History of halftime performances (My rant thread)

[Don]

Some one was saying how Journey has never performed at the Superbowl with SP and this is validation that AP is the second coming and taking Journey to a level they have never been at.
We all know that Journey played the pregame show but I decided to look back at when the first Rock Group was asked to perform. From what I can see, the first hardrock performer invited was Aerosmith in Superbowl XXXV, 2001. Now seeing how Perry hasn't toured with Journey since the end of the 80's, I'm a little confused how a Journey fan could make that comparison, since the Superbowl didn't even invite pop acts until the 1990's. That's like saying Arnel has never had anything released on 8track so that proves Perry is better than him.
I really wanted to avoid doing this, and believe me I've been critical of Perry myself on occasion, but this constant slandering and misrepresentation by supposed Journey fans needs to be dealt with. No more Mr. Nice guy, I will be calling these people out for now on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_halftime_shows

P.S. Yes Jill, we are loonies but it doesn't stop you from coming over and reading our posts, thanks for your business. Every hit on website helps.

Edited for my language .

[Don]

Apparently it's not enough to like Journey with AP or go out and buy Revelation or pay for a ticket to one of Journey's shows last year. If you can not realize that Arnel is a better singer than Steve was and and will make the band more Successful than Perry ever did, well then, you are not a true fan of the band are you?

[Don]

Cool, this thread is like having my own blog.

[Ehwmatt]

It's just like people talking about album sales as validation. I guess acts like N'sync, Justin Timberlake, Nelly, Mary J. Blige and Shania Twain were "validated" by virtue of being SB performers. Fucking bozos 'round here making these comparisons.

[Lula]

lol! hi gunbot

i will always be a fan of journey past. i don't care for revelation and i especially don't care for the do overs of the classics. steve perry is responsible for what so many consider the 'signature sound' along with of course neal's guitar. any person claiming arnel is better than perry is doing nothing other than a huge disservice to arnel himself.

[Don]

No Josh Groban appearances at halftime? I guess he sucks too.

fixed

[Ehwmatt]

lol! hi gunbot

i will always be a fan of journey past. i don't care for revelation and i especially don't care for the do overs of the classics. steve perry is responsible for what so many consider the 'signature sound' along with of course neal's guitar. any person claiming arnel is better than perry is doing nothing other than a huge disservice to arnel himself.

Does anyone say that around here with a straight face?

[PowerChords]

Some PENDEJO was saying how Journey has never performed at the Superbowl with SP and this is validation that AP is the second coming and taking Journey to a level they have never been at.
We all know that Journey played the pregame show but I decided to look back at when the first Rock Group was asked to perform. From what I can see, the first hardrock performer invited was Aerosmith in Superbowl XXXV, 2001. Now seeing how Perry hasn't toured with Journey since the end of the 80's, I'm a little confused how a Journey fan could make that comparison, since the Superbowl didn't even invite pop acts until the 1990's. That's like saying Arnel has never had anything released on 8track so that proves Perry is better than him. Fucking idiot.
I really wanted to avoid doing this, and believe me I've been critical of Perry myself on occasion, but this constant slandering and misrepresentation by supposed Journey fans needs to be dealt with. No more Mr. Nice guy, I will be calling the ignorant bastards out for now on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_halftime_shows

Stuff like these really puts Arnel on the crosshairs of veteran Journey fans. It is really stupid and ignorant for these people to say AP is superior. Pineda himself condone such actions. Unfortunately, AP is the one taking the brunt. He was called ugly, off-key, eyes-rolling bastard, jumps around too much, no stage presence frontman - yada yada yada.
He gets paid to do one thing, front the band as best he can possibly do. He can't top Perry and knows it too.

[Luvsaugeri]

Arnel cannot compare to SP. Period. End of story. No debate!!

I am the biggest SA fan there is and I never once said he was better or even as good as SP.

SP is in a league of his own.

[Don]

lol! hi gunbot

i will always be a fan of journey past. i don't care for revelation and i especially don't care for the do overs of the classics. steve perry is responsible for what so many consider the 'signature sound' along with of course neal's guitar. any person claiming arnel is better than perry is doing nothing other than a huge disservice to arnel himself.

Does anyone say that around here with a straight face?

No comparisons please, lets just talk about stupid people okay?

[bluejeangirl76]

I'm a little confused how a Journey fan could make that comparison, since the Superbowl didn't even invite pop acts until the 1990's. That's like saying Arnel has never had anything released on 8track so that proves Perry is better than him. Fucking idiot.

Right. Its just more overzealous arnel dicksucking. Let's be real, the guy is good, but he's not jesus. And really, its a very small faction that's clinging to this... as proven by those online reviews about how bad it was and how it "isn't Steve Perry so..." no one cares. The fact is that the majority doesn't care. Walk up to 200 random people and ask. You are likely going to get 199 eyerolls. The album went technically gold. Big fat deal, so did Strange Medicine, since we're now loving to compare Arnel to Perry and give credit where it is NOT due (referring to the "Arnel go them to the Superbowl and Perry never did).

This is being way way overhyped. They were not the Halftime Show... as Dean said (I think it was Dean), they played the beer garden and ONE song was televised. This is about on par with exclaiming that Revelation went platinum. Overhyped b.s.

[Luvsaugeri]

I'm a little confused how a Journey fan could make that comparison, since the Superbowl didn't even invite pop acts until the 1990's. That's like saying Arnel has never had anything released on 8track so that proves Perry is better than him. Fucking idiot.

Right. Its just more overzealous arnel dicksucking. Let's be real, the guy is good, but he's not jesus. And really, its a very small faction that's clinging to this... as proven by those online reviews about how bad it was and how it "isn't Steve Perry so..." no one cares. The fact is that the majority doesn't care. Walk up to 200 random people and ask. You are likely going to get 199 eyerolls. The album went technically gold. Big fat deal, so did Strange Medicine, since we're now loving to compare Arnel to Perry and give credit where it is NOT due (referring to the "Arnel go them to the Superbowl and Perry never did).

This is being way way overhyped. They were not the Halftime Show... as Dean said (I think it was Dean), they played the beer garden and ONE song was televised. This is about on par with exclaiming that Revelation went platinum. Overhyped b.s.

You hit that one out of the park!!!

[Rhiannon]

they played the beer garden and ONE song was televised.

I just wanted to reiterate that. And with the exception of a few drunks playing karaoke*, the crowd looked very chill.

*In the crowd, I must make clear.

[Don]

I'm a little confused how a Journey fan could make that comparison, since the Superbowl didn't even invite pop acts until the 1990's. That's like saying Arnel has never had anything released on 8track so that proves Perry is better than him. Fucking idiot.

Right. Its just more overzealous arnel dicksucking. Let's be real, the guy is good, but he's not jesus. And really, its a very small faction that's clinging to this... as proven by those online reviews about how bad it was and how it "isn't Steve Perry so..." no one cares. The fact is that the majority doesn't care. Walk up to 200 random people and ask. You are likely going to get 199 eyerolls. The album went technically gold. Big fat deal, so did Strange Medicine, since we're now loving to compare Arnel to Perry and give credit where it is NOT due (referring to the "Arnel go them to the Superbowl and Perry never did).

This is being way way overhyped. They were not the Halftime Show... as Dean said (I think it was Dean), they played the beer garden and ONE song was televised. This is about on par with exclaiming that Revelation went platinum. Overhyped b.s.

Let's just say 500,000 people bought FTLOSM and 500,000 bought Revelation. That's basically the truth regardless if one is gold and one is platinum.

[G.I.Jim]

No Josh Groban appearances? I guess he sucks too.

Ughhh... here you go dude!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UL0rjuvZvo

[Don]

No Josh Groban appearances? I guess he sucks too.

Ughhh... here you go dude!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UL0rjuvZvo

Was that pregame or halftime? Doesn't matter. Josh is an excellent singer IMO.

[G.I.Jim]

No Josh Groban appearances? I guess he sucks too.

Ughhh... here you go dude!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UL0rjuvZvo

Was that pregame or halftime?

You didn't specify, you just said "appearances". And it was Pre-game I believe.

[Don]

No Josh Groban appearances? I guess he sucks too.

Ughhh... here you go dude!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UL0rjuvZvo

Was that pregame or halftime?

You didn't specify, you just said "appearances". And it was Pre-game I believe.

That doesn't look like the beer garden Journey was playing at.

[Don]

they played the beer garden and ONE song was televised.

I just wanted to reiterate that. And with the exception of a few drunks playing karaoke*, the crowd looked very chill.

*In the crowd, I must make clear.

Can we forward your post to Keith Olbermann?

[Jana]

I'm going to be brief and post once.

Steve Perry is a once-in-a-lifetime voice and not only created the sound of Journey vocally but the nuance he brings to songs is as original as they come in the music industry. And I believe Arnel would be the first to say that.

Regarding some Arnel fans posting over-the-top comments dissing Steve, I've absolutely seen those comments on fan sites for some reason feeling the need to elevate Arnel by putting down Steve Perry , and it irritates me to no end, but by the same token, I've read some viscious, unfair, and nonfactual comments about Arnel on this site. Just saying . . . . . .

[stevew2]

Cool, this thread is like having my own blog.

You are talkin to yourself, you are either drunk, retarded or both

[Don]

I'm going to be brief and post once.

Steve Perry is a once-in-a-lifetime voice and not only created the sound of Journey vocally but the nuance he brings to songs is as original as they come in the music industry. And I believe Arnel would be the first to say that.

Regarding some Arnel fans posting over-the-top comments dissing Steve, I've absolutely seen those comments on fan sites for some reason feeling the need to elevate Arnel by putting down Steve Perry , and it irritates me to no end, but by the same token, I've read some viscious, unfair, and nonfactual comments about Arnel on this site. Just saying . . . . . .

The thing is, on this site, you can challenge those viscious, unfair and nonfactual comments about Arnel with people on both sides of the argument getting in the discussion and have a healthy debate without people crying that you're being disrespectful and and hurting their feelings.

[Don]

Cool, this thread is like having my own blog.

You are talkin to yourself, you are either drunk, retarded or both

When I get a boner, it's just like being drunk, I have to spend half the day at my desk, or I could end up poking somebody's eye out.

[Rhiannon]

they played the beer garden and ONE song was televised.

I just wanted to reiterate that. And with the exception of a few drunks playing karaoke*, the crowd looked very chill.

*In the crowd, I must make clear.

Can we forward your post to Keith Olbermann?

I just specified so as not to leave my post up to interpretation by the masses.
What does Keith Olbermann have to do with the price of tea...?

[Don]

they played the beer garden and ONE song was televised.

I just wanted to reiterate that. And with the exception of a few drunks playing karaoke*, the crowd looked very chill.

*In the crowd, I must make clear.

Can we forward your post to Keith Olbermann?

I just specified so as not to leave my post up to interpretation by the masses.
What does Keith Olbermann have to do with the price of tea...?

Apparently he had the inside scoop on Journey's second singer who got the job from winning a Karaoke contest. I guess you didn't get all the way through DSB to hear that part immediately after the song.

They're saying Tiki Barber was the one who prepped Keith on the history of Journey, so I guess he's not totally to blame.

[stevew2]

Cool, this thread is like having my own blog.

You are talkin to yourself, you are either drunk, retarded or both

When I get a boner, it's just like being drunk, I have to spend half the day at my desk, or I could end up poking somebody's eye out.

Dont play with it you ll put your out

[Melissa]

Just curious, who is the "fucking idiot" you are supposedly calling out? You said you were going to call them out...well? Call them out. Name?

[Arkansas]

... Let's just say 500,000 people bought FTLOSM and 500,000 bought Revelation. That's basically the truth regardless if one is gold and one is platinum.

500k went to a record store to buy the SP album.
500k bought the Journey album because they were already at WM for other reasons.
Big difference, IMO.


later~

[Rhiannon]

Apparently he had the inside scoop on Journey's second singer who got the job from winning a Karaoke contest. I guess you didn't get all the way through DSB to hear that part immediately after the song.

Nope, I did not get that far... but on the oopsie! Silly Olbermann.

They're saying Tiki Barber was the one who prepped Keith on the history of Journey, so I guess he's not totally to blame.

He should've asked Ronde'.

[Don]

Apparently he had the inside scoop on Journey's second singer who got the job from winning a Karaoke contest. I guess you didn't get all the way through DSB to hear that part immediately after the song.

Nope, I did not get that far... but on the oopsie! Silly Olbermann.

They're saying Tiki Barber was the one who prepped Keith on the history of Journey, so I guess he's not totally to blame.

He should've asked Ronde'.

To not have your best performance is one one thing, but to be referred to as a Karaoke contestant on a nationwide broadcast is something else entirely. Arnel has been slammed here before, but not in front of that many people.