Posted on 02/04/2005 4:19:38 AM PST by beyond the sea
Yesterday the league scheduled a news conference to announce the most complex halftime show ever attempted ,then, in a moment so genuine it barely belonged to this week or any other in the Super Bowl's manic history, someone introduced Paul McCartney.
Bounding on stage in a faded red sweatshirt and jeans, Sir Paul offered a respectful salute and took questions. A thousand crabby, jaded journalists looked transported.
"Questions for Paul?"
What? Questions for Paul McCartney?
"Paul, what band will you be performing with?"
"My band."
"No, what band?"
"I have a band; it's called 'my band.' "
McCartney allowed a certain conceit that he's probably here as the anti-Janet, promised to keep the show mammary free, and acknowledged, "I don't have a wardrobe to malfunction, so no worries on that score."
A young woman asked, since he was wearing red and blue, was he a Patriots fan.
"This is just slung on, honey."
With the same breezy manner that was just as infectious yesterday as it was in 1964, McCartney figured that even though we're here hyping this thing eight days a week, he might be here to put a global audience totaling close to 1 billion back in touch with something grandly simple.
"The message of my music is generally peace, love and come together," he said, "and that's as good a message as I can deliver. It's the same old one, but I can't think of anything better."
This is probably just me, but shouldn't there be a Paul McCartney news conference before every game? Not just every Super Bowl, every single game. That'd make next year's Pitt-Youngstown State fray a little more palatable, wouldn't it?
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C&W _does_ have the best moral-center of all music today; but whatever the message, if it's unlistenable, it's unlistenable. Most of the newcomers would have starved to death if they'd tried plying their 'trade' 20-30 years ago with their current levels of performance.
Most of my C&W music stock is older than the current 'performers' - some of it older than any TWO of them(!).
The Super Bowl hires animal acts for their stage because, unfortunately, they're performing at the level of the majority of an audience who are deficient-enough to spend money in proportion to what they accept from the spectacle.
Hey youngster with the apparent foul mouth, if you keep claiming, "I've suffered through listening to all those you've mentioned and they give me the sh_ts. Almost without exception there has been no really good, creative, original C&W music to come out of the industry in the last couple of decades." -- then you may just need some perceptual adjustments.
With respect to your foul comment, you best clean up your mouth! If you say another thing like that here, you may be long gone. Free Republic is above comments such as your, "go diddle your daughter".
You are warned.
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