I know that we’re well past the Messiah story trading season, but I couldn’t resist sharing this deliciously terrible video from double bassist Eric Steffens. Be sure to turn your speaker volume down–the person recording/transferring this had their settings really out of whack, and the audio quality is quite distorted. Still, if you can bear with it, you’ll be in for one of the cheesiest musak from hell performances of ‘The Trumpet Shall Sound’ from Handel’s Messiah:
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Years later, Phil Driscoll was convicted and sent to Atlanta’s minimum security prison.
But not for his singing.