The bassist from the Red Hot Chili Peppers played the National Anthem at Kobe Bryant’s last game in Los Angeles Thursday night, and fans absolutely hated it.
Flea — whose real name is Michael Balzary — played a bass-only rendition of the National Anthem at Staples Center. The responses were not good.
Flea's National Anthem was as bad as the Lakers have been the last 3 years.
— Faux John Madden (@FauxJohnMadden) April 14, 2016
We gotta deport Flea for that. It's out of our hands.
— Feitelberg (@FeitsBarstool) April 14, 2016
"Kobe, who do you want to sing the National Anthem for your last game?"
"I want Flea to play it on his bass."
"We can't wait for you to go."— joe mande (@JoeMande) April 14, 2016
I couldn't hear Flea over the sound of Francis Scott Key clawing at the lid of his casket
— Jerry Thornton (@jerrythornton1) April 14, 2016
No disrespect to Flea, but I would have just run back Marvin Gaye's national anthem and called it a day.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) April 14, 2016
Some said those who didn’t like it were just “uninformed” and “unenlightened.”
yo @Flea the national anthem was a BRILLIANT rendition! naturally the uninformed & unenlightened will always continue to drown in ignorance.
— Questlove Gomez (@questlove) April 14, 2016
As a proud American & Red Hot Chili Peppers fan, I'm super stoked that Flea rewrote the National Anthem to make it funkier. IT'S ABOUT TIME.
— Jason Gore (@sonicdork) April 14, 2016
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