Posted on 11/26/2009 4:07:11 PM PST by WillT
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- For many, the World's Greatest Rock Band, The Who, will be seen by one of the largest television audiences in history when the group headlines the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLIV Halftime Show on CBS Sports at Dolphin Stadium in South Florida on Sunday, February 7.
The Bridgestone Super Bowl halftime show is one of the most anticipated musical events of the year. More than 151 million viewers in the U.S. watched last year's show. The Super Bowl and halftime show will be broadcast worldwide in more than 230 countries and territories. Many of the classic songs the band will perform are just a few of those included on Greatest Hits (Geffen/UMe), released December 22, 2009. The largest single-disc "best of" collection from The Who in more than ten years, it is the first to span the group's entire recording career to date, from 1964 to 2006. The 19-selection Greatest Hits brings together some of rock's most important, influential and incandescent touchstones, along with an essay by renowned music critic Dave Marsh.
The Who stands alone in rock music. The most explosive live act ever to appear on stage, propelled by the most staggeringly brilliant rhythm section in all popular music, layered with deafening power chords and thunderous vocal fury, The Who transcended its original billing as "Maximum R&B" to become the most musically inventive and structurally innovative band of all time. Together, the four divergent personalities of The Who produced a hurricane.
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I’ve noticed that recently the SB halftime show has been with older performers (Springsteen, Rolling Stones, U2). It seems a few years ago they had younger singers like Gwen Staffani and Shania Twain. Perhaps this means that its more older people watching this halftime show. Younger people are doing something else.
Probably a bunch of 20-somethingers who are jumping up and down for no apparent reason (of course while texting and yapping on their cell phones).
Cool. Will watch.
Ride the “Magic Bus”
I saw them in 82 or 83 in St. Paul. Lamest, most mailed in performance I've ever seen. 60 minutes of mic swinging and open heckling by dissatisfied concert goers, wrapped up with the unforgettable "that's all we got". The crowd didn't seem to mind that it was over so quick and abruptly. Nobody was in the mood for anymore of what they were watching. It was the strangest scene I encountered during the concert era of my youth. And that's saying something.
Exactly.
How do they know Who's going to be in the Super Bowl?
There are still 6 games left, and then the playoffs.
It could be anybody.
WHY?
Never been a big Who fan although I loved a handful of their songs, yet when I think about them playing live... I’m reminded that I won’t forget the concert for NYC in 2001. Wow.
Playing at the SB means your career died ten years ago. NFL music su***ks. Boring, whitebread, dated, corporate.
Great is great, no matter what generation. I would rather see the The Who over such “contemporary” acts like Lady Ga-Ga or Green Day any day, any time.
They did not tour in 83, so it must have been 82. I saw them in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and they were all very good shows. The 82 tour was not one of their best. They are still one of the best live bands out there, and that’s coming from someone who’s been seeing live shows since the 1970s. They were tremendous in the Concert for NYC in 2001.
BTW, the 1982 shows were about 120 mins. I’m not sure which show you were watching but they did not play for 60 mins at St. Paul. I have the set list from that show and it was approx. 120 mins.
The Janet Jackson halftime show changed everything. It ended with the boobie incident, but even before then there was trouble, there was the rapper that couldn’t stop grabbing his crotch and Kid Rock with the American Flag “poncho” (hole cut in the middle) that he threw on the ground. It led to the single most FCC complaints for a single incident ever and the largest FCC fine for a single incident ever. And it’s been all old folks since then. The league was pretty angry about the whole thing, there’s good indications that the league told CBS that if they were still under the same umbrella company as MTV (who produced that halftime) they would not be getting another NFL contract at any price.
It's ironic that The Who are considered safe. They scared the living daylights out of parents 30-40 years ago
Thank you Janet Jackson! Since her boob exposure, we have been treated to some great performances by classic rockers. Now we can look forward to great bands instead of the typical metrosexual bands with numbers in their name.
Whatever you say. I remember the overwhelming consensus of people filing out and on the ride home was: "What? That's it? Did somebody in the band get sick or something?"
No one got sick and the show was not 60 mins. From The Who concert guide - http://www.thewholive.de
St. Paul Civic Center - October 3, 1982
Set List:
Substitute, I Can’t Explain, Dangerous, Sister Disco, The Quiet One, It’s Hard, Eminence Front, Behind Blue Eyes, Baba O’Riley, I Am One, The Punk And The Godfather, Drowned, A Man Is A Man, Cry If You Want, Who Are You, Pinball Wizard, See Me Feel Me, 5.15, Love Reign O’er Me, Long Live Rock, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Magic Bus, Summertime Blues
1 hour 54 mins
I think you may have been inhaling a bit too much weed at the show.
True, anyone remember The Smothers Brothers Show appearance? lol
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