Anthony Bourdain and Josh Homme Punish Jethro Tull on 'No Reservations' (VIDEO)
Anthony Bourdain is a huge music fan and this week he devoted an entire episode of 'No Reservations' (Mon., 9PM ET on TRAV) to hanging out with Josh Homme and the Queens of the Stone Age at Rancho de la Luna, their recording studio in the California desert.It turns out that Bourdain and the guys have a long-standing grudge against the Grammy voting panel for what they deem an unforgivable lapse over 20 years ago.
As Bourdain puts it, an "ageing, clueless and increasingly incontinent Grammys judging panel" controversially awarded the 1989 Grammy for Best Hard Rock and Metal record to British prog rockers Jethro Tull.
(For those of you unfamiliar with the Tull's oeuvre, it involves flutes, mandolins and a lot of standing on one leg. Though, to be fair, they were going through their own version of a "hard rock" phase at the time of the controversial award.)
Unable to forgive the Tull for beating out Metallica's '... And Justice for All' album Bourdain and Homme decided to get medieval on the bearded ones. Bring on the bows and arrows!
To a soundtrack that Homme wrote especially for the show, the guys exorcized the pain of the 1989 Grammys by firing arrows at a Jethro Tull album strapped to a haybale. The cameraman may have looked nervous, but everyone else looked like they were having a great time.
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