Dennis Miller's Rant on the Grammys

JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 27 Feb 2001 11:45 am

An absolute truth-also insanely funny

http://www.hbo.com/dml/

I love this guy. Right on target as always.

John

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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 28 Feb 2001 3:27 pm

Some parts of that article do make a LOT of sense!

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 28 Feb 2001 4:51 pm

The Grammy's are about sales, and genre classifcation, which they seem to barely understand.

Note, Jethro Tull won the hard rock award in 1988,despite the fact that Metallica were nominated and had a chart album and top ten single!
The following year Metallica won the award, andallthey had done in 1989 was release a cover version of Queen's 'Stone Cold Crazy.'

They areso lame, and let's not forget Milli Vanilli scoring a grammy in 1990.

They are so redundant.

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 28 Feb 2001 11:32 pm

Miller is a real "hoot". I would go so far as to say,the "modern day" Lenny Bruce.

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erik · Post by **erik** » 1 Mar 2001 1:20 am

Jason, i believe the big deal about the Jethro Tull grammy was that they won for Heavey Metal. It was the public outcry that caused the acadamy to create a Hard Rock catagory the following year.[This message was edited by erik on 01 March 2001 at 01:21 AM.]

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 1 Mar 2001 7:09 am

Yes that's true, but considering Jethro Tull only had an album full of terrible synth samples for a rhythm sound, and ran around in their videos looking like third rate ZZ Top clones, it was pretty much the most dreadful album they had ever made. (the single off the album 'Steel Monkey,' is possibly the most likely candidate for a Spinal Tap outake)
Their 'hard rock'days were back around 1970-1972, and even then it was a fairly inept description.

At no point in their career were they ever considered a heavy metal band, so the whole award was an insane choice, and then some.
That's pretty much how I view the whole Grammy process, it doesn't have to be a good album.. it's just got to sell.
Since when has sales reflected the best of anything?
I mean,I live in a country where cricket comedy Cds have made it into the top #10 charts, it makes me shudder !!

Now, Steely Dan gets an award..... sheesh.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 1 Mar 2001 1:05 pm

Dennis Miller may be right about some things, but that's just coincidence. He's just applying a clever writing style to other people's opinions. But then, I'm wary of anyone who can't get their point across without profanity.

Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 3 Mar 2001 10:13 am

...I agree, b0b...I've never liked Dennis Miller from the early SNL days..to me he's just a smug, self-satisfied, smart-assed little prick, and that opinion is coming from a self-avowed smart-assed little prick..it doesn't require one iota of talent or wit to be a SALP, just an annoying ability to tear things down and a lack of ability to create..

...Dennis Miller isn't fit to shine the shoes of George Carlin, who could get a point across without using profanity if he would just set his mind to it...

..just my smart-assed opinion, of course...

Chris Walke · Post by **Chris Walke** » 5 Mar 2001 6:32 am

These days, I'd put Carlin in the very same category as Miller. Carlin has become a self-righteous complainer in his own right. Not like in the early years when he was just plain funny. Now, like Miller, he thinks he's right and the rest of the world is idiotic, and preaches his own gospel. At least Miller is up front and calls it "rant" and offers it as just his opinion. They're both smug.

Besides, I consider Miller to be an editorialist more than a comedian. If you want comedy, listen to Bill Cosby.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 5 Mar 2001 4:04 pm

I'll take Earl Pitts over any of them.

Dennis Scoville · Post by **Dennis Scoville** » 8 Mar 2001 2:53 pm

88, unfortunately I think you'd have to call him a sign of the times.