<p>ABC should be embarrassed. They totally botched the Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix on the HDTV telecast. No center channel – the vocals for both the pregame and the Stones halftime performance were basically gone.</p>
<p>The Stones are disappointing to me. Most truly great groups evolve over time, either taking the music in new directions or often becoming much better musicians or at least exploring different approaches to their old standbyes. The Stones are a nostalgia band. They quit growing musically right after Exile on Main Street. Mick is still using all the same tired moves, which look pretty silly at age 65.</p>
<p>They are a little better now than they were in the 1980s. There was a time when they couldn’t even play a recognizable version of a three-chord rock n’ song like Satisfaction. Keith Richards is a very good rythm guitar player. It’s a shame he doesn’t stretch a little more musically. Ron Woods was never much of a plus for the band. They never really replaced Mick Taylor’s playing.</p>
<p>You are correct the sound was terrible and thus it didn’t matter who was playing or singing for it was not a good quality of sound. Waste of a show.</p>
<p>The NewYorkTimes has some interesting comments.</p>
<p>So there I am visiting my 94-year-old mother in her nursing home and I suddenly hear Satisfaction playing, loud. I wonder: who here is rocking to the Rolling Stones? The staff tuned every tv in every resident’s room to the game, and it is half time. Our future?</p>
<p>Mick Jagger famously said, long ago, “If I’m still singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m 40, I’ll commit suicide.” </p>
<p>He had a point. The complaint of a man in his early twenties that he “can’t get no girlie action” is unseemly when sung by a man in his forties, and repulsive in the voice of a 65-year-old. What’s the point of offering such a spectacle now? Are we supposed to react with a “wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more, Mick, I’m sure you’re getting plenty of girlie action”?</p>
<p>The image of Mick and company celebrating their ancient libidos dovetailed rather neatly with the leering visage of the soon-to-be-octogenarian Hugh Hefner with his trio of young lovers that ABC kept offering us to boost the ratings of “Desperate Housewives”. </p>
<p>It’s comforting to know that ABC hasn’t completely abandoned all standards of decency. There is a line it will not cross: the grave itself. Thus we were spared the final phrase of the Stones not-quite-live version of “Start Me Up,” which celebrates the ability of the woman to whom the song is addressed to inspire a dead man to achieve what the French refer to as “the little death.” Rock on.</p>
<p>As TheMom said, what does it tell you when The Stones are a “safe” half-time show?</p>
<p>One of the cartoon strips recently had a line something like, “Have you watched a bunch of boomers try to ‘get down’ lately? It’s not a pretty sight.”</p>
<p>It was very nice that they included all the various Motown acts in the Super Bowl program, but where the heck was Bob Seger. Many, if not most, of the Motown acts moved out to LA with Berry Gordy in the early 70s, but Bob Seger still lives in the area and is a true supporter of the Detroit metro area.</p>
<p>He did join Kid Rock on stage at Joe Louis Arena on Friday night, but it just seems like they could have included him somewhere in the proceedings.</p>
<p>I must admit that complaining about the entertainment filler at a sporting event seems a bit incongruous.</p>
<p>not sure if the poor sound system contributed, but Mick didn’t sound nearly as good as when I saw him earlier in the tour in Philly a few months back. Impressive, though, just keeps on ticking.</p>
<p>I admit Ihave never been a big Stones fan- too misogynistic, but at their age, just being able to strut and jump around is impressive-
I agree that Bob Seger should have been included-football is an American sport what?</p>
<p>I think Bob Seger lost his voice…literally. Throat cancer or something. I recall one of the announcers on WXPN (Phila.–UPenn) mentioning that he couldn’t sing anymore.</p>
<p>I don’t believe that is a true statement about Bob Seger. I get the impression he just doesn’t like to perform that much anymore.</p>
<p>Per his web site <a href=“http://www.Segerbob.com%5B/url%5D”>www.Segerbob.com</a>, he performed with Kid Rock on Friday evening and is working on a new album.</p>
<p>The Stones didn’t look or sound a whole lot different from when I saw them live back in the mid-70s. Except this time I could understand Mick better when he spoke between the songs. Back then his accent seemed a lot heavier and he slurred his speech more.</p>
<p>Overall, I guess it’s amazing that they can still keep it up reasonably well after all these years. At least they haven’t gotten fat. But somehow I can’t help but feel that Bill Wyman did the right thing. When he hit his mid-60s he retired.</p>
<p>If they wanted to bring back old Detroit acts, where were Iggy & The Stooges, MC5, and Ted Nugent? Or best of them all: Mitch Ryder? Remember “Devil With a Blue Dress/ Good Golly Miss Molly”? I bet Mitch Ryder can still rock with as much or more energy than The Stones.</p>
<p>Madonna is from Detroit. Was she already booked somewhere else?</p>
<p>Coureur: Madonna did the half-time show a couple years ago with David Bowie, so she’ll probably have to wait out a few.</p>
<p>My middle-aged bowl mates all agreed that this was the most entertaining show in a long time! Although never a big Stones fan, I hope I can strut my stuff when I’m over 60!
I just rented “Gimme Shelter” and told my kids it was the best anti-drug film I’d ever seen. I’m glad there aren’t any pictures of me making such a fool of myself in the impetuousness of youth!
A good thing to remind our kids - be careful what you do when the cameras are around!</p>
<p>I wish they would do away with the big-production half-time shows. Their only redeeming quality in my opinion is that they give the one time during the game where you can get away from the TV without missing the game or the potentially-most-talked-about commercial. I remember in the early Super Bowls the halftime would consist of a college marching band.</p>
<p>As for the Stones’ show - as long as we are stuck with extravaganzas, it is better than the tripe from a few years ago, but I too thought the audio was horrible (or Mick just can’t carry any sort of tune anymore).</p>
<p>the national anthem should have been ALL Aretha…not sure what Aaron Neveille was doing…but there was no mesh of voices there…</p>
<p>As far as the Stones - yech! raspberries…Should’ve been an all Motown halftime show…and not such a hurried event! Geez, before the game Stevie Wonder and Friends was such a blurrrrrrrrrrrr…with lousy sound.</p>