Celebrating the release of his new album Fear of the Dawn, future cellphone owner Jack White stopped by a Detroit Tigers game to give a slide-guitar rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" — and it sounded eerily familiar.
Are ya ready kids? Because there's something serious reminiscent of our favourite pineapple under-the-sea dweller and LGBTQ+ icon SpongeBob SquarePants about White and his band's version of the US National Anthem.
This baseball home opener actually marked the Detroit musician's first time ever performing it — and while some might see an electric guitar-centred take as very Jimi Hendrix, White certainly made it his own. Beginning with hammered-on twangs, he eventually makes his way into jolts of shredding while his band provides organ blasts and rousing cymbal crashes.
That nasally slide-guitar tone, though... he really put the tartar sauce on this one.
Watch White's SquarePants-spangled performance below.
Are ya ready kids? Because there's something serious reminiscent of our favourite pineapple under-the-sea dweller and LGBTQ+ icon SpongeBob SquarePants about White and his band's version of the US National Anthem.
This baseball home opener actually marked the Detroit musician's first time ever performing it — and while some might see an electric guitar-centred take as very Jimi Hendrix, White certainly made it his own. Beginning with hammered-on twangs, he eventually makes his way into jolts of shredding while his band provides organ blasts and rousing cymbal crashes.
That nasally slide-guitar tone, though... he really put the tartar sauce on this one.
Watch White's SquarePants-spangled performance below.
The singer-songwriter is nothing if not versatile, bringing rap rock back on "What's the Trick?" and doing a solid Beck impersonation while covering Chumbawumba.
