Guy Berger Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 (edited) link A year after the FCC logged more than 500,000 complaints over Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl halftime show, the governmental watchdog had received exactly two complaints by Monday afternoon over McCartney's fully clothed set. In both cases, viewers complained of being "bored" by McCartney's 12-minute, four-song showcase of Beatles and Wings classics, including "Hey, Jude," FCC spokeswoman Rosemary Kimball said Monday... No commercial or broadcast moment prompted more complaints--eight--than GoDaddy.com's, according to Kimball. (All told, the FCC recorded just 33.) Also-rans in the complaint department included: Cialis (five viewers had a beef with the game's lone erectile-dysfunction sponsor); Fox announcer Joe Buck (one viewer wanted him "removed" from the booth); and last year's halftime show (three viewers apparently were still reeling from Jackson's breast). Edited February 8, 2005 by Guy Berger Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 I'm no Beatles nut (not that there's anything wrong with that), but I have to say that Sunday's was one of the best half-time shows ever. How can you go wrong with musicians playing music for a change. No lip-synch (at least not that I could tell), and no pre-recorded tracks either (again, not that I could tell). Quote
AfricaBrass Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 I wonder if the two complaints were filed by Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. It was nice seeing a non-lipsynced halftime show. Some people are just stupid. Quote
ejp626 Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Well, I agree it is nice to find musicians that can actually sing. Still I didn't find the Super Bowl interesting and I think I succeeded in only watching 20 minutes (if that) as I went around the house. I actually was coming back from the Jazz Showcase as it started (a much better use of my time). I did find the whole thing so sanitized and boring (the game and halftime) that I am not surprised that ratings are down. I also am still so mad over the FCC going crazy from last year and becoming super censors that I will probably feel negatively towards the Super Bowl for years to come (but no more on that in this thread). Quote
sonic1 Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Well I was hoping to hear that Paul showed a nipple. Coward! Quote
RDK Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Well, lots of reports that Paul did lip-synch - which isn't surprising giving the event/venue. Pre-records are a necessity. It certainly looked like he did to me. Not that it bothers me any... Quote
Guest ariceffron Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 IS THERE SOME KIND OF HOTLINE SO U CAN CALL AND COMPLAIN TO THE FCC?!??! WHAT IN THE HELL? Quote
Jim R Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Well, lots of reports that Paul did lip-synch - which isn't surprising giving the event/venue. Pre-records are a necessity. It certainly looked like he did to me. Not that it bothers me any... I agree, I thought a good deal of it was lip synched, and that he had a live mic for adding a few comments/exclamations/etc on top. I haven't been a real fan since the 60's, but I would rather listen to that than most of the halftime shows I've seen/heard about in recent years. Quote
bertrand Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 So who was at the Showcase? Bertrand. Quote
Chrome Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Not a big football fan, but I clicked over to check the score just in time to hear them use "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" coming out of a commercial ... I can't help but wonder what U2 thought of that. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Not a big football fan, but I clicked over to check the score just in time to hear them use "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" coming out of a commercial ... I can't help but wonder what U2 thought of that. $$$$$$ Quote
Dan Gould Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Not a big football fan, but I clicked over to check the score just in time to hear them use "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" coming out of a commercial ... I can't help but wonder what U2 thought of that. $$$$$$ Precisely. Quote
Ron S Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Not a big football fan, but I clicked over to check the score just in time to hear them use "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" coming out of a commercial ... I can't help but wonder what U2 thought of that. $$$$$$ Precisely. Don't forget U2 was the halftime entertainment at the 2002 Super Bowl. Quote
sal Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 So who was at the Showcase? Bertrand, See our "Harold Mabern/Eric Alexander" thread in the Live Shows forum. Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Well, lots of reports that Paul did lip-synch - which isn't surprising giving the event/venue. Pre-records are a necessity. It certainly looked like he did to me. Not that it bothers me any... Could have been. I was making dinner at the time, and had the half-time show on, on an old 7" B&W TV in the kitchen. I was in one of those "half-time show" type productions once, sort of like what the opening ceremonies from the Olympics is like (produced by the same production company too). About 4 or 5 years ago Kansas City had a huge 150th Anniversary "stadium-sized" event/concert at Arrowhead Stadium (where The Chiefs play). Among the "acts" was a huge "chorus of a thousand" that sang three songs. The Kansas City Symphony Chorus got roped into being part of this thing (hence my involvement). That, plus every high school and church choir within 100 miles, or so it seemed. We weren't miked at all, and probably 95% of what the audience heard was pre-recorded by probably 8 people in a Hollywood studio, with half-a-dozen overdubs by those same 8 (swelling the chorus of 1000 to nearly 50!!! ). Dumbest thing I've ever been involved in. We had a dress rehearsal and everything, but they didn't play the canned vocals until the actual show. What a joke!!! They did have monitors set up for the chorus, which played back everything that was pre-recorded (not just our songs). Everything that was actually performed "live" (Kenny Rogers, Huey Lewis, Oleta Adams, Little Richard, etc...), didn't get into our monitors (only the stage monitors got that), so it was easy as punch for us to tell what was pre-recorded and what wasn't. About 70% of the show was prerecorded, if I remember right. Quote
Joe G Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 My conclusion after watching Paul's performance was that it was pre-recorded. It just didn't sound like music produced in a stadium setting. They did do a great job of pulling it off, though, as I was second-guessing myself for most of the show. Quote
Robert J Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 At least Paul had a real acoustic piano. Quote
billyboy Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 I thought it was somewhat lame that Paul didn't even play the guitar solo in Get Back! Oh well. My kids liked the fireworks during Live and Let Die. Quote
RDK Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Remember, too, that these halftime shows have to be set up in like five minutes. There's not a lot of time for anything fancy... including last-minute sound checks, mic balances, etc. It's funny, but nobody would even be raising the lip-syncing issue at all - it goes on all the time - if not for the glarring lip-syncing debacles we've had recently. Quote
Joe G Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Remember, too, that these halftime shows have to be set up in like five minutes. There's not a lot of time for anything fancy... including last-minute sound checks, mic balances, etc. You mean.... it's not about the music????? Quote
DTMX Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 ...Cialis (five viewers had a beef with the game's lone erectile-dysfunction sponsor) ... Beef. Quote
BruceH Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 I didn't watch it myself, but Letterman thought Paul lip-synched. Personally, I've never understood why football half-times have to be so damn long. Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 Supposedly, GoDaddy.com paid to have their commercial run twice but the NFL saw it the first time and prevented Fox from running it the second time. Here's a sport who's goal is to have huge men maim each other and they're concerned about a woman with nice cleavage and a failing spaghetti strap on her shirt... hmmm.... I've read that steroids cause erectile disfunction... that's it... the NFL is full of a bunch of guys who can't get it up for sexy commercials. Kevin Quote
Big Al Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 hmmm.... I've read that steroids cause erectile disfunction... that's it... the NFL is full of a bunch of guys who can't get it up for sexy commercials. Kevin Hence all the Viagra commercials....... B-) Quote
Dave James Posted February 8, 2005 Report Posted February 8, 2005 (edited) I got a kick out of the pre-game concert when the identical crowd of pogo-stick lemmings in front of the stage went from cowboy cool to '70's soul to hip hop motif without missing a beat. I think they all had "Live Strong" bracelets on as well. Talk about covering all the bases. Does someone out there really believe that the audience will think this is spontaneous? Up over and out. Edited February 8, 2005 by Dave James Quote
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