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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
February 08 2010 18:50 GMT
#21
On February 09 2010 02:00 Pokebunny wrote:
The Who were actually pretty disappointing imo. The stage/lighting/setup was amazing, really deserved a better performance lol.

Yep. I was at a similar party as the OP and I'm a fan of The Who, but I thought their performance sucked. To be fair, The Rolling Stones performance wasn't very good either. Only Pink Floyd and Zeppelin have kept it up.
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Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
February 08 2010 18:56 GMT
#22
On February 09 2010 03:44 citi.zen wrote:
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.

Yeah that's true; the Who is good but old, old but good. I'd rather that than Rhianna or Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga etc.
thopol
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Japan4560 Posts
February 08 2010 19:00 GMT
#23
The halftime show was bad. It was very sad actually. I was afraid one of them was going to collapse on stage.
The lighting and laser show/firework thing was really cool looking though.

Best halftime show I've seen was Prince. That was dooooope.
leejas
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States440 Posts
February 08 2010 19:08 GMT
#24
On February 09 2010 03:44 citi.zen wrote:
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.


It's possibly the demographic. The people going to the Super Bowl are more likely to know who the Who are while not give a crap about justin timberlake.
Neivler
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Norway911 Posts
February 08 2010 19:31 GMT
#25
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


Ruined the whole experience for me
I pwn noobs
3clipse
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada2555 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-08 19:40:37
February 08 2010 19:39 GMT
#26
I have my doubts that the people most critical of The Who's performance have seen many other 40+ year old bands in present day shows. Instrumentalists usually stay strong, but it is damn near impossible to sing like you did when you were 25 at 65. Every old band still performing has this issue, and they sometimes even lower the key of their songs because their vocalist simply can't hit the high notes anymore. Being a huge classic rock fan, I've seen quite quite a lot of these retro performances, and I would consider The Who's brief superbowl show one of the better ones. You can't expect studio-version perfection, but the instrumentals seemed very strong and I thought Won't Get Fooled Again was really, really well done.

But I will admit my own personal bias as a fan of the band and that the amazing production values did give an artificial boost to the overall feeling of quality.

Edit: And the sound seemed to be in perfect sync for me.
Zurles
Profile Joined February 2009
United Kingdom1659 Posts
February 08 2010 19:52 GMT
#27
Firstly their legends so I don't care how they sounded.

Even so, they didn't sound that bad, and rock and roll isn't about who can sing the best.

They rocked , and I don't expect hardly any Americans to know who the who are, I don't actually expect many of the football fans there to know where England even is on the world map.
lone_hydra
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada1460 Posts
February 08 2010 20:01 GMT
#28
I enjoyed 2/3rds of the the half time show, the drummer and the guitar. The lead singer just didn't seem into it.
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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
February 08 2010 20:39 GMT
#29
On February 09 2010 04:39 3clipse wrote:
Instrumentalists usually stay strong, but it is damn near impossible to sing like you did when you were 25 at 65. Every old band still performing has this issue, and they sometimes even lower the key of their songs because their vocalist simply can't hit the high notes anymore.

Not every band.


It's perfectly understandable that Daltrey and Jager can't sing like they used to (or arguably can't sing anymore) but then I don't think they should do reunion tours for exorbitant ticket prices and a subpar show.
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3clipse
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada2555 Posts
February 08 2010 21:46 GMT
#30
On February 09 2010 05:39 Jibba wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 09 2010 04:39 3clipse wrote:
Instrumentalists usually stay strong, but it is damn near impossible to sing like you did when you were 25 at 65. Every old band still performing has this issue, and they sometimes even lower the key of their songs because their vocalist simply can't hit the high notes anymore.

Not every band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3nfvK80gs

Well Robert Plant blows just about everyone out of the water. Your example is unfair. xD

That was a very good performance, but you can still tell Plant's range has decreased significantly since his prime.

On February 09 2010 05:39 Jibba wrote:
It's perfectly understandable that Daltrey and Jager can't sing like they used to (or arguably can't sing anymore) but then I don't think they should do reunion tours for exorbitant ticket prices and a subpar show.

Really? I would much rather see a sub-par Yes or Pink Floyd or Zeppelin in my lifetime rather than never get to experience them live at all.
Jlab
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States217 Posts
February 08 2010 22:02 GMT
#31
They are too old to keep playing.
They were good IN THEIR TIME.
Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
February 08 2010 22:17 GMT
#32
On February 09 2010 02:27 Hittegods wrote:
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.

Have to agree with this. I'd rather see The Who play than a lot of other more current bands/artists, but it's still kind of...well, not depressing, but weird in a slightly sad way watching them play music they wrote 40 years ago without two of the original members.
Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
February 08 2010 22:56 GMT
#33
On February 09 2010 06:46 3clipse wrote:

Really? I would much rather see a sub-par Yes or Pink Floyd or Zeppelin in my lifetime rather than never get to experience them live at all.

To me, it almost seems anti-rock and roll to see them try and hang on to something that's not there anymore.

I guess I don't know what bands they could send out there to give a good performance. The impromptu, center stage setups they use just aren't good for live music, especially rock bands.
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