching and guitars you've never heard Zeppelin.
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#18 2005-02-14 11:39 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
oatmeal wrote:
Grumpy wrote:
meaningless trophy
Do you have one?
Not a Grammy.
But I have won a pile of crappy hunks of metal from mountain biking and road racing.
Where are they now? Who knows?
I never kept one of them.
Personal achievment is heartfelt. It's better to remember the looks on their faces after you crushed them than to have a shiny thing on a shelf.
Trophies are for drunken bar softball teams!
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#19 2005-02-14 11:44 am
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You could frame pictures of their crushed-looking expressions and set them beside your trophies.
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#20 2005-02-14 11:52 am
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Grumpy wrote:
Trophies are for drunken bar softball teams!
Hey, don't you forget the throwing dart teams!
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#21 2005-02-14 12:34 pm
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
put on the first side of Led Zeppelin IV.
"Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb."
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#22 2005-02-14 1:07 pm
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The first side, haha...
How do you flip an MP3 onto the other side? 
My 'rents were watching the grammys yesterday, and when I asked 'Why!?' they said that Led Zep was being nominated or something... With a 
I said uh-huh and left.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love Zep. I have the mixed-up jumble of a greatest hits boxed set on my iPod, and listen to it all the time. But receiving an award for their accomplishments 30 some-odd years later? Bleh. To hell with it. Their real reward is people still listening to their music, through the test of time, while a song by Shaggy that was released a year ago (maybe?) is long forgotten after being played every 5 minutes on Z100.
smurf the Grammys, and all those award shows. Music is for creativity and enjoyment, not to receive well-polished statuettes and put your label on sneakers.
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#23 2005-02-14 3:26 pm
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Re: Led Zeppelin gets Grammy "Lifetime Achievement Award"
I have a Hammy.
(NCSU student theater award for Best Supporting Actor in "Hot L Baltimore" - it was a glass piggy bank, spray-painted gold and hot-glued to a wooden base)
Man, I hadn't thought about that in years....now, for all of the people dissing LZ, well, you weren't there. Led Zep CREATED heavy rock!
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#24 2005-02-14 3:31 pm
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the grammy's are out of touch. does anyone still watch them or care who wins them? it seems like for the past 10 years the grammy's have pandered to the flavor of the year and one hit wonders.
led zeppelin deserves a lifetime acheivement award, but not from the grammy's.
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#25 2005-02-14 5:54 pm
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I'm glad that best album went to Ray Charles because if it didn't it would have got to Usher. 
I want to burst into the doors of the Grammy's saying "I DOWNLOAD MUSIC! STEAL STEAL STEAL! AHAHAHHAHAHHAAAAAAAAA" and then I'll be tackled by Nelly or something.
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