Although we saw some great nominations this year and a band like High on Fire taking home a Grammy Award, The Recording Academy received some serious backlash from famous rock and metal musicians.
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.Lzzy Hale (Halestorm)
Via Instagram:
“It was a whirlwind of a Grammy Week. It was so wonderful to be nominated, and I’m honored to have lost that Grammy to one of my influences, Chris Cornell. His children got up on stage and filled my heart with such love as they paid tribute to their father.
“But I am disappointed and disheartened that Vinnie Paul of Pantera/ Hell Yeah,All That Remains guitarist Oli Herbert and Kyle Pavone of We Came As Romans were not acknowledged in the Annual Memoriam list this year.
“There’s a committee at The Recording Academy and, in December, they put together a list that goes into the hundreds, 300 to 400 people. They go through that list and this committee votes. And from that, they cut it down to a reasonable number for television. I get it. But that is not an excuse for not including my friend Vinnie Paul of Pantera/ Hell Yeah, who has in fact…been nominated for 4 Grammy awards.
“I am very much aware that our genre is still not given the respect that it deserves.
“This is why I’m involved.
“That’s why I was there, in my leather jacket and horns raised, representing my genre Presenting Awards at the Pre Televised ceremony.
“That is why I was present at the televised show, sitting next to the cool kids. Like anything in this world, if you want change, you must take action.
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“If I threw in the towel the first or hundredth time someone didn’t take me seriously or told me I couldn’t make it cuz I was a girl… then all the hard work and passion I bear for my love of music would be wasted. So, with the same passion, I will not waste my time in the light.
“I will continue to be an ambassador for Rock and to fight for the respect that it deserves.
Mike Inez (Alice in Chains)
Via Instagram:
“Even though we lost, I had a great Grammy weekend full of events and cool people. But my only bitch about it was how in the FUCK do you leave out 4-time nominee Vinnie Paul out of the In Memorium. They did the same shit with Layne. Hard fumble.”
IN 2007 THE GRAMMYS EXCLUDED KEVIN DuBROW IN THEIR “IN MEMORIAM” & IN 2019 THE GRAMMYS EXCLUDED VINNIE PAUL IN THEIR “IN MEMORIAM….” THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE GRAMMYS & THE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS WE LOVE….. pic.twitter.com/tKczzFLSPm
— QUIET RIOT (@QUIETRIOT) February 12, 2019
I am a Grammy nominee. But I would not be a Grammy nominee or in a band or into Metal without Vinnie Paul Abbott. Dear @RecordingAcad – the Metal category is hardly recognized at your awards, and you left out an In Memoriam artist who is responsible for shaping Metal and rock. pic.twitter.com/aEB1n9XHwb
— Matthew kiichichaos Heafy (@matthewkheafy) February 11, 2019
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Vinnie Paul Being left out was another travesty and the reality of the Grammys. Fans of most of those artists are looking for the latest thing . Vinnie has loyal fans in the millions that will live on well beyond that event.
— matt sorum (@mattsorum) February 11, 2019
The battle with the Grammys on Lemmy Kilmister’s behalf was a joke . They gave Hollywood Vampires 4 minutes n 10 seconds to pay tribute to a man that was The Godfather Of Rock n Roll . There was a committee pushing for months to make that happen .
— matt sorum (@mattsorum) February 11, 2019