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Re: (TV) greg at the grammys



DJANGO REINHARDT!!!

> From: "Eric Veillette" <ericgv@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:33:09 -0000
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) greg at the grammys
> 
> DISCLAIMER: I'm gonna talk about jazz here.
> 
> First thing, Greg, this is like the funniest thing I've read on the list in
> a long time (apart from people leaving cause jazz was mentioned)
> 
> Secondly, I'm listening to _Jaco Pastorius_ right now. Does anybody know
> ever happened to him?
> 
> Anyways, I've heard some Al Di Meola mp3s, and I like it. I think I'm gonna
> look for one of his cds. Can anyone recommend something?
> 
> over n out.
> 
> n greg, thanks for making my morning.
> 
> -e
> 
>> From: g grant <grntg@yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
>> To: tv@obbard.com
>> Subject: (TV) greg at the grammys
>> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:29:28 -0800 (PST)
>> 
>> Greg at the Grammys : A real time critique (Note-Not
>> spell checking artists names)
>> 
>> Damn they already started.  No wonder those dinner
>> theatre critic gigs for the local paper never panned
>> out.  What?s going on here?  Oh theres Bono singing
>> Beautiful Day.  I like U2 for some reason.  I was the
>> first one in my high school to have the salad bowl
>> haircut.  I took the jacket from Boy to the barber and
>> had him style my doo after Bonos.  Hey now they are
>> winning an award.  Please don?t speak Bono Vox, you?re
>> an idiot.
>> 
>> Alright, it?s Sheryl Crow and Shelby.  Sheesh the way
>> they are dressed they must have just completed their
>> Trailer Park 2001 tour.  Shelby is wearing tight, low
>> slung leather pants and has a better beer gut then me.
>> Lay off that imported Canadian beer eh Shelby?
>> Sheryl?s ass looks like a bag of cement.  Well their
>> acoustic yowl is over and they are announcing an
>> award.  Hey it?s U2 again.
>> 
>> Edge is saying how great things are and Bono?s
>> pointing.  Fuck off Bono.
>> 
>> A 20 second spot of the no one cares awards and we are
>> off to a commercial break?lots of community freebie
>> ads.  Perhaps advertisers are onto this.
>> 
>> Back on:  Moby, Jill and Blue Men Group.  Are those
>> blue guys the green guys from the IBM ads?  The blue
>> guys are playing tubes.  If those tubes were so great
>> why do they have 3, no 4 drummers?  Pere Ubu only had
>> two drummers and these guys are no Pere Ubu.  Emmylou
>> Harris stands and cheers as if to say ?see everyone,
>> I?m a fan and I?m still relevant and hip to the
>> scene.?
>> 
>> Ritchie Sambora announces a great band can change the
>> world.  Well not tonight as Shelby wins an award.
>> Sisqou was a nominee.  Did he not tell Regis on rock
>> star millionaire that his name was now Dragon or
>> something?  Shelby says after 13 albums I ?git? an
>> award.  She is so COOL!  Oh get me to HMV.com right
>> now, I have some shoppin? to do.
>> 
>> More winners we don?t care about for some jazz albums
>> in sub-script as they announce upcoming acts.
>> Branford won a few.  Did he release the only jazz
>> album this year.  Oh crap I should not have mentioned
>> jazz as three people just unsubscribed.  Did Bono win
>> a spoken word award?
>> 
>> Nina and Take Six sing Nat King Cole and 12 bars in
>> I?m changing the channel.  On Ripley?s Believe It or
>> Not, Brenda Fox, a performance artist, is feeding
>> worms to her fans during one of her show worms.  Oh
>> that is so GG Allin!  I bet GG was never on the, that
>> corporate fascist owners team got his ass kicked by
>> the Jays, Ripley's network.
>> 
>> Back to Grammy?s ? A televised jazz award.  After mass
>> confusion they realise Dianne Reaves is a no show.  Oh
>> the awards committee forgot to send her bus fare.
>> 
>> More awards in the no one cares categories.
>> 
>> Oh oh, I am fading in and out of conciousness?Bono?s
>> voice snaps me back to awake land.  They won what,
>> band or album of year.  Shut-up Bono.  Great, the Edge
>> is yipping nonsense again
>> 
>> Upcoming: Eminim featuring Elton John?Okay, do tough
>> urban gangsters hang out with fat, bald, touppee
>> wearing middle aged men?  Hardly. There is so much
>> material here?
>> 
>> Gloria Estafan is wearing electrical tape across her
>> nipples.  I?m surprised the nursing home let her out
>> like this.
>> 
>> The next half hour: more crap, more crap and more
>> crap.  Some Canadian playing piano, as if 99% of the
>> audience cares, what?  Was not Bryan Adams available.
>> Robbie Robertson shuts out Val Kilmer, who is sporting
>> a Match Box 20 do.
>> 
>> More commercials, eventually Dolly Parton is singing
>> and the banjo is just hummin away.  Perhaps Television
>> would have won a Grammy if Verlaine and Lloyd would
>> have had a guitar-banjo duel.  Bet they couldn't agree
>> on who would play the banjo.
>> 
>> After Dolly's song the whole show degenerates into a
>> Hee Haw re-run.
>> 
>> Greg out
>> 
>> 
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