Bon Iver Not Performing At The Grammys
Posted by Joseph Lee on 02.03.2012
Justin Vernon doesn't think they were wanted...
Bon Iver will not be performing at the Grammy Awards, according to frontman Justin Vernon.
He said: "We wanted to play our music, but were told that we couldn't play. We had to do a collaboration with someone else. And we just felt like it was such a large stage -- we're getting nominated for this record that we made. Me and Brian [Joseph] and a bunch of our fucking friends and we were given accolades for it, and all of a sudden we were being asked to play music that had nothing to do with that. We kind of said 'fuck you' a little bit, and they sort of acted like they wanted us to play, but I don't think they wanted us to play."
The band is nominated for four Grammys. When asked who they were asked to perform with, Vernon said: "Awesome people. People that I would love to play a song with But you know what? Fuckin' rock n' roll should not be decided by people that have that job. Rock n' roll should be the fucking people with guitars around their backs. And their friends. And their managers."
Vernon adds that he's happy he's featured in the current Grammy ad campaign. He said: "We had to deal with all this shit, we wanted to get a promo out of the deal. Go ahead, pay for our commercial. There's a big misunderstanding -- I don't want to sell music. But if people are going to be selling music, and they want to sell our music without disturbing the medium of what it actually is, we want to fucking do that. I want people to hear the music that we make, I don't want to do it in any shitty way."
