I'm not very impressed with like 99% of modern music so I realize my opinion is about as far from what the Grammy's cater to as possible. Then again, anything keeping shitheads like Kanye from winning is a-ok with me.
Actually though, I almost can't fault the Grammy's too much. I heard very little about Miley Cyrus, Kanye, and all the other ones that seem to get most of the headlines during the year (and usually for little to nothing to do with music).
Despite the fact that it was so long ago, I have to support giving Led Zeppelin awards over pretty much any other musical act since. They were Gods. Every one of them.
I like their music, and they really define rock to a certain extent, both good and bad. I think many of the problems seemingly inherent in music now they helped pioneer.
They still did not deserve an award for that now. I don't even care how mediocre the rest of the entrants are and how much LZ was owed recognition.
It sounded like Metallica with a 2 year old banging on a toy piano behind them. It totally ruined the song.
Symphony & Metallica was genius, this performance was just a mess.
Yeah, I really wish they'd do an S&M 2, although I'm pretty doubtful they will since Michael Kamen (I think that's his name, the conductor of the first one that really was one of the driving forces behind it IIRC) passed away.
For me, I'd love an epic like 3 part album that mixes S&M (since I don't know that a lot of the rest of their music, especially the stuff they've made since would be a good pairing for an orchestra, but Orion alone and there's a couple of others that I can't think of that would really warrant another go with an orchestra) with Garage Inc. Plus since they seem to want to do collaborations there'd be plenty of opportunity for that without doing entire albums like the one a couple of years back. Split it up, so there's one "disc" that's real metal thrash stuff (maybe get some of the megagroup Anthrax and Megadeth stuff they've played live) to give the ones yearning for 80s thrash Metallica, then one that's instrumental stuff (orchestral, piano, etc), and then one that's kinda more hard rock cover stuff like some of Garage Inc (that I think was about the only really good thing that came out of their 90s transformation).