Steve-O Proves the Allman Brothers Band’s ‘Ramblin’ Man’ is Hard to Sing While Being Electroshocked
Leave it to 'Jackass' star Steve-O to finally find a way to make televised singing shows entertaining: with the Allman Brothers Band and a healthy dose of physical torture.
Of course any given hour of 'X Factor' or 'The Voice' is packed with more mental and spiritual punishment than any person deserves to endure. But by adding various entertaining, survivable and presumably medically supervised and painful stunts to the proceedings, the new truTV show 'Killer Karaoke' (airing Friday nights at 9ET) provides a healthy dose of laughs and points out the utter ridiculousness of the genre.
Take the opening episode, where a good-natured young man named Michael Daniels agrees to serve Steve-O a complete Mexican meal while singing the Allman's 'Ramblin' Man' and oh yeah did we mention… wearing a series of electroshock devices. Of course the maniac holding the remote repeatedly waits for the perfect combination of high notes and full serving trays to hit poor Daniels with the electricity.
As you can imagine, things get messy pretty quickly, and naturally the vocal performance suffers just a hair as our amateur vocalist spends much of his time doubled over in pain. If 'Idiocracy' is indeed our future, at least we'd prefer this laugh-filled version to the overblown dramatics and puffed-up stakes of the so-called "real" singing competitions.
More From Ultimate Classic Rock
![Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top Launch 2024 Tour: Set List, Video](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2024/03/attachment-lynyrd-skynyrd-zz-top.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Skynyrd’s Rickey Medlocke Flips Bird to Rock Hall Over Exclusion](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2024/03/attachment-rickey-medlocke-rock-hall-middle-finger.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Lynyrd Skynyrd Plots ‘All-Star’ Album Featuring Gary Rossington](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2019/05/rickeymedlocke.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Rickey Medlocke Is Still Grappling With Gary Rossington’s Death](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2023/12/attachment-Medlocke-Rossington.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Why ‘Free Bird’ Never Gets Old for Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Rickey Medlocke](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2012/10/Rickey-Medlocke-Mike-Coppola-Photo.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Gary Rossington’s Former Home on Sale for $12M](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2023/12/attachment-RossingtonHome.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top Announce 2024 Tour Dates](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2023/10/attachment-lynyrd-skynyrd-zz-top-2024.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Watch Lynyrd Skynyrd Give Gary Rossington’s Guitar to Emotional Jelly Roll](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2023/10/attachment-jellyroll.jpg?w=980&q=75)
![Watch Man Play ‘Free Bird’ at Triple Speed on ‘Guitar Hero’](http://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2023/08/attachment-guitar-hero.jpg?w=980&q=75)