Was the NCG halftime show the worst ever?

Al A Bama

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Halftime entertainment: I'd rather be able to watch and listen to the Million Dollar Band than hear a singer, even if it's my favorite singer. This is a football game, NOT a concert!

That helps me relax while getting ready for the 2nd Half of the game and OT, if necessary!
 

Wilson Monroe

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It's the worst one I have ever seen.

I used to work with a fella in Birmingham that was a sound engineer. He did stadium shows for Prince, Frank Zappa, and The Police just to name drop a few before retiring from the road. He told me that you can make a live band sound right anywhere, it just takes work and planning. TIFWIW
 

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*It's the worst one I have ever seen.

I used to work with a fella in Birmingham that was a sound engineer. He did stadium shows for Prince, Frank Zappa, and The Police just to name drop a few before retiring from the road. **He told me that you can make a live band sound right anywhere, it just takes work and planning. TIFWIW
*We've got a music expert on our board (Crimsonaudio) who could give a professional opinion on it. Maybe he'll give us his professional opinion on the performance.


**I'm no sound expert or musical expert but I've always been told if you want to know if someone could really sing or if they were just a studio creation, is listen to them sing live. So you're saying a good sound engineer can cover up a bad singer even in a live performance?
 

Wilson Monroe

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*We've got a music expert on our board (Crimsonaudio) who could give a professional opinion on it. Maybe he'll give us his professional opinion on the performance.


**I'm no sound expert or musical expert but I've always been told if you want to know if someone could really sing or if they were just a studio creation, is listen to them sing live. So you're saying a good sound engineer can cover up a bad singer even in a live performance?
No way can a sound engineer make a bad singer good, at least not live. They can, however, make any venue sound good according the the fella I was talking about.
 
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Wilson Monroe

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Hey, I've always been the dude on the stage. I know a bit about running sound, but I ask this guy to teach me about running live sound like he does and he starts writing on a napkin. He handed it to me and it was full of equations that looked like calculus. I stuck with instruments.
 

JTBama

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Hey, I've always been the dude on the stage. I know a bit about running sound, but I ask this guy to teach me about running live sound like he does and he starts writing on a napkin. He handed it to me and it was full of equations that looked like calculus. I stuck with instruments.
I play guitar and drums, rarely do I have to do my own sound or audio work, if we sound bad I just look at my buddy who sets us up and say "man ...what did you do?' it's a running joke for us:)
 

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All we got in the stadium was the two Marching Bands. I'm sure many here would have prefered that.
 

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One of the few rappers out there not trying to pass off r&b as rap.

I can understand many here not being a fan, based off age demographics. But it was good for an outdoor concert in downtown Atlanta
 

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My wife looked at me and I threw my hands up. I've never heard such. Maybe half time shows have out grown this 70 yr. old. I will start finding something else to watch at half time during next bowl games. Why not a good blues band?
 

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so, to sum up this thread
While it's easy to dismiss those who don't like this just like many like to take shots at the latest evil scourge of our planet - millennials - I don't think this is as cut-and-dried as that.

Sure, there are some that are XX years old and aren't willing to give it a chance, but there are also plenty of young people on here (or people like myself who are a bit 'middle aged' but probably listen to more current music than most anyone) who are fully aware of who KL is and what he does. I chose not to listen to it not because of his genre of choice, etc, but because I find him to be both boring and rather devoid of talent...
 

92tide

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While it's easy to dismiss those who don't like this just like many like to take shots at the latest evil scourge of our planet - millennials - I don't think this is as cut-and-dried as that.

Sure, there are some that are XX years old and aren't willing to give it a chance, but there are also plenty of young people on here (or people like myself who are a bit 'middle aged' but probably listen to more current music than most anyone) who are fully aware of who KL is and what he does. I chose not to listen to it not because of his genre of choice, etc, but because I find him to be both boring and rather devoid of talent...
i had to google the guy during halftime to see who he was. it was playing in the background and i didn't really pay much attention to it other than noticing the size of the crowd.

as much as i cannot stand popular music, he seems to have something going on as he is making a few hits.
 

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There are some really good current bands out there that actually play guitars, drums, keyboards, bass, etc., and do a really good job of it. The problem is that it doesn't sell quite like this current mind-numbing thing called hip hop (and I know they aren't the same, but I neither know nor care enough to distinguish rap from hip hop). Personally, I would have put the Foo Fighters or Artic Monkeys out there, but that's just more to my music preferences.
 

teamplayer

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My wife looked at me and I threw my hands up. I've never heard such. Maybe half time shows have out grown this 70 yr. old. I will start finding something else to watch at half time during next bowl games. Why not a good blues band?
Yeah, the blues would have been appropriate for our game at halftime. Hahaha. I can always dig on some blues.
 

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I was looking for more of a "show" type performance from him. His performance on the VMAs was a better example of the type of "show" performance I was expecting from him. Again, I can understand there were more things in play with the performance that we may not know about (what ESPN allowed for the performance, ect) but I just think it wasn't his best.

Now if folks didn't like it because the genre of music ... then that's a different story all together lol

ESPN got a superstar act that would resonate with the college age group and if the reaction of those that were shown in the crowd were any indication then it was a success with the demographic they were targeting.
 

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