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Everything started having a tweet. On November. 3, the state Grammy Honours Twitter, whose handle is @TheGRAMMYs, sent a note to the 208,000 fans which read:our editor recommendsFoo Fighters' Six Grammy Nominations Put Analog Recording Back around the MapKanye West Places blame Themself for Grammy SnubTV Rankings: Grammy Nominations Concert Develops from 2010, Fox's 'Teenage Daughter' Off and away to Fair StartGrammy Attacker and Stylish-Hop Ad Guy Steve Stoute around the 'Tanning of America' (Q&A)Arcade Fire Manager Responds To Steve Stoute, Describes Grammy Appearance That do u predict the getting back band is going to be @ #GRAMMYnoms? http://grm.my/vH7p3Y Performs this hint make u wanna "Jump" & "Dance the Evening Away"? The 140-character missive came hrs following a pr release was released through the Recording Academy announcing its annual one-hour nominations special (broadcast on CBS since 2008) and promising "a unique live announcement from the truly legendary group regarding historic band reunion set to occur around the GRAMMY stage on February. 12, 2012." In due haste, the media started taking a chance regarding who the surprise act might be also it did not take lengthy before Van Halen's title emerged with one industry website, Htifix.com, going to date regarding place it available. Also it made sense: at that time -- and since, really -- these were this guitar rock band most abundant in reunion buzz. Together again with frontman David Lee Roth, the legendary arena rockers were near to signing a recording contract with a brand new label (initially rumored to get along with Columbia but landing at Interscope) after 4 decades at Warner Bros., and delivering their first album together because the monstrous 1984. Selection spot to reveal a possible release date or perhaps a first public performance than in a Grammys event? Then when the tweet made an appearance at 5:45pm on November. 3 most abundant in Van Halen-apparent hint imaginable along with a connect to the Hitfix story, it had been basically a fait accompli that guitarist Eddie Van Halen, his bass-playing boy Wolfgang, who required over for Michael Anthony in 2006, drummer Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth could be present at La' Nokia Theater on November. 30. STORY: Grammy Honours: Complete Listing of Nominees Obviously, nothing from the sort really happened throughout the public special. There is no real surprise announcement, nor was there a look and feel by an "legendary band." Rather, the nominations concert offered a couple of from the Grammys' signature combinations -- Rhianna with Sugarland, Usher with Valerie Simpson -- together with a performance based on country beginners This Guitar Rock Band Perry along with a stylish hop collective composed of Grandmaster Expensive, LL Awesome J, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Melle Mel and Scorpio, who carried out Furious Five's 1982 classic "The Content.Inch In a press conference rigtht after the broadcast, Recording Academy leader Neil Portnow was requested concerning the Van Halen no-show by Melinda Newman, the Hitfix editor who first authored concerning the rumor along with a former Billboard bureau chief. His response: "We spoken about getting something on the program tonight that was destined to be particularly in regards to a reunion and kind of announcing it. What went down really is easy -- you may already know, on the planet of creativeness things are fluid so along the way of discussions that we've been getting by having an expectation that possibly we'd attend a place tonight in which the artist involved and that we could be continuing to move forward and really being prepared to announce, they weren't quite at that time. So considering the fact that it's live television, we move ahead, we visit the next act, it's rock-n-roll and so forth. That being stated, i was genuine concerning the intention and that we were genuine about discussions, now the time period moves just a little further along and that we'll see what goes on on February. 12." A genuinely evasive commenter, in Portnow's non-speak, he never addresses Van Halen by title, ongoing to perpetuate a rumor that his organization had essentially already backed with this initial tweet. However the following morning, another tale was told as Moving Stone thought and also the La Occasions reportedthat this guitar rock band never was Van Halen, but instead the Beach Boys who've reunited its four making it through people, John Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston, for any 50th anniversary tour because of start in summer time 2012. Inside a situation of fortuitous timing, the band's last semi-completed effort, Smile, recorded in 1966, was launched by Capitol Records on November. 1 because the Smile Periods, using the full backing of four people. STORY:Grammy Nominations: Through the Amounts Indeed, the Beach Boys really are a Grammys no-brainer, too, and Wilson has themself made an appearance at a number of Recording Academy occasions through the years. The songwriter and producer being honored in 2004 because the Musicares Person of the season, the official Grammy function and fundraising event that can help support music artists in need of assistance. So to create a Beach Boys announcement as well as have a performance around the Grammys also makes sense. Based on the LA Occasions, talks using the Beach Boys fell apart 48 hrs prior to the show, but that does not negate the first Grammys tweet, which, essentially, behaved like a cut down pr release nevertheless Van Halen could be there. The succession of occasions stands for, all over again, Twitter'spower and speed of broadcast. All of this secrecy and confusion gives bear a nagging question: was mtss is a flippant tweet or did the Grammys intentionally launch a untrue stories campaign to find the media and as a result audiences -- included in this, lots of Van Halen fans -- to tune to their We're Music nominations special? With rankings up 12%, it certainly labored, but when we are all getting used, should not the Grammys a minimum of buy us breakfast each morning? Some tips about what we all know: nothing. A resource inside the Van Halen camping informs The Hollywood Reporter the band were never scheduled to look around the program which this can be a classic situation of "the web gone crazy." However the insider was hard-pressed to describe the Grammys tweet, revealing the band was equally miffed. The Grammys didn't react to THR's request further explanation of Portnow's comments. Newman, who THR also arrived at to, rejected to comment. PHOTOS: Top Ten Greatest Compensated Artists However that we have all released, pontificated and perpetuated, who's the champion of the pointless exercise? Van Halen, who received untold levels of publicity throughout a period when these were settling a lucrative new recording contract -- and justifiably so since clearly the anticipation for any new Van Halen album, tour and all sorts of the accouterments that include a great-scale reunion have arrived at feverish proportions. Who manages to lose? Van Halen's fans who updated right into a 60-minute kudos fest and also the nearest they were given to seeing real rock 'n roll was once the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light was listed being an Album of the season contender. The Beach Boys lose, too, if they are doing show up on the Grammys this season, their title and Van Halen's will in the end live side-by-side in subsequent press reviews, taking from the impact from the announcement. And also the Recording Academy does not leave the hoopla untouched, either. Using the knowning that the business comes with an honours show to advertise along with a buzz to construct, should which come at the fee for honesty? If Academy professionals understood that Van Halen never was in discussions to look, is not it now time they deomonstrate the reality in certain capacity and set an finish towards the forum madness? Or just be straight with someone? Anybody? Maybe marketing executive Steve Stoute had the best idea when he required the Grammys to task this past year, investing $40,000 to position a full-page open letter within the NY Occasions. His gripe: the Grammys lost-of-touch with popular music and used what they are called of celebrity artists like Attacking Young Boys and Eminem (the previous lost Best New Artist to Esperanza Spalding, the second lost Album of the season to Arcade Fire) to lure audiences for their broadcast and ultimately leave them disappointed. Seem familiar? But all hope isn't lost in which the various gamers are worried, you will find there's solution: "California Women" as carried out through the unlikely pairing of, yes, Van Halen and also the Beach Boys, lest we forget that David Lee Roth obtained an enormous solo career hit using the Beach Boys' 1965 hit, reaching No. 3 around the Billboard Hot 100 together with his 1985 version (see video below). And permanently measure, the Grammys can throw Katy Perry within the mix. Now that's worth tuning set for. Twitter: @shirleyhalperin PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery 54th Annual Grammy Nominees: Kanye, Adele, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Katy Perry Related Subjects Interscope Grammy Honours Beach Boys Eminem Attacking Young Boys CBS Columbia Records Van Halen