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?
At least rock has the advantage of actually being music, complete with melody and a modicum of talent necessary to produce it.
They weren't dead, yet?
It wasn’t long ago they had Mick Jagger in Spandex pants. That made me so sick I didn’t eat for a week.
I was HIGHLY disappointed... that they didn’t play ‘Can’t Explain’ followed by ‘Substitute’ with I’m One’ and ending with ‘Young Man Blues’! Now that woulda rocked!!!
Booking “The Who” for halftime was SO LAME!
Just like the Eastern Lib Media to dredge something up from the 60s where they still think the Magic lies.
I’ll only listen to Watercolors, some blues, classical, western classics, and 40s/Sinatra.
I’ve noticed more recent jazz cuts are compressed, played repetitively, but the tracks seem to have been kept distinct, with an artist periodically ad libbing one track of one instrument, with all the others remaining the same known harmony, melody, and rhythm. Interesting method of variation on a theme.
This was without a doubt, the absolute WORST half-time show in the history of the Super Bowl. My wife is a fan of The Who, while I can take them or leave them. Either way, anyone with an apprecition of music would agree that their performance was horrible. I’ve read the excuses on this thread and none hold water. This was the SUPER BOWL and having an aging senior band that is hard on the eyes and ears is inexcuseable. Anyone who thinks they were “good” or “rocked” tonight doesn’t know the first thing about music and/or expectations were so low that they would have been impressed with a chimp playing a kazoo.
Farewell tour 28 years ago...
Yup. Zak Starkey. He’s good!!!
You are kidding right? These stiffs have been room temperature for who knows how long. The worst halftime show in history. No more geezer rock.
The first music video of them I pulled up had a guitar player with black nail polish.
That and the next both had slow, dark depressing music, unless I am missing something.
FWIW, you might want to take a look at all the performing arts in general, same with arts and crafts and trade fairs.
It’s downright hard to find any novel artistry out there anymore.
Same with music, and with photography, and graphic arts with some exception in some advertising media.
Another interesting aspect is the next generation and their addiction to electronic gaming and media.
It’s probably the closest this we might see in the next two decades which really is a revolution in how people think, decide and behave.
While we might criticize the half time show, consider how we all are viewing it like royal kings, most of us on large screen HDTV vivid color screens with decent sound reproduction, watching a live Laser Show from the Super Bowl in our living rooms, able to chat about it over the Internet.
A helluvalotta freedom available in this type of lifestyle, but how do we direct or control our thinking?
Nobody wants to hear today’s music unless it’s country.
But I'd rather watch them then listen to the crap they call music that tops the current Billboard charts. Today's "artists" would be out there 'self-satisfying themselves' (if you know what I mean).
What is it with the NFL and over the hill rockers? C’mon, seriously!
He looks like Pete, because that Pete's younger brother, Simon.
My ten year old said “Who are those old guys and why are they on the Super Bowl.” All I could say was “They were old when I was a kid. I have no idea why.”
If they are going to have geriatric rock banks, I hope at least they get AC/DC. Brian Johnson can’t sing, but nobody cares.
They were terrible. Absolutely awful
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