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leejas
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States440 Posts
February 08 2010 16:47 GMT
#1
Among my friends I'm a music lover. I would've graduated with a minor in music but tuition is a hard hammer to my wallet.

Anyway they had "The Who" playing. I was at a party with a lot of people who had no idea who they were, so (like most of the time anyway) I was probably the only oddball excited to hear them play. Of course, it was a great (American) football game, but hey, how often are you gonna see the who play as years go on? I had a whole couch to myself at halftime because everyone else went to go stuff their face.

Good times good times, but moments like these make me feel old.

meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
February 08 2010 16:50 GMT
#2
Heh... I think they're destined to fade into the background like so many others. I didn't watch the game, so I didn't see them play, but I'm glad they got such a high profile gig.
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25993 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-08 16:56:00
February 08 2010 16:55 GMT
#3
I remember saying to someone at an old job "I made it here in one playing of Stairway to Heaven!" and they were like "What's that?" and then I polled the staff and around 75% of people didn't know what it was.
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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
February 08 2010 17:00 GMT
#4
The Who were actually pretty disappointing imo. The stage/lighting/setup was amazing, really deserved a better performance lol.
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mmp
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2130 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-08 17:01:34
February 08 2010 17:01 GMT
#5
I also enjoyed the halftime show, but it needed moar nipplez.
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CTStalker
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Canada9720 Posts
February 08 2010 17:02 GMT
#6
i'm surprised they're still not super well-known, considering how many times people must have heard 'who are you' just from CSI
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aidnai
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1159 Posts
February 08 2010 17:08 GMT
#7
i thought they were great... of course a bunch of 60 year olds aren't going to be spinning guitars around or jumping all over or smashing things, and the vocal range is probably not what it used to be, but all things considered it was a great production and a decent performance.
Daigomi
Profile Blog Joined May 2006
South Africa4316 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-08 17:11:11
February 08 2010 17:08 GMT
#8
On February 09 2010 01:50 meeple wrote:
Heh... I think they're destined to fade into the background like so many others. I didn't watch the game, so I didn't see them play, but I'm glad they got such a high profile gig.

You think The Who will fade, and you're happy they got such a high profile gig? You do realise that The Who is one of the most influential rock bands in history right? I mean, it's possible that they can fade eventually, but they've already been famous for like 45 years, so it's impossible that they'll fade "like so many others," because there are almost no other bands that have had a career as long as they have.

Also, one of the reasons I don't see them fading out any time too soon is because they have/had some of the truly great musicians of the classic rock era in them: Pete Townsend and Keith Moon. Even if The Who fades, their members will always be a link back to them for new generations IMO, The Who are as likely to fade as Pink Floyd or the Rolling Stones. It's possible but it will be a sad day.

Sorry if that reply came out quite harsh, it was just a very strange comment!

For some reason, the sound on ESPN was delayed during the half-time show, so it looked like they were lip-synching very badly. I eventually changed channels cause it was too bad :p

EDIT: Maybe it's a US/rest of world thing?
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bioboyAT
Profile Joined July 2004
Austria1764 Posts
February 08 2010 17:15 GMT
#9
yeah it was out of sync here too, annoyed me very much because it really looked like bad lipsyncing
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Pyrthas
Profile Joined March 2007
United States3196 Posts
February 08 2010 17:22 GMT
#10
Dude, if 75% of Chill's coworkers don't know Stairway, I'm confident that The Who can be forgotten. Not by musicians who look to them for inspiration, sure. (All of them. In addition to Moon and Townshend, Entwistle was one of the best rock bassists of all time, and Daltrey is a pretty damn good rock vocalist.) But that only covers a few people.

It'll be a sad day, though. I've seen them live a couple times and they always give a great show. I thought the halftime show was about as good as it could have been, but there was no way it was going to be really excellent with so little time.
ErOs_HalO
Profile Joined January 2010
United States167 Posts
February 08 2010 17:24 GMT
#11
THE WHO ROCKED!

They still got it, out there showing they love music and still playing as though they were young..

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Pretty imaginitive, huh?
So no fek
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3001 Posts
February 08 2010 17:25 GMT
#12
I grew up with The Who playing all the time (along with AC/DC and some other bands that are escaping me right now). It also didn't hurt that I went by Tommy when I was younger. I'll definitely never be able to forget them, and it's truly a shame that the new generations don't know them as well as they should.
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Hittegods
Profile Joined April 2007
Stockholm4641 Posts
February 08 2010 17:27 GMT
#13
I guess the Superbowl was a good enough reason to dig up their graves. Seeing these really old musicians play their thirthy year old hits is, at least to me, kinda sad. Let the music live, but the artists retire.
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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
February 08 2010 17:31 GMT
#14
On February 09 2010 02:15 bioboyAT wrote:
yeah it was out of sync here too, annoyed me very much because it really looked like bad lipsyncing


Yeah this... also the guitar when he did the hand looping looked really bad lol.
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DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
February 08 2010 17:43 GMT
#15
On February 09 2010 01:55 Chill wrote:
I remember saying to someone at an old job "I made it here in one playing of Stairway to Heaven!" and they were like "What's that?" and then I polled the staff and around 75% of people didn't know what it was.


Oh, the death of good music. :/
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littlechava
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States7221 Posts
February 08 2010 17:44 GMT
#16
I love The Who, but the halftime show was fucking terrible.
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NotJumperer
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States1371 Posts
February 08 2010 18:03 GMT
#17
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Foreplay
Profile Joined May 2008
United States1154 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-08 18:08:02
February 08 2010 18:07 GMT
#18
The who is one of my favorite bands but they are one of those bands were every member of the original group was essential and just having two left is kinda meh. I saw them when they came to seattle 2 years ago and i had pretty much the same complaints.
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Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
February 08 2010 18:36 GMT
#19
I didn't watch much of the game and didn't watch the halftime show closely but Baba O'Riley was awesome and the visuals were cool
citi.zen
Profile Joined April 2009
2509 Posts
February 08 2010 18:44 GMT
#20
Honestly, the performance was a bit terse, regardless of how much you liked them. The band was founded over 50 years ago (1967) - so that is to be expected I guess...

The real problem is the organizers deliberately chose a very old band yet again. Ever since "the incident" they lacked the guts to do anything slightly moder or remotely edgy.
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