Springsteen halftime- garbage

[stomachmonkey]

The Wild The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

For me his best album ever.

Everything after Born to Run I can live without.

This is before the E Street band came to be. Clarence is there but no Little Steven yet.

6 piece at the time with Bruce handling all guitars, some bass, harmonica, mandolin and vocals.

[Heel n Toe]

Can you please post a link for that, stomachmonkey? I'm guessing it's Rosalita, but my system/servers at work won't read it embedded.

[Seahawk]

'The Rising' is an amazing album...

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

That's a good question! I have a hard time seeing Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson fans running in the same circles as Bruce fans and serious football fans. I don't know how they come up with these acts, but I've never seen one I liked other than the Stones, who aren't even an American band.

Anyone that has seen Neil Young live with his electic band would probably agree that he could pull it off....energy and decibels....but he is probably too cool for the event

AC/DC could pull it off too without being too controversial...energy and decibels...nice and rowdy

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by srandallf

So who else could the NFL hire for half time? I cant think of anyone. The bands that I love that play live, would never fly on such a mainstream production....

Prolly a good thing I'm not in charge of the half-time act.
I'd have Paul McCartney and his band on every single year.

Seriously, that's a good question and may be worthy of it's own thread and maybe eventually a poll or three.

Here's a quick list I came up with. My appologies if these guys are dead or otherwise not playing and couldn't do a reunion song or two.

Sir Paul McCartney
Van Halen
The Who
Beach Boys
Bowie
Stevie Wonder
EJ
Led Zepplin
Mark Knopfler
AC/DC
Rush
KISS
Peter Frampton (who BTW is a REAL guitar player)
Foreigner
REO
Berlin
Kenny Loggins (highway to the danger zone ba da bump, I can see it now)

And my all-time favorite, The guy in the gorilla suit doing Phil Collins

[t951]

I am AMAZED at people who think Bruce is worth listening too. It sounds like a drunk guy mumbling and the music goes along with that.

The only thing he ever did right was bring Courtney Cox on the stage in one of his videos.

We had a bunch of people over for the Superbowl. We asked what people wanted to watch during half time. Not ONE single person wanted to endure Bruce. No one. Actually, when we asked, not one person even liked Bruce. We were amazed that they selected him, but I guess it makes sense. It is marketing....beer, blue collar and football seem to blend.

Hey, if you like his stuff, good for you, we (the 30 people that were over) don't get it.

For the record, I think talented musician / singers would be Eric Clapton, SRV, Johnny Lang, BB King......I could go on and on.....Bruce just wouldn't make the list....

My .02

[Heel n Toe]

For the non-believers... Bruce doin' some sweet shreddin'... with a lot of feelin'... the Tele's cryin' for all it's worth here... All Along the Watchtower:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feK6MV8osZ4&NR=1

[ramonesfreak]

Motorhead would rock the house

in a perfect world, Amon Amarth would slaughter the audience with their sweet soft music :-)

[flatbutt]

Maybe it's a Jersey thing. We love Bruce because he sings to us, he's our own and he gets what it's like living here. When he sang about barefoot girls sitting on the hood of a Dodge drinking beer in a warm summer rain, WE know exactly the scene he's talking about. The rest of you can go spit!

[porkee]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

That was the national anthem? I couldn't tell, it sounded so much like a typical lounge act.
She changed the song. She changed the melody, missed a few of the words, even took it into a minor key. Not cool.
It's the national anthem. It deserves more respect than it got tonight.

And one of the talking heads on the news this morning said she lip sinked it

[Zeke]

McCartney can't sing either. I don't care if he is the world's most suckcesspool musician.

Why does the Super bowl have to have a half time show anyway? I probably wouldn't have watched had I not thought i was going to miss a great commercial. Even the batch they aired this time weren't up to the best I've seen. One or two were worth it. Even Budweiser stubbed their hoof.

[hardflex]

I'll go against the grain here, I'm not a huge Springsteen fan, but I watched the whole show, and that's a first for me. He had tunes I recognized, played short versions of them, and moved quickly through them. The band looked like it was having a great time, and that was infectious. I didn't get the feeling he was lip sincing the songs, looked real to me. Lasted 10 minutes, I had my fill didn't need an encore, and we got back to football. Just what was supposed to happen.

[SlowToady]

Not sure what Bruce was doing, but it wasn't playing music.

Absolute rubbish.

[sezme]

+1

Hit the nail on the head... I used to show up at 5pm on the night of a concert at "the pony" just to listen to sound checks. Great memories.

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Maybe it's a Jersey thing. We love Bruce because he sings to us, he's our own and he gets what it's like living here. When he sang about barefoot girls sitting on the hood of a Dodge drinking beer in a warm summer rain, WE know exactly the scene he's talking about. The rest of you can go spit!

[Heel n Toe]

Was Bruce Springsteen's the best Super Bowl halftime party?
BY LAUREN JOHNSTON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, February 2nd 2009, 10:26 AM

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band promised Super Bowl viewers a 12-minute party – and what the Boss promises, the Boss delivers.

Before he started singing – a wild-eyed, crazy-haired Springsteen demanded that at-home viewers “put the chicken fingers down and turn your television all the way up.”

He kicked off the show with the ever-rousing “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” roared into “Born to Run,” tore through to a cut from his new album “Working on a Dream,” (promoting it was the whole reason he did the show anyways) – and raced to the finish full-throttle with “Glory Days.”

Springsteen had turned down several invitations to play the Super Bowl and finally said yes for XLIII following on the heels of other big name acts who had deemed the show a worthy stage.

So how did the E Street Band compare the other big names to grace the Super Bowl stage? You tell us which in recent years was best:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/02/02/2009-02-02_was_bruce_springsteens_the_best_super_bo.html

So far, the tribe has spoken and Bruce is dominating:

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by porkee

And one of the talking heads on the news this morning said she lip sinked it

She did.

Was pretty obvious.

Too high profile, they don't want anything to mess up the production value of the event.

[ramonesfreak]

I know there are a lot of U2 haters on this board...I think of all those bands in the pole, U2 is the best live performance bar far. ....though I didnt see their superbowl preformance. And Petty only got 8%? huh? his performance, whether partially pre-recorded or not, blew Bruce away

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by hardflex

I'll go against the grain here, I'm not a huge Springsteen fan, but I watched the whole show, and that's a first for me. He had tunes I recognized, played short versions of them, and moved quickly through them. The band looked like it was having a great time, and that was infectious. I didn't get the feeling he was lip sincing the songs, looked real to me. Lasted 10 minutes, I had my fill didn't need an encore, and we got back to football. Just what was supposed to happen.

He was not lip syncing.

They wanted him to use a backing track but he would not do the gig unless it was live.

Live v memorex is one of the defining things for me as to what constitutes an true musician/artist.

[cairns]

"The Wild The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

For me his best album ever.

Everything after Born to Run I can live without.

This is before the E Street band came to be. Clarence is there but no Little Steven yet."

I TOTALLY 500% AGREE. Everytime I bought something he produced after Born to Run it was clear Bruce was taking himself FAR too seriously. Very few later songs came close to the magic he produced on E Street and no album ever equaled it. And if you wanted to get even more of your money's worth live (back in those days) Lowell George and Little Feat was the band to see.

And I agree about the National Anthem too. What's wrong with a simple traditional rendering?

[MMARSH]

Originally Posted by 450knotOffice

You guys are a tough crowd. I'm not even a fan of his, but I got into the moment and enjoyed it for what it was - entertainment. And no, he's not in the best shape of his life, but he's in better shape than some of the posters here whom I've met. You know who I'm talking about. Look in the mirror before you blast someone else's fitness. Classless.

I agree. Never been a fan, but I thought it was a good show. He looked like he was having a good time and I enjoyed it.