Hey Webb,
Greetings from South central Wisconsin! I was quaffing some ale at the local VFW when one of the bozos that hang out there asked me if you had ever done any Karaoke. Like the how hell do I know, but was told my mission was to find out..
so, have you?
Thanks!!
'nita

uh, nope. WW

Waste his voice on THAT?
I think not...

Well thank God for that! I agree, waste your voice on that?
Thanks for the response I was hoping for!!
me

No offense intended, but I was under the impression that karaoke was for drunk folks that can's sing a lick.

That's why I enjoy it so much! ;-)

yeah, you say that like it's a bad thing .....

Well, around here it is mostly drunks and/or people who couldn't carry a tune in a U-Haul. Once in awhile there is someone who can actually sing. that would not include me. which is how this whole thing started when I said I had never been drunk enough to sing Karaoke!

One Saturday evening, I was having dinner with some friends at a local tavern. After we'd been there for a while, they started doing karaoke. A few people got up and sang, with various degrees of success.


But then, the intro to "House of the Rising Sun" started playing. I thought, "Man, somebody's really brave to try to sing that one."

Well, what I thought was bravery turned out to be incredible drunkenness. The guy started braying and howling in the key of R flat, with not one word being the least bit intelligible. What was really funny is when halfway through the organ solo, he must have figured that he hadn't made any noise for a while, so now was the right time to start, and he launched into another burst of his awful vocalizations.

He got a big round of applause when he finished.

I ain't sayin' I'm a'gin it. I'm jes' sayin' I ain't done it. WW

I didn't mean anything dee-rogatory, myself.
It's just that very few working musicians, who depend on their voice to make a living, would even consider singing Karaoke.

Say, now there's a good combo... alcohol and amateur 'singers'. Let's invent a gizmo to combine the two. What could go so terribly wrong? :)

Oh yeah, same thing here. There is one guy that is so bad but always gets a round of applause.. probably because every one is glad it is over! I usually leave before it starts.