What The Stones Did Play

Jay nailed it before he overthought it.

Start Me Up
Rough Justice
Satisfaction

Dick and Andy also had Start Me Up and Satisfaction.

I also went 2 out of 3 with Rough Justice and Satisfaction.

Mick had the line of the night with "we could have played this one at Super Bowl One" as he intro'd Satisfaction.

All in all I was underwhelmed.

Comments

[John McCarthy]

Mick wimped out on the lyrics to Start Me Up...."You make a dead man." was all he sang.

[New West Living]

Stones are great, that's for sure. But I don't watch these games; I don't really watch any games on TV ... hockey, footbal, basketball, etc.

I DESPISE the over commercialization of almost all sports; it's not about sport anymore.

Bottom line: who cares?

[Brouhaha]

Underwhelmed is an understatement...

http://brouhaha.blogs.com/brouhaha/2006/02/mick_jagger_can.html

[David]

I was sitting in a tavern in Seattle and thinking that you had all of them. I thought the first song was "Brown Sugar." I blame my error on environmental factors. You were pretty close.

[Cyanbane]

The game, the commercial creativity (tv ads and product placement), and The Stones were totally underwhelming.

It reminded me again why I love college football.

[Rob Poitras]

Cyanbane, your comment reminded why many people get so drunk to watch the show, it could be more entertaining and whatnot but still a great game on sunday!

[Tony Alva]

New West Living,

You must be a fun date.

I was hoping they'd whip out Monkey Man, but I realize that would have been too much for the Super Bowl crowd.

Rough Justice was very cool, but the rest was as many have stated, underwhelming.

The audio was horrible. I had to adjust my 5:1 settings big time to get any balance of crowd/music. It's the Stones for cripes sake, you DON'T need to pump the crowd volume up.

[jackson]

I thought the game was great, the Stones were as good as a Super Bowl half-time act can be. At least it was live and not taped music like we've seen in past years.

I am 'Satisfied'.

[Karl Waldman]

Very underwhelming... Watching them hobble around up there - one of my kids joked, they should have taken Alleve! (Guess the Alleve commericial made an impact)

[Charles Smith]

Super Bowl's an impossible gig- the "fans" dragged onto the field are high school volunteers that don't know the music and just dance around on cue- it's almost like playing American bandstand.

[JayR]

One of the amazing things about the Stones is the range in quality of their performances, even after all these years of touring. This was pretty poor. It wasn't as bad as the first time they were on Saturday Night Live, but it wasn't exactly inspiring. They had a great opportunity to reach out to a generation or two that only knows their music vaguely. Judging from the five or six members of that generation that I was watching the game with, it didn't happen.

You can blame some of it on the logistics, but I thought Paul McCartney was great last year under very similar circumstances. This one was pretty poor.

[Tom W.]

The Stones - even in a 3-song set with bad audio (a Tony pointed out) - were far, far better than any commercial that aired. Not even close.

Yeah it was underwhelming as spectacle, but so what - at least they didn't lip-synch - they played, they swung a bit. They were also far better than the refs (who seemed under orders upstairs for a Steeler victory).

I did enjoy Keith's solo lap on Satisfaction, myself - though Wood seemed ragged (as he has this tour).

And they were bleeped - twice!!

[kip]

To be honest, they were very underwhelming. British rockers for football just don't seem to mesh well.

[Brouhaha]

The best comment from the "younger generation" that I've seen was posted by a woman on my blog:

"I don't know what was worse, looking at him or listening to him. Everytime he lifted his arms to shake "it", I found myself saying out loud - "put it away"."

:-)