Posted on 02/02/2009 7:57:01 AM PST by Lucky9teen
I actually like Ted when he wasn’t rambling on and on. It’s fine to read his material, but to hear him go on like someone who made a clever remark and keeps going when it’s no longer clever is annoying. Some people there said they missed how he used to jump the speakers.
Bruce's publicity agent must have earned a nice bonus for that rare double!
Never really understood the hype -- and I'm from the Philadelphia area where Bruce was really big (still is, I guess). If I had to guess I'd say that Bruce came in at a very bad time for Rock & Roll. Many of the veteran bands were gone, Disco was pretty much in vogue, and New Wave wasn't really here yet. Bruce caught the wave perfectly, from a sales & marketing standpoint. I'll give him that much.
On a different note, I thought Steve Martin's performance on "Saturday Night Live" this past weekend was pathetic. It might have been the worst SNL I've ever seen.
They showed same the woman with the large chest three times.
Bruce’s opening strange holding of his microphone stand.
The sliding crotch shot crash into the camera.
it was just weird.
sarc> How terrible! To change baseball references to football references during the biggest football game of the year (and far bigger than any baseball game ever).
Luckily the roof sprung its familiar leak just before halftime so I had to go out on it and chop ice.
Got in just in time to hear last minute. Whew!
Now didn’t he and Stevie say in a near-last line that they wanted to ‘get ;aid” or close to it, then broke into smarmy grins? Was I hearing things.
BTW I ALMOST got to the famous little performance at Fathers on Bow St. Harvard Sq. Cambridge MA that John Landau (it was him right?) saw to declare: “I have seen the future of Rock and Roll and his name is Bruce Springsteen”. You ought to kiss my hand that I DIDN’T go when my best friend (from Long Island) told me we should go! Born To Run was fun but wayyy overplayed. I thought it strange too that they’d give it away as raffle prizes at CYO dances while it had big line in it on strapping one’s legs around an engine that was clear double-entendre for sex. The onslaught was that big. No one could avoid Stringbean (that’s what i called him) around 1974-5 in the Northeast anyways. The promotion etc was HUGE. HE was supposed to deliver us from disco. I hated disco but I managed to be a nurdy detractor to BS-mania and have been proud of it ever since.
And on the roof:
Bert: Why don’t you fix your leakin’ roof?
I: Can’t do it when its rainin’
Bert: Then go out and fix it when its not rainin’!
I: Well, its not leakin’ then.
Th’ traitorus bastard makes ME want to vomit.
Th’ traitorus bastard makes ME want to vomit.
that slide can really hurt someone. My husband is a cameraguy (we both work in the media) & you can destroy the lense mount on the cam. but you can also mess up the cam guys eye and wrists.
It was not funny.
He did say in his interview with Bob Costas during the pre-game that the only reason he finally agreed to appear at a Superbowl halftime was to promote his new album.
You have to listen carefully, but just shortly after that play as Roethlisberger is about to take the kneel down, you hear Al Michaels say they did review the play.
“’12 minutes is not much time to get the crowd in a frenzy...’
‘Ahhh....you’ve never been to a live TV show, have you?’”
You’re forgetting about the tens of millions watching at home. That is, the real audience.
it was also a very CHEEP half time show.
just a band.
Springsteen is no TOm Petty, that’s for damn sure. I enjoyed Petty at the Superbowl, Bruce and the gang were painful.
“Roethlisberger is about to take the kneel down, you hear Al Michaels say they did review the play.”
Let’s see . . . the QB’s arm goes forward . . . the ball goes forward . . . ah . . . what’s missing? Oh yeah. It’s the Steelers and they’re supposed to win . . . nothing’s changed since the Pittsburg Steal against the Seahawks a few years ago. No holding penalties, nobody thrown out of the game (even though the guy on all fours was getting assaulted), no personal fouls of any consequence . . . and the NFL beat goes on . . . the Stealers SHALL WIN! . . . It is written! . . . the Puppy Bowl made more sense.
I switched over to the Golf Channel until Malibu Bruce was done. I haven’t watched a halftime show in the SB since 2001.
As to all the whiney Steeler haters. Suck it, losers!!!
Pittsburgh Steelers, 6 time Super Bowl Champions!!! :-)
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