lol the who sounds like poop

i agree i switched over to the simpsons to spare them from feeling my pity

Ok, you have to listen to this person, then.

Didn't The Who originally retire almost 30 years ago? I guess Roger Daltry got tired of doing infomercials while Pete grabbed all the cash from the CSI shows.

Always were a shit band.

lol won't get fooled again! hahaha

really they sound pretty good imo, i mean they're like 60 right? to be still standing is a good thing if you're daltrey and townsend!

That doesn't mean I need to listen to geriatric rock.... feel bad they might throw a hip or something.

Pete shouldn't attempt to sing

Was the drummer Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey? Looked like him.

I thought they did pretty darn well actually.

So my half-time dump was well timed?


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When the hell did they start playing with a back-up guitarist??? WTF! anyone else notice that??

They did OK...the light show was kick ass

Roger sounded fine but Pete sounded very very bad.

really, i would have preferred to see the dead kennedys, but i dont think the nfl is quite ready for a holiday in cambodia....30 years later LOL

that was probably the worst half time show I've seen.

I enjoyed seeing them again. They managed to cover a lot of ground in that 12 minute set.

I think they sounded very good all things considered. For their ages they can still wail and still do their songs justice.

The Who Rocked.

I got so tired of all those political correct halftime shows. I am sure they could have had Beyonce...but the executives grew some balls.

It was pretty good once they got the old 60+ bods and vocal chords warmed up. But yeah those first few words out of both of their mouths were pretty scary. But they prob werent warmed up which is understandable.

Pretty good guitar by Pete if that wasn't recorded. The organ was right on the nuts so I'm thinking some parts were recorded.

My thoughts in my rant: http://tptrash.com/

Good write up Robbie. You know the media can't, and I hope they don't, let that (now around age 60-65) generation die. And of course they wont. At least for a few more years. They were too good. That gen is prob the greatest musical gen of all time.

But time will tell and we won't be here to mark my words in 200 years when they are still singing Lennon-McCartney and the vast body of tunes from that gen. The very young gen of about 15 now, they like the old late 60's early 70's stuff again so it is coming back around again. The songs are simply too good. But I suppose every gen says that.

The songs were more important at that time. I suppose the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, the civil rights movement, the acceptance of recreational and mind expanding drugs all created a fertile environment back then.

Young people had a lot of important things on their minds, which was reflected in the music, art, literature, etc.

These days we seem to be in a mind control power grab by the government in every aspect of our lives. An adult can't have a fucking beer at age 18. You can't read certain things because it's too dangerous. You can't watch certain things. You can't even THINK certain things...without going to jail.

You'd think that the youth would rise up. But so far they haven't. I don't see any Bob Dylan, Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones out there at the moment. Just a lot of blah.

Nothing but what we used to call "Bubblegum Pop" back in the 1970's.

It's like The Bay City Rollers have taken over the entire music scene with some magic morphing machine. When they want to be a hot black chick they become Beyonce. When they want to be a rock band they are NickelBack. When they want to sell shit to teens they are Miley Cyrus or Taylor Swift. When they want to be a thug they become whatever flavor of the month rapper.

But the one common thing it all has is...None of it has any bigger meaning beyond feeling sorry for yourself, getting laid, or partying. And all of that has a place too. But you know what I mean. Nobody is writing anything of any substance at the moment.

But if you look back at music, it always goes through phases like that.

Somewhere out there is a kid who is the next Dylan/Morrison/Lennon-Mcartney/Jagger-Richards

Let's just hope he gets heard when his time comes.

Good points. Yep just like old bubblegum. There are still a few good orig melodies (which is what that gen was good at) I still hear so there is talent. And not a shot as I hear some good stuff now days. But the preponderence of stuff back then.

There was so much good music coming out that at the time you couldn't listen to it all and it took years to catch up.

But original melodies, whether rock or even bubblegum, that is what the Dylans, CSNY, Beatles, Elton John, (the Bernie Taupins, Jimmy Webbs) ect ect could do so well.

Maybe it was the time. In say 1957 when some of these guys were learning music, it was a quiet time, you had maybe one tv station, perhaps their teachers connected with them and as you say the time was right and fertile.

Then drug use just let it all happen as these dorky kids of the late 50's creatively blossomed around 1970.

..dorky... Buddy Holly just popped into my head.. one of the original greats as well.