k’s Analysis Of Tom Petty’s Halftime Performance

Published: February 3, 2008, 8:28 pm

Despite the beard, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers totally rocked the Super Bowl performance. In general, since the horrible fiasco that passed as a Halftime Show a few years past (who can ever forget Janet Jackson’s nipple, who can ever forgive Kid Rock’s using the American Flag as a poncho), the performances have gotten away from flash (as much as a rock-n-roll band on a neon-lit guitar-pierced-heart-shaped stage at the Super Bowl can) and back to genuine musicality. And I loved the guitar and heart at the beginning! Let’s face it, only Tom Petty can get away with “Free Fallin’” at the Super Bowl…after all, as cool as the song is, it’s basically a mid-tempo ballad with a basic 4/4 drum beat, despite the soaring chorus and cool riffs. He pulls it off not only on the superior strength of the song, but simply on plain supercoolness. Let’s see Bob Rock do that! Other Petty standards–opener “American

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