If you were a big star recording artist and were asked to do halftime at the Superbowl, what would YOUR halftime show be like?

[BigDaddyLH]

I'd go the opposite way from most replies here. I'd lead everyone in the stadium in some mediation while music like Eno's For Airports was playing.



it won't sell advertising time, but people need to mellow out.

 

[GGardner]

Not sure, but I'm imagining a lot of top-end sushi, fresh lobster, and crazy expensive scotch backstage.

 

[Lone_Poor_Boy]

I'd invite a wide range of musicians, but no Foo Fighters, and then just do Foo Fighters covers.

 

[Sparky2]

There is not a one-one-millionth chance in hell that someone with my sense of musicality, decorum, dignity, and bar band aesthetic would ever be asked to play a Super Bowl halftime show.

So I choose not to speculate.

 

[swarfrat]

10 minute triangle solo!

 

[BigDaddyLH]

I'd invite a wide range of musicians, but no Foo Fighters, and then just do Foo Fighters covers.

Brilliant! What about having the Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but have RHCP do Foo Fighter covers and Foo Fighters do RHCP covers? Genius!

 

[edvard]

I'd get Yamatsuka Eye, John Zorn, Gibby Haynes, Buzz Osborne, Bill Laswell, and Eyvind Kang backed up by various ex-Mothers to do an electro-funk version of "Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz" by John Stump.
With fireworks and free grapefruits for all attending.

Or this:

 

[Refugee]

Tiny Tim and violin for Tiptoe Through the Tulips.

 

[blowtorch]

I'm sure it's been said, but,,,

lots of twerking

Lots and lots

 

[Hodgo88]

I'd need a lot of lasers and explosions to make up for my mediocrity

 

[David Barnett]

You know the part at the end of "2001" where Dave flies into the monolith? That's what my Superbowl Half Time Show would be like.

 

[John Backlund]

I'd perform John Prine's 'Grandpa Was a Carpenter', and have a troupe of loosely choreographed Amish dancing girls accompany me.

 

[Timbresmith1]

Fly in by blimp and play between ramps with about 50 Evel Knievel wannabes flying over head constantly

 

[Knows3Chords]

It won't be long before a human sacrifice will be part of that show.

Oh, with lots of lasers too.

 

[jays0n]

It would be a 12-minute basketball game, but the ball would be a canned ham and the baskets would be shopping carts that each team would be allowed to move around the court.

Televised football would be completely dead in three days, and I'd be a bazillionaire.

Wait .. is that not yet a sport? I’d watch that.

 

[jays0n]

Clothing malfunctions . . .

Good name for the halftime band.

 

[jays0n]

Pretty much this:

Not a goofball person nor have I ever watched a Super Bowl, but that right there was all pretty good. Nothin wrong with that as far as I can see.

 

[HoodieMcFoodie]

I'd have an unscripted Q&A session with random members of the audience.

 

[Flip G]

I would want to approach Gordon Lightfoot's amazing performance of The Canadian Railroad Trilogy at the Grey Cup in 2012 at the ageless age of 73!

 

[northernguitar]

Being in a sea of thrusting female pelvises like Beyoncé.