"You used too much vibrato. Pay up."

This is sooo stupid on so many levels. I hope you Hoosiers remember shiat like this come election time.

Because nothing says freedom like criminal penalties for not revering the state properly.

Isn't that an infringement on some first amendment rights?

Was he at the Isotopes game, too?

Sin_City_Superhero: Isn't that an infringement on some first amendment rights?

Not necessarily, depending on how the bill is worded, but it's a blatant assault on common sense. If we're going to start fining singers for performances that we don't like, the national anthem is way, way far down on my list.

That dude looks like a lady.

ObscureNameHere: "At the skylights' last cleaning"

/only people of a certain age will know what I am referencing...

ACK!

FloydA: Sin_City_Superhero: Isn't that an infringement on some first amendment rights?

Not necessarily, depending on how the bill is worded, but it's a blatant assault on common sense. If we're going to start fining singers for performances that we don't like, the national anthem is way, way far down on my list.

I dunno. Did you ever gear Beyonce sing the national anthem? It sounded like an assault on the senses.

Yes yes. We know. You have a wide octave range. You don't need to use the anthem to show it off.

This is a prime example of what is wrong with government. Over stepping it's bounds, fixing things that aren't broken with either unenforceable policies or needless paperwork that means a new paper pushing job for an in-law. And of course wasting time and taxpayer money just considering the ridiculous bill. We need to get a Patriotic Entertainment Inspector to that football game before kick-off!!

Sin_City_Superhero: Isn't that an infringement on some first amendment rights?

Don't be silly. Vocalists aren't corporations.

Sin_City_Superhero: Isn't that an infringement on some first amendment rights?

You are giving this guy WAAAAY to much credit. It's clear he's never even heard of the Constitution, let alone the 1st Amendment.

And what is the "right" way to sing the "Star Spangled Banner"?

do you have the sing the secret extra verses?

I mean the second isn't bad:

On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep.
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!



But the third is bit bloodthirsty

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footstep's pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.


and the fourth just a bit bombastic and Jingoistic dontcha think?

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n - rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, for our cause is just,
And this be our motto--"In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I am all in favour of this, and insist on a return to the original wording forthwith.

To Anacreon in heaven where he sat in full glee,
A few sons of harmony sent a petition,
That he their inspirer and patron would be,
When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian:
Voice, fiddle aud flute, no longer be mute,
I'll lend you my name and inspire you to boot!
And besides I'll instruct you like me to entwine
The myrtle of Venus and Bacchus's vine.

The news through Olympus immediately flew,
When old Thunder pretended to give himself airs,
If these mortals are suffered their scheme to pursue,
The devil a goddess will stay above stairs,
Hark! already they cry, in transports of joy,
A fig for Parnassus, to Rowley's we'll fly,
And there my good fellows, we'll learn to entwine
The myrtle of Venus and Bacchus's vine.

The yellow-haired god, and his nine fusty maids,
To the hill of old Lud will incontinent flee,
Idalia will boast but of tenantless shades,
And the biforked hill a mere desert will be,
My thunder, no fear on't, will soon do its errand,
And, damn me I'll swinge the ringleaders, I warrant
I'll trim the young dogs, for thus daring to twine
The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine.

Jose can you see?

CSB: I sang in one of the country's oldest college a cappella groups. We would often get invited to sing the Anthem at sporting events if we were in town. We were supposed to sing for the Red Sox season opener one year. But this was shortly after the Roseanne debacle. They made us pre-record it and lip synch on the field.

It was the only time we sang it with perfect timing (no echo/delay to compensate for).

Jimi is in a better place.

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Ah, yes. Small government conservativism at its best. The hypocrisy emanating from The Country's Worst Legislature every year never fails to stun those with more than two brain cells to rub together.

This law would make me want to sing it in the African clicking language.

Huck And Molly Ziegler: I'm torn on this one. Obviously the law and the fining and so forth are idiotic, but the song is indeed easily messed up, as we can hear from all the B-list and C-list "entertainers" who are hired to sing it.
C'mon, people, it's the National Anthem. It's not about you. Do the standard rendition, sit down, collect your check, go home.

/anthem really should be something else, and NOT "God Bless America."

I've started to think that Canada's anthem should be "The Maple Leaf Forever" instead of "O Canada".

Huck And Molly Ziegler: I'm torn on this one. Obviously the law and the fining and so forth are idiotic, but the song is indeed easily messed up, as we can hear from all the B-list and C-list "entertainers" who are hired to sing it.
C'mon, people, it's the National Anthem. It's not about you. Do the standard rendition, sit down, collect your check, go home.

/anthem really should be something else, and NOT "God Bless America."

Thank you for this comon sense. I enjoyed the 2 blue jackets games I went to because the performer of the anthem was spot on. Nothing fancy, just a straight performance.
/only thing about a Jackets game worth enjoying.

theMagni: Huck And Molly Ziegler: I'm torn on this one. Obviously the law and the fining and so forth are idiotic, but the song is indeed easily messed up, as we can hear from all the B-list and C-list "entertainers" who are hired to sing it.
C'mon, people, it's the National Anthem. It's not about you. Do the standard rendition, sit down, collect your check, go home.

/anthem really should be something else, and NOT "God Bless America."

I've started to think that Canada's anthem should be "The Maple Leaf Forever" instead of "O Canada".

As an american, I will confess I find myself singing O Canada during hockey games because it's so damn enjoyable.