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- From: fjames@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Frances James)
- Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
- Subject: Re: American Music Awards
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.220012.979@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:00:12 GMT
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- In article <1k5dcvINNqb3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> mmb@po.CWRU.Edu (Melina M. Barreca) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, tsolis@vax.clarku.edu () says:
- >
- >>What a joke! Did anybody think they mistakenly put on the Country Music Awards?What about Kris Kross winning two awards?! Opinions?
- >>
- >
- >I watched the damn thing and it made me sick!! I was WAITING for
- >Metallica. After the shock of seeing this awards show say that the
- >Red Hot Chili Peppers are METAL, I was waiting to see what Lars(as
- >the usual spokesman for the group) had to say. THEY CUT LARS OFF
- >IN MID-SPEECH!! Now I'm not the biggest fan of Lars Ulrich, but the
- >guy was trying to thank everyone and so on when the "music" played
- >and the cameras went to Bobby Brown. At that point, I turned off
- >the awards and put on my A YEAR AND A HALF IN THE LIFE OF METALLICA.
- >
- >More proof that award shows aren't for the public or even thr groups,
- >but the damn industry.
- >
- >--
- >There's a face in the mirror, and you close your eyes , much easier to turn
- >away then to take a look inside, so you're thinking it's over, walking away,
- >let your little world crash and burn, oh what a price to pay, didn't
- >anybody tell you, it's not who's right or wrong, is this what's going on?
-
- I take it, then, that you missed seeing them play "Wherever I May Roam"?
- I agree, I was pissed when they cut Lars off...I figured he'd have a fit,
- but he handled it well. They made up for it, though, when they played.
- When they finished, the crowd went totally NUTS...even more than for that
- weenie Michael Jackson and all the other goofy people they had on. Bobby
- Brown TRIED to present the next award, but nobody would shut up. It was
- excellent!!!
-
- ---Psycho
-