News …
Helicopter with Motley Crue's Tommy Lee riding shotgun forced to land by L.A.P.D. - E! Online
Some Arizona Super Bowl fans get more than pigskin with their telecast as porn invades final seconds of the game - Arizona Daily Star
Steve Martin's banjo love - The New York Times
30 years after his death, Keith Moon to be honored by plaque hung at location of some of The Who's early gigs - BBC News
Views …
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band at the Super Bowl - "He promised a 12-minute party, and more than delivered by charming the estimated 100 million television viewers with his opening line: 'I want you to put the chicken fingers down and turn your television all the way up.'" - Associated Press
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band at the Super Bowl - "This was Springsteen as song-and-dance man, an accomplished artist reduced to pandering." - The Chicago Tribune / Turn It Up
Katy Perry in Los Angeles - "In a surprisingly strong performance, only the fourth date of her just-launched, cutely named Hello Katy Tour, Perry set herself apart from the teeming hordes of pop-tart princesses who have taken over mainstream radio this decade with a show that deftly displayed all of her winning traits." - The Orange County Register
Punch Brothers feat. Chris Thile in Birmingham, Alabama - "Experimental bluegrass for the brainy set, expertly performed." - The Birmingham News
Sam Roberts Band in Ottawa - "Roberts' fluid voice, sometimes a little rough in the live setting, sounded better than ever, a sterling instrument that is his one of his strongest assets and elevates his material beyond the crowded pool of retro-rock bands." - Ottawa Citizen
America in Ontario - "Bunnell and Beckley still have good voices. If anything, their vocals are a tad lower, less saccharine. Their mature sound is still mellow, but not so cottony soft - in a word, more ballsy." - The Waterloo Record
Brad Paisley in Omaha - "Paisley proved that he is much more than just a singer. He is an amazing guitar player, too." - Omaha World-Herald
"Tim and Eric Awesome Tour" in Boston - "In person, it's all the stranger to see, say, Tim rolling around in a leopard-print Speedo or the bizarrely earnest David Liebe Hart doing his wacked-out ventriloquist act than it is on TV." - Boston Herald / The Edge
They Say It's Their Birthday … (Or so says Associated Press)
Tom Smothers is 72
Graham Nash is 67
Howard Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers) is 63
Ross Valory (Journey) is 60
Robert DeLeo (Army of Anyone; Stone Temple Pilots) is 43
Ben Mize (Counting Crows) is 38
T-Mo is 37
Shakira is 32