To be honest, I don’t really give a rats whether the Super Bowl halftime show is live or not. I am not EXPECTING it to be live. Maybe bits of it are, maybe none of it. I don’t care. If it’s entertaining, it’s entertaining.

However, to try and steer this thread back to where it started, it’s the expectation of live music that makes using tracks at the high end of the concert scale that’s primarily dishonest. The Super Bowl makes no pretense to being a live show. And the current couple of generations is well aware that it’s not live. Only us boomers may not yet have grasped that..!

But anyone that goes to see a rock concert, heavy metal, big band, whatever and expects a full live performance and end up listening to significantly part of it off tracks, I think they’ve got every right to feel cheated.

Our problem, we expect EVERYTHING to be live (like it was in the 50’s/60’s) and don’t want to face how canned it all is. Mind you, we happily play our little wonder backing machines but still fail to make the connection…. It’s a different world from the one we grew up in! 🎹