Someone besides the Dixie Chicks won Grammy Awards too!
Disclosure: It’s not that we hate the Dixie Chicks because we don’t hate anybody. That would be un-Peaklike. But that wasn’t supposed to be the CMA’s last night… Just sayin’. Our Peak artists fared rather well with
Bob Dylan picking up the Grammy for Solo Rock Vocal Performance for
Someday Baby. The Red Hot Chili Peppers did the best out of all our favorites and we’re so happy about that. They won two awards for
Dani California -- Duo or Group with Vocal and Rock Song. They also picked up the Best Rock Album Grammy for their double album,
Stadium Arcadium.
John Mayer proved lucky (and not for dating Jessica Simpson either) winning the Male Vocal Solo for
Waiting on the World to Change. The song came from his latest album,
Continuum, which also won a Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album. Fellow Phoenician
Peter Frampton also picked up a Grammy Award last night for Best Pop Instrumental Album for
Fingerprints.
It would have been nice to see
Tom Petty pick up an award, but the Dixie Chicks probably would have beat him too somehow. We feel somewhat miffed today about all that Dixie Chicking that went on last night.
To add insult to injury, Rascal Flatts and Carrie Underwood covered
The Eagles. At least Underwood covered
Desperado, a song covered by some country artist before but we can’t remember who it was. We just wanted to hear a girl do that one. The Peak Staff were starting to get concerned Rascal Flatts was getting carried away, although their rendition of
Life in the Fastlane was good.
Last but certainly not least, we must talk about
The Police reunion! Did it not leave you wanting more? Were you not shaking your head in disbelief as they ran off the stage after performing
Roxanne saying to yourself, “That’s it?”
The very first words spoken at the Grammy Awards last night were from Sting: “We’re the Police and we’re back!” They were the sweetest words a Peakerhead has heard in a long time (aside from anything related to Peakerman’s upcoming party).
Guess we’ll put up with the Chicks if we can at least have one of the best bands of all time reunite after 23 years. And that is exactly how we shall choose to remember the 49th Annual Grammy Awards – it was the night The Police reunited.
