CMA lip sync'ers

Jon Bergh · Post by **Jon Bergh** » 15 Nov 2005 5:17 pm

i'm watching Big & Rich and they must have a second drummer and a keyboard player hiding backstage.

can i expect all performers tonight to play to tracks?

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 15 Nov 2005 5:59 pm

We'll see. Let's see if Womack uses a steeler tonite, (depending on the song, of course.)

Jim Walker · Post by **Jim Walker** » 15 Nov 2005 6:33 pm

Music Tracks Suck....... I'm so disapointed..... Leave it to TV to kill music.

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Frank Parish · Post by **Frank Parish** » 15 Nov 2005 7:01 pm

Who was that "piano player" with Willie Nelson?

Womack sounded great. The dress has got to go!

Larry Schoppe · Post by **Larry Schoppe** » 15 Nov 2005 7:36 pm

The piano player with Willie was Norah Jones. She's also a great vocalist.

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 15 Nov 2005 9:50 pm

I didn't watch a lot of the show, but what I did watch, sounded like they were singing to tracks and the track was dragging. Heard one singer with hear band on stage, heard a steel guitar but there wasn't a steel player on stage. Probably tracks again. But what else would you expect out of a country show with New York producers. And where they drug up some of the presenters is beyond me. I better sign off before I get carried away. Jody.

c c johnson · Post by **c c johnson** » 16 Nov 2005 3:13 am

Amen Jody. CC

Frank Speights · Post by **Frank Speights** » 16 Nov 2005 3:22 am

I was not impressed with the CMA awards last night. It reminded me of two mules fighting over a turnip. The Alan Jackson/George Strait song (Murder on Music Row) was very appropriate last night. If my count was right, I only heard six songs that had any steel in them. Bon Jovi performing at the CMA's, give me a break. Has the Country Music Association and Nashville lost their minds? Conway Twitty and Hank Williams probably turned over in their graves. I hope that each of you have a great day. Got to leave for work shortly.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 16 Nov 2005 3:38 am

I was at band rehearsal and got home in time for Big and Rich. I listed to about 20 seconds of it and switched to a different channel.

James Dasinger · Post by **James Dasinger** » 16 Nov 2005 4:56 am

I was proud of Whispering Bill Anderson, he is country, his clothing attire is country, he speaks country, he writes country music.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 16 Nov 2005 5:31 am

I thought the whole show was real BLAH!

They give an award let them talk for about 30 seconds and then start playing music to get them off stage, very annoying.

The performances were just un-interesting, and they all seemed to pander to Rock and Roll.
The worst of the night was Elton John and Dolly Parton.

They could have featured an Alt Country Band or something to break it up, but I gues that's the way the establishment works.

Thank God for the internet to hear about anything refreshing and new.

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John Rosett · Post by **John Rosett** » 16 Nov 2005 5:50 am

elton john and dolly parton singing "imagine" was one of the strangest and most awful things that i've ever seen/heard on tv, and that's saying alot. i think john lennon was spinning in his grave too.

Lee Gillespie · Post by **Lee Gillespie** » 16 Nov 2005 5:55 am

I've been watching and playing country music for about 60 years. Jody..your right.. what can you expect when the industry has been taken over by people who have no heart or love for country music.
It took me about 1 minute of watching the awards show to see how phoney it would be. CLICK OFF....LEE

Lee Gillespie · Post by **Lee Gillespie** » 16 Nov 2005 5:58 am

I've been watching and playing country music for about 60 years. Jody..your right.. what can you expect when the industry has been taken over by people who have no heart or love for country music.
It took me about 1 minute of watching the awards show to see how phoney it would be. CLICK OFF....LEE

Lee Gillespie · Post by **Lee Gillespie** » 16 Nov 2005 6:01 am

Sorry for the double post... dont know what happen LEE

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 16 Nov 2005 6:05 am

"The piano player with Willie was Norah Jones. She's also a great vocalist."

Interesting trivia: Ravi Shankar is Norah's dad.

I believe that all music at the major awards shows are prerecorded tracks. It's just easier for the quick changes. The players are capeable of doing the performance live, but production crew is the bottleneck.

John Lacey · Post by **John Lacey** » 16 Nov 2005 6:26 am

Alabama really got short shrift when they went to accept their Hall of Fame (?) award. Mind you, the drummer kinda killed it for them by stammering thru his section. That's always the slow point in these shows when the shocked winners get to babble on about Jesus and their wives to the boredom of everybody else, but how do you transcend that if it's an award show? Cut'em off at the knees!

Joe Miraglia · Post by **Joe Miraglia** » 16 Nov 2005 6:49 am

I watched Commander-in-chief, I like that program. There was a time when I would never watch a another program on TV,when a country music show was on- not last night. A.B.C. won. Joe

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 16 Nov 2005 6:58 am

Your first clue should have been when they moved the show to New York City?

Now if the show would have emanated from some place like Austin, Texas it would have sounded totally different!

Erv

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 16 Nov 2005 7:03 am

Who was playing steel behind Bon Jovi? Sounded good
Sugarland didn't have steel.

The staff steeler sounded like Sonny Garrish.

Jim Walker · Post by **Jim Walker** » 16 Nov 2005 1:34 pm

Now if the show would have emanated from some place like Austin, Texas it would have sounded totally different!

Erv has the right idea!

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Kirk Hamre · Post by **Kirk Hamre** » 16 Nov 2005 5:49 pm

Let's face it folks, the country music industry is desperately trying to cross-over to Pop sales....get used to it, or turn off the radio, turn off the tv, and don't buy any newly recorded CDs. It's not about the music anymore, it's about how you look. It's a fashion show to sell videos to sheepeople. Most awards shows are no more than another way to promote their "stars". There's no credibility to them...just a big TV advertisement. If you want to see and hear good music you have to dig deep and look far...it's out there...we steel folks know it...keep looking and you'll find it...just not on the radio or TV. I believe the marketing studies show that the listening I.Q. of the average CD and video buyer is very low, and this is why the industry is selling product at the level they are. It's not about music "changing", I'm all for advancing and enlarging the art, it's the quality and depth of the material being recorded today that so many of us find lacking.

Webb Kline · Post by **Webb Kline** » 16 Nov 2005 6:34 pm

Frank, you knocked me off my chair with your analogy. But, just how did the CMAs compare with 2 mules fightin' over a turnip? I've never heard that before and it's gonna bug me all night now. What exactly happens when 2 mules fight over a turnip? I need to know this, because I've simply got to use that line in a sermon somewhere.

Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time I even saw a turnip.

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 17 Nov 2005 4:07 am

Nothing new with some country artist crossing over.
It was very good to see Glen Campbell inducted.

Still would like to know who was playing steel with Bon Jovi?

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 17 Nov 2005 5:03 am

Let's face it folks, the country music industry is desperately trying to cross-over to Pop sales....

It all sounded like country crossover to me.

Whispering Bill Smith was a breath of fresh air.