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Monday, January 27, 2014
Daft Punk & Stevie @ the Grammy's
Last night's Grammy's provided one of its all time greatest live performances: Daft Punk with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers joined by Stevie Wonder and his crew doing a live performance medley of "Get Lucky" [Daft Punk], "Freak Out" [Nile Rodgers & Chic], and "Another Star" [Stevie]. It was undeniably great but even so a bit poignant in that Stevie is starting to show signs of losing his prodigious vocal chops. Still, Stevie hitting on six out of eight cylinders tops almost anything else, and in this context it was just fine with me. As always, Nile Rodgers is joyously cool, and I love the part when Daft Punk appear in the recording booth. Pharrell Williams' vocals and charisma are 10 out of 10. [He also won for Producer of the Year]. Also the shots of the truly amped up audience are loads of fun. I found a super HD link to the entire performance right here. Crank up the decibels and go full screen.
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excellent
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