"Who Dat" playing bass and drums for the Who during halftime?
I did a quick Google search and can't really find what I'm looking for (errr...wrong band lyrics).
Anybody heard anything 'bout this?

Definitely OT - I'll be rooting for the Saints (sucker for an underdog) and I'll take the points (if I was a bettin' man)... but there's this guy named Payton, or Peyton or somesuch on the Colts (Indianapolis, NOT Baltimore!!) who's daddy is from NOLA (or nearby) who is the next Johhny Unitas, or some say...

Here's the Prop bet to take - Over/Under: 50,000 - how many babies born in the next 2 months will be named Peyton/Payton if the Colts win?

Probably Pino playing bass. He was with them on their tour.
I'll be rooting for the Saints but probably the Colts will win.

Pino would have been my first guess too, but I thought I read that he had a commitment somewhere else...
Can you imagine that phone call -

"Hi Pino? It's Pete".
" Hi Pete...Pete who?"
"Right - Pete "Who".
"No, I mean Who Are You Pete?'
"Right - Pete; "Who Are You?" Pete".
...
Edit: Did Carrie blow the last note of the Star Spangled Banner? Sounded off to me, and that the Network faded out her vocal prematurely...

Pino Palladino on bass,
Zak Starkey (son of Ringo) on drums.
don't know who the keyboard player and other guitarist were.

Pretty good show.

The national anthem singer was way out of tune.

I guess no one cares about that anymore (as the Grammies showed).

Yeah, obviously Pino (hard not to pick him out of a line up!!).
I thought maybe Zak or Jason Bonham would be on drums. Didn't recognize guitarist #2 or keyboardist either.

Regardless, I thought they did a great job, though Pete's back up vocals were rough. Having said that, I hope I can still rock like that at their age (in about 10 years or so).

Do you think it was primarily "LIVE"? I didn't think it was canned - could be wishful thinking...

John Bundrich on keys, Pete's cousin or brother (I forget which) on second guitar. Been with them for some years now.

Wonder how old Pete and Roger are now. Anybody know?

Carrie Underwood was a little pitchy, but not horribly.

I don't know what to say, other than, when they use autotune, everybody bitches. When they don't, everybody bitches.

And here is a fact: until you've stood in a stadium and tried to sing, with the at least half second echo of your voice bouncing back into your face louder than your voice, you've got no room to talk. It is very very wierd. I've found that getting your pitch then stuffing earplugs in, closing your eyes and trying to ignore the bounce is about the best that you can do. A good set of in-ears might do the job too, but wireless in any stadium on game day is always a problem, let alone at the Super Bowl.

And I've said this elsewhere: there seemed to me to be a problem with the monitoring at the GRAMMYS, as people who don't usually have pitch problems live, seemed to have trouble. Modern TV is a horrible way to present rock music. Oh, and I hate seeing bands at football games. Imagine if you will, the next concert you attend.. and between the first act and the headliner, we'll have a quarter of football. Makes no sense to me at all. I mean, I like spagetti, scotch, and milkshakes, but not mixed together.

jl - Pete and Roger are both in their early 60's according to an item I read earlier.

Bill@ - Might be mistaken, but I thought I saw Carrie yank out her IEM midway through the National Anthem. But yeah, I'd rather see (hear) an artist do their best in a live situation than hear a canned version or autotune.

What threw me was hearing her get through more than half of it and lose it on the last note... In her defense, we all know that the crowd is already at full volume well before the last line is sung and throw in a flight of jets overhead and you have a recipe for failure to some degree.

"What threw me was hearing her get through more than half of it and lose it on the last note..."

Indeed she did, that last note was a bad one. I felt bad for her, too, because (and I can't explain this...) I like her. Some kind of honest and nice vibe I get.

wow, already a pino at the superbowl thread. Does anybody know the pickups that were in his bass? Great stage show, loved the ring around the stage. Though the bass could have been turned up a bit.

Nice to see Pino actually get some camera time. But the short versions of the songs so that it's all turned into one big medley? Blech. That's one thing I will never like about the Super Bowl halftime show.

Congrats to the Saints and their fans! I hope that something like this can help bring back the people of New Orleans that much more from the devastation that the crescent city suffered.

Good question about his bass. It didn't have the same pickups as his signature model, even the color was the same.

I don't understand how a team winning a football game is going to rebuild the city of New Orleans.

I don't understand that either. I also don't understand how they expect to rebuild standing around waiting for someone else to do it for them. Sorry if that sounds cold, but you know, our city was completely flooded 12 years ago, and really within 2-3 years it was business as usual. We just did it ourselves. Guess there's a slight difference between the south and the midwest.

I thought Carrie was OK. At least it was live, no "magic" involved. I thought Roger's singing was worse. I think the Who can hang it up any time now.

Roger and Pete both had trouble hitting the notes.

I saw the Who a few times back in the late 60's and early 70's and the band on tv was only half of the Who.

I don't have an answer for that, except to say that if you saw the pieces that the network did before the game with the citizens of NOLA, you could see that they all were looking for a common thread to pull the WHOLE town together. Lot's of claims of Gov't corruption there and other items that could cause the citizens to throw their hands up and give up hope...

I'll give you an example of how that might work - growing up in Detroit (and Jeremy - I know you are somewhat familiar with the area) - after the riots, the Tiger's winning years pulled the city together despite the cultural differences that were developing. I can remember watching the tanks and armoured vehicles rolling up Grand River one year and watching people arm in arm the next because of that common thread (the Tigers). It doesn't rebuild a city, but it can put the majority on the "same page" so to speak. It's no cure-all, but there's much to be said for that.

Detroit still hasn't been rebuilt after the riots and they were in 1967, 43 years ago.

Please do not use the city of New Orleans as a representative of the South. My small Tennessee hometown was pretty much wiped off the map by the "Night of Tornadoes" back in '75 or so (Same as Xenia, Ohio). We didn't make the news, we didn't wait for someone to rebuild us, and within four months almost all of the homes had been rebuilt. Those who had insurance or money to spare contributed building materials to those who didn't. Construction was usually a group effort. too. I think you'll find that more typical of the South than what you are describing in New Oreleans.

well, I can tell you this: carpenters from this area went down to lend a hand. After being beaten and robbed of their tools by gangs waiting for them in the houses, they came home.

Wow. The cynicism here runs pretty deep.

New Orleans has not been anywhere near the same since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005. Homes and lives were destroyed. The culture of the city has suffered. And some areas have still not been rebuilt.

The Saints have been one point of hope in the lives of the people of New Orleans. A lot of people who follow the NFL were speculating that the owner of the team was poised to move the team to Los Angeles, especially in light of what happened with Katrina. And many were surprised that the owner vowed to stay and make a positive impact in the rebuilding of the community. A number of the players have started charitable foundations to aid the people of New Orleans.

Have all of the needs of the people of NOLA been met? No. There's still a lot of serious work to be done. But the Saints's season has been something positive for the people of New Orleans to rally around. It makes life there that much more bearable. And if the Saints success on the football field can translate into more revenue for the business's and city of New Orleans that can be used to rebuild that city? So much the better.

I wasn't trying to disparage the Saints or the need for a rallying point for NOLA. We draw inspiration from sometimes seemingly unrelated areas. Just pointing out that the entire South shouldn't be judged on the actions of a few who take advantage of a horrible situation. Should we dismiss the entire Midwest as a wasteland of crime just because Detroit is the "most dangerous city" in the US? Should we smirk at everybody in New Jersey based on the "Guido" phenomenon? See what happens when we start painting with such a broad brush?

Have the needs been met? No. But people from all over the US continue to do what they can when they can to help. Including us here in the South.

I think people are REALLY unrealistic about how quickly a city the size of New Orleans can be rebuilt. You can't compare New Orleans to a place like Grand Forks, which isn't even a city (usually defined as having 100,000 people), or especially a tiny, close-knit village in Tennessee.

Rebuilding 100 houses in some hamlet is not anywhere close to moving materials needed for millions of people, coordinate the sharing and usage of these materials and then fashioning it all into some new gleaming city on the hill. This takes decades. And it'll never be the same cuz Mother Nature has the power to jam you up good and that she done did.

Somebody name a city that was devastated and then rebuilt in less than 5 years? It just doesn't happen. Could the federal govt do better? Sure they could, but it's easy to point fingers and complain that ideals weren't attained, it's much harder to rehouse a million people, rebuild a million streets, restore 100,000 businesses to working order, schools, sewage, etc. Imagine how hard it is to just restore the fundamental things people need, much less get a city to actually 'thrive' again.

Katrina is another proof of how Mother Nature kicks our ass anytime she feels like it - forgive me if I don't cry over unsorted recycling.

Regarding how the Saints have 'saved' the city - how much of this is coming from NFL commentators hyping their own product?

Pete and Roger usually refer to themselves as a Who tribute band these days. They started a bit rough but got it together. I didn't care for the drummer and he looked like he was out of energy real fast.

I'm glad the National Anthem was sand live and without a lot of "artistic interpretation" added in, I hate that.

It's a tough gig to hear at so we need to give them all a bit of a break. There were also numerous other sound issue throughout the broadcast.

Queen L. Sounded ok too. Her IEMs seemed to suck too... she took them out quickly. I see that a lot. Makes me wonder how reliable they are...

Oh yea... why 30 minutes of the president during a Super Bowl pregame show... WTF?

It is not the reliability of in ears that is in question, but when you are in a fluid situation with lots of techs touchng lots of stuff while lots of performers are trying to do their thing... well, it is not condusive to a problem-free evening. Major sports is worse, as every truck has its own pile of wireless gear, every reporter has wireless mics and IFB, the venue has theirs, it is just nuts.

all the platitudes are nice. But neither of us got horribly beat up nor had all our tools, from which we derive our living, stolen from us by the people that we attempted to help. I have two points really. One is that the devistation was huge, and would take a long time to repair in any case. My second point is that there has not been, in my opinion, much to admire about New Orleans. It has always seemed to me that the only thing that kept New Orleans from becoming the Bronx, Compton, or Detroit has been the tourism. The people themselves seem to be waiting for someone else to do the work for them. But they've been living like that for a long time, long before Katrina. Sorry if you are from the area and find this offensive. I travel quite a bit, and I observe what I observe. This is my observation.

I think what we find disturbing is the big hype being pushed by the sporting guys that this football game is something significant and is going to change lives. One guy even said that it was the most important thing that ever happened to the city of New orleans. I mean, seriously.... get a grip. It is a stinking football game. Nobody was saved, nobody was helped, and a bunch of rich guys got richer.

I'm happy that you guys have pride in your team... that is a good thing. It was a good game, fun to watch.

Thanks. Point taken.

Good to hear and know.