Posted on 02/07/2010 5:13:14 PM PST by Minn
I'm trying to understand what it says about the state of American music and culture that, in every Super Bowl half time show since the wardrobe malfunction, a song less than 30 years old hasn't been sung.
I have plenty of fond memories of the Stones, Bruce, and to a far lesser extent, the Who. But what will the NFL do when all these guys are dead?
I want to hear Rob Zombie perform at half-time. Now that would be one heck of a show. Bring it on!
A lot of it, but like most genres these days it isn’t fair to write off the whole bunch for what is most popular. Although again I would push Outkast being a talented rap group.
No, the average age of the NFL fan is well into upper middle age. This is why all the tired old bands are getting recycled, nothing more.
The good news is that there is a younger generation of NFL fans, so the sport will survive. They just like different music. You’ll know those fans are the primary demographic when their bands appear at the halftime shows.
The NFL tried appealing to that younger demographic with halftime performers like 50 Cent and Janet Jackson... and they went back to the older bands because the transition didn’t go over well.
Garth definitely has the fanbase and everything to be an attractive option for the Super Bowl.
Would have loved Paul McCartney to play again.
Bring back Up With People!!
Seriously, who watches halftime shows. They are all so freakin lame. Get back to the game already.
“I met those guys when I was in my early 20s and working at a Country Restaurant/Bar/Dance Hall outside of Chicago. There were really polite and very down to earth.”
I live outside of Chicago. What country restaurant/bar/dance hall was that? Sounds like I’m about your vintage. Curious to see if I recognize the name of the place.
The market is way more fractured now. Rock as a whole has taken a backseat to rap in the popular music front. It is unlikely that any band will achieve the commercial/corporate/generic appeal of The Who. Especially those who are considered to make artistic statements like The Who did. Nickelback sells a whole lot of albums, but they aren’t the critical success of The Who. Meanwhile bands like Radiohead and Wilco aren’t anywhere close to the commercial success.
The Mills Brothers.
Yeah, that’s the real question right there. I asked that on another forum where everyone was whining about The Who, and got no answers.
We’d end up with someone lip-synching to a recorded Auto-Tuned vocal. Barf.
It was originally Dumas Walker’s but they then they had to change the name Dumas Walter’s due to the copyright issues... That happened when I was working there in the winter of 92/93 I think it was...
However, they had about 12 minutes to cram in songs that had to be edited and shortened due to time constraints.
I think that threw their timing off and produced a medeocre (by Who standards) performance.
Measured against their blistering show at the 911 concert, this was a disappointment. Zak is an awesome drummer. Shades of Moon without the destruction.
hellya!
dragula baby!
I'm convinced that Prince is a practical joke that the whole world is playing on me. They're trying to get me to submit and go along, like it's music or something. There's no possible way people actually listen to the grinding and squeaking from that creepy fembot voluntarily; not even for a second. But I'm on to you all, and I'm not falling for it.
I had exactly the same thought.
To clarify, I suspected that the Who was commissioned to do halftime in the first place in order to promote the CSI franchise.
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