Should PJ ever do Super Bowl half-time show?

rummy

JimmyV said:

This seems much more like a Foo Fighters thing to do than a Pearl Jam thing to do.

Agreed. Good call.

Get_Right

no that would officially mean the band has jumped the shark

HesCalledDyer

Get_Right said:

no that would officially mean the band has jumped the shark

Left shark or right shark?

rummy

HesCalledDyer said:

Get_Right said:

no that would officially mean the band has jumped the shark

Left shark or right shark?

I just picked up one of those PJ t-shirts that has the cowboy riding the shark...

PSUS2H

If they want to do it they should, if they dont thats cool too.  I dont care either way.  There will always be disappointment with these shows no matter how solid the act is.  

PJ_Soul

tempo_n_groove said:

rummy said:

I know it was over 20 years ago but this is a band that tried to separate themselves from the casual/fake fans.
Playing the Super Bowl would definitely be a 180-degree turn from that.

As someone mentioned above, they sell out stadiums...  They've already done the 180 thing.

I don't understand how selling out stadiums is any different from 20+ years ago. They always did that kind of thing - they were one of the biggest bands in the world back then. It's just that they didn't have concerts at baseball parks in general back in the day, did they? That seems like a newer trend for the most part to me. Not for PJ, but for the ball parks. It used to be very rare, no?

PJ_Soul

Spiritual_Chaos said:

rummy said:

I know it was over 20 years ago but this is a band that tried to separate themselves from the casual/fake fans.
Playing the Super Bowl would definitely be a 180-degree turn from that.

Eddie having a stack of 20 unused tambourines to throw out every show is nothing less than the super bowl.

Yes, that's more like a 180, lol.

ed243421

kaw753

The point of the half time show is to get women to tune in, not the demographic who are already watching the game. The Foo Fighters played a huge show the night before the Super Bowl in Atlanta. Metallica did the same the night before the Super Bowl near San Francisco. 

Taylor Swift is next up depending on if she has an album out next February.

fortyshades

Hope to God not. Only if they sing Olympic Platinum and do some nipple-gate thing.

rwrusso

Yes please.  Regardless if whether they'd accept the offer or not.  I would die to just hear a rock band play (I know) music without all the antics.

demetrios

RS151862

I have no interest in watching them pretend to play instruments. It would be embarrassing.

mcgruff10

Heck no.  Terrible idea.

SHZA

They don't fit the mold of what the NFL is looking for these days for the halftime show. The last rock act was The Who 11 years ago. Since then it's been all mainstream pop / hip-hop (Black Eyed Peas, Madonna, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Coldplay/Beyonce/Bruno, Lady Gaga, J. TImberlake, Maroon 5, J.Lo/Shakira, the Weeknd). 

Even if rock bands were a viable option, PJ doesn't have the same level of mainstream popularity as the Stones, etc. 

igotid88

kaw753 said:

The point of the half time show is to get women to tune in, not the demographic who are already watching the game. The Foo Fighters played a huge show the night before the Super Bowl in Atlanta. Metallica did the same the night before the Super Bowl near San Francisco. 

Taylor Swift is next up depending on if she has an album out next February.

She's under contract with Coke. So she wouldn't be able to do a Pepsi sponsored halftime show

tdawe

I really hope not, because (1) the public discourse around it would drive me insane and (2) people in my life who know I love the band but don’t necessarily know why would constantly ask me about it, and I suspect it would be impossible to explain to them why I don’t care without sounding like an asshole. 

SHZA

igotid88 said:

kaw753 said:

The point of the half time show is to get women to tune in, not the demographic who are already watching the game. The Foo Fighters played a huge show the night before the Super Bowl in Atlanta. Metallica did the same the night before the Super Bowl near San Francisco. 

Taylor Swift is next up depending on if she has an album out next February.

She's under contract with Coke. So she wouldn't be able to do a Pepsi sponsored halftime show

Good point. She did do the night before concert in Houston, sponsored by AT&T

PB11041

No.  Nor should they beclown themselves the way that Bruce Springsteen did. HARD FUCKING PASS.

vant0037

SHZA said:

They don't fit the mold of what the NFL is looking for these days for the halftime show. The last rock act was The Who 11 years ago. Since then it's been all mainstream pop / hip-hop (Black eyed peas, madonna, beyonce, bruno mars, katy perry, coldplay/beyonce/bruno, lady gaga, j.timberlake, maroon 5, j.lo/shakira, weeknd). 

Even if rock bands were a viable option, PJ doesn't have the same level of mainstream popularity as the Stones, etc. 

Bingo.  PJ as a band, to those dedicated members of its fan club on this little bubble of an online board, is huge.  To the rest of the musical world, they’re not really that relevant and haven’t been for a while. (And before anyone throws out the whole Rock HoF induction as evidence of relevance...I submit to you another moderately irrelevant institution).  It’s not so much a question of “should they” as it is “could they.”  I love this band and have spent so much time and energy and money to see them.  But they’re just not on that level.

All that aside, I think it’d be cool IF they did their Ten hits only.  Sue me. Lol