Carlos Santana Criticizes the NFL for Halftime show

Being born and raised in the bay area, I have to agree (but he forgot Green Day, Rancid, Sheila E)

Carlos Santana
13 hrs ·
Dear NFL/CBS....I would like to take this opportunity to thank you both for including me as a part of your Super Bowl entertainment. I do feel compelled to point out to you that the Halftime Show should have included some of the local iconic bands that the World would have loved to see perform. Bands like Metallica, Steve Miller, Journey and yours truly. We would have rocked the Half Time Show and done the SF Bay Area proud. This is just an invitation for you to consider iconic bands as part of your Half Time entertainment. Real live music, real live vocals, and give the audience real live chills.

Carlos Santana

 

Hear, hear!

 

Rancid at the Super Bowl. Man, that would be great. Minds blown worldwide.

Santana makes an excellent point about the local acts, although cities like New Orleans, NY and L.A. might demand the same.

 

High on Fire, Exodus, and a reformed Vio-Lence. That would be my idea of great Bay Area Super Bowl halftime entertainment.

 

The Super Bowl isn't a local event. It wouldn't surprise me if there were more Coloradans and Carolinians there than Bay Areans.

 

Now we have a conundrum because folks here don't like Santana either.

 

They tried a bunch of classic acts (Stones, Who, Bruce) and I heard the ratings dropped so they have gone for pop mainstream the last few years.
It's all about the $$$, not about celebrating quality music.

 

Agreed. It's just a huge spectacle, catering to the lowest common denominator. The idea of seeing an old timer like Steve Miller up there doing "The Joker" is a bit of a laugh. As dumangl pointed, it's not about celebrating "local" acts either. Santana's statement seems pretty clueless to me.

 

The Who and The Stones were quality music in their heyday, but that was a loooooong time ago.

I suspect that Bruce is still is quality.

The Super Bowl should not be expected to be about celebrating quality music anyhow. It's about celebrating quality football, and providing entertainment for the fans during halftime.

 

Last Country artist at halftime was Shania Twain in 2003 and she shared it with No Doubt and Sting.
That seems strange considering the enduring success and popularity of the arena rock style Country music.
Carlos is attempting trend with new song, lp and, btw, his other band, fusion making Mega Nova.
http://liveforlivemusic.com/news/santana-and-herbie-hancock-announce-first-performance-as-mega-nova/

 

I don't even care who does the Super Bowl half-time show. I'm in it for the game (depending on who's playing, of course). If the half-time performer is an act I like or respect, then they have my attention. Otherwise, I'm off to do other things. No harm done.

 

Let's leave politics out of it while we're at it.

 

Santana's right. Coldplay and friends was a snoozefest. Beyonce was the only redeemng thing and she had to futz it up with her Black Panther tribute. Lame any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

 

Who cares ?

 

A guest appearance of Ian Thomas with Carlos Santana would have been cool.

 

What is all the fuss with the half time entertainment.

Can you not buy a cup of tea and a meat and potato pie ?

 

Santana is still a gifted player. Why he couldnt be included on the "friends" list is confusing. People don't really care anymore that his best albums happened decades ago. Most people today don't even know what an album is.

 

That would be OK. I think that would be an interesting way around the annual hunt for Super Bowl halftime entertainers. It would preclude all the Brits, though.

 

Beyonce, and her (lack of) tune, was by far the worst thing about that halftime show. Coldplay was fine, but not very exciting, and the only really worthy part was Bruno Mars doing Prince & Morris Day's (oops, Mark Ronson's) tune. There are not enough words in the language to discuss how truly awful Beyonce was. And this comes from one who appreciates the social points she was trying to make in the song. It was just a poorly-written attempt that was further undone by the incongruous dance routine. Dire.

 

" Who is Carlos Santana?" said many , many people in response. I love the way he slid "...and yours truly" into that list of people he claims that "the World" (sic ) would have loved to see perform.
Sure, Carlos. Problem is, they only want to see you perform Black Magic Woman.

And then leave.

D.D.

 

Yep -- I agree. By "redeeming" I meant that her presence offered the oppotunity to "class up" the proceedings. Epic fail.

 

Assuming they remember him at all, a good portion of the younger generations are mostly going to know Santana's work from the duet songs he did backing top 40 artists who were popular during the late 90s/early 2000s. Since they had Coldplay and Beyonce perform, they might as well have added Santana to the show.15 years later and still the same few artists, which is a shame.

 

I agree who cares !

 

Let's just do strippers for next half time show and get to the point. It doesn't have to be a musical act after all you know?

 

Is he Rob Thomas' brother?