Country Awards Show tonight - ACM's. TRAINWRECK

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Tractors, beer, and underachieving are being celebrated. Also, are the monitors working? This is godawful. I feel compelled to watch out of a sick fascination.
 
Agreed. Just switched to Mad Men
 
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I don't know what compels me to watch this crap and comment on it.

I watch it in solitude and shake my head and whisper vomit. Pop country is the most popular genre today. End of days.
 
The best part about the show was the return of Shania!!...The rest of those barbie dolls should just stay home next year.
 
So I watched the whole thing also - agree that it was pretty awful, but have two (hopefully) legit questions -

1 - As a life-long Gretsch player - I was looking for the Gretsch kits on stage - I thought Gretsch was huge in Nashville. Unless I missed something - didn't see one. Saw Tama, Ludwig, Yamaha, Crush, DW, and even a Craviotto (with Lady Antebellum). Didn't see one Gretsch kit. I was surprised.

2 - All performers had their bands visible on stage - EXCEPT for the Tim McGraw/Taylor Swift song - band was behind a curtain and not at all visible - what was up with that?

Overall - I thought it was surreal - both hosts embarrassing to themselves mostly - most performances below par for a show like this - audio quality bad - and I won't comment on award winners.....

Discuss ....
 
Audio was terrible. I watched the blackhawks and predators.

Nashville was a Gretsch town and still is, to some extent in the recording studios. The live bands and live musicians are what you see on these shows, for the most part. And what they play has no bearing on who plays on the recordings and what drums are used on the recordings. I don't know most of the live, touring players. And I'm sure they have their own drum company affiliations, based on what THEY like. Not what was played on the record. Most of these guys can't really re-produce the recordings anyway.

The session guys are playing many different brands now. 2 guys are playing Craviotto. One is playing Ludwig. 3 are playing Yamaha. I am still playing my Gretsch drums. One other full time session drummer is a NEW Gretsch endorser. There are Gretsch sets in 3 studios, as house drums..
 
I just caught a few minutes of it, but not enough to comment. I'll say there are some pretty singers though, but whatever. I can appreciate it, and the folks playing it are talented, but I don't keep up with the style. Tomorrow I'll be back to listening to jazz like most of the time.
 
Crush drums playing country? AAACK that's like an Ibanez playing Chet Atkins! Just doesn't sit well in the cosmos...
 
It was a horror flick. The only really great singer was Carrie Underwood. The rest were somewhere between a f'n joke and half-assssed. As a media consuming population we should be embarrassed that this crap even reaches the airwaves.
 
jskdrums said:
Was it just me or did almost every singer sound flat?
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I thought the same thing, especially George Strait. I thought he sounded terrible ... and I like George Strait.
 
"The Band Perry"...that was country? It was like Brittany meets KISS.It looked like they were pantomiming too.
The only part that sounded "live" was when the crowd was told to raise their hands at the end of the "every single move" choreographed over the top performance.
tee are
 
I'm not a huge Country fan, but I'll take it over a lot of the other crap coming out nowadays. fun? Yuck. Ke$ha? Good god. Bruno Mars? That guy makes me want to stick forks in my eyes.
 
jskdrums said:
Was it just me or did almost every singer sound flat?
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kgreener said:
Was it just me or did almost every singer sound flat?
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I thought the same thing, especially George Strait. I thought he sounded terrible ... and I like George Strait.
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I suspect the issue lies in the monitor mix. I don't envy any monitor or FOH engineer who has to handle that many different mixes in a single night. Doable? Sure. Easy? No way.

I didn't mind the performances and a lot of the theatrics, hey... it's a show and with ticket prices these days you have to give the audience they can't see/hear at home. My only real disappointment was in the audio. I was bummed that they didn't have Brad Paisley's guitar turned on when they cut to the overflow arena. That dude can PLAY, and I was looking forward to hearing it. We DVR'd the second half and went to bed, so tonight I'll be sitting next to the missus while she cranks up Garth, rewinds it, watches it again, and again, and again. I married a country girl :D.
 
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