Jethro Tull’s Finest Onerous Rock/Metallic Efficiency win over Metallica in 1989 stays one of the crucial infamous miscues in Grammys history.
The English prog-rock group has at all times been identified for his or her heavy use of flutes – not precisely probably the most “steel” of devices. Certainly, nobody anticipated Jethro Tull to take house the award, and the band wasn’t even in attendance for his or her unlikely win.
“The file firm did not assume we might get it. And so they mentioned that we stood no probability,” Martin Barre, Jethro Tull’s former guitarist, defined to VPR Rocks in a current interview. “And so they mentioned, ‘Do not go.’”
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Jethro Tull’s album Crest of a Knave ended up beating out Metallica’s …And Justice for All, Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Surprising, Iggy Pop’s “Chilly Metallic” single and AC/DC’s Blow Up Your Video.
‘I Needed to Be There’
In hindsight, Barre expressed remorse for not having been on the awards ceremony, even when his band’s victory proved controversial.
“I actually wished to go. Whilst a loser, I wished to be there,” the guitarist admitted. “So I’ve to say it was [the record label’s] mistake and their insecurity within the band. However, yeah, what a disgrace, as a result of on the greatest second presumably ever in my profession and possibly Ian’s [Anderson] and the others’, it was misplaced without end and it did not come throughout properly that we weren’t there. It simply seemed actually unhealthy.”
Barre, who was a part of Jethro Tull’s lineup from 1968 to 2012, additional expressed pleasure in his band’s steel victory, even when it proved to be the one Grammy of their profession.
“I am happy with it, and it is a massive, massive deal,” the rocker declared. “It is a massive deal for me as a result of primarily it was me, Ian, and Dave Pegg that wrote, organized and recorded that album. So I really feel an enormous, massive a part of it. And yeah, dare I say I deserve it. I haven’t got an issue with it. As a result of to me it does not simply symbolize one album; it represents years and years of a band placing one thing into the system. And I believe that yr, whoever it was, acknowledged that we would have liked slightly little bit of a nod. And it was album to decide on.”
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Few bands have developed in such a definite manner.
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