King, Clapton and Collins....THIS IS MUSIC

[elnutsmalljaws]

My point is proved again at the Super Bowl. Christina messes up the words to the National Anthem and then Fergie and Slash completely destroy Sweet Child O Mine. I bet Axl Rose threw up his lunch seeing Fergie's horrible impression of him and wants to beat the crap out of Slash for still riding the coat tails of Guns n Roses past. By the way, GNR would have been on my list if they had stayed together and kept on making music like Appetite for Destruction, Use your Illusion and such from around 1987 to around 1992 before the Drugs, Money and Girls took a hold of them.

[DJD]

Man that half time show was rough. The audio problems killed the rhythm.

[walkeraviator]

I will agree that the half time show blew my nuts, but Fergie would sound better than Axl Rose nowadays even if she was singing drunk with sand in her mouth. As for Slash riding the GNR coat tails... he was about 98% of the talent in that band to begin with, so i say he can do whatever he wants with the music...

It was a shame to see the Black Eye Peas do so bad, because they are talented musicians...

[elnutsmalljaws]

Maybe I should have clarified a little better. GNR from 1987 to around 1992 is the REAL GNR to me, Appetite for Destruction and Use your Illusion albums. Don't have a clue as to how Axl sounds today but back then, Fergie has no shot at singing Sweet Child O Mine as good as Axl did.

[walkeraviator]

Agreed...

[RoadToad]

I'll cut Fergie a little slack, because the only reason she was the one singing Sweet Child O Mine in the first place was Axl's mic died. There were multiple technical problems during that show, making it even worse than it was scheduled to be.

Christina Aguillara is a different story. IMHO the only reason she messed up the words in the first place is she was concentrating more on making it "Christina Aguillara sings Our National Anthem," and jazzing it up into something that it's not, than on going out and singing it in a way that shows some respect. IT'S NOT A JAZZ PIECE!!! It annoys me no end when I see someone go in front of a crowd and try and improvise on "The Star-Spangled Banner." When you go out there and sing it, it's not about YOU, it's about what it stands for. Even if she'd gotten the words right, it still would have been a pretty bad rendition, IMO.

[apb]

...It annoys me no end when I see someone go in front of a crowd and try and improvise on "The Star-Spangled Banner." ....

I don't know, Hendrick did a pretty cool version of it....

[DJD]

I'm with RT. She tried so hard to put her spin on that song and pulled a major Fail. Too many runs, pitch issues and flat out bad singing. Man how can a performer forget the words??? Seriously?? Hope her contract had a performance clause in it so she got paid accordingly.
Oh well, maybe the expected singer got hurt and that's the best they could do off the bench.

[GeoFisher]

I'll cut Fergie a little slack, because the only reason she was the one singing Sweet Child O Mine in the first place was Axl's mic died. There were multiple technical problems during that show, making it even worse than it was scheduled to be.

So Axl was REALLY supposed to sing it........in that case, if she did this pretty much impromptu, then I DEFINITELY give her a break.......takes chops to do that without any notice.........CHOPS........where did you see that?

Later,

Geo

[Bobby Headrick]

Was Axel on the bill to sing that, I doubt it as he and Slash are not in good terms, but a GnR reunion would be great, I thought the halftime show was a joke and Cristina well, she just messed it all up, but so did Michael Bolton, way back, but Fergie is a whole lot hotter than Axel, she is pleasing to the eyes lol lol lol, btw Elnut, good taste in Music, love some old blues and old rock, you did not Mention Montrose, remember Bad motor Scooter and all that, man that was music. They should have had ZZ TOP do the Halftime show as they are from Texas.

[stratosjoe]

We lost a great guitarist this week. Gary Moore great blues man plus played with Thin Lizzy years ago. Check out on youtube think the one I liked the best was parisianne walk or something like that. The man could really control that feed back. jmho

[elnutsmalljaws]

Was Axel on the bill to sing that, I doubt it as he and Slash are not in good terms, but a GnR reunion would be great, I thought the halftime show was a joke and Cristina well, she just messed it all up, but so did Michael Bolton, way back, but Fergie is a whole lot hotter than Axel, she is pleasing to the eyes lol lol lol, btw Elnut, good taste in Music, love some old blues and old rock, you did not Mention Montrose, remember Bad motor Scooter and all that, man that was music. They should have had ZZ TOP do the Halftime show as they are from Texas.

Old Blues you say, I could have thrown the following in the list but several may have said who in the hell is that:


Robert Johnson (King of the Delta Blues Singer) One of the greatest albums of all time

John Lee Hooker
Muddy Waters
Jimmy Reed
John Hurt