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John Billings · Post by **John Billings** » 18 May 2008 5:48 pm

Country Music Awards.
Count me out! I'm going back to blues!

Larry Lorows · Post by **Larry Lorows** » 18 May 2008 6:37 pm

I[m with you John, Make the World Go Away, was the only country I heard all night. Larry

Bob Cox · Post by **Bob Cox** » 18 May 2008 7:32 pm

The first act,Toby,s steel player took a ride.The camera man held camera on guitar player thinking he was playing.If he was filming a bus he would of been hit by a mac truck.

JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 18 May 2008 7:39 pm

I usually at least appreciate some of the new country, but this thing has stunk out loud except for the duet on "Make the World Go Away". Have you looked past the big names and the shills at the front of the stage? The crowd in the arena has been sitting on their hands all night.

JB

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 18 May 2008 7:58 pm

We chose to watch reruns of "Murder She Wrote" and "Perry Mason".

Benton Allen · Post by **Benton Allen** » 18 May 2008 8:04 pm

Why would you watch such garbage when you could have been watching the Indiana Jones marathon tonight?

Some people!
benton

Rick Nicklas · Post by **Rick Nicklas** » 18 May 2008 8:46 pm

Almost everything I heard tonight sounded like a Rock and Roll "Battle of the Bands" concert from the late 60's. I give up. I am going back to my record collection and assume the roll of a 60 year old geezer loving it when every singer had their own individuality and the musicians took turns on rides that really were "Priceless".

JB Arnold · Post by **JB Arnold** » 18 May 2008 9:03 pm

There was a nice instrumental that they played over the closing credits....had a nice steel part on it.

Aside from that, bleah.

Also, leaving aside the "was it country" question, you know all these people are really talented, but regardless of the style, be it rock or pop or whatever, the material itself this year was uniformly weak, the writing was just plain bad. I couldn't even find a groove in about half those tunes, and I'm usually pretty good at that. Also, there was a distinct lack of a memorable hook in any of it.

And how you hand hardware to Rascal Flats without laughing out loud when the competition is The Eagles is beyond me. Now THERE (Rock Yourself to Sleep) was a well crafted country rock tune, well performed. If the competition is tonights winners, then the fix was in, because NOTHING I heard tonight held a candle to that, and it was really a middle of the pack Frey/Henley tune, but clearly way out of everyone else's league tonight. I can't say the Nashville writing corps did much to cover themselves in glory this year, at least not by what we heard tonight, if this is supposed to represent the best of the best eh? Pretty lame.

You can't blame this on the performers. I still believe that you have to have more pure skill, pound for pound, in what passes for country than in just about anything else. You can do your best with what you're given but if what you're given is crap to start with, then you have a snoozefest like tonight, with polished, experienced talent doing their best to inject some life into a pretty miserable portfolio.

And this years class of youngsters was eminently forgettable. Even soaking wet.

JB

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 18 May 2008 10:38 pm

mainstream music in all its forms sucks )*&^@_+(&+#()%+()*+!+@|_)|^(*&())))))))))))))))))@+&$#^%@$*|#$&(&_(@#^|_)*|$^)@($&@

screw the music industry.....

they only appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Corky Anderson · Post by **Corky Anderson** » 18 May 2008 11:52 pm

It's a sad state of affairs. I just wonder how much farther this whole industry is going to sink before the powers that be pull their heads out of their butts!!

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Ken Byng · Post by **Ken Byng** » 19 May 2008 3:55 am

All the time Alan Jackson and George Strait are out there, there will be real traditional country. But it's definitely going rapidly down the plug hole. We've seen the best of the genre, and I can't see it turning full circle. Shame.

I would rather watch paint dry than watch the CMA awards shows these days.

Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 19 May 2008 4:53 am

bluegrass

Don Discher · Post by **Don Discher** » 19 May 2008 5:15 am

They should change the name from the AWARDS to the CONTEST or CHALLENGE to see who can sing the farthest off pitch.It would be a very hard choice to pick a winner !

Bob Cox · Post by **Bob Cox** » 19 May 2008 5:49 am

Lets form the country music police and issue them all a citation for disrupting the sound.

Rick Schmidt · Post by **Rick Schmidt** » 19 May 2008 6:03 am

Yeah Bob, it looks like they're all packin' these without a license...

http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_disruptor

Jim Sliff · Post by **Jim Sliff** » 19 May 2008 6:23 am

Wow, and I get chastised for not being a country music fan.

I'm laying here in a recliner after foot surgery...and I actually decided to watch the show, something I probably would not have done a year ago (hey - actually, I DIDN'T watch it then...or anytime before...).

And of course, the world being as upside down as it usually is, I liked most of it. There were some killer guitar parts and some great energy. As far as the "water part of the show....errr....welll, I'm not complaining.

What little steel I heard was pretty generic, unfortunately. I really try not to diss any kind of music, even if it's stuff I don't care for - but I have to get this one off my chest; there was one thing that was blowing the top off the suck-o-meter IMO. It was whoever the guy is who sang that "She's a Hottie" tune. He needed a lip-synch track badly - I don't think an Autotune would have located a single note to fix - none of them exist in this universe. Oh, man - he made Bob Dylan sound like Pavarotti.

Oh - and am I the only one that doesn't understand Sugarland as a "group"? I see/hear a girl singer and a guy who dances with his guitar, looks at the girl a lot, plays a chord every 30 seconds or so, and sings "ooohhhhh". Sometimes. Uhhhhh - OK. She's pretty good. He's costume jewelry. Is he the songwriter or something, and that's why it's a "band"?

Ben Jones · Post by **Ben Jones** » 19 May 2008 6:26 am

I made it to the second song where the dude was singing...cant remember what it was about (edit: ah thanks Jim..."she's a hottie, she's a hottie, she's got a smokin little body!"...bahahaha

) but it had the most amazingly awful lyrics. Wife came running in from three rooms away to change the channel.

Ladies and Gentlemen...the unbeleiveably bad soft rock awards show! featuring Lame and McLame, Daisy Duke McGee....Horribly Awry and the Cheesey Mountain Boys..with a special guest appearance by Duddley McDoo-Boring in a two tone shirt and headset microphone doing a medley of his sappiest classic hits...brought to you by Exxon and Viagra.

Mark MacKenzie · Post by **Mark MacKenzie** » 19 May 2008 7:40 am

Sounds more like the gong show without the gong!

Jack Francis · Post by **Jack Francis** » 19 May 2008 7:51 am

Mark MacKenzie wrote:Sounds more like the gong show without the gong!

The most astute observation yet!

Darren James · Post by **Darren James** » 19 May 2008 8:04 am

I agree that Rascal Flatts should never win an award, but 'How Long' was not written by Frey/Henley. Its an old J.D. Souther tune from the 70s.

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 19 May 2008 8:07 am

Robert they wont get there heads out of their cans because people keep buying this crap.

Carroll Hale · Post by **Carroll Hale** » 19 May 2008 8:15 am

amen to George Strait and Alan Jackson...
did not watch the show......but, have had nausea all weekend and did not want to relapse....

all those so called "country" performers stink....
get out the oldies and enjoy....
all this modern crap is really a shame on the music industry and where it is going......
jmho.........

Scott Swartz · Post by **Scott Swartz** » 19 May 2008 8:16 am

Sugarland is a classic cautionary tale about the Nashvegas machine - lawsuits, band members cast aside, etc

Forumite Mark van Allen worked with them and has posted about it here

http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum15/HTML/013373.html

Don Campbell · Post by **Don Campbell** » 19 May 2008 8:55 am

satellite radio,I hate paying for radio but can`t stand the top 10 new stuff 3 times an hour on free radio. Therefore I am gladly paying for XM radio,Willies place,America,Bluegrass junction are the first 3 buttons .

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 19 May 2008 8:59 am

Both Jessica and Perry solved their respective murders.

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