prince's super bowl press conference

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two favorite moments:

1. "contrary to rumor, i'd like to take a few questions right now."

2. the gtr solo with his arm around the backup singer's waist.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, thanks for catching me up with this. I remember someone saying this was going to happen and forgot about it.

― Booper Soul (Bimble...), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Well, to be fair I don't have cable, so I wouldn't have been able to watch it anyway, most likely.

― Booper Soul (Bimble...), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, he looks great, I mean - how old is he now?

― Booper Soul (Bimble...), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

48, and he does indeed look great.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord, a guitar solo with a girl around his arm? How does he do it??

― Booper Soul (Bimble...), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

step one: hire skinny girls.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I'm not a huge Prince fan, but that was faaaantastic!

― Booper Soul (Bimble...), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha Dr. Feelgood!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Does somebody have a link to Prince-related Superbowl betting odds? Odds he closes his set with "Let's Go Crazy" = 4:5. Easy money, right?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Rock Lobster...

― darrell perry (natlawdp), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Nice song selection with "Anotherloverholenyohead."

― John Fredland (jfredland), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

so do you think this will be a secular half-time show?

― richard wood johnson (rwj), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, forgot about the Jehovah thing...hope he gives a little love to James perhaps.

― Phil Dokes (sunny), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

they sent out a medley of all along th watchtower w sum foo fighters song that is as clunky as a gypsys jalopy

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I heard that Watchtower / Best of You live song, it was horrid. Of all the songs for Prince to cover, why choose a Foo Fighters song? According to Howard Stern they send a copy to him and asked him to speculate whether or not Prince was going to perform it at the Super Bowl.

― def zep (calstars), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Prince is getting divorced, right? "Best Of You"'s double meanings (it's all "are you giving or being taken") probably hit him hard.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't see anything special in the video of the 'press conference.' And the fuck-you to the journos who were there... Aren't people tired of hearing Johnny B Goode?

― def zep (calstars), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

also the Foos had a radio hit with "Darling Nikki," so maybe he's returning the favor

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Prince and John Waters look kind of separated at birth to me.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

I've never especially liked "Anotherloverholenyohead," but I like this version. I should really try to see him live once while he's still performing at this level.

― Rockist Scientist, Hippopoptimist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

He is playing in the rain and appears to be dry.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

He is playing in the rain and appears to be dry.

He has powers we cannot comprehend.

Yeah, the Watchtower/Best of You song was a bit of a buzzkill.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

Best of You sounded way better than a foo fighters song has any right to expect to, though

― mizzzell (mizzzell), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

Love that "Anotherlover" solo.

― Welcome to the Pazz and Jop poll. (M Matos), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

did Prince always shred in concert?

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

omg yes

― Welcome to the Pazz and Jop poll. (M Matos), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

That's true.

In my head, I had mixed up "Best of You" with "Times Like These", which is somehow even worse of a song. So I was pleasantly surprised that it was any other song he was covering.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

Audience sung Purple Rain outro sounded so awesome

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

aahhh! That was great! The ending was pretty spectacular.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

considering it was raining all up on his shit, the guitar kept cutting out and the mix was bad, PRINCE FUCKING KILLED IT!

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

The marching band was used pretty tastefully too. I agree, considering the mix was weird and the rain must have been a factor, Prince did a great job.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

chaki otm. mizzzel too.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad he made it through the halftime show without literally being struck by lightning.

― Maltodextrin (Maltodextrin), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:25 (eighteen years ago)

Certain arrangements were made when he and Mother Nature had their sit-down last week.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

It was strange when they started off the show with CG lightning (that WAS CG, right?)

― Zachary S (Zach S), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

chaki otm

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:29 (eighteen years ago)

The mix was great. All you could hear through my TV was vocals, guitar, and drums (and some keyboards at the very end). Total metal Prince. Loved it.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

Great, so I missed another Prince TV performance. Why didn't I turn on my TV when I knew half-time was coming?

― Rockist Scientist, Hippopoptimist (RSLaRue), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

so great that the most riveting and r-o-c-k live performance you'll see "in super bowl history" (not that i've watched every one) is from someone most folks consider pop/ r&b.

from the lightning that seemed to cue it to how well he played under those circumstances -- fucking hell! i wondered about that one bit after "watchtower," had no idea it was a foo fighters song. maybe he was playing to his audience a bit, playing his hits (mostly) and the rock songs to show he can shred better than stevie ray, et al? i half expected a j.b. song myself.

i also thought he worked with stadium sound really really well, and foregrounding the vocals, drums and guitar seemed intentional, down and dirty style, awesome.

i'd love to hear a record from him where he's just a trio: electric gtr, bass/ keybs, drums. or has he done that and i don't know? bootlegs sounding like that out there somewhere maybe?

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

yes there is one its dope AND it's an official release or it was limited or something. its called the undertaker.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:41 (eighteen years ago)

oops i guess its not.. but look for it! it rocks! from wiki:

[edit] The Undertaker
Prince originally intended to give this live CD away free with 1,000 copies of Guitar Player Magazine in 1994, but he was told by Warner Brothers that he couldn't. Some rare copies were leaked and heavily bootlegged.

The album's track list was as follows:

"The Ride"
"Poor Goo"
"Honkey Tonk"
"Bambi"
"Zannalee"
"The Undertaker"
"Dolphin"

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

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― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

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― Zachary S (Zach S), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

Greatest Super Bowl halftime concert our generation will ever see. It stopped the rain and made it turn back on again. Wardrobe malfunction's got nothing on this.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

great performance
terrible game

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

Well, you're in Chicago. But yeah, Prince was great .

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

Best halftime performance in recent memory by a long shot. I loved that the dancers were doing their thing stepping in puddles. A real chance of electrocution and Prince couldn't care less. Classic.

― def zep (calstars), Monday, 5 February 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe that when you search "Prince" on youtube the first thing that comes up is Bonny Prince Billy.

I also realized today that if you search "khyber" in Google the Philly rock club comes up before the pass.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 5 February 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

That mix had to have been a screw up. They seemed to finally fix it near the end so you could ACTUALLY HEAR THE BAND.

Prince was pretty rocking.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 5 February 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Somewhat OT: I was disappointed that the Chevrolet commercial with all of the songs about Chevys did not include "Chevy Van." That's not alright with me.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Monday, 5 February 2007 04:47 (eighteen years ago)

this finally reminded me to go look up "while my guitar gently weeps" that he played on from the rock and roll hall of fame a few years ago....fuck!

yeah i wish prince would do more guitar albums

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 5 February 2007 06:14 (eighteen years ago)

the rainbow children is a good guitar album!

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 5 February 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

Until tonight, I have never seen a SB half-time show that was anything other than suck-ass. That little bastard set the world on fire— a once in lifetime burst of incandescence.

That goddamn guy basically got up there and sprayed FUSILLADE after FUSiLLADE for 20 minutes during the annual pinnacle of the worst and most cyncial impulses our world has to offer…

We are lucky to be alive at the same time as he…

I know nothing of football, but the fans I was with told me that was the most exciting SB they had ever seen… and the Rainbow Children fucking sucks.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Monday, 5 February 2007 07:49 (eighteen years ago)

That was completely transcendental and weird. It looked like a movie except better.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 5 February 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

paul mccartney kind of kicked ass during his halftime show.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 5 February 2007 08:23 (eighteen years ago)

Best youtube comment evar:

well i do know the bible says its wrong for a man to wear womans clothes or act like a woman and common sense tells me that is unnatural. i do notice prince fans are a vulgar lot. he has no muscial talent. if we want a black soul artist, bring on wynton marsalies and have him play something appropriate for a time of war and sorrow and misery for so much of the world. taps, amazing grace, etc. try 'ravel' if you like music that appeals to your animal senses. this is rot.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Monday, 5 February 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes I actually forget I share a world with complete morons. Thanks Youtube commenter!!!

also: "the fans I was with told me that was the most exciting SB they had ever seen"

Um, what game were you watching?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 5 February 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogDTFIbGNfw

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

"Can you build me a guitar that looks like a cock and balls to everyone but the FCC?"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

nothing more exciting than watching the bears get pounded

:-/

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

i half expected a j.b. song myself.

The set felt like a tribute, actually! J.B. goes arena metal. Part of the genius that is the man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

youtube's of his performance:

part 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cSJ0tMrsUsY

part 2
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iK4EwxRLiik

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the cover material was a smart touch ... in case anything went awry, at least he would never be accused of embarrassing himself at the Super Bowl playing too much of his own stuff. The All Along the Watchtower thing was spectacular though -- awesome guitar soloist, he is.

Also, major props for wearing that sea-blue/turquoise suit on a purple neon stage.

FWIW -- U2's SB performance five years ago is still one of the most moving things I've ever seen on television.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

i was hyped up for this, but a little dissappointed. i'm kinda shocked at the universal love.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

also, his back-up singers/dancers are ridiculously hot.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

So who's gonna e-mail me a megaupload link for The Undertaker?

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

*coughsecondedclearsthroat*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

*sputterthirdedwheeze*

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhfourthed-CHOO!

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

fifth! coughspluuter

― Shawnoftheshed (xtrawidth), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

I liked it alot, but Prince doing guitar solos live is nothing new. Old guy me saw him do some exciting ones live twice at the now-gone Capital Centre outside of DC around '82.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

sixthed. gezundheit.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

I want the Undertaker too!

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

i don't get the adulation here. i mean it was nice in parts and i'm sure better than what you usually get, but i'm not into the abbreviated song thing and yeah there was some decent guitar-playing, but you already knew he did that, right? right?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

i half expected a j.b. song myself.

how absurd a ruckus would be raised if he did "sex machine" though? omg sexy man sings about sex on my kid's sunday afternoon delight show!

I would also definitely like The Undertaker if anyone's got it.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

"The Undertaker" was actually a short movie released on VHS in I think like Japan only? anyway, any records are probably sourced from the tape. and yeah it's awesome ("Honky Tonk" on the tracklist posted is actually a version of "Honky Tonk Women")

Looks like nobody has put the whole think up on YouTube but here is one track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RrKorh4Uc

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

yeah there was some decent guitar-playing, but you already knew he did that, right? right?

The combination of the performance with the weather and the venue was made it so great for me. He had a huge stage, and I thought he basically nailed it. The middle section was somewhat weak by comparison, but just the visual of him performing in the rain with all the smoke and the marching bands and shit... if the Super Bowl is supposed to make me feel jingoistic, this is the first time it worked for me.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

prince is no dave matthews, that's FO SHO'. he wishes he was as funky and as free as the DMB. Whatever. He's got a funny looking guitar? Big deal. Does he have his own ice cream flavor from Ben and Jerry's? NOPE.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

pls

also, i didn't think the guitar playing was all that great compared to other stuff he's done

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

also, the whole tempo was just sort of lo-soul coked-up (or redbull-ed up, at least). which seemed to be set by the producer more than the artist, and i guess it makes sense in context. also, yeah i didn't watch the game so i didn't have Ze Dramatic (Purple) Rain Drama Context.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

the guitar playing was great!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

Loved the marching band, Purple Rain, annoyed by the hair dancers.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, gab's right. He's been better on the guitar. Didn't take anything away from the whole performance, though--it wuz fab.

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

and i guess it makes sense in context

Repeat x 1000 until it starts making more sense to you. What can you expect from a 12-minute set in front of a nationwide audience, of whom 95% of them know only your most famous hits?

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

duh of course he's done better guitar playing elsewhere!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the man did not pave his road to be his best at THE SUPER BOWL. Think about that one for a moment ... that performance, while good, is otherwise known as "working harder than usual for cold, cynical cash."

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

it's like, I totally enjoyed the paul mccartney halftime thing too for the same reasons, because it didn't suck! it's prince on live tv, soloing and dancing around and having fun and dodging lightning=it's pretty awesome. i thought the stones kind of sucked last year though.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

so does this mean coldplay will play Super Bowl LXV? I mean I guess you have to be old and fading to do the halftime gig. How bout Metallica next year?

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't know that Undertaker thing was where his version of "Honky Tonk Woman" was from, a friend put that on a tape for me years ago, great cover.

the halftime show sounded like kind of a mess to me, the guitar way too high in the mix and kept cutting out, but it was still pretty cool. also I was kind of relieved that he didn't bring out any big name cameos or cede the stage to anyone else, usually these things are a clusterfuck of ALL STAR DUETS and shit like that. loved "Baby I'm A Star" and "Purple Rain," would like to hear a good studio version of the "All Along The Watchtower"/"Best Of You" medley.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

when precisely did the super bowl halftime show become such a big musical event with old a-list stars...? I don't remember it always being this way.

(no knock against Prince he is teh best)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Mr. Que, please to read the comments:

also, i didn't think the guitar playing was all that great compared to other stuff he's done

-- gabbneb

the guitar playing was great!

-- Mr. Que

Nah, gab's right. He's been better on the guitar. Didn't take anything away from the whole performance, though--it wuz fab.

-- J

duh of course he's done better guitar playing elsewhere!

-- Mr. Que

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

'91 maybe? Before then it seems like it was all Up With People and college marching bands and shit.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not a Prince fan (like some of his hits, but that's it), but this was unadulterated top class entertainment. This isn't meant to be anyone's greatest concert experience ever, it's meant to be enjoyed by just about the most diverse audience you can think of. Did he succeed in doing that? Yes he did. But he ALSO did his own thing. And then the Foo Fighters cover! The post-9/11 version of "Where The Streets Have No Name" may have been the best Super Bowl halftime show moment ever, but that's a song U2 have played live twenty-four million times already. Prince doing "Best Of You" - I wouldn't be surprised if he's only going to play this track a couple of times live, ever. And it was still pretty great.

That's why it was fabulous entertainment. (and this thread should have been on I Love Entertainment)

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

i still think his guitar playing was great, it could have been worse, they could have unleashed celine dion or some shit on us. to compare a superbowl half time show to the rest of his output is kind of stupid? but whatever.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

i liked it when he played his dick

― max (maxreax), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

1972:

Ella Fitzgerald, Carol Channing, Al Hirt & U.S. Marine Corps Drill Team

http://www.pubquizhelp.34sp.com/sport/superbowl_entertainment.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

There's an I Love Entertainment? wtf ilx

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

to compare a superbowl half time show to the rest of his output is kind of stupid

Huh? I didn't sit around the day before the Superbowl watching halftime performances from previous years.

(xpost) hahhah Scott!

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

"1972:
Ella Fitzgerald, Carol Channing, Al Hirt & U.S. Marine Corps Drill Team"

Yeah that sticks out, but it isn't until '91 where there seems to be this effort to get progressively bigger/more high-priced stars every year. Every time I hear about these things nowadays its always in the context of "will this year's X outdo last year's Y?"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

J McChump, please to read the comments

also, i didn't think the guitar playing was all that great compared to other stuff he's done

-- gabbneb (gabbne...), February 5th, 2007 7:07 PM.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

ironical x-postiness

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Que, are you dense? GAB AND I BOTH WERE COMPARING THE SUPER BOWL PERFORMANCE TO OTHER PRINCE PERFORMANCES! You apparently think that's "stupid," but what else would you compare it to? Other Superbowl halftime shows? Why?

(xpost Shakey totally OTM)

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

kinda corny chuck berry cover (did he need to have the handclaps?). performance is okay overall. prince in vegas mode.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

dude, calm down it's just a halftime show! maybe a nice glass of lemonade?

yes, I'm comparing it to other halftime shows! they usually suck! this one was pretty good. you and gabbneb are comparing it to other prince performances. that is cool.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano, Dorothy Hamill

"Hey, it's Brian Boitano!"

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

it totally sucked compared to Up With People in 1974

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

1991, according to wikipedia: New Kids on the Block, Disney characters, Warren Moon, 2,000 local children, Audience card stunt.

now THAT's a variety show.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

I think Mr. Que's point is that the mere fact that it's a halftime show means it's going to be subpar compared to the rest of his output so, from his perspective, making that comparison is the equivalent of looking for something to complain about. I don't want to put words into his mouth, though.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

no, that's basically it!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

That show rocked and i'm reading contrarian accounts in the voice of the simpsons comic book dude. i know thats like cliche #1 for "i disagree with your opinion" but whatever, prince killed it.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Please do, they might make more sense.

(xpost) See?

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

after that: Michael Jackson

I just find it odd that a grotesquely overbudgeted national sporting event is currently the premier musical event the majority of the country will see.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

x-post!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

(I'm assuming Super Bowl is more popular than the Grammys or the Oscars or even American Idol)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

didnt need the watchtower intro but the foo fighters cover is great. i like prince stripped down and rocking out. i forgot how good he is at it. he might not pick the best songs (but then prince has always liked big heavy FM rock songs) but he does them so well (like when he did shania twains still the one).

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

fucking ruled.

― Welcome to the Pazz and Jop poll. (M Matos), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

hs still rocks! (just not really when doing his own old songs and ruining them with overblown vegas-ness and unnecessary meddling with their arrangments)

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Some of you people hate musicians.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

if he's gonna play the superbowl, i want it to be overblown. I want him to rip a guitar solo and i want the stage to explode, literally, before he walks onto it. I want the FAMU marching 100 to hit the field halfway through, and i want it to rain purple for 'purple rain' and to end it by throwing down the mic stand and having the crowd sing along.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

omg deej are you a wizard? YOU TOTALLY RETROACTIVELY MADE THAT HAPPEN.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

deej otm

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

i want the *performance* to be overblown and ridiculously pompous and dramatic, not so much the actual musical content.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Some of you people hate musicians.

-- The Android Cat (djperr...), February 5th, 2007 8:08 PM. (Dan Perry) (later)

dang perry otm. also pointing out the obvious flaw with ilm since like the very beginning.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

so, from his perspective, making that comparison is the equivalent of looking for something to complain about. I don't want to put words into his mouth, though.

that makes sense when and if he or others say his guitar-playing was great for a halftime show, not his guitar-playing was great full stop, depending on how much benefit of the doubt you give to a given dude. if you want to call playing devil's advocate to encourage some criticism instead of hi-fives/otms 'looking for something to complain about', so be it.

i especially liked let's go crazy once he got past the intro and proud mary. i'd pretty much heard heard the solos before but i suppose he didn't have much room to invent right there (he would have if it hadn't been a medley, but i realize this is too much to ask for).

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

?! The GUITAR-PLAYING are great?!

― Davey D (Dave Depper), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's time for one of those Dan Perry/gabbneb argument cartoons again

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

I just downloaded a 175 Mb HDTV recorded torrent of this and WOW. Anyone who is only watching the crappy youtube thing for their review = wrong.

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure i've played more guitar than dang perry ken

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost) No, I don't think so because neither of us has said anything particularly controversial/perplexing/amusing/nasty/etc, although a huge chunk of me is screaming "Why on Earth would you play devil's advocate over a Superbowl halftime show???????? CRAZYPANTS".

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

for the same reason there's an ilm thread and several inches of kelefa sanneh column space about it, obv

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

because its the most widely viewed musical event in the country (like I been sayin)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

the drums seem like theyre not loud enough on youtube... dont know if thats just the sound of the band, but its kinda cool anyway. just waatching the other songs on youtube - prince was amazing!

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, not youtube. You really could only hear Prince and Prince's guitar.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

bitching about the quality of something that you watched for free is pretty stupid!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

for the same reason there's an ilm thread and several inches of kelefa sanneh column space about it, obv

I don't know if you're answering my question or bolstering my CRAZYPANTS assertion!

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

bitching about the quality of something that you watched for free is pretty stupid!

pack it in, music scribes!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Er, I think he's talking about bitching about the quality of the Youtube video, not the performance itself...?

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6987/yaaaaowkm9.png

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

^^^OTM

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Why do you keep putting words into his mouth, Dan? ;)

(xpost obv)

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Why do you keep putting words into his mouth, Dan? ;)

I'm bored at work! (I guess that's a better answer to "Why play devil's advocate over a halftime show? than "CRAZYPANTS" even if it doesn't have the same ring.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

DANG PERRY OTM!

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i was talking about the entire performance not the YouTube but whatever. i'd much rather get CRAZYPANTS.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Now I want to hear David Caruso say something cryptic followed by the guy wailing "CRAAAAZYPANTS!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.43things.com/people/00/00/09/2342p150.jpg http://www.ctlmanagement.co.uk/images/Lookalikes2/paul%20green%20as%20mr%20bean.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.trochilics.net/myspace/comments/crazypants.JPG

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0228750/7

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.greinke.com/photos/1997_11_22%20prince%20and%20muppets/slides/O%7B+%3E%20and%20muppets.jpg

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

Your search - DAVID CAROUSO CRAZYPANTS - did not match any documents.

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

During the big singalong ending to "Purple Rain", that part when he actually KICKS DOWN the mic stand because he's so full of happy face emotions and goes back into geetar wailing, this ~~retarded~~ developmentally disabled young woman that was watching it with us scream-laughed with joy, it was really fucked up, but in a good way.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

If we're going to post pictures.. can anyone show me this penis-reminiscent guitar? I didn't notice it yesterday :(

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.stateoffartmetalstore.nl/images/E_art306_7.jpg

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Lovely. Thank you, Que!

― his sister pam (hissisterpam), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&p=gett+off&b=0&oid=308af64e5c665494&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Dgett%2Boff

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit. I saw that Muppets episode!

"I'm the Artist Formerly Known as Prince."

"And I'm the queen of England."

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds like the Peter Sellers episode

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

so if i was disappointed by prince's halftime show i am a contrarian who hates all musicians and fun. please. i had high hopes. it was entertaining, but sounding like shit and he did a goddamn foo fighters cover! (if he did "everlong" it might have been awesome)

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

lower your expectations, artdamages!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

artdamages, even I don't think that was the message of this thread!

― J (Jay), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

i was kinda sleepy and drunk, admittedly, but i though most of the commericals sucked this year too. except for the beard combover! what do i know? by the 3rd quarter i just wanted to watch criminal minds episode they were hyping.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

why is no one talking abt. the WADDY WATCHELL sighting in the pre-game stevie nick performance of "stand back"? as usual, the american media lets the real story go uncovered.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

whats wrong with covering foo fighters? I vaguely remember when that song was all over the radio and i didn't love it or anything but when prince played it it sounded awesome.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

I saw that too, M@tt. Everyone else was working hard on getting the song right and he was fucking around with his slide during the whole of the first verse. WTF

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 147 for "super bowl" "waddy wachtel"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

never heard the song before - it didn't do anything for me. the foo fighters are fine, i guess. it wasn't THE BEST THING EVER OMG!!! i was kinda sleepy and drunk, admittedly, but i though most of the commericals sucked this year too. except for the beard combover! what do i know? by the 3rd quarter i just wanted to watch criminal minds episode they were hyping.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

haha yeah waddy throws down wildstyle! you can take the boy out of the xpensive winos but you can't take the xpensive winos out of the boy!

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

jesus i forgot about the xpensive winos!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

The pic of Prince's guitar a few posts ago is a pretty accurate representation of Alfred Soto flexing a muscle.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Alfred, did you lose one arm at the shoulder?

(And apologies if this is so)

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

you turn blue?!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

I have one retractable, infinitely flexible arm.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Can you tune your intestines with the knobs on your head?

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

We're entering Bogie-Bacall territory here.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I don't remember either of them having knobs on their heads but I didn't see "Casablanca".

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

jerome benton was great in casablanca

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

"You know Alfred, you’re not very hard to figure. Only at times. Sometimes I know exactly what you’re going to say. Most of the time. And the other times, the other times, you’re just a stinker."

(x-post)

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

m@tt i heart you

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha M@tt

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://jabootu.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/ucm5.JPG

"Here's looking at you, the Kid."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

jerome benton was great in casablanca

If only!

(xpost)

Ned, I've lost my shit.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

omg

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://jabootu.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/ucm3.JPG

"Of all the lemon chiffon baths, in all the towns, in all the world, she had to splash into mine."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://jabootu.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/ucm8.JPG

"Tell me, who was it you left me for? Was it Morris, or Jerome, or were there others in between? Or - aren't you the kind that tells? OW-WAH!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://jabootu.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/ucm6.JPG

"And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart!"

"That is my least vulnerable spot."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

Okay WTF "Under the Cherry Moon"!

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

someone needs to make this happen!

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Watch Purple Rain

(or NOT)

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

wow

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9513/27455398pn3.jpg

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Better and better.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Under the Cherry Moon is full of LOLZ

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

'k, alex. just lost my shit.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

brian made it on the dc thread!

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

twins?

http://i19.tinypic.com/2wn1xmg.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

cloned from beyonce and tina turner's dna.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

"I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue. I wore purple."

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

As I said, them girls is hot.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

They look even hotter in the warm-up show.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

way hotter in the warm up show. has to do with the dancing there I think.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

yeah well it was raining, dudes.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

prince was objectively good and i can prove it using science

― max (maxreax), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

well then, homey, drop that there science. :-)

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

www.timecube.com

― max (maxreax), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

wow, just ... wow.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

teh und2rt4k3r

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit thx Chaki!!!!!!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Go Chaki!

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

Some info on the Undertaker:
http://thedatabank.org/The_undertaker_1.htm

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

Chaki is the rock. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

Am listening now. Nice.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

YOU RULEZ CHAKI.

For the record, that was a great performance by any measure. Not Prince's greatest, not the greatest I've ever seen him (live or otherwise) but dood certainly backed up his rep pretty fucking well.

This reminds me of that thread when he tore it up on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on VH1, and the haters who cling to the fact that they'd heard better, they'd heard him better, etc.

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

also, how classic is it that the passcode was ILX on rapidshare.

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

waddy wachtel only reminds me of that Church thread now

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

First thing I thought of too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

Chaki!! Thanks.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

okay, look, i have to say it, i keep reading this thread title as *Princess Super Bowl* for some reason. and i'm not one of those misreading thread title kinda guys!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks from a troll, Chaki.

Here's how great that halftime show was: I watched it with a super-bowl party crowd of family & friends of all ages, most of them not Prince fans or even especially music lovers, and the room was spellbound. My friend's 3-year-old seemed not to be paying attention, but at the climax of Purple Rain he held up his toy, air-guitar style, and stuck his fist in the air like a rock star, like he could *feel* the attitude somehow. Everybody applauded.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, so 12-minute version of Shoop = the Undertaker's obligatory WTF cover

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 06:24 (eighteen years ago)

i had completely forgotten that i had picked up this video last year. hidden away up in the attic till now, as my video machine aint all that. but i have just checked it, and even though the sound wasn't crystal clear, but still was worth checking out.
its a strange dark 40 minutes thats for sure.
starts with model type girl calling Victor (remember all that nonsense !) on the phone in a bland office lobby - getting the brush off and then taking massive overdose of pills.
then cut to rest of the 'film' in which prince and band (only 2 really - drum and bass by michael b and sonny t) get down some deep and heavy funk-n-rock on a rehearsal stage while the girl falls about in her drug induced state, including one upfront throwing up soundeffect at the end of 'the ride'.
lo-fi filming make this look like a warhol type of art movie.
i guess this would be classed as a For Fans Only type of release.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

xxxposts

I think they looked way hotter in the warm up show because of the dress "a la 60s tina".

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Halftime show was fucking-A-MAZING. The single best sports-related thing I've ever seen in my life. Agree that it wasn't the second coming of Christ, but fuck that sad, soulless quibbling. He slew a billion dragons with his giant purple dicktar. How often you get to see that on TV?

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Not everyone was a fan:

• Prince? The artist formerly known as &*$%(!@?

• How many of the 75,000 ticket holders and 1.3 gazillion television viewers, do you think, can name even one song by &*$%(!@?

• Zero, would be the answer to that.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahahaha

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

"Clearly they were singing along via cue cards!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Trackbacks(1)

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

And anyway, my whole point originally is that Prince was chosen because he is "black." (is he?...looks more Arabian)

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

exactly

― ersatz (ersatz), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, I was about to quote the "arabian" thing.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

Different Strokes...
... For different folks... Everybody has there own taste in music, right ? personally, I think Prince is in the same class as Nilli Vanilli, but that's just my personal opinion.. Now, if they really wanted to raise some eyebrows, they would have booked KISS to do the halftime show.. Maybe next year the NFL will consider a band that all can enjoy, like AC/DC or GODSMACK

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

d'oh! missed the download.

― tk (tk), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

Verbivore writes:
here's my theory
It's black history month. The Superbowl featured 2 black coaches. For the "first time ever," as we have been repeatedly told.
The commission just "had" to have a black artist. Male. hmmm. Michael Jackson's out. And you can't have a black rapper. (don't ask me why, but i'm sure they have lots of studies to "prove" this.)
So, who do they have? of course, PRINCE. He's black, clean (maybe) articulate (well, does he ever speak?), good-looking (debatable, but then people's taste differ) So, Voila! We have a winner.
Of course, being a game played by two mid-western teams, they could have offered someone like Springsteen, or Billy Joel, but he was relegated to "anthem singer." He wasn't black enough.

Didn't someone give a speech a long time ago about not being judged by the color of your skin....?

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

That damn Prince, if only he'd been a midwestern icon!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

Of course, being a game played by two mid-western teams, they could have offered someone like Springsteen, or Billy Joel

I LOVE FAMOUS MIDWESTERN SINGERS BROOS SPRINGSTEIN AND BILLY JOLE. THEIR MIDWESTERN ANTHEMS MAKE ME THING OF THE TIMES I SPEND PLOWING THE MIDWESTERN FIELDS. IN CHICAGO.

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20011037,00.html :

The subsequent buzz — and news that Prince had covered the Foo Fighters' recent hit ''Best of You'' — prompted lead singer Dave Grohl to seek out the show on YouTube the next day.

''Having been a massive Prince fan my whole life, I was flattered beyond words,'' says Grohl. ''What an honor to be covered by one of your heroes!''

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.slate.com/id/2159161/

― Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 9 February 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

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