Hate U2, love them... whatever. THIS, held months after 9/11, was the best Super Bowl half time show ever and it's not even close, IMHO. EDIT: This one really chocked me up at the time, too (yeah, I know...).
I don't remember. I tried to figure out via Google but couldn't. But it did remind me of another artist banned from SNL. This was a HUGE deal at the time. People freaked out.
It's a good song -- what was the BFD? I guess I'm confused, even after reading the comments on youtube that recount some of what happened. Lorne Michaels was really mad. Why? Are there f-bombs hidden in there?
He was supposed to play "Less Than Zero" (which is what he starts to play) he wanted to play "Radio Radio" but Loren Michaels told him no, so he decided to play it anyway. Nobody in the building but his band knew what was happening when he started playing something else. Years later, the Beastie Boys brought him out and played it with him on the 25th Anniversary show to recreate the moment:
Found it, Fear How obscure LA punks Fear ended up playing on Saturday Night Live in the first place is a tale for the ages, and, on top of that, their performance is just as insane as the reason they ended up on that very stage. The band, fronted by Lee Ving, who remains the only constant member of the group today, enjoyed a chance encounter with film director Penelope Spheeris while sticking gig advertisements to telephone poles in Los Angeles. Spheeris, who asked Ving if his band wanted to be in a documentary about the LA punk scene, would later appear in The Decline of Western Civilization and kickstart Fear’s rise to the top. While the film didn’t become a huge hit in the mainstream, it did catch the attention of comedian, actor, singer and all-round SNL legend John Belushi who became fascinated by Fear. After becoming so enamoured by the band, Belushi went out of his way to see the group perform live multiple times in varying dive bars before ultimately reaching out with a collaboration proposal. Belushi, at the time, was working on the set of John G. Avildsen’s dark comedy film Neighbors. Based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Berger, the film starred Belushi alongside Aykroyd, Cathy Moriarty, and Kathryn Walker in what turned out to be a commercial success for Columbia Pictures and Fear were meant to have an important part in it. After striking up a dialogue between the band, Belushi somewhat surprisingly brought them to Cherokee Studios to record songs for the movie with the hope that the film’s closing credits would be soundtracked by the punk rockers. However, the producers decided against using their music which embarrassed Belushi greatly. Wanting to make it up to Fear, who had now become his friends, Belushi decided to pull some strings behind the scenes on SNL for their Halloween special which ended up being total carnage. What ensued was total chaos. Upon entering the stage, boos rang around immediately as the New York natives who took offence to the band opening up with the words, “It’s great to be in New Jersey” which didn’t go down well. Undeterred, Fear played three songs: ‘I Don’t Care About You’, ‘Beef Bologna’, ‘New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones’, before a member of the mosh pit screamed into the microphone: “New York Sucks!” which resulted in their fourth song, ‘Let’s Have a War’ being pulled from the broadcast. Later, a report in the New York Post would go on to claim that Fear caused $200,000 worth of damage to the SNL studio that night, destroying the green room, a mini-cam camera, two viewers and a viewing room. Unsurprisingly, the band were never invited back on to the programme but their performance lives down in punk folklore. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/snl-controversial-music-moments-kanye-costello-simpson/
