What shall we expect from the GRAMMY performance?

[jardine (no relation]

I'm slowly realizing that part of the static in my head is being caused by this upcoming event occurring within months of the release of TSS. Part of me is saying "these are the guys who did THAT" and another part is saying "Breath deeply. this is the GRAMMIES for heaven's sake," and then another part is saying "these WERE the guys who did TSS" and then there's the constant cultural surfboard nostalgia thing and that most of the audience (most of the world, actually) only knows this band as 60s pop charters. . .and so on and on.  I'm mostly stuck with wanting something that the Grammies probably can't provide or even understand: for them and their legacy to be understood in all its depth and beauty and its wonderful exuberance.

I just hope it's not silly and embarrassing.

[Pretty Funky]

Babara Ann anyone?

[LetHimRun]

Let's hope Brian and the Boys are the ones up front and center and the others are in the back as backups/backdrops.

This is either going to be really good (BBs prominent/M5-FTP backdrops) or a stage clusterf^&k.

[Fall Breaks]

What if ... they don't even play a Beach Boys song, but instead do "Moves Like Jagger", complete with Mike doing the chicken dance?

Edit: just read the 'Press Release' thread and saw that I'm not the only one with this thought.

[Summertime Blooz]

Let's hope Brian and the Boys are the ones up front and center and the others are in the back as backups/backdrops.

This is either going to be really good (BBs prominent/M5-FTP backdrops) or a stage clusterf^&k.

I think it's safe to say that Adam Levine of Maroon 5 is not going to be content with standing at the side of the stage singing back-up vocals.
Hell, with his high vocal range, his voice is tailor-made for singing Beach Boys music. I'm not worried; I think it will all be done reverently to our Boys.

[Wrightfan]

So am I reading this right? They won't even be on TV?

[Shady]

So am I reading this right? They won't even be on TV?

Of course they will

[LetHimRun]

So am I reading this right? They won't even be on TV?

They'll be shown on TV, but they won't be in the building where the awards are being given out. They'll be outside on stage in a tent.

[Wirestone]

I'm mostly stuck with wanting something that the Grammies probably can't provide or even understand: for them and their legacy to be understood in all its depth and beauty and its wonderful exuberance.

And I can say pretty definitively that's not going to happen at the Grammys. Or the broader culture. Probably ever.

But so what? The music exists, the band is making a last go of it. Let's see what they do. The music survives, after all, beyond any fashion or fad.

[b00ts]

Love it. Hits the nail on the head.


http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/02/08/grammy-performers-2012-beach-boys/


Beach Boys added to the Grammys, which now features 957 performers and will last four years
by Kyle Anderson

The Grammys really want you to watch their show on Sunday. And they’re doing it by throwing as many performers as humanly possible onstage — many of them at the same time.

This afternoon, the producers announced that the long-dormant, recently reconstituted surviving members of the Beach Boys — Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks — would be making their return to the stage at the show for their first performance together in roughly two decades.

In a confounding bit of casting, they’ll join “Pumped Up Kicks” hitmakers Foster the People and “Moves Like Jagger” juggernaut Maroon 5 for a never-before, never-again collaboration that has the potential to be both a blissfully memorable celebration of great music or a complete and utter train wreck. (On a side note: This is totally the performance the Grammys wanted Bon Iver to be a part of, right?)

This kind of bullshit is why the music industry is dying. They go for the lowest common denominator. I am not familiar with the music of Maroon 5 or Foster the People, but it is clear that this is corporate synergy at work with little or no regard for art.

I just hope to see Steven Tyler sing "God Only Knows" with Eddie Van Halen playing guitar.

[KokoNO]

Ah, to be Mike Love right now. He's going to get so much ass after his Grammys performance. College girls are going to be all over him.  

[Runaways]

The real tragedy of all this is we now know who "Foster the People" are

I was blissfully unaware until now

Pumped up kicks is sweet

[Margarita]

I hope that the tent is made from some type of batik-print fabric and lined with pillows.  And that a Beagle is present.  And that all inside eat sandwiches and/or smoke hash.  And that the tent is in Brian's house.

[hypehat]

Ah, to be Mike Love right now. He's going to get so much ass after his Grammys performance. College girls are going to be all over him.  

And there we have found the reason why this is all going down 

[Ron]

This grammy show is going to kick ass, what's wrong with you people?  When did you all become assholes?  

It's like 3 hours of music.  All kinds of different sh*t, with all kinds of different people singing with each other.  That's awesome.  

Leave it to you losers to complain when a show has Paul Macca, Ringo Starr, Tony Bennett, the Beach Boys and half the other legends who are still able to hold up a microphone ALL performing on it.

So while you guys are bitching about how the microphone's plugged into the wrong jack, I'm going to be turning this sh*t up as loud as it will go, and actually ENJOYING the music.  

See how simple that is? I choose to enjoy it, you lot have already chosen to hate it.  

[Ron]

"OH NO! IF SOME HALF-ASS BAND PERFORMS WITH THE BEACH BOYS THIS SUNDAY, I WON'T ENJOY THEIR CD'S AS MUCH"


wtf is with that attitude?

[KokoNO]

I don't think it's that people have anything against the performances per se.....it's just that the Grammys do such a poor job of rewarding modern music (and they pretty much always have), that looking over their nominations lists every year is an outright joke. All they do is give out trophies to the same over-the-hill group of musicians, year-after-year. What's even weirder now is that acclaimed stuff like Arcade Fire or Bon Iver sneaks in and gets nominated (or wins) amongst a pile of sh*t. It's like, nominate five great albums for Album of the Year or don't do it at all.

It's certainly much harder to do an awards show for music. Last year, the Oscars nominated ten films and nine of them were in the top ten most acclaimed films of the year according to one website (the other was #11, Shutter Island was the one left in the cold). Meanwhile, most critics can come to a consensus as to what the best television dramas/comedies are, so the Emmys as well gets a lot of worthy prestige and does plenty right in spite of it itself....

...but music? I mean, the annual Pazz and Jop poll gets like 15,000 albums receiving votes. It's just something with a much wider array of releases/tastes that you can't possibly hand out awards for it without getting things wrong in the eye of most onlookers.

[Ron]

... so because you don't think they give your favorite band enough awards, you're going to miss an opportunity to see the last two beatles perform together? 


O.K., don't worry, I'll watch it twice for you. 

[Too Much Sugar]

It's like 3 hours of music.  All kinds of different sh*t, with all kinds of different people singing with each other.  That's awesome.

 

Variety ("all different kinds of sh*t") doesn't always or necessarily mean good. 

Leave it to you losers to complain when a show has Paul Macca, Ringo Starr, Tony Bennett, the Beach Boys and half the other legends who are still able to hold up a microphone ALL performing on it.

 

Who's complaining about that? 

So while you guys are bitching about how the microphone's plugged into the wrong jack, I'm going to be turning this sh*t up as loud as it will go, and actually ENJOYING the music.

 

But you're begging the question.  The whole point of contention people are having is that the pairing of the Beach Boys with Maroon 5/Foster The People will affect their enjoyment of the performance.  It's easy to say "why can't you just ENJOY the music, hater?!," but the very contention is precisely that this set up will affect their enjoyment.  And who's complaining about petty issues such as microphones?  These are straw mans. 

See how simple that is? I choose to enjoy it, you lot have already chosen to hate it.  

So it's only fine to make presumptions/educated guesses, as long as it's positive?  Why the asymmetry? 

[roll plymouth rock]

... so because you don't think they give your favorite band enough awards, you're going to miss an opportunity to see the last two beatles perform together? 


O.K., don't worry, I'll watch it twice for you. 

Chill, negative-bro. I think the collective consensus is that its too bad the Boys' first gig back in two decades is shared with kinda mediocre bands. But at the end of the day, its obviously amazing they are back together doing there thing. Bring on New Orleans! (btw, any other board members going?)

[Ron]

Matthew: You can choose to be negative, or choose to be positive.  Saying "Oh boo hoo, there will be too many other bands standing on the stage" is NEGATIVE.  Lots of people in this thread have chosen to go there.

I'm just saying, the sh*t is going to ROCK, if you losers don't see it, then too bad for you.  We're going to enjoy it at my house, because I choose to enjoy it. 

When I turn on the radio, if they play a Maroon 5 song, I have a good time.  When you turn on the radio, when they play a Maroon 5 song, you don't have fun. 


It's as simple as that.  Get with the program, Hater!  Fun Fun Fun. 

[jardine (no relation]

why do these threads always end up like this?

[hypehat]

Because we hate Foster The People.

[Shady]

Sorry if I don't want to see Brian Wilson on stage with the guys who sing "moves like jagger" or "pumped up kicks".

Beach boys fans or not it's the stupidest idea ever, not to mention cheesy as hell

[Zach95]

They could have done what Bon Iver did 

http://pitchfork.com/news/45321-bon-iver-turned-down-playing-the-grammys-we-kind-of-said-f***-you-a-little-bit/

"F*ck the Grammys!"

I'm not sure what I would have preferred in the case of the Beach Boys...turn down an invitation to preserve their music or expose it to a broader audience and for our entertainment. I don't know.