Last Friday, June 27, prior to a Vermont Lake Monsters game at Burlington’s Centennial Field, local bass virtuoso Aram Bedrosian melted faces with a stirring solo electric bass rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.” And it’s … well, it’s pretty much all that is good in America wrapped up into a single 1:27-minute clip: baseball, goofy mascots and absolutely filthy bass solos. America, f*ck, yeah!

Take it away, Aram.

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Dan Bolles is a culture coeditor at Seven Days. He joined the paper in 2007 as its music editor, covering Vermont's robust music, comedy and nightlife scenes for a decade before deciding he was too old to be going to the Monkey House on weeknights to...