Similar sentiments to all previous posts.
I thought the Prince medley was very cool, veryy well done, but oooooh, whatta a cruel way to treat a Telecaster (did you see him toss it aside?)
What ticked me of most was at the beginning preamble when they're announcing who's gonna be there and who's doing what, they mentioned Timothy B. Schmitt and Emmilou Harris, so I figured okay that's worth watching. All I saw of them was a quick pan past the camera during the Warren Zevon tribute. Scammed again!!
On the up side, at least there wasn't 3 hours of rap.

T...Yea, it was that bad!


Russ

actually dug Timberlake on the Rhodes. and that he was playing one, with some smidge of originality, at all. also loved seeing Robert Randolph, the slide guitarist from the House of God church around Maplewood, NJ, tearing it up. band just snappin' behind him.

High points for me.Martina Mcbride.Earth Wind and Fire.Professionalism of Celine Dion under extreme circumstance.BTW She is french Canadian and has always sung with a bit of an accent.And I was pleasantly surprised by the the perfomance of Justin Timberlake.He has very good pitch control, a good range,and I kinda liked the feel of the song.Christine Aquilera,has a marvellous voice,and I liked the opener with Prince and Beyonce.The sound techs at CBS should be ashamed of themselves,I thought their performance overall was sub par.

When they announced a few days before the show that it was going to basically be a Hip-Hop/Rap event with the Rappers taking most of the awards I suddenly lost my appetite for the Grammy Awards telecast. I didn't watch any of it. And from the sounds of it, by many of those here on the Forum who did watch it, I reckon I didn't miss much.

Best regards,
Mike