I've never liked Prince. I just found him a little too queer, and his music wasn't my kind of sound. But DAMN! The dude can really play guitar, so I give him a lot of respect now. I was definitely planning on walking out during the halftime show, but that guitar playing kept me glued. He actually played a good show, so I might mayybe check some of his stuff out. I had no idea that tragicly bad "Elvis Presto" thing ever happened. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? I only could take a few seconds of it, but it was easily the worst idea ever.
Prince is the James Brown of the 80s generation. He is one of a kind. He is a very good guitar player, but when you use super-duper light strings to get ridiculous speed, you certainly lose a lot on the tone side of things, and it often sounds like distorted mush. I've always liked him more as a writer & performer than as a guitarist, but that's just me. He definitely did tear it up during the halftime show, and to do what he did in a driving rainstorm makes it even more impressive. The mix could have been a lot better, however. Did anyone else notice Billy Joel botching a couple of notes during the National Anthem? It also looks like he replaced his fondness for alcohol with a fondness for Shoney's buffet.
Those weren't botched notes. That was the Auto Tune jerking him in pitch when he went out too far. I read on a couple other blogs about it today. It is pretty common for big shows like these to incorporate digital vocal tuning, but whoever set it didn't make it soft enough so that when Joel was out of pitch, it nudged him back in or just left the note out a little. Granted, he has to be pretty far off for the software to make that little digital freak out.
I liked it and I usually avoid SP halftimes since all they are are bad masturbatio*. I am also not a big Prince fan, but have always realized that he was on another plane wrt talent. I was impressed that Prince both sang and played guitar live. I was so expecting the whole damn thing to from tape.
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Super Bowl X, XVI and XX featured Up With People!!! Check out some of these performers: IV: Carol Channing: Mardi Gras VI: Ella Fitzgerald, Carol Channing, Al Hirt & U.S. Marine Corps Drill Team with a Salute to Louis ArmstrongI X: Up With People: 200 Years and Just a Baby-America's Bicentennial Tribute XI: Los Angeles Unified All-City Band & Crowd Participation: It's a Small World by Disney XII: Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain & Al Hirt: From Paris to Paris of America XIII: Ken Hamilton, various Caribbean Bands with a Carnival Salute to Caribbean XIV: Up With People with a Salute to the Big Band Era XVI: Up With People Salute to the '60s and Motown XVII: Los Angeles Super Drill Team: KaleidoSUPERscope XX: Up With People: Beat of the Future XXI: Southern California-area high school drill teams and dancers: Salute to Hollywood's 100th Anniversary XXII: Chubby Checker/Rockettes & 88 grand pianos: Something Grand XXIV: Pete Fountain/Doug Kershaw/Irma Thomas: Salute to New Orleans/Snoopy's 40th Birthday XXV: New Kids on the Block: A Small World Salute to 25 Years of Super Bowl XXVI: Gloria Estefan/Brian Boitano/Dorothy Hamill: Winter Magic XXXI: Blues Brothers-Dan Akroyd, John Goodman, James Belushi/ZZ Top/James Brown: Blues Brothers Bash Of course, my favorite was Springfield University's long overdue tribute to halftime itself: "I had the halftime of my life and I owe it all to SU!" Man, there was seriously something wrong with people in the 70's.
The rain bummed him out? His biggest hit and finale mentions "rain" in the title! That kinda thing makes Rob Van Winkle one of the most sought after artists in Antartica.
Prince is on the strange side, but he can pull more hot women in his headscarf and perm than every guy on this bbs combined.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0320063prince1.html MARCH 20--Claiming that his $70,000-a-month tenant Prince undertook an extremely tacky makeover of his Los Angeles mansion, an NBA star recently sued the mercurial singer over the purple-hued alterations. In a January complaint, Carlos Boozer, a forward with the Utah Jazz, sued Prince/MPG Music over unauthorized work done on the 10-bedroom, 11-bath West Hollywood property, which is owned by the C Booz Multifamily I LLC. According to the lawsuit, Prince/MPG Music violated its eight-month lease by "painting the exterior of the [house] with purple striping, 'prince' symbol, and numbers 3121." Prince's new album, "3121," is scheduled for release tomorrow. Inside the home, among other renovations, a purple monogrammed carpet was installed in the master bedroom and plumbing and piping was added in the downstairs bedroom "for water transfer for beauty salon chairs." As part of a promotion, Prince is expected to hold a private concert at the Hollywood property--which recently was listed for sale at $11.9 million--for album purchasers who find a Wonkaesque "purple ticket" inside their CD cases. The Boozer corporation filed its lawsuit two months after hand-delivering a "three-day notice to cure or quit" to the Sierra Alta Way property (which can be seen in the aerial photo above). Responding to the lawsuit, Prince's counsel denied the owner's allegations, adding that rent was accepted for December and January "without objection." In mid-February, a month after the complaint was filed, an attorney for the Boozer company sought the suit's dismissal, a request the court approved. Since the dismissal was granted "without prejudice," the landlord has the ability to file another suit on the same claims. The Prince/MPG Music lease, which ends May 31, stipulates that all parties involved in the rental agree to sign a confidentiality agreement about the deal. It also states that the tenant may cancel the lease with 45 days notice "should the weather conditions of the Los Angeles rainy season...prohibit enjoyment of the property."
Didn't realize he was playing a Foo Fighters song; that taints the performance in my eyes. Someone of his stature shouldn't be covering that kind of material.
He sang like a scalded cat on that song.. but his BACKUP singer tore it up.. and that solo was mind blowing.. good choice IMO!
I was readng today that he and the Foos are friends. You may not like them, but Prince killed with that song.
You mean like Whitney Houston's National Anthem that everyone said was one of the best ever? Yes, one of the best RECORDED anthems ever. The same goes for Beyonce at the Reliant Super Bowl. I saw Prince at Toyota Center and he was awesome...a true showman.
