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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Howard Rush on February 04, 2013, 10:15:02 AM
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I wonder if you all caught the Jive Combat Team Superbowl spot. It cost us a pretty penny, but it's a lot of eyeballs on the JCT, and you can't let the brand slip in the off season.
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I saw the power outage...was that it? :-\ Steve
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Naw Steve it had to be the one about the GOAT! Right?
Randy Cuberly
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Naw Steve it had to be the one about the GOAT! Right?
Randy Cuberly
Was that an Iranian goat??
Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team
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Was there contact cement involved?
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Was that the one with the old people in it?
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Was that the one with the old people in it?
Yeah, I think that must have been the one! :D :D :D
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I miss the old Outpost.com add with guys firing gerbils out of a cannon.
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Steve those were the funniest commercials ever. You can still pull them up on You Tube
Mike
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I wonder if you all caught the Jive Combat Team Superbowl spot. It cost us a pretty penny, but it's a lot of eyeballs on the JCT, and you can't let the brand slip in the off season.
What? Commercial? I thought it was the halftime show.
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What? Commercial? I thought it was the halftime show.
The halftime show was marginally better than the god-awful murderous rendition of the National Anthem by Alicia Keys.
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The halftime show was marginally better than the god-awful murderous rendition of the National Anthem by Alicia Keys.
With both Beyonce and Alicia Keys, the "mute" button is your best friend.
Brett
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With both Beyonce and Alicia Keys, the "mute" button is your best friend.
Brett
I shall remember that, next time either one shows up on the screen here.
(Where was Travis Tritt when we so desperately needed him?)
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The halftime show was marginally better than the god-awful murderous rendition of the National Anthem by Alicia Keys.
I really have to agree with that. Why can't someone just sing the song the way it was intended to be sung...with honor and dignity!
This broad was even off-key when she started. No pun intended. She had a piano in front of her and still couldn't hit the right note...
Whatever happened to professionalism...and to think she got paid for that!
Randy Cuberly
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. . . Why can't someone just sing the song the way it was intended to be sung...with honor and dignity!
Randy Cuberly
Because today's "Producers" pander to slovenly youth who have no knowledge of, or appreciation for, this country's traditions. It's getting worse every year.
(Okay, "New-Agers".....take your shot.)
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With both Beyonce and Alicia Keys, the "mute" button is your best friend.
Brett
Yeah, but Kelly Rowland was worth "watching"! (She was the one with the bangs ;))
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I really have to agree with that. Why can't someone just sing the song the way it was intended to be sung...with honor and dignity!
This broad was even off-key when she started. No pun intended. She had a piano in front of her and still couldn't hit the right note...
Whatever happened to professionalism...and to think she got paid for that!
Randy Cuberly
Whitney Houston, 1991 Superbowl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupsPg5H6aE
Without a doubt the best and most professional performance of the National Anthem.
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I really have to agree with that. Why can't someone just sing the song the way it was intended to be sung...with honor and dignity!
And there is no reason they can't - most of these singing girls have great voices. But they have to make it something "special".
Even worse are the people they get to sing "God Bless America" at baseball games. Most people are intimidated by the "Star Spangled Banner" since it's so hard to sing. Any yo-yo thinks they can sing "God Bless America" before an audience. They are wrong. Uncle Jimby, Paulette, and I were watching the World Series at the JimbyDome, and we came to the conclusion that only two people should ever be allowed - Kate Smith, of course, and the other one is Jerry D'Arcy - a cop from the Tenderloin that sang it at Game 1. He was AWESOME. ALL of the other GBA singers at in the baseball postseason should never be allowed to sing outside their own shower ever again.
Brett
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If the dimwits-in-charge wanted to hear the National Anthem and/or God Bless America sung properly, they'd hire Martina McBride or Reba McEntire.
If you don't know those voices, you've been missing something!
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Man, you guys are cranky. Curmudgeons unite!
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. . . Curmudgeons unite!
. . . and proud OF it, Bubba!
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The half time looked like nothing more than a huge human spam. WOW! What has entertainment become?
Uncle Mike ---- You are right -on about the singing of our National Anthem. Alicia must have been on something and should be banned from singing it again. The same could be said for so many others including the "nits" that sing before NASCAR. The Anthem becomes all about the AAAAAAAAArtist rather than revering our National Anthem. It makes me ill to watch most of them.
Tempest
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Sorry guys, I don't care what Beyonce sounds like!!! She can sing for me anytime. And just to make my point clear, the other five photos are of track star Lolo Jones. She doesn't sing at all! These babes are welcome to launch my plane any day of the week.
Now where are those Halle Berry photos!!
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Being almost deaf and having sound turned down during half time, also missed the National Anthem. I just like the good looking legs and pretty faces. Also the start of any of the NASCAR divison races I fast forward thru the intros of people trying to sing. I record them so I can fast forward thru the commercials. Now the Super Bowl, first one I have watched in years, was watched because the wife wanted to see the commercials. Only two commercials worth watching.
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Being almost deaf and having sound turned down during half time, also missed the National Anthem. I just like the good looking legs and pretty faces. Also the start of any of the NASCAR divison races I fast forward thru the intros of people trying to sing. I record them so I can fast forward thru the commercials. Now the Super Bowl, first one I have watched in years, was watched because the wife wanted to see the commercials. Only two commercials worth watching.
Doc,
I'd make it three...
The Clydsdale Colt, The Farmer, and the Goat in that order.
The worst one ever was the disgusting Go Daddy thing...after watching that I couldn't even finish eating my popcorn.
I'm seriously considering changing my Web Page provider...uuuuggghhhhhhhh.
They said on Fox News they had to shoot that thing 47 times to get it right!!!! The blond probably kept throwing up!!! LL~ LL~ LL~
Randy Cuberly
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I am happy to hear that I'm not the only one disgusted by the way most celebs try to sing OUR anthem. Ive heard it butchered so many times by those who put their spin on it to make it there own. ITS NOT THEIRS, ITS OURS.
I was at a San Jose Giants baseball game a few years back and some skank tried singing the anthem as if she were trying out for American Idol. She was booed louder than Kirk Gibson at an Oakland A's Old Timer Game.
I enjoyed that game
Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team
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I am happy to hear that I'm not the only one disgusted by the way most celebs try to sing OUR anthem. Ive heard it butchered so many times by those who put their spin on it to make it there own. ITS NOT THEIRS, ITS OURS.
I was at a San Jose Giants baseball game a few years back and some skank tried singing the anthem as if she were trying out for American Idol. She was booed louder than Kirk Gibson at an Oakland A's Old Timer Game.
I enjoyed that game
Larry, Buttafucco Stunt Team
As should anyone be who insists on stylizing the Anthem.
I have sung the National Anthem at many College sporting events in Colorado, Phoenix and here in Tucson at the U of A. I always considered it a solemn honor, not a performance to be coveted.
It must have been what they wanted because I was called back many, many times...
Tells me that there are a lot of folks that agree with us.
The Super Bowl is about MONEY and the producers want famous names to impress the advertisers...and the famous names are usually more impressed with themselves than singing.
Randy Cuberly
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If you take the National Anthem out of football... I was often solemn this football season. (Basketball season too.) Philadelphia Eagles. Philadelphia 76ers. The Flyers. Serious solemn. I'm afraid of the mood that will happen this summer and spring, when the Phillies play all those games. Doesn't Howard play electric guitar for Beyonce. I thought I saw someone wearing the rubber nose.
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Thank you, Dennis, for somewhat arresting this troubling thread drift and getting the subject somewhat back to the JCT. No, that wasn't I playing guitar; I play bass.
The Jive Combat Team will seriously consider retaining Randy to sing the SSB straight at its future appearances. After all, it's not about the National Anthem singer. It's about the Jive Combat Team.
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Thanks Howard for getting everyone back on subject. I don't know about the SB ads, but are you the deranged clown running around in your clown suit on the pizza commercial?!! Kinda glad it got a little off subject so we could learn that Randy C. sang at all those big events- really I'm impressed!! I also agree the half time show and patriotic songs were "butchered"!
Doug
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At least they actually still sang the National Anthem. The way things are going, be happy about that.
Now, back to the JCT...
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I thought Steve was the one that played with Bass?
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I thought Steve was the one that played with Bass?
Exactly so, Mike. They smell worse than the JCT, even with Da Dirt included.
I would put up some kudos to the late Marvin Gaye for his rendition of The National Anthem, stylized and all. Normally, I'd agree with you, but he pulled it off quite well, I think. y1 Steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRvVzaQ6i8A&feature=related)
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Thank you, Dennis, for somewhat arresting this troubling thread drift and getting the subject somewhat back to the JCT. No, that wasn't I playing guitar; I play bass.
The Jive Combat Team will seriously consider retaining Randy to sing the SSB straight at its future appearances. After all, it's not about the National Anthem singer. It's about the Jive Combat Team.
Gee...I didn't think this thread had a subject...apparently a lot of people agreed with me.
Actually it kind'a seemed adrift from the very beginning... :## :## :##
UUhhhhhh sorry but I'm a RETIRED singer...in fact I'm a retired everything!!! <= <=
Randy C.
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Boy, Randy I learn something new about as time goes on. The only singing I do is once in a while they will let me do a special song using a track.
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The real problem is, the present generation was raised on a steady diet of rock an' roll. Without any exposure to western pentatonic music, they grew up essentially "tone-deaf". When those people present an aleatoric reading of our National Anthem, it sounds perfectly good to them.
Musicologists will agree that our National Anthem is difficult to sing. It encompasses an octave and a fifth, with large jumps. Even trained voices must really pay attention while singing it.
F.C.
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Gotta be rock & roll music if you want to dance with me.
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Gotta be rock & roll music if you want to dance with me.
I got no kick against modern jazz.
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OK, Here's a video of the Star Spangled Banner sung straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-zA1q5Djmw
Did this at a performance of "Damn Yankees" in which I played the character of Joe Boyd. A different character did it before the start of each show. This clip was surreptitiously recorded by my brother's lady friend with her cell phone using available light.
Ted
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OK, Here's a video of the Star Spangled Banner sung straight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-zA1q5Djmw
Did this at a performance of "Damn Yankees" in which I played the character of Joe Boyd. A different character did it before the start of each show. This clip was surreptitiously recorded by my brother's lady friend with her cell phone using available light.
Ted
Bravo Ted!!!
Randy Cuberly
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p.s. re the SB commercials. The Dodge commercial featuring Paul Harvey's (a modeler by the way) narrative about American farmers, accompanied by photos of many reminiscent of actual Americans I knew in my youth, was incredibly touching. When side by side with the "Go Daddy make out slobber" you get just a hint of how far we've come in the last 60 or so years (tongue firmly implanted in cheek).
Given the fact that the JCT membership is roughly the same vintage as the Americans commemorated by Paul I'll have to assume it was their ad.
Here 'tis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE
Ted Fancher
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Ah! JCT= Junior Cowboy Trail. Now we know. Who'd a thunk.
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Remember there, there is the Cowboy way of doing things.