Jason Benetti = Mario Impemba

[oblong]

To think he almost got fired in 1968 

[Biff Mayhem]

I’m an old fart and I like Benetti. 

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

I’m an old fart and I like Benetti. 

same here.

[guy incognito]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

To think he almost got fired in 1968 

Ernie? This is the first I've heard of that. Was it because of the Jose Feliciano thing?

[oblong]

7 hours ago, guy incognito said:

Ernie? This is the first I've heard of that. Was it because of the Jose Feliciano thing?

Yes.  I always knew about it but at some point during the internet era I heard his rendition and thought it was beautiful.  But... different times I guess.  Since Ernie was respnsibile for having him do it he got in trouble.

 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

Yes.  I always knew about it but at some point during the internet era I heard his rendition and thought it was beautiful.  But... different times I guess.  Since Ernie was respnsibile for having him do it he got in trouble.

 

It definitely was not a conservative rendering of the song, and given that the country was in the throes of the 1968 election, which was a referendum on Nixonian conservatism versus Great Society liberalism, that rendition simply became a flashpoint. Imagine the heads that exploded when Hendrix did his version at Woodstock.

Feliciano’s version sounds relatively tame today, especially taken against the American Idol-style renditions that typify pre-game anthems today.

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Feliciano’s version sounds relatively tame today, especially taken against the American Idol-style renditions that typify pre-game anthems today.

At least he wasn't named Jose.  

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

Yes.  I always knew about it but at some point during the internet era I heard his rendition and thought it was beautiful.  But... different times I guess.  Since Ernie was respnsibile for having him do it he got in trouble.

 

Ernie knew there would be flak and set it up anyway. It was great.

[Edman85]

Benetti is the leading candidate to take the NBC Sunday Night Baseball gig. Wouldn't affect his Tigers role. His days off would just be Sunday instead of Saturday.

[chasfh]

I think Benetti’s gonna be gone within a couple of years. Maybe we’ll get Shep back … 🦆🦆🦆

[IdahoBert]

I don’t know how I missed this thread discussion about Ernie and Feliciano. I was there at the fifth game of the World Series in 1968 when José Feliciano sang his version of the Star-Spangled Banner and by my recollection, people in the third base box seats where I was sitting were more stunned than angry about it. When I got home and became aware of the news regarding it, I was really perplexed. It makes me love Ernie even more.

[IdahoBert]

34 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I think Benetti’s gonna be gone within a couple of years. Maybe we’ll get Shep back … 🦆🦆🦆

[chasfh]

13 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

I don’t know how I missed this thread discussion about Ernie and Feliciano. I was there at the fifth game of the World Series in 1968 when José Feliciano sang his version of the Star-Spangled Banner and by my recollection, people in the third base box seats where I was sitting were more stunned than angry about it. When I got home and became aware of the news regarding it, I was really perplexed. It makes me love Ernie even more.

It’s difficult these days to imagine how any treatment of the song other than a martial rendition was considered borderline treason by some, and beyond borderline by others. Thank you, Jose Feliciano and Jimi Hendrix.

[theroundsquare]

i remember seeing ted nugent play the star-spangled banner at the pistons season opener, maybe 1993 or 1994, that was pretty out there.  i wonder what he would think of that today.

[Shinzaki]

Roseanne Barr did a rendition that was...different

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

It’s difficult these days to imagine how any treatment of the song other than a martial rendition was considered borderline treason by some, and beyond borderline by others. Thank you, Jose Feliciano and Jimi Hendrix.

I've always wondered about the Hendrix performance at Woodstock. Did Hendrix ever say why he decided to play it? Had he ever played it before to end a concert? (etc..) It was apparently a spur of the moment decision.

Edited yesterday at 03:37 PM by gehringer_2

[CMRivdogs]

11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I've always wondered about the Hendrix performance at Woodstock. Did Hendrix ever say why he decided to play it? Had he ever played it before to end a concert? (etc..) It was apparently a spur of the moment decision.

If I can trust ChatGPT, Hendrix had done shorter versions of SSB before but not with all the effects. He claimed it was spontaneous. He was performing late Sunday night, early Monday morning after many of the concert goers had made their way out. He was also not performing with his regular band at the time, but with a transitional group he had put together. SSB was also at the end of improvisation after Voodoo Child, and he said it wasn't planned, just came in the moment 

[oblong]

I like to watch Carlos Santana at Woodstock perform Soul Sacrifice and I recently learned that he didn't think he was playing yet and Jerry Garcia gave him some acid... then they called them up.

 

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, oblong said:

I like to watch Carlos Santana at Woodstock perform Soul Sacrifice and I recently learned that he didn't think he was playing yet and Jerry Garcia gave him some acid... then they called them up.

 

Santana was 21, Micheal Shrieve was 20. 

🤯

[papalawrence]

2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

I don’t know how I missed this thread discussion about Ernie and Feliciano. I was there at the fifth game of the World Series in 1968 when José Feliciano sang his version of the Star-Spangled Banner and by my recollection, people in the third base box seats where I was sitting were more stunned than angry about it. When I got home and became aware of the news regarding it, I was really perplexed. It makes me love Ernie even more.

That's awesome Bert! I had a similar experience (although mine was not in person) when I heard Marvin Gaye's rendition before the 1983 nba all-star game. It rocked my world and remains my favorite rendition, along with Jose's

[davidsb623]

1 hour ago, papalawrence said:

That's awesome Bert! I had a similar experience (although mine was not in person) when I heard Marvin Gaye's rendition before the 1983 nba all-star game. It rocked my world and remains my favorite rendition, along with Jose's

Saw Meatloaf sing the SSB in Yankee Stadium a few decades ago, best I have ever seen.  I still get chills thinking about it.

[oblong]

My favorite SSB anecdote is Karen Newman did her thing early on in her career and on the radio Paul Woods says something about "now that the audition tape is made...." 

He's still here doing games.  She's not.

[Tigeraholic1]

Jack White did great on opening day 2022.

 

 

[Shinzaki]

Jack White's halftime show with Eminem on Thanksgiving was great

[papalawrence]

My favorite rendition. I was 17. Marvin became in instant favorite