jwhitcomb3 Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 I read recently that Tom Petty sales have gone through the roof since the Super Bowl. So I was wondering who could really use a career boost and put on a killer show. And then it came to me...JOAN FRIGGIN' JETT!!!Starts off with I Love Rock 'n' Roll, then slows down with Crimson and Clover, followed by I Hate Myself For Lovin' YouThen, for the capper, bring on Janet Jackson to do a nostalgia duet with Do Ya Wanna Touch Me ThereWhere?There!There?Yeah!YEAH!!OH YEAH!!!Any other nominations?-Jonathan
Steve Haynie Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 The halftime show is about TV ratings for those high dollar ads they sell. Would Ringo Starr and his All Star Band work in such a situation? Ringo has the name recognition, and everyone he gets in his band would be someone with a hit song in their history. The Eagles are so dominant in classic rock radio that they should be a no-brainer for such an event. Are Garth Brooks and George Strait big enough names to do a Super Bowl show?
cmatthes Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 Ringo would never work. Especially in the wake of Macca's recent (excellent) Halftime performance.Starr has fallen flat on his face lately. That latest single about being from Liverpool was more unlistenable than even his worst songs over the last 25 years. Kind of his lame version of the very lame "We Didn't Start the Fire".This coming from a Beatles fan too...
elduave Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 The Eagles where the first artist offered this years show but declined because they wanted nothing to do with FOX/Ruppert Murdock.
DavidE Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 The Eagles where the first artist offered this years show but declined because they wanted nothing to do with FOX/Ruppert Murdock.Another reason they rock. Still, I don't think I could be in a band with a guy like Henley. He just rubs me the wrong way. Can he be as egotistical and asinine as he seems?I've got it.... Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and .... never mind.
MCChris Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 The Eagles where the first artist offered this years show but declined because they wanted nothing to do with FOX/Ruppert Murdock.And yet their most recent album was made available only at Wal-Mart, was it not? Reject one allegedly poisonous monolith in favor of another. Textbook "Limousine Liberal" behavior. What a bunch of tools.
lonote049 Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 Green Day and Foo Fighters.They are nowhere near old enough.
Steve Haynie Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 BROOOOOOOOOCE!There is another one of those guys who is heard on the radio all day long every day for the last thirty years. Bob Seger is another, but it seems he has been more low profile in recent years. Dolly Parton has been a fixture in pop culture outside of country music with a long list of hits over the years. If Stevie Wonder could appear a couple of years ago, Dolly should, too.
Jack C Posted March 4, 2008 Posted March 4, 2008 ZZ-TopThey did it a couple years ago. Not too impressive, if I remember correctly.
Willie G. Moseley Posted March 5, 2008 Posted March 5, 2008 RE: Don HenleyPasted below is a newspaper column I recently wrote about the Eagles and Don Henley in particular. Your comments invited; enjoy:------------------------------------------DON HENLEY'S WISTFUL WACKINESS Here’s the bottom line up front: In the 1970s, no band, singer or musician sold more albums than the Eagles. This space isn’t going to evolve into a review column for assorted new books, music, or movies, but every once in while some individual piece of entertainment may come along that merits some observations. What’s more, if it’s about music, it wouldn’t be surprising if a disproportionate amount of such rumination has nostalgic connotations, since most members of a particular demographic/age group/generation want to hear the music with which they came of age for the rest of their lives. And the primary reason the Eagles are being cited here and now is because of their immense popularity (their ‘70s albums have held up over the decades, and their 1971-1975 greatest hits collection is the best-selling album ever), and they released their first studio album in almost three decades, Long Road Out of Eden, late last year—just in time for Christmas, and as I understand it, the album could downloaded, but the CD was retailed exclusively at Wal-Mart. When the Eagles broke up ca. 1980, it was intriguing to follow the respective solo careers of the former members, and drummer/vocalist Don Henley had the most successful sojourn. He had several solo hits, and the video for one of his biggest songs, “The Boys of Summer”, was an impressive-for-its-time black and white effort that came off as sort of a of mini art film (a brilliant concept, since most people can’t stand full-length art films). Unfortunately, Henley’s cynicism and socio-political sanctimony ultimately got so notoriously overblown and preachy that musical satirist/weisenheimer Mojo Nixon recorded a raucous song called “Don Henley Must Die” (and on one memorable occasion, Henley got up onstage with Nixon and sang along on that tune). So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that when the Eagles decided to release a new studio album after 29 years, Henley’s hipper-than-thou commentary would figure into the mix. Don’t get me wrong—Long Road Out of Eden, a two-CD set containing 20 songs, is a meticulously-crafted album with trademark Eagles appointments; “Waiting in the Weeds”, for example, has the type of harmony vocals that would immediately identify the band to anyone taking a blindfold test. And while sardonic put-downs like “Busy Being Fabulous” are hilarious and on-the-money, when the band starts addressing certain issues from the point of view of gazillionaire rock stars, it simply validates the notion of why such musings by famous entertainers should be taken with a grain of salt. The very titles of some of the songs (“No More Walks in the Wood”, “I Dreamed There Was No War”) allude to what to expect in their respective lyrics, and yes, Donnie, I understood the sour pun behind the name of the album before I listened to the title track. There are others, but that’s enough citation to get the point across. Activism and/or commentary by entertainers isn’t anything new—it dates back to Paul Robeson, at least, or maybe even earlier examples existed. These days, most self-appointed philosophers in show business are considered to be liberal, although a few token examples like Ted Nugent can be found in the opposite camp. However, the political stances of “celebrities” of any stripe are bottom-line irrelevant, since they are members of a “fantasy” profession and lifestyle. Moreover, the “do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do” cliche was probably never more applicable to a particular group of people than persons in the entertainment field. Long Road Out Of Eden is something the hyper-affluent Eagles didn’t really have to create, and some its contents exemply why paying attention to the declamaitons of self-righteous entertainers is, like entertainment itself, optional. Caveat emptor, indeed.
phoenix Posted March 5, 2008 Posted March 5, 2008 how about a who's who of famous players from New Orleans: it might actually help the efforts to rebuild.
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