Zak Starkey on drums for The Who at Super Bowl half-time

One of The Who sidemen that stood out for many football fans watching the Super Bowl halftime on Sunday was drummer Zak Starkey, who kept the beat on a medley of the band's most beloved hits. Though a relative youngster compared to Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, Starkey is actually a nearly 15-year veteran of the touring version of the Who. [More...]

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Does anyone just listen to the music anymore? Reading the negative comments on how Pete and Roger looked... Wait. This is an M-TV article. Never mind.

Posted by Mario from Sun Valley, CA on February 8, 2010 3:19 PM

I thought that looked a lot like Ringo but I thought it was just me that saw it.

Posted by Penny from Queens on February 8, 2010 4:22 PM

Ok, Mario, how about this? Zak was the only good thing about that performance. Peter and Roger sounded old and tired.

Posted by Dave on February 9, 2010 08:20 AM

Old and tired? Are you kidding me?

Posted by Newman from Anaheim, CA on February 9, 2010 4:55 PM

No, I'm not kidding you. I promise.

Posted by Dave on February 12, 2010 10:26 AM

There's a reason that classic rock groups play the Super Bowl. They're the only real musicians left. Let's see what the critics have accomplished and if they could even walk on stage at the age of 65. Pete Townshend is one of the most prolific song writers ever. The 12 minutes they played sounded better than any moronic girl or boy band in the last 15 years. Maybe if Pete was wet and upside down acting like a circus performer, Dave would have enjoyed the show.

Posted by DanCoxRocks from Valencia, CA on February 12, 2010 3:49 PM

DanCoxRocks, you make the assumption that just because I thought those guys were old and tired that I:

A) don't like classic rock
B) love modern music.

In fact, classic rock is my genre of choice, and I pretty much despise modern music. And the modern music I do like I find hard to listen to because of the mixing techniques used today don't allow for any subtlety whatsoever in instrumentation (instrumentation being a foreign language to most of today's "musicians").

I agree that the 12 minutes they palyed were better than any of the other garbage that modern acts have played, but that doesn't mean that Pete and Roger don't sound old and tired to me.

So much for assumptions.

Posted by Dave on February 15, 2010 06:55 AM

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