We're All Getting Old...

It's been 30 years since the Recording Academy screwed up and gave the best hard rock/metal Grammy to Jethro Tull instead of Metallica. Jethro Tull won for their album Crest of a Knave.

I've never been a Jethro Tull fan. I just don't get them. I went to high school with a guy who was an absolutely rabid Tull fan. His dad was a fan and he passed that love on down I suppose. I remember going to school after the bizarre Grammy win and Aaron being so pumped. We were so incredibly young back then, but I was already obsessed with music and so were a lot of my friends. I'm talking like 4th grade here. We would watch MTV after school and loved all the Glam bands we still talk about here today.

On this day in 1989, the very unheavy Jethro Tull win the first Grammy for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, beating out Metallica. pic.twitter.com/M4HODTRBnV

— Monsters Of Rock® (@MonstersOfRock) January 22, 2022

Comments

[Him]

First, it's the Grannys. So, really, who cares?

Second, both bands have their place in the musical firmament. Jethro's? Early- to mid-70s. 'Tallica's? Early- to miid-80s.

Third, by the late-80s, Tull was releasing songs that sounded like they belong on a Miami Vice soundtrack. Met' were drifting towards the mainstream, bassless (not as in "without merit") though still with sweet looking wrist sweatbands. And thank goodness 'Het wasn't trying to sing yet!!!

When did Jethro Tull die? 1741. So they had a good run after he was dead, even if the lyrics were more about pervy old guys and less about agriculture.

When did Burton sadly die? 1986. So they heaped scorn and derision on Newsted like cruel schoolboys until he left and crab-walker entered. If Burton had lived, perhaps we would have gotten something truly experimental out of the band, something flavored with some Pastorius-style grooves, and not Lulu.

Then again, who knows? Who cares? In the words of yet another song that 'Tallica covered: So ******* what? [Props to A-NL!!!].

[Metalboy!]

TRUTH be told, IMHO, Jethro Tull’s classic “Aqualung” is far better than ANY Metallica (or whatever corny nickname ya wanna call ‘em, HIM) album.

I’ll take “Locomotive Breath” over ANY Metallica song any day!

[fletch]

That would technically be baseless, Him. No?

Who cares...or, rather, so fcking what!

[Him]

Metalboy!, not that anyone's reading this anymore, but . . . I didn't come up with those 'corny' nicknames. Just wanted you to know.

And, Fletch, 'baseless' is right!