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Super bowl halftime show

maflynn

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Am I the only one who was underwhelmed? I half expected Daltry to whip out an oxygen tank and take a drag. These guys are old and it showed. It looked like they messed up on their opening song and they just stood there and sang.

Townsend stood there like a virtual mannequin I was not impressed.
 
King of sad. One of the greatest rock and roll singing voices ever. Too bad these guys don't know when it's time to hang it up.
 
Daltry is 65 and Townsend is 64. And those aren't your typical life years. The impact and scope of their work is impressive. However, Miami + CSI themes + CBS = commercial. If you like the music, the halftime show was okay. I've seen them live in in the 80's, but stadium concerts, by their nature, suck. I'd rather pop my CD's into my system and blow them out with my high end headphones. But don't expect these guys to jump around, windmill strum, and break things. Those days are over.
 
rdowns said:
King of sad. One of the greatest rock and roll singing voices ever. Too bad these guys don't know when it's time to hang it up.
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Yeah, it was pretty bad. Way past their prime.

The Stones are old but they're still able to put on a halfway decent live show.

At least Daltrey didn't flash his nipple, that wouldn't be a pretty sight.
 
Yeah, they should've lip-synced to the original versions. It did get a little better after the first "songlet".
 
Someone on this board made a comment that made sense and was worth a laugh. It was something like after Janet's titty incident all we get are a bunch of senior citizens singing.

The problem is that they're not really The Who anymore though watching Ringo's son play was great. He's an amazing drummer.
 
jessica. said:
Someone on this board made a comment that made sense and was worth a laugh. It was something like after Janet's titty incident all we get are a bunch of senior citizens singing.

The problem is that they're not really The Who anymore though watching Ringo's son play was great. He's an amazing drummer.
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That's who the drummer was? I thought it looked like Nigel from Spinal Tap
 
jessica. said:
The problem is that they're not really The Who anymore though watching Ringo's son play was great. He's an amazing drummer.
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Yeah. Without John Entwistle and Keith Moon, that isn't The Who. They should have just called it "Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and some other guys", but I suppose that doesn't have the same ring. It's also pretty obvious Daltrey's voice is shot.
 
steve2112 said:
Yeah. Without John Entwistle and Keith Moon, that isn't The Who. They should have just called it "Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and some other guys", but I suppose that doesn't have the same ring. It's also pretty obvious Daltrey's voice is shot.
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So is Pete Townsend's. All they get any more at the Super Bowl is has beens.
 
It was horrific. I thought Daltry was going to have a heart attack up there. He started turning dark red and the camera panned off him for an unusually long time. I thought for sure he collapsed.

It was sad to see one of the greatest rock bands in history reduced to that performance.
 
leekohler said:
They sounded awful, but the lighting was awesome. I loved that stage.
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That stage and laser show were incredible. I didn't think the music was that bad, but I guess that's because my expectations weren't so high. I mean these are guys who have toured for over 40 years now. I can't imagine the toll just doing the scream in "Won't Get Fooled Again" has taken on Daltrey's vocal chords.

It was pretty cool hearing the crowd singing back to them though. Stadium concerts may not be the best acoustically, but I bet it's hard to beat from an artist's perspecitve. It's got to be amazing playing for that many people.
 
+1 on the awesome stage! The lasers and lights were spectacular, and to get that up so quickly was very impressive. The Who on the other hand....not so impressive.
 
They were once great, but they need to know when to quit, wouldve been a lot better if they lip synced and focused more on... well... not standing in the same place all the time.
 
I thought the performance was incredibly sad, but possibly the saddest thing was the way they really only got an audience reaction when they started playing a recognizable fragment of a CSI theme song. It sounded depressingly like the death rattle of cultural relevance.

The light show was amazing though.
 
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