Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental

Jethro Tull received the single Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental

The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental was a music prize that was given to the band Jethro Tull for the album Crest of a Knave at the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989 .

history

Award and criticism

At the 31st awards in 1989, a separate Grammy Award was to be given for the first time in the field of metal together with hard rock . In the same year, the first award for rap took place in order to honor two popular music fields of the 1980s. The albums Blow Up Your Video by the Australian band AC / DC , Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction , … And Justice for All by Metallica and Crest of a Knave by Jethro Tull and the song Cold Metal by Iggy Pop from the album Instinct were nominated . Metallica's live appearance at the awards ceremony in February 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles with the song One from the nominated album was the first time a metal band played at a Grammy Awards.

The award was given to Jethro Tull with band members Ian Anderson , Martin Barre and Dave Pegg , who won against the band Metallica , which is regarded as the favorite . The decision led to widespread criticism of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, as many fans and journalists also believe that Jethro Tull's music cannot be classified as hard rock or heavy metal. Even at the nomination, Ian Anderson, singer of the band Jethro Tull, was surprised because he did not see the band as part of metal or hard rock, but as a rock band, and on the advice of their record company Chrysalis Records, the band members did not attend the award ceremony part because victory was unlikely. When the laudators Alice Cooper and Lita Ford announced the winners, there were boos in the audience.

Anderson stated in a later interview that the award made sense on the one hand because it was not the music press who voted, but active people in the music scene (authors, musicians, sound engineers) who had been in the business for as long as Jethro Tull and who obviously felt the need to to honor the band's more than twenty year career. On the other hand, he was happy not to have been to the ceremony. He did not see how he could have accepted the award under the circumstances of the award. Regarding the difficult categorization of Jethro Tull, he pointed out that he had devoted a large part of his musical life to embedding acoustic instruments in a rock context, resulting in quite rough rock music, which is also repeated in a magazine that focuses on hard rock and heavy metal as Kerrang was discussed.

Aftermath

The band Metallica was the favorite of the awards. She received the follow-up Grammy for best metal performance six times.

In response to the criticism that the band Jethro Tull received for the award, the band's record label published an advertisement in Billboard magazine with a picture of a flute (the band's musical trademark) on a pile of rebar and the line The flute is a heavy metal instrument! Metallica included a sticker on their album ... And Justice for All that said Grammy Award Losers , with the word "Losers" graffito over a crossed-out "winners".

In the following year, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences established the two categories Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance , which have been awarded separately since the 32nd awards in 1990. The award for the best metal performance in the following three years went to Metallica for the song One from the album ... And Justice for All 1990, then to her cover version of the Queen song Stone Cold Crazy in 1991 and then for the album Metallica in 1992; by 2011 they were the most successful musicians in this category with six wins. When Metallica won the Grammy in 1992, drummer Lars Ulrich thanked Jethro Tull in his acceptance speech that they had not released a new album that year, although the album Catfish Rising was released during the nomination period. 10 years later, Ulrich said that he would have to lie if he said that he was not disappointed. In his view, Jethro Tull's victory mocked the purpose of the award.

The Grammy for best hard rock performance was won in the first two years by the band Living Color with the song Cult of Personality in 1990 and the album Time's up in 1991.

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Ian Anderson with Jethro Tull in Butzbach, Germany, on June 6, 2007

Winner and nominated artist

year	Artist / band	nationality	plant	Other nominated artists	Pictures of the artists
1989 (February 2, 1989)	Jethro Tull	United Kingdom	Crest of a Knave	AC / DC - Blow Up Your Video Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking Metallica - … And Justice for All Iggy Pop - Cold Metal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jon Pareles : Grammys to McFerrin and Chapman . In: The New York Times . February 23, 1989. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
2. ^ Richard De Atley: Rappers ambivalent about inclusion in Grammys . In: Lawrence Journal-World , The World Company, February 19, 1989, p. 2D. Retrieved September 14, 2011. 
3. ^ ^{A b} Past Winners Search . National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences . Accessed on September 14, 2011. Attention: In order to get the search result, the category "Rock" must be entered.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Rockin 'on an Island Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Bauer Media Group (Ed.): Kerrang! . No. 258, September 30, 1989. Retrieved November 25, 2010. 
5. ↑ Hoffmann, Frank (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound , 2nd edition, Volume 1, CRC Press , 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-93835-8 , p. 542 (accessed July 19, 2010).
6. ↑ Stephen Holden : The Pop Life . In: The New York Times . February 14, 1990. Retrieved July 19, 2010.
7. ↑ Never a Tull Moment . The Hindu . Archived from the original on December 5, 2007. Retrieved January 1, 2011.
8. ↑ The flute is a heavy metal instrument! . Archived from the original on September 23, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 29, 2010. 
9. ^ Metallica Timeline . MTV . Retrieved September 14, 2011: "" The band add a sticker to their album that says 'Grammy Award LOSERS' ""
10. ↑ ^{a b} Richard Bienstock: Metallica: Talkin 'Thrash . In: Guitar World , Future US , July 10, 2009, p. 7. Archived from the original on January 16, 2011 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 24, 2010.  
11. ↑ Grammys 1992 . In: Grammy Flachbacks . MTV . Retrieved February 6, 2008.

Web links

• Official website of the Grammy Awards