No "Relief" in Grammy Beatles Cover

Stevie Wonder, Slash, Bono, Norah Jones, Brian Wilson, Alicia Keys, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tim McGraw, Steve Tyler, and Scott Weiland combined with Velvet Revolver's Duff McKegan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner to create one of the worst massacres of a Beatles song in history. Under the guise of "Tsunami Relief", the group of stars and mega-stars gathered together on the stage of the 2005 Grammy awards for a rendition of the Beatles Across the Universe from 1970's Let it be album. The general vibe of the song was dry, uninspired, uninteresting, and most of all, obviously unrehearsed.

Whose idea was it to put Billy Joe on the same stage as Stevie Wonder? Or Tim McGraw with Scott Weiland? In all honesty, most everyone on stage could carry the tune... if they knew it. It was glaringly obvious that everyone was reading the words off of a teleprompter as the song continued. The saddest part of the whole thing is that it was intended to show the compassion of these celebrities in their willingness to help the victims of the Indian Ocean Tsunami. In reality, it made them all look like a bunch of camera-hungry "celebutants" vying for yet another way to milk the air waves for just a few more precious moments of face-time.

The intention of the performance was to place it on various websites as a download-for-donation on both video and audio sites. However, the participants indifference and complete lack of motivation drove the act spiraling downward as if it was a atate fair performance of has-beens and never-will-be's grasping to the fame they thought they once had. I for one am embarrassed for everyone on that stage last night... I hope they are as well.