Prince's Superbowl XLI Performance

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2007-03-09 06:45am

I don't follow American football, but a mate of mine does and he said I missed out on Prince. Now, being a Princephile I had to see it, and well YouTube FTW.

Prince owning at the Superbowl Prt 1

Prince owning at the Superbowl Prt 2

Now he played his usual rock the fuck out of people classics; 'Lets go Crazy', 'Baby I'm a Star' and of course 'Purple Rain', he also covered 'Proud Mary' but it was this one unknown song (end of part 1 start of part 2) that had me scratching my head.

First of all it is fucking AWESOME, and secondly I don't know it. Now how could this be? I've got 90% of the stuff this guy has ever released (and believe me that isn't a joke, out of my 20GB iPod, 7GB is easily just Prince), and yet I didn't know this song. A little Google-Fu later and I found out the song is actually a cover, from the Foo Fighters ('The Best of You').

I also found this delightful quote;

Taylor Hawkins wrote:Dude, I have no idea why he did it, but I'd love to find out, I mean, the thought went through my head that maybe he was doing it as a sort of 'F--- you' to us, or maybe he really likes the song. Either way, it was pretty amazing to have a guy like Prince covering one of our songs — and actually doing it better than we did."

-Source

I lol'd.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-03-09 07:20am

Very impressive, the transition between songs was seemless. Never been a fan of Prince, but this performance goes a long way towards changing my mind. Awesome guitar work.

JLTucker · Post by **JLTucker** » 2007-03-09 07:29am

It sucked. It felt like the solos did not fit with the music.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-03-09 07:32am

JLTucker wrote:It sucked. It felt like the solos did not fit with the music.

Thanks for confirming my opinion that you are dumb as a brick.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2007-03-09 01:18pm

I'm not a big Prince fan, but I can say he did one of the best halftime shows I've seen in the last 10 years. 1 star, doing awesome music is the way to go. Forget rotating big names in and out every 3 minutes, he did it RIGHT.

P.S. I thought he was gonna get electrocuted, between the rain and all those cords.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-03-09 02:34pm

I'm not a very big Prince fan, but that was pretty badass. Pity the rest of the Superbowl isn't so entertaining.

Qwerty 42 · Post by **Qwerty 42** » 2007-03-09 02:59pm

To the OP, I believe All Along the Watchtower was also in the set.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2007-03-09 03:04pm

Qwerty 42 wrote:To the OP, I believe All Along the Watchtower was also in the set.

Mea Culpa, I missed that one!

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-03-09 03:07pm

Crown wrote:
Qwerty 42 wrote:To the OP, I believe All Along the Watchtower was also in the set.
Mea Culpa, I missed that one!

He also did a cover of "Rolling on the River" near the beginning.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-03-11 03:53pm

I love the marching band accompaniment.

By the way his birthday puts him at age 49 but he looks so young!

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2007-03-11 05:54pm

JLTucker wrote:It sucked. It felt like the solos did not fit with the music.

I'm sorry, what show were you watching? And what musical training have you had?

It was a good show, especially live. Nice job, even for an artist I don't particularly care for.

And Marching Band FTW. Amazing.

Saurencaerthai · Post by **Saurencaerthai** » 2007-03-11 07:16pm

What amazed the hell out of me was that he was able to pull the entire show off while in the rain! Tightly choreographed show+rain=high potential for disaster.

Fleet Admiral JD wrote:
JLTucker wrote:It sucked. It felt like the solos did not fit with the music.
I'm sorry, what show were you watching? And what musical training have you had?

He's entitled to his opinion. If everyone else's contradicts his, so be it.

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2007-03-12 02:22am

didn't see Prince's half-time but i have to say as a fan of Prince

PRINCE RAWKS!!

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2007-03-12 02:25am

General Zod wrote:
Crown wrote:
Qwerty 42 wrote:To the OP, I believe All Along the Watchtower was also in the set.
Mea Culpa, I missed that one!
He also did a cover of "Rolling on the River" near the beginning.

The title of that song is "Proud Mary", which the OP did mention.

As a Prince fan from the days before his short-lifed movie career, I was thrilled. It was the main reason I watched the game.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2007-03-13 07:27pm

Prince's guitar had a penis. Whats up with that? I have a guitar.. doesn't have a penis though. Not that i'd want my guitar to have a penis.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-03-14 04:01pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:Prince's guitar had a penis. Whats up with that? I have a guitar.. doesn't have a penis though. Not that i'd want my guitar to have a penis.

It's an optional extra from Fender and you know you want one

Post by **Steve** » 2007-03-28 05:42am

It certainly looked cool, but my perceptions of Prince are still in the basement and stay there every time I watch "An Evening with Kevin Smith".

Post by **Kuja** » 2007-03-28 11:50am

Soontir C'boath wrote:I love the marching band accompaniment.

I would've rather watched the marching band than him.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2007-04-03 08:39pm

Steve wrote:It certainly looked cool, but my perceptions of Prince are still in the basement and stay there every time I watch "An Evening with Kevin Smith".

I have never ever seen that, I keep hearing references to it, but never details ... intrigued.