Super Bowl Halftime Show: Time For Baby Boomers to Release Their Cultural Death Grip

As I am a foreigner, the first I ever heard about the Super Bowl’s tradition of mid-show entertainment was the now notorious Janet Jackson nipple incident whereby Justin Timberlake ‘accidentally’ unleashed Ms. Jackson’s breast upon millions of unsuspecting Americans. I was living in Moscow at the time and even the Russians were quite obsessed by the role of Ms. Jackson’s mammary glands in a sport none of them played or cared about. 

Six years later and it is clear that the Super Bowl’s organizers are still terrified of Janet Jackson’s nipple, that it comes to them at night and haunts them in their sleep, threatening to embroil them in scandal and to lose them millions in sponsorship deals. For what else can explain the entertainment decisions made by the Masters of the Bowl ever since that fateful Sunday afternoon in February 2004? 

Let’s take a look at who has played in the years since:  (more…)

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Posted Feb 8th 2010 at 3:48 pm in Culture, Featured Story, Music | 306402313 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkalder/2010/02/08/super-bowl-halftime-time-for-baby-boomers-to-release-their-cultural-death-grip/Super+Bowl+Halftime+Show%3A+Time+For+Baby+Boomers+to+Release+Their+Cultural+Death+Grip2010-02-08+23%3A48%3A49Daniel+Kalder

Celebrating 40 Years Of Rock’s Other King

2009 marks the 40th anniversary of many famous things, ranging from the mind-bendingly fatuous (John and Yoko’s bed in) to the truly historic (the moon landings) to the not as good as they used to be (Sesame Street), to the never any good in the first place (Woodstock). But in addition to all of the above, 2009 is also the 40th anniversary of something much less celebrated: a very strange record that only gets stranger with the passing of time, King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King.  

Consisting of four skilled musicians plus one lyricist from England’s West Country (among them the now legendary guitarist Robert Fripp) King Crimson enjoyed a rapid ascent to fame and success. The band formed on January 13th 1969; were declared the ‘best band in the world’ by Jimi Hendrix in April; played with the Stones at Hyde Park in July; recorded their first album In the Court of the Crimson King in July and August; released it to great acclaim in October; then played their last gig together on December 14th in San Francisco, having imploded while on tour. (more…)

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Posted Dec 5th 2009 at 2:55 pm in Featured Story, Music | 27183459 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkalder/2009/12/05/celebrating-40-years-of-rocks-other-king/Celebrating+40+Years+Of+Rock%27s+Other+King2009-12-05+22%3A55%3A36Daniel+Kalder