f.sciarrillo wrote:Half time was terrible, after two songs I turned him off. He is not what he used to be, yes, he is very talented, but, he lost it long ago.
You can't be serious? Lost it? Wow.
When was the last time he was heard from? I thought he was playing fairs and such now.
I agree that he was very clean, and playing in the rain gives him some points. I don't know, maybe it was sounds mans lack of how to mix that made him stink.
At the Feb. 1, 2007 commercially named “Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show Press Conference”, Prince surprised journalists by not taking questions but instead breaking into a mini-concert in the “stark convention center conference room”. He covered Johnny B. Goode and segued into his own Anotherloverholenyohead and finished with Get on the Boat.[23]
On February 4, 2007, Prince performed at the Super Bowl XLI halftime show in Miami, Florida. The performance consisted of 3 Purple Rain tracks ("Let's Go Crazy", "Baby, I'm a Star" and the title track), along with cover versions of "All Along the Watchtower","Best of You" and "Proud Mary". For the 18 minute performance Prince was accompanied by two dancers he calls “the Twins” and the 100-member Florida A&M University Marching Band and had rehearsed with the drum line for a week before the performance. He played before 74,512 fans at Dolphin Stadium (who had been given flashlights to point at the stage during the performance of Purple Rain). The event was carried “to the biggest audience of his life -- 140 million television viewers”.[24] Overall, the show was energetic and quite well-received by the rain-soaked audience surrounding the stage[1], although some thought that the performance was "boring."[25][26] Some professional music critics have been more enthusiastic about his performance, one calling it "arguably the best halftime show in Super Bowl history"[24], and another saying it was “one of the best I've seen in the history of the game”.[27]
I personally felt that this would have been "The Best Halftime Show In Superbowl History" if we the TV audience would have been able to hear some bass, some drums, maybe a little rhythm guitar... All you could hear was Vox and Lead solos, granted, Prince is a phenomenal guitar player and his solos made my jaw drop, but being primarily a bass player I feel hearing the rest of the band would have made this performance "One to remember"! Unfortunately I'll probably forget it sometime next week.
Ronnyd wrote:When they had that sheet around him and he had that Funky Guitar it looked liked he had a giant curved Boner!!I laughed my ass off!
Great Player though!
BHAAAAAAAAAA...I thought the same thing...and that shall go down as the 2007 Superbowl "Set Malfunction"....
Prince Rocked...and he still looks like he did in the 80's...
Who needs gold and diamonds when you can have chrome....
I am still wondering how he was able to play guitar in a downpour. How do your fingers not slide off strings when they are soaking wet.
Any Rockpagers ever have to play in rain? How hard is it to play guitar or any instrument all wet like that?
And I agree about the mix. All of the super bowls preformers had a terrible mix. I could hear Billy Joel vocal and piano, so maybe it is hard to hear more than 2 mics from a live preformance in live TV.
