Show Rolling Stone magazines magazine's top banana throws paint at Rembrandt Rembrandt and other artists Gloria Quick Associate Editor always tells me meu u about Jabout about some great television show to it has already aired Ive I've missed the forthe for forthe forthe the last decade but Im I'm not real big bigon bigon bigon on award shows anyway The entertainment sometimes fails to inspire me And I understand the happy winner doesn't want to forget anything anything anything any any- thing or anyone but long acceptance acceptance tan tance speeches bore me However if Id I'd had an oun ounce of foresight Id I'd have made a point to watch the the past few years Michael Bolton performed Rolling Stone Sinn magazines magazine's Chris Mundy lambasted the award- award winning winning win win- ning rung Bolton together with Natalie Cole and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences NARAS who determine Grammy Grammy Gram Gram- my winners Mundy failed to produce any substantial or valid aiti criticisms sms Arrogant Arrogant Arrogant Ar Ar- egotism limited personal opinion and banal taste comprised his verbal miasma He called Bolton's rendition of Percy Sledges Sledge's When A Man Loves Love's a Woman a rehash while railing at Bolton for forMing failing Ming to thank Sledge in his acceptance acceptance ac ac- ac- ac speech Maybe Bolton kept his speech the way such speeches speech should be brief be-brief brief and to the point Mundy denoun denounced d the worthiness worthiness worthiness ness of Unforgettable Coles Cole's winning award-winning duet with her father Nat King Cole because i its ifs s over 40 years old He suggested that what happens with the Grammies depends primarily upon middle-aged middle mal males who date women who are too young for them Is the size of Mundys Mundy's date calendar affected by the extracurricular affairs of those old men Old Now No theres there's an intelligent reason to denounce something Wonder how Mundy feels about Tony Iommi Lemmy and Rob Halford And what of Bolton I read somewhere that he has teenage daughters Does that make him too old for performing well His album Tune Time Love Low and Tenderness Tender Tender- tl ness S still ranks number seven after 45 consecutive weeks on B Billboards Billboard's charts Apparently more than a afew afew afew few people agree that Bolton is worth listening to Bolton was credited with saying that if you take a bunch of no- no talent chimpanzees and give them thema a bucket of paint they'll destroy any Van Gogh or Rembrandt and that insensitive and rude critics could kiss his ass ass and and that rankled Mundy I wonder why Mundy answered the question when referred he to Van Gogh and Rembrandt as a couple of dead Dutchmen Give that man a banana and keep him away from artists Bolton's Bolten's art expressed in intensely intensely inter inter- sely sey moving performances draws drawson on a magnificent nt range coupled with spontaneity and perfect voi voice control passionately felt Bolton is unique one of a kind He worked for years before getting well-deserved well honors Mundy needs to understand that determining best vocalist en entails tails assessing vocal qualities qualities not not the age of the songs performed Bolton deserves deserves deserves deser deser- ves a Grammy for best pop vocalist of the century Mundy needs to grow up |