OK... Who watched the Half Time SB Show?

That wasn’t today’s music. That was from 20 years ago.

One of the really cool parts is how a lot of that stuff was put together by a young Mike Elizondo. Young upright jazz trained bass player that wrote incredible hooks for most of dr dre’s songs. He came up to be one of the most in demand session players and producers in La. check out his credits.

I thought it was fun

Didn't watch the show, but the line up was decidedly old school. 


Folks who aren't fans of hip hop often are unaware of the badass players that are allowed to run wild on some of that stuff.  That was me until a couple of years ago.

I thought it was great. They had a lot of faces from the golden era of hip hop, plus Kendrick Lamar and Anderson Paak representing the newer generation.

I might look on the YoubieToobs later.  I couldn't care less about the sportball, but the entertainment part sounds cool. 

I dug it. Thought it was good and entertaining. Not too flashy, not to outrageous, not to scandalous. Solid live performances. One of the best half times I've seen for certain.


I did wonder if they had originally planned on doing projection mapping on all the white surfaces but they forgot that the roof was translucent and it would still be day time basically on the west coast. So the lighting was a bit underwhelming and all the white props a bit boring. Or maybe I missed something? Idk. Seemed like ideal props for projection mapping.

Snoop Dog opened singing so far behind the beat I thought there was something technically wrong. Nope. He’s just that “relaxed.”

It’s a really tough gig! I’m not sure how many mics we’re actually live, the old rule was 2 max live inputs at any given time, everything else is Hard disk.

I’ll admit I kept wondering why the set designer didn’t just have ATK / now Clair just grab 2 boards from the wharehouse instead of the set piece.

I thought it was great!

So much impossible hype, explosions and all that crap. Lot of fun to watch.

I'm not much of a rap-head but you can't deny some of these legends.

Maybe I'll send a letter to NFL to see if we can get Pat Metheny at the next Super Bowl. Now that would piss off average people!

I also enjoyed the game. I guess I found out how to watch football. I never used to be able to care about it. I'll watch again next year.

Must be in the minority here. The network sound was somewhat poor that you really couldn't understand the majority of the rappers, which were the main attraction (except for 1 vocalist - Mary Blige), & the recorded tracks.

Bad mix lessened the impact. Couldn't catch most of the words. It was fun, but personally I didn't find the music very memorable. I'll always be a music first guy. You can't forget Prince singing Purple Rain can you. I can't remember shit from that show, except the Eminem track had a good beat, and the piano playing was interesting for a minute because it was abstract.

The mix was pretty bad for sure which definitely was a shame

My wife saw a post that said “50 Cent looked more like $1 due to inflation” 🤣

Nickelback once opened for 50 Cent.
So it only cost me 45 cents to see them both.
Chris