does tom petty have any redeeming qualities?

He was terrible! I knew he'd do the crowd pleasers, but Mike Campbell played with more commitment.

Its hard to top Prince doing Purple Rain in the rain

he could have performed "Free Falling" while leaping to his timely death

i like a lot of his songs.

beard is not one of his redeeming qualities

I would have liked zombie Roy Orbison

weird bit: I bought Through the Years last Monday, having no idea that he was doing this shit.

He's very . . . meh (these days at least). WHY NOT GHOSTFACE KILLA FOR THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW?

next year: Glass Tiger!

Tom Petty has so many great songs, this thread is ridiculous.

i'm thinking so. I can't honestly say I know a single thing he's put out in 10+ years but come on

He has a few good songs (e.g., a few singles from Damn The Torpedos, You Got Lucky). But beyond that, he has lots of merely workmanlike, serviceable stuff.

Next Year: Glass Tiger and GhostFace. Good combo.

he does have loads of great songs -- after listening to this two-disc thing -- but I wish he didn't them. A buddy has always wished that George Harrison had sung "Don't Come Around Here No More." At least his voice wouldn't try to sing over the sitars and drum machines.

4 hour peter bogdanovich doc about TP coming soon!

not kidding!

* I wish he didn't SING them

(xxpos)

I like Petty fine, but god that was dull. A twenty-minute "Rockin' Lunch" block from classic rock radio.

not kidding!

I wish to hell you were.

remy otm. They should have borrowed the Big Screen Elvis technology from the TCB band and reanimated Roy.

I wonder if Bogdanovich can imitate classic rockers like he can old film directors?

Frankly, I could do without the elaborate Super Bowl halftime show. I prefer it more as a game and less as an event. Of course, I'm not even watching it this year (as I hate the Patriots so).

I think the easter egg on the DVD version of the Bogdano Petty doc is going to be PB's masterful imos of all the departed Wilburys.

the Bogdanovich doc is already out, I watched it on cable the other night. i liked it, but then i wish all episodes of Classic Albums or Behind The Music were 4 hours long.

this thread is probably the most RONG that Jess has ever been.

i am not a tom petty fan at all, some of the early hits are decent enough, but he is x1000 better than unlikely ilm hero john cougar mellencamp

RONG

save it for chuck eddy

TS: Tom Petty vs. Adam Ant

the Coug's biggest hits aren't as bland (or maybe just overplayed) as Petty's, but there are more Petty songs I'd rather hear (half of Wildflowers, etc.)

I call it a draw.

The best comment on the performance, by the inimitable K-Jean Lopez:

"God bless" you too, dude. That was a nice, subtle Super Bowl moment. This American Girl is grateful.

He should have played "American Girl" last.

i <3 tp AND his heartbreakers and at least the tv mix was better than it usually is for these things, but it was funny how it was "american girl" + 3 from "full moon fever." i guess "full moon fever" is the tom petty lowest common denominator. i don't hate it or anything, but most of the albums before it are better. (and so is wildflowers.) anyway, he looked old and kinda tired but wtf. he's 57, i guess he's allowed to look old.

"i am not a tom petty fan at all, some of the early hits are decent enough, but he is x1000 better than unlikely ilm hero john cougar mellencamp

-- gershy"

ILM is some white ass motherfuckers. TP actually wrote a few good songs, that's way better than i can say about mr cougar.

retract

Those crowd shots during the halftime show: Good Lord, was even half of that audience even born when Full Moon Fever came out?

I mean, "WOOT! IT'S A FIFTY YEAR OLD MAN PLAYING SONGS ABOUT ELVIS AND DEL SHANNON!"

he's had some great moments, but it's been all downhill after stan lynch was fired.

yeah i miss stan lynch a lot.

wonder which sports columnist will use "even the losers get lucky sometimes" tomorrow.

good lord i don't even know where to begin

his halftime show sucked.

Not so much cuz of the music, but it isn't the right type of music for a halftime show. that and it was boring.

Prince was the halftime show to end all halftime shows last year.

he's a rock musician, he writes rock songs

but ilx never tires of picking on aging rockers...

he was way better than the stones were, that's for fucking sure

i mean, in terms of halftime show performances

not saying much, I've never liked the Stones.

then again it wasn't as bad as the debacle of Aerosmith w/Britney Spears

"but ilx never tires of picking on aging rockers...

-- winston"

there has to be a way to age better than most seem to have been doing it.

Prince rocked the fuck out last year.

And he's old, too.

I've always been fond of a lot (though not all) of Tom Petty's music -- mostly the earlier stuff, but "Wildflowers" is pretty nice too.

That said, his show tonight was awful. Guy needs to retire.

Interesting quote I just read on wikipedia: * "I want to give the radio back to the kids. That's one thing I'd like to see. I remember a time when you could turn on the AM radio and just set there all day and listen. Now I keep punching the button and hope something will come on that's worth listening to. There's nothing. They don't play the young bands. Boston is just MOR as far as I'm concerned. There's no threat there. And disco just ain't right." - Los Angeles Times 1977

The disco remark doesn't startle me, but I was surprised that he slagged Boston.