Mood Music XX

The 40th-anniversary nostalgia around Woodstock compels me to post my favorite clip from the concert film:

I first saw this a few years ago (it may very well have been the 35th anniversary in 2004) when VH1 Classic observed the anniversary weekend by playing the film on an endless loop for a couple of days. (Incidentally, this is a film that is dramatically underserved by being edited for basic cable.) I was totally transfixed by Roger Daltrey's performance, and proceeded to fall madly in love with the Who.

So Wrong

So I was watching this show online and this was the commercial repeated during that show:

So wrong! Not only does this look like significantly less fun than Rock Band, but the choice of song as relates to the concept of "Ultimate Bass" is no good. Maybe I'm being a semi-obsessive fangirl, but you, bass player, should not be jamming out. You should be standing off to the side, gazing with a half-bored, half-bemused expression at those flailing around you, as though wondering how you fell in with this band of psychopaths.

I mean, come on now.