"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?

I'm all for the first ammendment, but holy shiat some of those people can really screw up the anthem. It's like singers that try to make Christmas carols "their own". Oh well, I guess something has to happen to get the jets to fly over so we can get on with things.

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.

ObscureNameHere: "At the skylights' last cleaning"

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

ACK!

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

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

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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.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Oh, and a little of the "kinda cute")

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.

Apparently, everything's perfect in Indiana and its legislature doesn't have any real public policy to consider.

I hope this moron gets his stupid bill passed. I'd come down to Indy and sing it on a loudspeaker, Aguilera-style with offensive alternative lyrics.

The other day, someone said,

"There is not a face nor palm large enough for this."

Pretty much sums up everything about this story.

Meh, I don't mind this. Our local Choral department though it would be cool to add in a couple extra verses. That is stupid. Sing the lyrics the way they are written.

As far as singing it with a crazy melody to jazz it up, I really don't care as long as all the words are there without any addition.

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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I've got a better idea. How about we just stop singing the national anthem at sporting events. It is an inherently stupid and pointless tradition.

/and no more farking God Bless America during baseball games. Take Me Out to the Ballpark is the correct and only song required during a game...

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

The Star Spangled Banner is a terrible piece of music and one of the worst national anthems I've ever heard. There. I said it. It's so damn hard to sing because it's an amelodic piece of shiat. America the Beautiful is superior in every conceivable way.

Ahh, social engineering! Another worthless politician, incapable of solving problems attempting to fix something they have no clue about.