people who are famous from their teens or young 20s have pictures of themselves around in the public eye a lot longer than they are actually young. If they live to be very old, it haunts them.
People who did not live long enough to embarass themselves at this concert. Kurt Cobain, John Lennon, George Harrison, many of the Ramones, half the Who, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, d. boone, and many I am forgetting.
People who did show up and a quick review. The parts of the concert I saw, yes I am not sure I saw the whole thing. There is one host band and guests come in and do a song or two between hosts songs. Song selection was very strange and some people just should stay out of the public eye and let us remember them as they were when they were 20-30 instead of showcasing the fat, old, plastic surgeried, bald version of themselves.
The hosts–Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Metallica, U2.
CSN-if you are rich and famous there has to be a better way to do gray hair
CSN guest James Taylor-playing love the one you’re with is a fitting tribute to Tiger Woods
Stevie Wonder guests
Sting-Playing bass and looking like he is a lost beach boy from the early 70s. Misses the police still
BB King-philandering diabetic, VERY old
Smokey Robinson-more face work than Cher
little anthony and the imperials way too old
Jeff Beck-why is this guy famous. If he was in the Stones instead of Ron Wood, would anyone notice?
Paul Simon-stop air guitar, bass, horn and anything else you are doing. Still married to Edie Brickell and still looks like the original Anakin Skywalker when they took off the mask, he tries too hard to be personable on stage.
Dion Denucci of the Belmonts really REALLY old, announced Runaround Sue, forgot the words and it turned out he was supposed to be singing the Wanderer.
crosby and nash with simon for here comes the sun, nash and crosby have to have something better to do when they are not singing than the faces and gestures they made. and Graham, really did you need to say that was for George after the song was over?
Garfunkle. go away. horrible shirt, Bridge over troubled waters is like hey jude just a bad overrated song.
metallica-Who likes them–butt head, the guys from columbine and the record companies who wanted to get rid of napster. I can’t believe people actually like them in the numbers that they do. Also, they were responsible for the most ironic part of this concert when the played Enter Sandman with video of Mariano Rivera. Just dumb, reverse something stupid. So video of Rivera inspires them to play better? tune tighter? dumb dumb dumb.
Lou Reed-did way too many drugs or has altzheimers. He cold not remember any words of his songs and he is another one who could benefit from staying out of the public eye and letting people remember the young lou.
Ozzie Osburne, looks great and healthy with a lot of makeup on. Would have kept his mystique intact much better if he did not have the show.
Aretha-another host-how can she say sing with me if no one knows the song she is singing. Even if you say come on you know it does not mean people actually do.
annie lennox sang with Aretha, maybe it is just stage personas from the 80s don’t work in the aughts.
back to metallica
patti smith and bruce springsteen-because the night was actually the one thing I thought was good.
U2 and mick and fergie and will i am (are black eyed peas in the hall of fame?) singing gimmie shelter.
Mick c0uld use some facework and needs to realize he is in his mid sixties and it is just gross watching a 60 year old act like he is even 40.
and shouldn’t they sing songs people know.
this is a companion piece to shim’s post Love stinks.
