The Grammy Awards Barely Recognize The Death Of Eddie Van Halen

The Grammy Awards were last night. As I've said before, I am done with awards shows. I did watch for about 10 minutes or so just to see what the show looked like during the pandemic. It was open air and artists were sitting at tiny tables with lots of flowers. That actually seemed very classy. Apparently I missed the tribute to Eddie Van Halen... which was so short, I'm sure even folks who watched the whole show don't even remember it. Eddie Trunk was pretty pissed about it:

So in a more than 3 hour show, with 5 months to prepare, this is all #GRAMMYs could muster for one of the most iconic impactful artists in music history... they reached new levels of shame & disrespect. I am besides myself. #FuckTheGrammys pic.twitter.com/YRaX55WFWW

— Eddie Trunk (@EddieTrunk) March 15, 2021

The thing is, a tribute to Eddie would have been the easiest thing to put together, even during a pandemic. There are so many guitarists that would have gotten together to jam a classic Van Halen tune in his honor. His brother would have played drums. Would David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony have even shown up to jam? Honestly, probably in this situation. A true missed opportunity, but this is where we are. The music industry does not recognize rock n' roll as a genre anymore. I guess it just isn't profitable enough.