The Who...halftime show

Bob Ritter · Post by **Bob Ritter** » 7 Feb 2010 1:25 pm

Hang on to your seats..this will be a performance. I am expecting the best halftime show ever..These guys know how to rock.

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 7 Feb 2010 2:03 pm

Thanx for the reminder, I'll watch just for that!

Archie Nicol R.I.P. · Post by **Archie Nicol R.I.P.** » 7 Feb 2010 2:19 pm

First band I ever saw live.
The game is on the telly over here, but with the time difference it will probably the middle of the night before the band are on.

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Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 7 Feb 2010 5:05 pm

They're on right now. No steel??? What th'...

Archie Nicol R.I.P. · Post by **Archie Nicol R.I.P.** » 7 Feb 2010 5:17 pm

Just finished. It was good, but I would have liked some older material. There's been no substitute in my generation.

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Mat Rhodes · Post by **Mat Rhodes** » 7 Feb 2010 5:18 pm

Should have lip-synched.

Bill Dobkins · Post by **Bill Dobkins** » 7 Feb 2010 5:28 pm

Sorry, but I've never understood the attraction.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 7 Feb 2010 5:56 pm

I thought they were very good, knowing the limitations of the sound and time to set up, I was impressed. They also did a good job of including a bunch of their tunes in a short period of time. I have seen them a bunch of times in recent years and saw the show they did at the Garden in NYC just after Entwistle died. They have always played a great show.

The best though was when they did the whole Quadrophenia album at the Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ ten or so years ago. The place was on its feet the whole show screaming every word of every song. They have always been a huge favorite of boomers in the new York Metro area.

The band was their usual, Zak Starkey on drums, Pino Pallidino bass Simon Townshend on Guitar and forget the keys, but he is always with them.

Bravo!

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 7 Feb 2010 7:51 pm

Bob Ritter wrote:Hang on to your seats..this will be a performance. I am expecting the best halftime show ever..These guys know how to rock.

Not.

The best thing I heard was the drummer...who is he..I made a pun... he rocks.

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 7 Feb 2010 8:08 pm

For what it was, they were indeed good.

Bill Dobkins wrote:Sorry, but I've never understood the attraction.

Gotta be the

post of the day.

Craig Allen · Post by **Craig Allen** » 7 Feb 2010 8:23 pm

FACE IT............ THEY WERE GREAT.. BUT NO BUSTED GUITARS!!!! WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?? LOL

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 7 Feb 2010 8:57 pm

The best thing I heard was the drummer...who is he..I made a pun... he rocks.

The drummer is Ringo Starr's son, Zak Starkey. He's 44 years old and he looks like a kid compared to the other guys.

I've heard that every halftime act for the past few years, including Springsteen, has played to a pre-recorded track... Live vocals and live lead guitar only. Everything else was pre-recorded...drums, bass, keys, rhythm guitar, etc. It makes perfect sense. A show like that can't leave anything to chance. If that's true, the only live performances we heard tonight were the vocals and Pete Townshend's guitar.
Even great classical musicians sometimes mime to a track, as Itzhak Perlman and Yo-yo Ma did at the Obama Inauguration... an outdoor gig in January!

Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 7 Feb 2010 9:10 pm

Daltry was on. Nice to see a 60 + guy who still has it. He was really putting out, not holding back. You could tell it took effort for him to hit his old range, but he did it. Bravo.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 7 Feb 2010 9:19 pm

They were OK, but I enjoyed the visual effects a lot more.

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 7 Feb 2010 9:51 pm

Doug Beaumier wrote:I've heard that every halftime act for the past few years, including Springsteen, has played to a pre-recorded track... Live vocals and live lead guitar only. Everything else was pre-recorded.

A couple of times I thot I saw Daltry mis-sync the words..., so who knows?

Clete Ritta · Post by **Clete Ritta** » 7 Feb 2010 11:17 pm

Archie Nicol wrote:...There's been no substitute in my generation. Arch.

"My Generation" is their anthem classic, which they're probably tired of.
"Substitute" though, is one of my favorites they didn't play either.
I enjoyed it anyway. Looks like Pete has gone all Fender amps these days!
Clete

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 8 Feb 2010 1:17 am

"My Generation" is their anthem classic

Yes, that's the one with the line..."I hope I die before I get old".

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 8 Feb 2010 2:04 am

sometimes it's not about the performance but rather who the performers are...maybe look beyond the performance...

The WHO have risen far above any rock band could have ever imagined as young kids coming to the USA.

The Music, what they wrote, where it is used today, the technology that they brought forward...

A few years back a very young friend told me he was going to see BB King, I guess I must have commented that he was not playing the same now as he was back in the day. My friend said.."But I wasn't alive back in the day "and I want to see him while "HE IS STILL ALIVE" !!

Makes perfect sense to me...

A 60's band still influencing young players...

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 8 Feb 2010 2:54 am

I thought it was Mr. Magoo & Tom Jones, but it turned out to be Townsend & Daltrey. I wish I hadn't seen that... at least it wasn't The Who, because they had John Entwhistle & Keith Moon in their band. I understand Keith Richard's point of view - "What else are we going to do?" - but that seemed sad to me. Isn't anyone allowed to grow up and write new songs? It reminded me of the last, Sad-Jerry years of the Grateful Dead. When you sing "pick up my guitar and play" you're supposed to play something. I hope I die before I get old....

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 8 Feb 2010 5:25 am

David, I just read a interview with Pete who is writing a musical, and hopes to have Roger sing on some of the songs, and they are doing Quadraphenia again at Royal Albert Hall.

Knowing about Pete hearing problems I thought they did well.

Queen Latiffah yanked her ear piece at the beginning of the Nat. Anthem, so she must have had monitor issues, and the Stones had no monitors when they played the Super Bowl. Seems to be a hard gig to pull off in such a hurried fashion.

I thought the light show was cool, much better than the trucked-in paid fans that the Boss had last year, light sticks and all.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 8 Feb 2010 7:00 am

What were those vintage-looking Fender amps he had? Bassmen (sic

)?

And how come he's got about eight of them and I don't have any!!!?

Not my cup-of-tea, but a decent performance. I must be out-of-touch - I asked my wife where Entwhistle was. When did he pass away?

I do love red Stratocasters, though! (WAS it a Strat or a clone?)

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 8 Feb 2010 7:40 am

I'm with Richard - so-so performance, but what a stage show! To have set all that up, have it function flawlessly, and then remove it all in twenty minutes is really amazing.

Rick Batey · Post by **Rick Batey** » 8 Feb 2010 8:01 am

Roger, I think Townshend uses a pile of Fender Vibro-Kings with an extension cab for each one. I believe the guitar's basically a Clapton Strat but with a Fishman Powerbridge.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 8 Feb 2010 9:23 am

Roger Rettig wrote:
I do love red Stratocasters, though! (WAS it a Strat or a clone?)

Red Stratocaster=Hank Marvin

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 8 Feb 2010 10:12 am

Quite right, Bill!

I was never very taken with Hank's playing (although I can see now - fifty years later - how influential he was in Britain), but that first red Stratocaster that Cliff Richard had imported long before we could get new US guitars in the UK was, for most of us, the first Fender we'd ever seen. Fiesta Red with gold-plated hardware and a tweed case - real eye-candy!

It was pretty exciting, I have to admit. It remained Cliff's property but Hank used it until the other guys also got red Fenders - then the original went back to Cliff and Hank had a later one with - like the other Shadows - rosewood fingerboards. (I've had a soft spot for Fiesta Red Strats ever since!)

The first one (a maple necked guitar) is now owned by their rhythm guitarist, Bruce Welch, and he's using it currently on their 50th anniversary tour. Sadly - and for no reason that I can guess at - Cliff had it resprayed white in the '80s. It's been restored now, though. Regardless of all that tinkering, that'd still be one of the most valuable Stratocasters on the planet!

Rick B.: Thanks for that info. I just looked them up, and the new Vibro Kings are $3500 on Musicians' Friend!!!!!!

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