America's Most Patriotic Rock Band Gives Worst Performance Of National Anthem

[Initech]

Here it is if you can stomach it:

[TwilightGardener]

1. The first 1:30 was cheesy, but acceptable. Then it really nosedived.

If the crowd has to stifle laughter, you're doin' it wrong.

[Initech]

6. Not even Spinal Tap could make up this kind of bad parody!

It was a Creed song posing as the national anthem.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Hey now, even Creed came up with a couple decent songs in their early days, before

their singer went goofy. But this...it goes from cheese to complete camp, it's in a league of its own.

[Initech]

18. Presenting Exhibit A - this is an actual song called "In The Days That Reagan Ruled"

Part of me wants to think that these guys are a satire band - like this is every conservative stereotype of what we liberals think of them, but then again somehow I doubt it. Somewhere Bill Hicks is spinning in his grave.

[progressoid]

25. They sound like a Christian Rock band.

[TwilightGardener]

26. Welp, that is cringe-inducing.

[Initech]

27. Like I said they're a bad parody of a parody of every conservative / liberal stereotype out there

[marble falls]

12. 1:30 on the nose. I really liked it. then really hated it enough to turn it off. At least Roseanne..

was honest. These guys were just trying to nail it. And the missed after 1:31, badly.

[erpowers]

17. You're Right

Before the 1:30 Mark it was at least acceptable. After that it was terrible.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. I kind of liked it.

It's hard to do anything musically interesting or original w. it.

[Plucketeer]

13. I honestly didn't find it horrific either

Hey..... I could understand the lyrics all the way through, and that's something you DON'T get with most contemporary artists nowdays. The event organizers couldn't have been shooting for a grade school rendition when they hired this band and they got what they were looking for, I'd wager.

[Initech]

19. Exhibit B: they're heavily endorsed by Fox News and Mike Huckabee

And I give you "Right To Bear":

[Plucketeer]

21. OK

So this makes them odious. Forgive me for judging the performance in question on it's own merit.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Jimi Hendrix it ain't. Not even close. nt

[Grassy Knoll]

4. Because a Skinhead Band was way too obvious! n/t

[Botany]

5. That was brutal

n/t

[blackspade]

7. Barf.

[czarjak]

8. I don't think Francis Scott had this in mind.

Hasn't someone bitched about proper respect before?

[Populist_Prole]

9. Redneck noise....and hard rock is my favorite genre

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That was almost, but not quite, as nauseating as that Lee Greenwood 'Proud to be an American' tune.

Upon further thinking, this is probably the first and only time I've ever seen a hard rock singer croon.

[DeSwiss]

11. ....

''We've got the only national anthem that mentions fucking rockets and bombs in the damn thing!'' ~George Carlin

[bayareaboy]

14. Don't even get close to trying ...

This Land is Your Land.

Well hell it was at a Nascar race.

[yuiyoshida]

15. All I know is...

Once is enough, thank you. kekko desu.

[muntrv]

16. Where's Roseanne Barr when you need her?

[SpankMe]

20. I didn't totally hate it.

But, if a liberal band took that much artistic liberty with the national anthem, the right wing fucks would be screeching like a chimp with his dick in a vise.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. ...who?

Seriously. Never heard of 'em.

This is more my speed:

[albino65]

23. I've heard worse n/t

[progressoid]

24. Ugh.

I regret hitting the play button (but I couldn't resist watching).