The Who Thought Super Bowl Performance Was Just "OK"
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Even Roger Daltrey was underwhelmed by The Who's half-time show.
"I thought it went OK," the band's lead singer told ESPN.com of their 12-minute Super Bowl performance.
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"I understand. It's a TV show. Cameras were everywhere," he added. "I was so blinded that I couldn't see."
Daltrey, 65, said those in the stadium weren't exactly into the five-song medley of their greatest hits either.
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"I really wished the crowd would have gotten into singing the songs with us more. That's how it is in Europe for our soccer matches. I wanted more banter," he complained.
Guitarist Pete Townshend, 64, defended the group's performance.
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"We were trying to put on a great show," he said. "We had as much fun as we could have."
Critics were lukewarm on the half time show. While the Boston Herald called it "12 minutes of great rock 'n' roll," the Chicago Sun-Times said they were "woefully flat and out of sync" and the Dallas Morning News wrote, "the stage was the most exciting part of the show."
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23Too bad all you "babies" out that don't know The Who are so ignorant of real rock'n'roll. You've all been poisoned with that rap crap or hip hop and can't figure out what good music is. Well that's YOUR LOSS!
The Who's performance was pretty good , way better than the screaming Bruce S. tried to pass off for singing last year
Get AC/DC to do the show next year they will rock the place down
The show was great. It is time for the supper bowl to risk putting on a younger band. It doesn't matter how good the Who were and still are, more than half the viewers out there don't know that kind of Rock and Roll any more. It's like putting Big Band [Forties music at the half time back for Supper Bowl XX ] a lot of people would have know it and liked it but it would not have been for me.
Roger came up with "the scream'....and it was good. Enough said.
I couldn't care less what "critics" have to say about them.
The Who are a legendary band and still rock live in concert. Older? yes...sure. Bands are forced by NFL to use pre recorded backing tracks. This doesnt work for a LIVE band like THe Who. Nobody is going to sit and watch newer performers like Coldplay or Kings of Leon at a Super Bowl concert. They don't draw a wide ranging audience.
No one in the audience knew the words to your songs, dude. Ur old! The only ones old enough to remember you are too old to remember the words!
I LOVE rock, but I never cared that much for The Who...long live ROCK and ROLL tho!
The Who rocked. Best Super Bowl halftime show ever.
it sucked
THE WHO STOLE THE SHOW. LONG LIVE ROCK
I thought they were great. It wasn't really The Who, just two remaining members. And they didn't have the time to do their songs justice (didn't like the truncated versions of their rock and roll classics). But it was great to see Pete and Roger and they did a solid job. Now that I'm reminded about how amazing The Who are, I will be listening to their original songs from their glory days in full length. Good show boys!
Everyone who doesn't know who "The Who" are stupid! It was a great show. I kinda feel bad for them though. And the worst show was Ashley Simspon not The Who.
OK, they're "my generation" and it was dreadful, just dreadful. I saw The Who live in the '70s, also the Stones, and sadly The Who just aren't relevant anymore while the Rolling Stones still tour and perform and it's current and great. Plus Roger Daltry is tone deaf from all the years of mega decibel exposure. I'm virtually certain they were lip-syncing last night - pre-recorded so as not to embarrass themselves live and still it was just awful.
The WHO are a fantastic group. We all know the songs, but they can put on lousy performances, hence they would kick the sh^t out of each other and trash hotels. This is classic WHO
Refreshing break from the barrage of over produced hip hop robotic voice crap usually blasted at us at these type of events. But that's just a 40 something white guy's opinion.
I think it was the worst ever halftime for the Superbowl. These guys are in their 60's and 70's come on, give us a break! Hope Dallas does better next year when its there.
Sorry, but I don't think anyone wanted to listen to The Who. Half my friends didn't even know who The Who was...and we're in our 20s
Thought they were embarrassing----couldn't even watch....definitely not the Super Bowl type entertainment--How about Usher----he would have blown us away.