Are there any similarities between the inauguration and the Super Bowl halftime show?
I produced Sunday’s (Jan. 18) show with George Stevens Jr. We’ve worked with a lot of those artists but it was a different feeling. It was just an inspirational feeling that spread through the camp. We had two days with bitter cold and the crew would stay out there working for hours. Working with the talent and artists was so different from how we normally operate. They had to find their own way to D.C., get their own ground transportation and their own hotels. There were none of the glam squads you normally get. The ironic thing is the Super Bowl halftime is twelve minutes and we’ve been working with Bruce Springsteen and Jon Landau [Springsteen’s manager] for months. The inaugural show was two hours and we worked on it for two weeks. It was truly last minute. The main difference is that in the Super Bowl the halftime show is simply one spoke in a wheel. There are conditions set up for us that we have to accept and artists have to accept. One of those conditions is that there is only
