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Who is butchering The Who...?
Feb. 7th, 2010 08:15 pm...oh - it's The Who. Which is just so sad. :(
The Who was the half-time show at the Super Bowl. They sounded awful. I don't watch the game, but I could hear when the half-time show started and I am so disappointed.
Roger Daltry was okay, in the 'we'll cut you some slack b/c you probably haven't performed on stage in years and don't have the lung capacity you had thirty years ago' way, but, still not good. A touch off-key a lot of times.
But Pete Townsend? Oh man was he bad. I've never thought he was a good singer anyway, but then this? Was just terrible. He was off-key all the time and off-tempo about 90% of it. If he wasn't playing guitar, he'd be useless up there.
I want to know the thought process behind this choice. My guess is, 'hey, we have 3 CSI shows, all of which use songs by The Who as their themes, and the 'Bowl's on CBS, so we'll get The Who to come sing all those theme songs... plus "Pinball Wizard" just for fun.' Bad choice. Okay idea, bad choice. They needed some serious rehearsal time and practice singing on-key and on-tempo.
I love The Who, but that was just so disappointing.
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The Who was the half-time show at the Super Bowl. They sounded awful. I don't watch the game, but I could hear when the half-time show started and I am so disappointed.
Roger Daltry was okay, in the 'we'll cut you some slack b/c you probably haven't performed on stage in years and don't have the lung capacity you had thirty years ago' way, but, still not good. A touch off-key a lot of times.
But Pete Townsend? Oh man was he bad. I've never thought he was a good singer anyway, but then this? Was just terrible. He was off-key all the time and off-tempo about 90% of it. If he wasn't playing guitar, he'd be useless up there.
I want to know the thought process behind this choice. My guess is, 'hey, we have 3 CSI shows, all of which use songs by The Who as their themes, and the 'Bowl's on CBS, so we'll get The Who to come sing all those theme songs... plus "Pinball Wizard" just for fun.' Bad choice. Okay idea, bad choice. They needed some serious rehearsal time and practice singing on-key and on-tempo.
I love The Who, but that was just so disappointing.
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