Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music?

I have booked this band for many years and can tell you that they are very nice people away from the stage. I think that Fergie absolutely stole the show away from Jagger during the R & R 25th Anniversary Show and she will be doing a solo concert tour with Slash playing a mixture of covers.

Check out the Fergie song on Slash's new album. This should silence the haters on this thread.

Same story, different day. Anything different from Album Oriented Rock gets flamed in the AudiogoN community. I am surprised that a site oriented to high quality stereo reproduction is mired in the good old days. I can think of 100 new bands that would rival anything from the "golden era." Great songwriting, great production, great live dynamics.

Personal taste is personal taste. See no place for all the hatemail I see on a routine basis on this site. My life is rich because I embrace all forms of music. I consume within 20 different genres. Open your mind and open your heart. Who wants to be apart of a community that bickers. I for one, love free thinkers who constantly challenge my with new groups to listen to. Why select vanilla when you can have 31 flavors. I'm just saying....

Actually, all the background music is pre-recorded a day before and played through the monitors at half time the next day. It would be impossible to properly stage a "live" event due to the nature of the roll-out stage and the logistics of feeding and mixing a 64 track board in real time. It is easier to mimic the music under similar conditions the day before and let the attention be placed on the front persons during Sunday.

The only live feed in real time is the mics on the singers and occasionally one instrument, usually a guitar. Only Fergie and Slash were live during that section.

Why do I know this? I have done three of the half time shows.

Very difficult for ANY band to sound good here.