And now for one thing fully patriotic and healthful: how a few high-school basketball participant in his sport put on shredding the nationwide anthem on an X Sequence Jackson Soloist simply moments earlier than taking to the sphere for the final dwelling sport of the season?
Oh, all proper then. That’s precisely what now we have right here. Andrew Logan, a senior at Calallan Excessive College in Corpus Christi, Texas, is doing the honors on electric guitar – and his rendition on the Calallen Wildcats’ last dwelling sport of the yr was so spectacular, it is racked up practically 700,000 views on TikTok.
Logan places his stamp on it, understanding when to lean into the wah pedal as a filter to make his Soloist’s high-output ceramic HB-103B bridge humbucker squawk, understanding when to dial it again and maintain it on level, some super-fluid double-handed tapping as a result of sport day is a day for excellence.
Grover Jackson can take some credit score for the maintain, in fact – the neck-through construct of the Soloist comes into its personal on that rating. And spalted maple veneer on basswood is an aesthetic end and wholly befits an event akin to this.
Head to Logan’s TikTok page (opens in new tab), and it turns into clear the place his chops come from. Right here is one child who has crossed the streams, mixing music and sports activities, pitting college in opposition to college on who will get extra of his extra-curricular time and a spotlight, and by all accounts excelling at each.
Okay, so we do not have his stats for interceptions made or profitable passes, however by way of the music, Logan is a premium shredder in coaching, making brief work of Marty Friedman’s finger-twisting Twister of Souls solo.
It’s fairly outstanding the journey that this tune has been on. Again in 1780, John Stafford Smith may have had no concept that the melody for the Anacreontic Track would a) turn into the nationwide anthem of the USA of America, b) would turn into a typical that every one American guitar gamers should be taught, and that c) would sound so good by way of a high-performance metal guitar like this.
It was Jimi Hendrix who confirmed us all how the track may very well be was a piece of efficiency artwork on six strings. His was each subversive and in its personal proper a type of patriotism, an incendiary, psychedelic expertise.
Legions of gamers have adopted since. Are you able to even name your high-profile sporting occasion an occasion with out inviting a top-tier guitar expertise – Metallica, Derek Vans and Susan Tedeschi, Alex Skolnick, Steve Vai et cetera – to open the play with a solo efficiency?
And the great thing about the monitor is how the melody is so sturdy that it withstands reinterpretation, of all people’s particular person type being pressed upon it. Possibly there’s a metaphor there for the nation in the event you’d be so inclined to learn it that manner.
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