If you’re going to blow the national anthem, I’d highly recommend you don’t do it at the Indy 500. Steven Tyler bravely didn’t take this advice and delivered a performance in 2001 that was, to put it as kindly as possible, disjointed. He started off honking on his famous bobo (i.e., playing his harmonica) and did that for just long enough that people began to wonder if that was the whole thing. But no, he switched to singing, which was somehow even worse.
Honestly, if they just said they accidentally hired a Steven Tyler impersonator, this whole thing would make a lot more sense.