Super Bowl

This year’s halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl will be Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. The NFL manages to spend a pretty decent amount of money each year to try to give TV vierwers a reason to watch after the new commercials are aired in the first half of the game. In the past, they’ve had U2, Prince, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, and, of course, the infamous Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.

This is a 2-part discussion topic for you all.

1) If Bruce were to get the Super Bowl gig, what would you hope for from the short set that would be played? Would you want solo Bruce? Bruce and Noisemakers? Should Ricky Skaggs show up to do “Super Freak” with him? What songs would you want to hear? Would you want a medley of familiar Bruce tunes, or one of those beginning of a song > something else > jam like mad > something else > maybe even something else > back to the end of the first song deals that he is famous for? Would you want some of Bruce’s friends to show up and share the moment with him? If so, which ones? Keep in mind that they don’t get too much time to play, and the NFL has this bad habit of putting scantily clad dancers on the field with pompoms while the artist is doing their thing.

2) Other than Bruce, who would you like to see performing in the Super Bowl, and what songs would you like to see that artist perform. I thought Prince did a good job of crossing folks up by playing a Foo Fighters song, but most of the others have stuck pretty much with their own material.

RIch