Bob Dylan & Jack Nicholson

Bob Dylan (L), Jack Nicholson (R)

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch Bob Dylan Accept His GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award In 1991

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At the 33rd GRAMMYs Awards show, alongside presenter Jack Nicholson, a bemused Dylan responds to the honor by cryptically paraphrasing a Biblical psalm
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Feb 19, 2021 - 10:45 am

Bob Dylan has a long history of accepting awards in an offbeat fashion, but his acceptance of the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991 has to be his most inscrutable—and memorable. 

As a starstruck Jack Nicholson introduces him, a purple-suited, fedoraed Dylan anxiously undulates in place; when he receives the honor, he stares at it for several seconds, thought after incredulous thought flashing across his visage.

Bob Dylan's Lifetime Achievement Award

"Well, um, all right—yeah," he finally allows. "Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me too much, you know? He was a very simple man and he didn't leave me a lot. But what he did tell me was this. He did say, 'Son…' He said..." (An awkward silence, a few scattered giggles.) "He said so many things, you know?" (Uproarious laughter.)

The yuks don't last long. "He said, you know, it's possible to become so defiled in this world that your own mother and father will abandon you," Dylan deadpans. "And if that happens, God will always believe in your own ability to mend your own ways. Thank you!" 

What did that paraphrase of Psalm 27:10 mean in the context of the GRAMMYs? Bob knows. Watch the classically weird and profound Dylan moment above and check out more GRAMMY Rewinds here.

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Behind The Board: David Greenbaum

David Greenbaum

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Behind The Board: Producer-Engineer David Greenbaum On His Musical Beginnings & Capturing Happy Accidents

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The five-time GRAMMY winner celebrated for his work with Beck brings us into his music-stuffed space for a candid chat about artistic decision-making
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Feb 17, 2021 - 12:16 pm

Producer-engineer David Greenbaum cleaned up at the 57th and 61st GRAMMY Awards thanks to his work with one artist—the imitable Beck Hansen. His production on 2014's atmospheric Morning Phase and 2017's radiant Colors netted him Album Of The Year, Best Rock Album and Best Engineered Album for Morning Phase, and Best Alternative Music Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Colors. This year, for the 63rd GRAMMYs Awards Show, he’s nominated for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for 2019’s Hyperspace. 

Now, for the latest episode of Behind The Board, Greenbaum details the path that led him here.

Behind The Board | David Greenbaum

"I played in bands originally, and then it sort of became an obsession, you know?" he muses from his music-stuffed space. "My bedroom, I converted into basically something very similar to this." As Greenbaum explains, his interest was so insatiable that he went from recording friends' bands to writing his own material. "I just wanted to be able to do everything," he says with a grin.

Greenbaum is keenly aware that spontaneous imperfections can make a tune transcendent. "Some of my favorite moments in sessions are the experiments and the accidents," he says. "Some of the most magical things have come from when you accidentally loop a thing—it's doing something weird, or the computer screws up—and you're just like 'Wait a minute! What was that? That was amazing!'"

Watch Greenbaum's appearance on Behind The Board above and check out other episodes of the series here.

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Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald

Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch Kenny Loggins And Michael McDonald Take Home A GRAMMY For "What A Fool Believes"

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The hairy pair bemusedly accepts a GRAMMY for Song Of The Year in 1980 for their future yacht-rock classic
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Feb 12, 2021 - 12:08 pm

With The Doobie Brothers’ "What A Fool Believes," writers Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald crafted a slice of smooth, unassuming soft-rock magic. While the tune may be a classic today, Loggins and McDonald had no way of knowing that—and they accepted the honor with a twinge of bafflement. (They also took home Record Of The Year for the same song.)

"I completely didn’t expect this," the lanky Loggins says in the clip. "I expected to be shaking Bill Champlin’s hand after this." Watch the GRAMMY Rewind video below.

Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald

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Adam Melchor

Adam Melchor

 
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Press Play At Home: Adam Melchor Pays Gorgeous Homage To His Sister With Performance Of "Jewel"

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With a small nylon-string guitar in hand, New Jersey-bred indie-folkie Adam Melchor saunters and croons among sunflowers
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Feb 11, 2021 - 8:57 am

Adam Melchor moved to Los Angeles on the promise of one meeting, and that meeting got him signed to a label. Still, the New Jersey-born singer/songwriter was struggling in his new climes. One day, he called his sister, Julie, and asked her for good news. Julie replied that she recently had a moment where she knew her boyfriend was "the one." Today, that boyfriend is Julie’s fiancé, and Melchor celebrates her with "Jewel." 

On this week’s episode of Press Play At Home, he plucks and sings the tune, often breaking into a fragile falsetto. Throughout, he conjures memories of old-school Sufjan Stevens and the Shins. 

Check out Adam Melchor's performance below, and explore more episodes of GRAMMY.com's Press Play At Home series.

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Living Colour at 1991 GRAMMYs

Living Colour at the 1991 GRAMMYs

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GRAMMY Rewind: Watch CBGB Regulars Living Colour Win Best Hard Rock Performance For "Time's Up" In 1991

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Today, we celebrate Living Colour lead vocalist Corey Glover's birthday by revisiting when the powerhouse New York rock band earned their second GRAMMY win
Ana Monroy Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Nov 6, 2020 - 12:38 pm

For the latest edition of GRAMMY Rewind, watch New York City rock band Living Colour win Best Hard Rock Performance for "Time's Up" at the 33rd GRAMMY Awards in 1991. 

Living Colour Win Best Hard Rock Performance

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In the video above, the quartet walk up to accept their golden gramophone in shock, but looking super fresh in eclectic, colorful and creative '90s streetwear. 

"First of all, this is one of those moments that really makes you proud to be a musician," guitarist Vernon Reid said during their inspirational acceptance speech after being handed their award by a very excited fellow New York musician Cyndi Lauper. "There's so many great musicians here, it's an honor to be amongst all of you, really."

"Time's Up" is the hard-hitting title cut from their 1990 sophomore album. With lyrics about a chaotic world and the need to take action to save it, their messages ring very true in 2020. In a recent interview with Spin, Reid touches on the meaning behind the song.

"Corey came up with the lyrics for 'Time's Up,' and that became the title of the album. It was a little bit of an homage, that song, to our friends in Bad Brains. We all came up together in the CBGB scene in the '80s. And at the time we did it, nobody was doing hardcore tunes about the environment. And we just went with it," he said. 

The year prior to their 1991 GRAMMY win, the "Glamour Boys" group won their first-ever GRAMMY in the same category at the 32nd GRAMMY Awards, for their breakout hit "Cult of Personality," from their successful debut album, Vivid. 

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