Rockblog

The 51st Grammy Awards were presented last night. Back in December the Rockblog made predictions for the Field 4 - Rock Grammy Award winners.

Disclaimer: The Rockblog predictions are not who the Rockblog would personally choose to win these awards. They were only our predictions of how the Grammy judges would vote.  (About the only thing we could ever see ourselves picking Coldplay for would be an historically correct reenactment of the Bataan Death March.)

How did the Rockblog fare in our predictions? Let’s find out.

Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance

Rockblog prediction: Paul McCartney - I Saw Her Standing There

Grammy Award Winner: John Mayer - Gravity

Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

Rockblog prediction: Coldplay - Violet Hill

Grammy Award Winner: Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire

Best Hard Rock Performance

Rockblog prediction: Pick’em (with slight nod to Judas Priest)

Grammy Award Winner: The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra

Best Metal Performance

Rockblog prediction: Metallica - My Apocalypse

Grammy Award Winner: Metallica - My Apocalypse

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Rockblog prediction: Zappa Plays Zappa - Peaches En Regalia

Grammy Award Winner: Zappa Plays Zappa - Peaches En Regalia

Best Rock Song

Rockblog prediction: Bruce Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes

Grammy Award Winner: BROOSE - Girls In Their Summer Clothes

Best Rock Album

Rockblog prediction: Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

Grammy Award Winner: Coldplay - Viva La Vida Loca

Four correct out of seven. Not bad as far as predictions go, and if you give partial credit for the Pick’em choice that puts us well above .50o.

Congratulations to all the winners, especially Zappa Plays Zappa, Metallica, and Bruce Springsteen.

Keep on rockin’.

The Rockblog was supposed to be going out tonight to see Rolling Stones tribute act the Counterfeit Stones. But since the local councils in the UK have never heard of high-tech inventions, such as snow plows, tonight’s show has been canceled due to the weather. I was looking forward to going tonight. I bought the tickets back when I had a job and we were going to be picked up, so the cost wasn’t a problem.

The weather has been bad in more ways than one for me this week. I have no idea if employers are not responding to my applications because their HR departments aren’t showing up to work this week, or because they’re not interested.  Either way it’s annoying.

I guess if I had a dog it would be a snowdog this week. But since I only have a cat I guess he’s a snowcat (That’s him outside this morning pictured above).

But since I don’t know any songs about snowcats, we’ll go back to the snowdog. Today’s featured song is By-Tor and the Snowdog by Rush.