Grammy Producer Believes EVH Tribute Was Fine

Written By Allyson B. Crawford

The producer of the Grammy Awards telecast weighs in on the negative reaction fans had to the lousy 15 second "trbute" to Eddie Van Halen. Ben Winston did an interview with Variety about the matter and Blabbermouth shares a section:

Ben said: "We had a call with Wolfgang before the show, and I asked him if he'd be willing to come on and play. He felt he didn't really want to do that, and I offered up eight or nine guitarists who maybe could. But instead, he felt like we should play a video of Eddie himself, because nobody could play like him, so that's what we did."

He continued: "I would have loved for it to be longer than it was, but Eddie was the only person in the whole 'In Memoriam' to play their own music, with no other faces being seen. I felt that was an appropriate tribute to him, but if Wolfgang didn't, I'm sorry about that, of course.

"It's such a horrific thing to lose a parent. We did the best that we felt we could."

This seems exceptionally lame to me and I understand why Wolfie is upset. Just another sad day in the mainstream music world I guess.

 

Allyson B. Crawford
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