[lm6y]

O.K. Once and for all the bass player WAS Pino Palladino, and NOT Townsend's son. Townsend hand picked Pino as Entwistle's replacement. And yes nostatic, he IS a monster. I was knee deep in trying to figure him out, until you threw James Jamerson at me.

As far as the Who's performance, most of it was God Awful. If they did that performance under another name, in costumes, and you didn't recognise them, you would have thrown rotten produce at them. Sure, their music changed the face of Rock forever. There's no denying that. BUT, if you are going to try to put on a huge show like you did when you headlined 40 years ago, I'm going to judge THIS performance. You don't get credit, or get to rest on what you did 40 years ago. I've seen toned down, acoustic performances of some of the other big songs that translate VERY well. I would have more respect for them doing that. It would have said " Hey, we're old men, and can't do it like we used to, but we're still rockin!" What this performance said was, "We're old men trying like hell to hang on to our Glory Days, and failing." It's like watching A guy in a toupee, and gold chains hitting on 20 year olds at the beach.

The room I was in was full of hardcore music lovers. Most of us stop everything, and crank the volume when "Who Are You" "Won't Get Folled Again" and my favorite "Babba O'Reiley" comes on. We mostly looked at each other with that look of embarassment for them. More than one person said that they needed to turn Townsend's mic, and guitar off.

Some of us here REALLY need to get over ourselves. Boys, most of us aren't in the SuperBowl commercials demographics anymore. We already know what beer we like, and we aren't going to change. We probably aren't going to but a new Kia, or a new VW. Yeah some of us like Doritos, and might switch from our low sodium, low fat, low cholesterol snacks for a guilty treat once in a while.

Javadog keeps hammering about those of us with the money are who the performances are aimed at. Wrong-o my friend. There is a "re-discovering" of the old bands by people my son's age, just like we "re-discovered" what our parents listened to. The Who were there to keep these younger eyes on the tube, so the next high dollar commercial wouldn't be missed, PERIOD!

If we were the target audience, there would have been a lot of Home Mortgage, Viagra, Lipitor, and for some of us, Depends commercials on during the SuperBowl.

They are targeting the 21 - 30 year olds who don't have 20, 30 or sometimes even 40 years of brand loyalty. Deal with it.