One of my fave shows just started this week: Rock Star (tilt is 'Supernova' this time around). I don't know if it is the amazing House Band (yeah, that's their actual name), the level of the talent of the 15 rockers (most seasoned veterans who have been out playing clubs, bars, etc. for many years), or the antics... but I really like this show! Got great reviews last year (when it was 'INXS" flavor) but never got the ratings to go with it for some reason.

Last night was a surreal experience watching the 'vote out' episode. Like other talent competition shows out there, the bottom three rockers (based on votes gathered from around the world) have to perform a song of their own choosing before the judges/band members to try and stay in the competition. When all three have performed the band kicks one person off the show.

One of the rockers in the bottom three last night got up to sing his 'keep from getting eliminated' song and to my surprise announced he was going to sing "Stars" by Switchfoot! Now, I'm a huge Switchfoot fan (one of those who has been following them since The Legend of Chin way back when), so I was pumped to hear one of their songs being covered on the show. Equally surprising was when Tommy Lee (former Motley Crue drummer & lead celebrity rocker for the new group Supernova) replied with, "I love that band!" Tommy Lee loves Switchfoot! The rest of the 14 rockers sitting over to the side were just sitting there nodding their heads in agreement.

Only problem was that the guy just butchered the song! It was totally surreal. I was sitting there listening to this wanna-be-Rock Star cover this amazing song/group, completely doing it injustice, thinking, "This is totally backwards!" Usually it is the other way around - with a Christian artist/musician butchering a great 'secular' tune as they try their best to cover it. The irony was too much to pass by, so I grabbed the clip from my TiVo & threw it up (interesting choice of words) here for all to marvel with me.

The clip is a streaming Flash video topping in at around 5.3mb. I apologize for those of you with slower connections - this was as compressed as I could get it without making the video unrecognizable. If you can hang in there for only the first 30 seconds, you'll get the gist of what I'm talking about.