This weekend in music

On Friday, I saw Buddy Guy and B.B. King play in Orlando. Brilliant show. Here's just a few things I loved about it:

- Buddy Guy and B.B. King are 72 and 83, respectively. Listening to them sing about having sex with 19 year old girls is hilarious enough. Watching Buddy Guy walk out into the crowd during a song and actually hit on a girl who didn't look a day over 14 - that's on another level. Poor girl. She's probably going need therapy now. I bet she was only in Orlando to go to Disney World.

- Speaking of Orlando - after you spend a few evenings there watching old people get drunk and dance like idiots, that city becomes kind of charming. I think I love Orlando. What is wrong with me?

- I love B.B. because of consistency-he sang in the same tone whether he was singing about death ("See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"), love ("You Are My Sunshine"), or Viagra (he really did write a song about this). Sometime, his improved rhythmic stories went on for 15 minutes - he could have just as easily been a comedian.

Yesterday, TV On The Radio played Saturday Night Live. I love the acts they are booking for this season, but you have to suffer through an hour of bad comedy to see two songs. I was out and I missed it and I can't find these performances on the web, so please help me find them if you see them.

The Grammys are tonight. This means I will probably blog sometime this week complaining about who didn't win Grammys this year. For now, I'll just complain about the nominations:

- This was the best year I can remember for debut records: Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, MGMT, Santogold, Vampire Weekend.... none of these even get nominated for Best New Artist? Duffy and Adele are better than any of these - really?

- Most years, I actually enjoy the Best Alternative Music Album award - this year the nominees are Gnarls Barkley, Beck, Death Cab For Cutie, My Morning Jacket, and Radiohead. With the exception of Radiohead, didn't they miss all of these other ones by a few years? Didn't they all do far superior albums a few years ago? Where is Nick Cave and TV On The Radio?

- I really can't complain too much about Album Of The Year. I'll be happy no matter who wins. That is, unless Robert Plant and Alison Krauss win. Please don't award another irrelevant album by an aging icon. Giving it to Herbie Hancock last year was embarrassing enough.