Who would you like to hear/see perform at the Inauguration?

[Legolamb]

(Dead or Living)
The Funk Brothers; Jimi Hendrick’s “Are you Experienced?”

Alternatively, who do you predict will be there? Do you think Clinton will bring his sax and jam? Will Emanuel dance?

[dubhe]

A mariachi band?

[kainjow]

I'd enjoy seeing Bill playing his sax. Has anyone seen his latest gig (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0)?

[kavika411]

I vow to become Obama's leading supporter if he gets the original Smiths back together to play, if only one song even, such as "How Soon is Now." Perhaps "The Queen is Dead" is somehow fitting for Bush's departure, although I can't quite come up with a witty literary nexus.

[calculus]

I would like to see George Bush juggling...

[themoonisdown09]

The Black-Eyed Peas :D

[leekohler]

How about nobody? I'd love it if we could just have one public event that isn't accompanied by wretched pop stars and other such nonsense. It's politics, not a rock concert. Everything doesn't have to look like MTV.

[Cleverboy]

Madonna, Janet Jackson and Brittany Spears! Booyah! Beat that. --And they should all be required to kiss on stage, and give us at least one guaranteed wardrobe malfunction.

How about nobody? I'd love it if we could just have one public event that isn't accompanied by wretched pop stars and other such nonsense. It's politics, not a rock concert. Everything doesn't have to look like MTV. Mm. You're right. Maybe it should only be Brittany.

~ CB

[mactastic]

The Dixie Chicks.

[rdowns]

The Dixie Chicks.


Bingo. It would be great to watch the FOX talking heads explode over that.

[leekohler]

The Dixie Chicks.

Ok, that WOULD be funny. :)

[blackfox]

Someone playing the Rocky theme perhaps?...maybe someone playing Ebony and Ivory?

Seriously, I couldn't care less - Lee has it right...

[ucfgrad93]

How about nobody? I'd love it if we could just have one public event that isn't accompanied by wretched pop stars and other such nonsense. It's politics, not a rock concert. Everything doesn't have to look like MTV.

Agreed. As far as I'm concerned, swear him in and let him get to work.

[Legolamb]

Hey guys,

Do you really think there is NOT going to be a big blow-out? Even if we hit a Depression rating, do you think there WON'T be a musical induction as part of the ritual involved? Granted, Robert Frost won't read an inauguration poem as he did at JFK's inauguration; maybe it will be Toni Morrison. But to think that "politics" is/could/should be separate from popular culture, to deny that pop culture (or culture in general) had/has no place in forming the public discourse that results in political action, seems to me to be a tad too disingenuous. Is it the type of music that is the problem? Or is it that you think there is no place for revelry in such a hallowed institution?

[iJohnHenry]

Mavis Staples (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZWdDI_fkns), because she is both Black and brilliant. :cool:

[Anuba]

I want to see Dolly Parton do the Obamagirl song.

[és:]

I'll go for the Dixie Chicks and Tracy Chapman.

[Peterkro]

Bill Hicks,he'd probably say something sensible and disrupt the whole charade.