Wow - The Who have become a parody of themselves. A medley? How oxymoronic.

[Rabrrrrrr]

And they're not doing real well -I think they spent more time drinking than rehearsing.

How very sad.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. They are no longer The Who. They are now The What The Fuck.

[nolabear]

2. Oh please. They know they're old and they still rock.

I don't hear anybody dissing the old players who were proclaimed the Class of 2010. I didn't hear a thing wrong with their retrospective. What would have made you happy? Please be specific, i.e. not "Somebody younger."

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. I can't even begin to attempt to understand your broken syntax, out of context statements,

or your point.

Seriously, you offered a series of totally disconnected statements with no over-arching point.

What are you trying to say?

If you need wait until tomorrow when you've sobered up, please feel free to do so.

[Capn Sunshine]

8. oH YEAH? You're not even pink!

Just admit you suck and let it be! Piranhas willnever catch on!
Your exploded thought train just harshed my mellow! Thought Nazi!
Great post Archimedes

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Maybe to a badger! But the salt lick is still out in the corn field,

and you don't hear anyone bitching about that. Take your obsession with calendars elsewhere, Julian.

[Dr. Strange]

18. Ha! Your codpiece is in tatters!

Your Wronskian is zero; yea, even with sixteen digits of floating point accuracy.

[PVnRT]

20. The Bessel function of your paradigm does not compute to a non-infinity result

Why is your penguin green? The peanuts are on the floor, for Leibniz's sake!

[nolabear]

25. Ouch. Actually you just didn't understand the references.

I'll admit I left some stuff out, erroneously thinking you might have seen part of the pre-game I did, i.e. the introduction of the "Class of 2010" at the beginning of the game, the veteran players who were cheered heartily but who, like The Who, are getting on. And I didn't hear a thing wrong with their (The Who's) retrospective. "Retrospective" means looking back.

And if you don't understand "What would have made you happy?" I can't help.

And you're right; I had been enjoying the game, the halftime, and the company of friends who, along with me, enjoyed that old stadium rock extravagance and talked about how The Who probably would have loved today's technology back in the day when they sold out big places like Wembley and most of the stadiums in the US. And the wine and my Saints were spectacular. Sorry you weren't having a similarly fine time.

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. I still don't understand why you think my post was an attack on their age.

I said nothing about it - you brought that in on your own.

:shrug:

Sorry if I'm being obtuse, but if I make statement A and someone comes back with a counter-argument against a non-made statement B, then I become quite confused. I expect people to respond to what I said, not something obliquely (at best) related to it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Medleys have become standard. They want a tight 12 minute set.

McCartney set the bar a couple years ago. Springsteen did great last year. The Who... sad.

[GoCubsGo]

4. That was the first time I ever cried during a Super Bowl half-time show.

Roger can still belt out a song, and Pete can still play his guitar, but shit! Moon and The Ox are both dead, and Roger and Pete look like the old men they are. And, it's making me feel even older. Roger performed wearing glasses? Yep, too sad.

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I cried not because they looked old, but because they looked they didn't care any more.

The had an attitude of "Ah, fuck it - we made our billions. Let's phone this one in."

[GoCubsGo]

23. I didn't get that vibe.

To me, it looked like they just didn't physically have it in them any more. I was expecting a young Pete hopping all over like he used to, and more dynamic Roger. Then it dawned on me how old they are. I don't know any 60-somethings that have the energy those guys had when they were young. But, I think the heart was still there. It's was just worn out.

[tigereye]

7. it's a shame. They were a great, great band.

But "Uncle Pete" as we call him, still looks good playing guitar- he wrote great songs.

[Orsino]

10. The VH1 Rock Honors tribut to the Who is well worth watching...

...but only up to the point where "the Who" take the stage. Townsend still rocks, but Daltrey's voice simply can't carry that enormous karmic load anymore.

And no reason why it should--it's painful to hear him try.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. Drive in this morning....

The DJ said, "What can I say about The Who last night. Know what? I'm not going to say anything about The Who last night."

Starts playing "Baba O'Riley"

"Here's what that was supposed to sound like..."

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. That's funny!

"Here's what it was supposed to sound like" - :rofl:

[Beer Snob-50]

12. the drummer last night had a slight resemblance to keith moon

was it a son?

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. The drummer was the best part - he was really good, and I thought, "plays like Keith!"

I don't know if he's related in any way, though.

But he was wonderful.

[Beer Snob-50]

16. he was good.

also liked the guitarist in the background who filled in. i don't seem to remember there ever more than one in the past.

but again, i was in a drug and alchol fog in those days.

[GoCubsGo]

24. That was Simon Townsend, Pete's son

At one point, I thought it was Pete, who had taken off his hat.

[GoCubsGo]

34. I need glasses....

Simon is Pete's brother, not his son.

[peekaloo]

17. son of a Beatle

Ringo

[Beer Snob-50]

21. i would never have guessed that

he looks like a keith moon (maybe a little less deranged)

[av8rdave]

15. The least they could have done was smash their instruments at the end

[Ishoutandscream2]

19. Losing Keith hurt a lot, but when John ODed, it was really over

They are no longer The Who to me.

[hippywife]

26. It was not an OD.

He had cocaine in his bloodstream which aggravated an existing heart condition, causing a heart attack. Not enough in his system to OD on.

[Ishoutandscream2]

27. Semantics, I know. I just think he may still have been around

if he hadn't been doing that damned drug. What did he think he was, 22 or something?

[hippywife]

29. People have heart issues

all the time and are totally unaware of them. They live their lives as they normally would without considering them. No different than if someone didn't know and decided to eat a whole pizza with a sub sandwich for lunch and the same thing happened.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

33. Zak Starkey revitalized the post-Kenney Jones band

If I remember correctly, the two reasons why Townshend wanted Jones was that he was from "the old neighborhood," and that it was a deliberate effort to work with a drummer who sounded nothing like Moon.

He got what he wanted, and "Face Dances" & "It's Hard" are nothing short of pathetic.

They later played with (but did not record new material with) Simon Phillips, a solid session player who's worked with Jeff Beck and others. Although he's a rock-solid musician, the Who's music isn't what he does best.

When Zak came along, it was right around the time that Townshend finally admitted that Moon was, is, and forever shall be the "heart" of the band.

But the replacing The Ox?

"Replacing" Entwistle with Pino Palladino...a bass player with an instantly recognizable style that I have never cared for...that's right around the time they lost me.

[Tobin S.]

22. Considering they are senior citizens now, I thought they rocked pretty hard.

[Swede]

28. What a great half time show that was!

You must've been watching something else. Loved every last second of it.

[kwassa]

30. I saw the Who do Tommy back in the '70s.

It was a great show, but then and always, I've thought Daltrey one of the weakest rock vocalists. He had the look but not the chops. Townsend has had great issues with his hearing in the past couple of decades.

An odd choice for the SuperHype, er SuperBowl, but whatever. It is about commerce, not music.

[unpossibles]

31. I saw about half og the show and thought they were good all things considered

I mean, how many people can even rock half that hard at their age? I didn't think it was that bad.

As for medleys, this is not the first time they've done a medley either, I am pretty sure. Does "A Quick One While He's Away" count? That's from 1966.

[we can do it]

32. Who The Fuck WAS That - just pathetic

sounded like they needed to be on oxygen, could barely sing 2 words in a row....just go away