Posted on 01/10/2023 5:56:02 AM PST by Red Badger
The NFL hosted its season finale on Sunday. It was an eventful evening with the Buffalo Bills beating out the New England Patriots to earn the #2 seed. However, the matchup between the Tennessee Titans and Jacksonville Jaguars featured something special before the game even started.
Most all sporting events in this country feature a moment to play the national anthem just before the game to honor our country and the values we stand for (assuming the NFL players aren’t kneeling the whole time). The Jaguars featured a unique rendition of the national anthem performed on electric guitar by none other than a Florida man sporting an epic mullet. See the video below.
VIDEO AT LINK...........
I don’t think this performance could’ve been more patriotic. The entire stadium is adorned with American flags on the jumbotron, on the field, and even the performer’s guitar which had the flag painted on it.
He absolutely shredded his rendition, leading some to call it the greatest anthem performance in history. When thinking about national anthem covers on electric guitar, perhaps the quintessential example that comes to mind is Jimmi Hendrix playing it at Woodstock in 1969. However, it is said that Hendrix played the anthem as a protest to the war in Vietnam, in a very unpatriotic fashion. Instead of playing the anthem to cater to a bunch anti-war hippies on acid at Woodstock, our man in the video was playing it to honor our country.
The guitarist in the video is named Paul Wane who is a local Jacksonville resident. He plays in band called “Duval County Line”. Wane also has been operating a nonprofit foundation called “Guitars for Kids” which has supplied nearly 300 instruments to children over the past several years.
I tried to stay in Clay County and avoid Duval County…
Local guy news ping.
It’s nice seeing a good Florida man story.
Well, he had a ‘mullet’....................
HORSESH!T. Hendrix was a patriot who loved America, served in the military (although it was determined that that was not a suitable occupation for him), and expressed his love in that song.
His Star Spangled Banner rendition was not unpatriotic - it was the exact opposite. This writer is 180 degrees wrong.
Outstanding shootout scene.
Parts of Duval County are okay.
Extreme West, North and South and the Beaches..............
He did a great job. It was nice to hear his patriotic version.
Second it's along the vein of Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner:
Jimi Hendrix - The Star Spangled Banner [ National Anthem ] ( Live at Woodstock 1969 )
Mullet? More like a receding hair line with “regular” long hair. We stumbled into a mullet meet up in Lake Tahoe a few years back. Now, THOSE were mullets. LOL!
That’s what I thought as well.
The writer:
AUTHOR: ELLIS
Ellis
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I used to bounce down at River City Brewing company, across from the Landing, back in 2000…
I don’t know if that’s even still a place.
So, how do you "shred" anything with a mallet? Oh, wait...
;^)
Haven’t been there in years......decades............sometime last century!.......................
Being an old veteran, I appreciate the National Anthem when it’s played traditionally...The ONLY version I like that isn’t traditional is the one by the group “Madison Rising”...here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHbV6vAGRw
The “with mullet” is an unnecessary qualifier when used with Florida Man. It is redundant
Another great video of Madison Rising:
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