Separated at birth?
Posted on 09/28/2008 7:59:58 PM PDT by tobyhill
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at halftime during Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa.
The NFL and NBC made the announcement Sunday night.
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The Super Bowl is way bigger than just the NFL crowd. It's basically anyone with a TV. I probably watch maybe one entire NFL game per season, but I usually tune in at least for a little of the Super Bowl.
If you're over 50 and still a liberal you need more in life than Cialis.
Good point.
Springsteen’s name came up a month ago, and the reports were the NFL shot it down because they were concerned that he would use it as a chance to pontificate on his politics. Since the Super Bowl is the first Sunday in February, we will be treated either to (1) smart aleck remarks on how great we are to have elected Obama or (2) smart aleck remarks on why AMerica is a dank and terrible place for having elected McCain. Either way, something must have happened for the NFL to flip a decision like this. Dumb decision.
Separated at birth?
He's a professional and I strongly doubt he's going to pontificate on politics during his halftime show. The NFL has been playing it safe ever since the Janet Jackson fiasco. Springsteen is a prudent choice.
Don’t be so sure. Lots of Republicans still think Born In the USA was a proud American anthem.
“If you’re over 50 and still a liberal you need more in life than Cialis.”
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there”
Petty and Prince were actually pretty good. Of course both have actual talent rather than being famous for being “musical poets”.
It's not a matter of liberalism. Springsteen is for old, uptight dorks who think they're still cool because they put on their denim jacket and go have a couple of beers at a Springsteen concert. Lameness for the lame. Politics really has very little to do with it.
I thought Petty was good. ZZ Top was good. So was McCartney. Prince? Not so good.
Prince is someone you either like or don’t. I actually stopped thinking about the crap that used to surround him years ago and listen to some of his guitar work and was really amazed at how solid his playing was, in both funk and rock. He took the low road to get attention, and that will stick with him for the rest of his career.
He’s actually quite religious now, although it is Jehovah’s Witnesses. He even goes door to door.
*Sigh* Another SB halftime I won’t be watching.
I know I’m elderly and all that, but I just don’t get his popularity, at all! He’s just another leftie shill.
Forgot to mention I’ve seen the other 3 you mention live. For me it was like watching a mediocre version of a show I’d already seen. I would be interested in seeing the new, stripped down, show ZZ Top is putting on, but that would never fly at the Super Bowl. As for Paul... well, he’s been doing the same show for 20-years.
I saw Petty/Heartbreakers in 85. Great show. He made a live album from that tour. Saw McCartney. Didn’t love it overall, but it’s sorta like going to see Devil’s Tower. It’s just something you have to do. Ok, done it. Movin’ on. I am glad I got to hear him in person singing so many timeless songs, especially “Maybe I’m Amazed.” Never saw ZZ Top. I think I’d probably get bored also. But they’re perfect for a 15 minute halftime set on teevee.
By the time I saw ZZ Top their stage show was so over produced it was cartoonish. That said, Petty had several moments where he went too far as well on the Free Fallin’ tour. Nothing near as bad as what ZZ Top did though. That show was downright cheesy.
I was too old to ever see Paul in his prime. Of course, in my opinion, he did very little post Beatles worth seeing anyway. With the exception of Live and let Die I don’t recall anything he played that night that wasn’t done with the Beatles, so that kind of says something. That show was kind of weird. I have never been at any other show where the people around me smuggled in expensive wine and complained because they had forgotten to bring a corkscrew. I’ll take rowdy kids with pot over that for my rock shows.
Who wants to see Springsteen’s breast anyway?
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Springsteen: Silence Is Unpatriotic
Rock Star Answers Critics Who Say His Anti-War Album Is Unpatriotic
July 27, 2008
Springsteen told 60 Minutes his concert is part circus, dance party, political rally, and big tent revival.
“But the star thing I can live with. The music I can’t live without. And that’s how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention. My son has a word, he calls it ‘Attention Whore.’”
“I’m interested in what it means to live in America. I’m interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I’m interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it’s going to make a difference. It’s going to matter to somebody.”
“I was probably one of the smartest kids in my class at the time. Except you would’ve never known it,” Springsteen says, laughing. “You would’ve never known it. Because where my intelligence lay was not, wasn’t able to be tapped within that particular system. And I didn’t know how to do it myself until music came along and opened me up not just to the world of music but to the world period, you know, to the events of the day. To the connection between culture and society and those were things that riveted me, engaged me in life,” Springsteen says. “Gave me a sense of purpose. What I wanted to do. Who I wanted to be. The way that I wanted to do it. What I thought I could accomplish through singing songs.”
“I guess I would say that what I do is I try to chart the distance between American ideals and American reality. That’s how my music is laid out. It’s like we’ve reached a point where it seems that we’re so intent on protecting ourselves that we’re willing to destroy the best parts of ourselves to do so,” Springsteen says.
Asked what he means, Springsteen tells Pelley, “Well, I think that we’ve seen things happen over the past six years that I don’t think anybody ever thought they’d ever see in the United States. When people think of the American identity, they don’t think of torture. They don’t think of illegal wiretapping. They don’t think of voter suppression. They don’t think of no habeas corpus. No right to a lawyer … you know. Those are things that are anti-American.”
“You know, I think this record is going to be seen as anti-war. And you know there are people watching this interview who are going to say to themselves, ‘Bruce Springsteen is no patriot,’” Pelley remarks.
“Well, that’s just the language of the day, you know? The modus operandi for anybody who doesn’t like somebody, you know, criticizing where we’ve been or where we’re goin’,” Springsteen says. “It’s unpatriotic at any given moment to sit back and let things pass that are damaging to some place that you love so dearly. And that has given me so much. And that I believe in, I still feel and see us as a beacon of hope and possibility.”
“I think we live in a time when what is true can be made to seem a lie,” Springsteen says. “And what is lie can be made to seem true. And I think that the successful manipulation of those things have characterized several of our past elections. That level of hubris and arrogance has got us in the mess that we’re in right now. And we’re in a mess. But if we subvert, the best things that we’re about in the name of protecting our freedoms, if we remove them, then who are we becoming, you know? Who are we, you know? The American idea is a beautiful idea. It needs to be preserved, served, protected and sung out. Sung out on a nightly basis. That’s what I’m going to try to do.”
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