Fishbone was going to sing the National Anthem at WM11?

[fg]

For the longest time, I never knew this even though I was a fan during this time. This must have been one of the two episodes of Superstars that I missed during this time. When I read about this in 2013, I pictured fishbone as a group that you saw on MTV back then that looked like they did drugs and were bad role models but WWE gave you the impression that they were not (especially if Vince interviewed them.) Turns out I was wrong BTW.

The only thing that I did see where they announced who was going to sing the National anthem was the WM11 trailer where Jack Tunney interrupted it and said who the celebrities that were going to make an appearance and FURTHERMORE (hehehe) he said that HE was going to sing the National Anthem. Jack (singing off-key): “Oh beautiful…” Announcer (interrupting): “We apologize for that last outburst. Now back to your promo.”

When WM11 went live, with no on air explanation, they tried to announce that a special Olympian (who was and is blind) was going to sing the anthem. I said tried to announce because WM11 was plagued by technical difficulties throughout the night and the singing of the anthem was one of them. The singer did a good job but you can tell she was nervous (perhaps nervous she was going to fall) at least that’s the impression I got. She probable was told that she wasn’t going to fall but maybe she didn’t trust them. I don’t know.

Wonder what was the real reason Fishbone backed out?

[johnnyk9]

I like that they gave a special Olympian a chance to show her talent

[Jaws the Shark]

Fishbone were kind of in disarray in 1995, they'd been dropped by their label and there were embroiled in a few weird controversies. They just might not have pulled the eyes the company hoped.

Also, I've always wondered how a ska-funk-punk national anthem would go down, potentially it could've been received as badly as the DX Band's one at WMXIV.

[James Fabiano]

Roughly on the topic, why weren't Bucky and Vinny at Mania 10?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Too bad they didn’t go to WCW. They could’ve rocked the Dungeon of Doom. DOOM!

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Mar 22, 2023 14:57:42 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Roughly on the topic, why weren't Bucky and Vinny at Mania 10?

Don’t know. They were Showtime’s Cabby critics at the time. If you watched one of their promos, it’s obvious that they weren’t hardcore fans because they misidentified Mo from Men On A Mission as Mitchell.

[chrom]

Thought it said Wishbone and was thinking of The Dog.

[James Fabiano]

Mar 22, 2023 15:30:57 GMT -5 fg said:

Mar 22, 2023 14:57:42 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Roughly on the topic, why weren't Bucky and Vinny at Mania 10?

Don’t know. They were Showtime’s Cabby critics at the time. If you watched one of their promos, it’s obvious that they weren’t hardcore fans because they misidentified Mo from Men On A Mission as Mitchell.

And they called Oscar "Ostrich ".