Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental
The Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental was a music award, which was presented to the band Jethro Tull for the album Crest of a Knave in the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989.
History
Awards and criticism
In the 31 awards in 1989 for the first time should be given for the Metal together with the Hard Rock a separate Grammy Award. In the same year, the first award of awards for rap to honor together two popular areas of music of the 1980s were nominated .. the album Blow Up Your Video of the Australian band AC / DC, Nothing's Shocking by Jane 's Addiction, ... And Justice for All by Metallica and Crest of a Knave by Jethro Tull and the song Cold Metal by Iggy Pop from the album Instinct. Through the live performance by Metallica at the ceremony in February 1989 played in the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles with the song One of the nominated album for the first time a metal band at a Grammy Awards.
The award was given to Jethro Tull with the band members Ian Anderson, Martin Barre and Dave Pegg, who won so against the respected as a favorite band Metallica. The decision led to widespread criticism of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, as well as according to many fans and journalists the music of Jethro Tull is not in the realm of hard rock or heavy metal should be classified. Already in the nomination was Ian Anderson, singer of the band Jethro Tull, surprised as he did not consider the band as part of metal or hard rock, but a rock band, and the members of the band did not accept the advice of her record company Chrysalis Records at the ceremony in part, because a victory is not likely true. When the presenters Alice Cooper and Lita Ford announced the winner, sounded booing in the audience. Anderson, who suspected in a later interview that the band should be honored above all for their 20th anniversary instead of the actual album, stated that he was glad not to have been at the ceremony. He did not know how he could have accepted the price under these circumstances.
Injury
In response to the criticism that got the band Jethro Tull for the award, the record label the band released an advertisement in Billboard magazine with a picture of a flute ( the musical hallmark of the band) on a pile of rebars and the line " The flute is a heavy metal instrument! " Metallica added their album ... And Justice for All a sticker bearing the words " Grammy Award Losers" at, with the word "Losers " was shown as a graffito on a crossed-out " winners ".
In the following year directed the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is a two categories: Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance, awarded separately for the 32 awards in 1990. The award for Best Metal performance went in the next three years respectively to Metallica for the song " One " from the album ... And Justice for All in 1990, then to their cover version of the Queen song "Stone Cold Crazy " in 1991 and thereafter for the album Metallica, 1992; by 2011 they were the most successful musicians with six wins in this category. As Metallica won the Grammy in 1992, the drummer Lars Ulrich thanked in the acceptance speech at Jethro Tull that they have released this year, no new album, though the album Catfish Rising was released in the nomination period. 10 years later, Ulrich said that he would be lying if he claimed that he was not disappointed. The victory of Jethro Tull mocked his view of the meaning of the ceremony.
The Grammy for best hard rock performance won in the first two years, the band Living Colour Cult of Personality with the song in 1990 and the album Time's up 1991.
Winners and nominated artists
- AC / DC - Blow Up Your Video
- Jane 's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
- Metallica - ... And Justice for All
- Iggy Pop - Cold Metal