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Showing Original Post only (View all)So about that band "Madison Rising" [View all]
Yesterday I posted their stunningly bad, Creed - esque version of the National Anthem that they performed at the Daytona 500. I had not heard of this band before, I didn't know anything about them, yet was stunned - not only that they were asked to play the National Anthem in front of the Daytona 500 where some 200,000+ people were present - but that they bill themselves as a "patrotic" (read: right wing) rock band. So I decided to do some research because I am under the impression that "conservative rock" is the exact opposite of what rock should stand for. Here are a few random videos that I was able to pull up on a simple Youtube search:
1. "In The Days That Reagan Ruled" :
"These people can't communicate
No language as a glue
The communists in Hollywood
Tell you what to do
But things were so much different
In the days that Reagan ruled"
2. "Right To Bear" :
"The government makes the gun laws
So they can take away our right to own
Every citizen unarmed
Is a citizen they control"
And here's them getting a rousing endorsement from Fox News and Mike Huckabee:
They're pretty much Bill Hicks' worst nightmare.

And just for the record here's Jimi Hendrix's complete rendition of the SSB:
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They really suck! guess Rs buy up their music by 1,000s to pay them like they buy-up crappy R books.
Sunlei
Feb 2014
#7
No surprise that they were created by a suit, rather than fighting their way up from the bottom.
arcane1
Feb 2014
#34
Ouch! Are they deliberately out of tune and off pitch? My ears are bleeding, and I
Zorra
Feb 2014
#9
so looks like they found a good customer base and are set to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
dembotoz
Feb 2014
#15
For anyone who needs a good musical cleansing and their eardrums blown out...
Gravitycollapse
Feb 2014
#18
Any band who insists on calling itself "America's most patriotic rock band"....
Tommy_Carcetti
Feb 2014
#24