Red Hot Chili Peppers: Why People Hated Their Super Bowl Appearance With Bruno Mars

Why people hated the band's Super Bowl halftime show Appearance with Bruno Mars
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In 2013 the NFL would announce that Bruno Mars would perform at the following year’s super bowl. The last real rock act to perform at the super bowl was in 2010 when the Who performed. 2005 to 2010 was a great time for rock fans when it came to the super bowl. Following the whole nipple gate fiasco of 2004 involving justin timberlake and janet jackson the NFL wanted to play it safe and for six years featured some great acts including Paul Mcccartney, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and of course The Who.

From 2010 to 2013 we had the usual pop artists most rock fans could care less about. Shortly before the 2014 halftime show Mars would announce he’d be joiend by special guests Red Hot Chili Peppers. The halftime show would be scene by 115 million people, the biggest audience in superbowl history at the time.

Not everything went smooth during the planning stages as Mars and the NFL butted heads. The NFL wanted to have the audience members wear light up bracelets to which Mars responded
Telling rolling stone "If you take that camera off me, you're doing yourself a disservice. And what happened? They spent all this money on these things, and it didn't work. Mars became the youngest performer to headline the halftime show being 28 at the time. While Mars performance garnered rave reviews, the same couldn’t be said for the Chili Peppers. While Mars would perform a medley of his hits in addition to opening the show with a drum solo honoring his late mother the Chili Peppers joined him onstage for the second last number performing their 1991 hit Give It Away. Mars' would receive much praise for his performance, but critics were less positive about the Chili Peppers. Entertainment Weekly criticized the Red Hot Chili Peppers' appearance calling it “random and unnecessary” Buzzfeed echoed a similar sentiment with the LA Times Wood calling the Chili Peppers performance ‘stale’

It wasn’t just the critics who criticized the chili peppers as other musicians soon chimed including Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid who pointed out that guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and bassist Flea’s instruments weren’t plugged in. Some accused the band of faking their live performance. A few days later Flea would issue a statement on their performance a few days later stating

“When we were asked by the NFL and Bruno to play our song Give It Away at the Super Bowl, it was made clear to us that the vocals would be live, but the bass, drums, and guitar would be pre-recorded.

GALLERY

GALLERY“I understand the NFL’s stance on this, given they only have a few minutes to set up the stage, there a zillion things that could go wrong and ruin the sound for the folks watching in the stadium and the t.v. viewers. There was not any room for argument on this, the NFL does not want to risk their show being botched by bad sound, period,”
Drummer chad smit hmeanwhile took to twitter to write FYI.... Every band in the last 10 years at the Super Bowl has performed to a previously recorded track. It's the NFL's policy. Period."[28]
That wasn’t the only complaint about the chili peppers controversy as deadspin reported that the US Federal Communications commission received 53 complaints about the performance mostly about flea and anthony keidis performing shirtless worried about what children might think. One person contacted teh FCC complaining about a double standard about men being able to go topless but not woman.
Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose published a letter to offer his own humorous take I enjoyed the show and I've no idea what the real story is nor would I want to suggest or imply anyone wasn't actually performing or that what they were playing wasn't what we actually heard. That said I feel it's important to always look on the positive side of things and to give the benefit of doubt.
So consider that maybe sometime before their actual performance that rather than use a guitar cord or standard wireless, that in the name of science and for all mankind Flea courageously had a newly invented breakthrough in microchip technology installed in his ass that picked up the frequencies of his bass and transmitted them to his amplifier.