Someone Fell Asleep on THAT One!
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86740)
United States
January 29, 2016 1:12pm CST
Part of the information in the obituary of Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship co-founder Paul Kantner was that Jefferson Airplane (the original incarnation of the band) is to receive a Lifetime Achievement Grammy award during the ceremonies next week.
Curious as to who has received this prestigious award, given to artists for (as the name implies) a lifetime of significant contribution and/or influence on music, I went to the Grammy web site to look through the recipients.
I was delighted to see several country artists have been awarded the Lifetime Achivement Grammy: my favorites, the Louvin Brothers (2015), Hank Williams (1987), Bob Wills (2007), Loretta Lynn (2010), and George Jones (2012) are among the country singers who have been awarded.
Then something caught my eye.
Listed in the B's, amid names like Bobby "Blue" Bland, Chuck Berry, and the Beach Boys, were the Beatles. No surprise there, of course...then I saw when they were given the Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
2014.
The Beach Boys' Lifetime Achivement came in 2001, but the Beatles had to wait another thirteen years for theirs?!
Doc Watson got a Lifetime Achivement Grammy award in 2004. Personally, I'd rather have Watson's discography with me on a deserted island than the Beatles', but let's be real here. The Beatles had to wait until TWO YEARS AGO for a "Lifetime Achivement"???
Someone fell asleep on that one!
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@lookatdesktop (27156)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Jan 16
It's their opinion. Your own judgement of what is good music and what is not, is your own. I used to like the Beatles, but I heard their songs so many times I need a decade just to get over their songs until my memory goes bad then I can start listening all over again. Bonnie Raitt is one of my favorites.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Jan 16
@FourWalls People like Goodman and Zevon kind of flew under the radar screen as far as "immense popularity" goes. Same with my main man, John Prine.
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@FourWalls (86740)
• United States
30 Jan 16
@TheHorse -- Granted, but Prine has won Grammys while still alive (and before his cancer diagnosis -- he won a Grammy for The Missing Years). The NARAS claim regarding nominations is that people are supposed to be nominated based on quality, "regardless of popularity." They're trying to make up for missing Jason Isbell's Southeastern album a couple of years ago by nominating him for two Grammys this year.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Jan 16
@FourWalls I actually didn't know The Missing Years had won a Grammy. My favorite Prine albums are still his first three.
@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Jan 16
Never cared much for the Beatles. Glad to see some others win it.
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@FourWalls (86740)
• United States
30 Jan 16
I'm not a big Beatles fan either, but sheesh. I'd think they would have been considered popular and influential a few years before 2014.
To The NARAS' credit, they have a very diverse cross-section of music represented by the Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
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@FourWalls (86740)
• United States
30 Jan 16
Probably one of those "office memo"-type things. "I thought you were supposed to send it." "Oh, I thought you were supposed to send it." "Didn't accounting send it?" "I thought Admin was supposed to send it." Eventually someone woke up and said, "Hey, you know, the Beatles haven't received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy yet."
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
30 Jan 16
@FourWalls I was/am not a Beatles fan, but I acknowledge their "greatness."
