BS: Careful where you sing

Subject: Careful wher you sing
From: GUEST,Lyle
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 02:25 PM

Just found this in the news, and knowing how creative this group can be, I thought there would be some insightful, humerous, creative responses. So I'll not try; I'll just listen to you all.

Lyle

MANILA (Reuters) - One man was killed and another wounded when a brawl broke out in a Philippine karaoke bar over the quality of singing, a local newspaper reported on Monday.

A 54-year-old laborer died of a stab wound in a bar in northern Manila early on Sunday after a fight which began when a group of drinkers said the man with the microphone was singing out of tune, according to the Philippine Star.

The singer confronted the group and a fight ensued, according to the report. The dead man had been trying to put an end to the fight when he was stabbed in the chest, it added.

A 24-year-old garment worker is being treated in hospital for stab wounds, the report said.

Recent newspaper reports have said Philippine karaoke parlors have been removing the Frank Sinatra classic "My Way" from playlists because fights frequently broke out when the song was being sung.

Monday's report did not indicate which song was playing when the fight began

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: kendall
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 02:32 PM

Man, Gods' most noble creation. What a joke.

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Tiger
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 02:36 PM

Good decision on "My Way". They should all be dumped in the Marianas Trench.

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 02:38 PM

Well, the buggers have never heard me sing yet-where's me Kevlar body armour!

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Marymac90
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 02:57 PM

Wow, I'm glad they don't treat people who sing off key that way at The Mermaid! I think I'm actually getting better at staying in the same key all the way through a song, but it may be a strange-ish key like G#. The trouble was, I was intending to sing in F! Fortunately they have guitarists there who can actually play in G#!

The MOST welcoming place for musically-challenged singers is Sacred Harp singing. It's part of their culture to accept everybody who tries to sing, whether they can actually sing or not!

Marymac

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 07:04 PM

Sounds like a song challenge to me!

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: 53
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 07:57 PM

we've played in some holes but i've never been stabbed, but we played at one club that if you didn't have a gun when you got to the door, they gave you one. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 07:59 PM

My god, Bob, that sounds like real fun! Maybe you are ready to play the nursing home circuit now? I have always said that if you can play nursing homes, you can play anywhere!

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Amos
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 08:29 PM

Those guys were so drunk, how would they know? How long do you have to live in a bubble of idiotic machismo before you realize it's really a pretty part-time way of being, and even when you can use it is is usually a second rate solution? Using that kind of barbarian mindset in a karaoke bar is pretty ridiculous, now, isn't it?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 02:11 PM

Higgledy Piggledy
Singers are O so free
To sing as they wish
Where they wish it, and when.

But unfortunately and
Freedom-of-Speechily
The hearers may like it
Or not, then again.

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Amos
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 02:56 PM

But like it, don't like it,
As long as he live,
A list'ner should not cast
His vote with a shiv!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: GUEST,Fiver
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 03:15 PM

I have been to the Mermaid, MerryMac, and got bounced out for making sarcastic remarks about a certain singer/Songwriter/guitarist who couldn't keep count to save his life--he wasn't an amateur, though--he and his hanger-ons were just making way to much fuss about him, considering his obvious limitations--You probably know him, at least by reputation--if you don't, just tap your foot along with the music and count, you'll find him soon enough!

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Melani
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 03:19 PM

Hey, come to our chantey sing--we'll listen to ANYBODY, and so far no fights have broken out!

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: GUEST,Fiver
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 06:55 PM

I've never been to a chantey sing, but I'll be glad to come if it is near me--I am rarely sarcastic, exceptwhen people pretend to be what they are not--

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Kim C
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 07:38 PM

Hmm. Reminds me of that scene in The Long Riders where Randy Quaid says to the band.... them's might purty hands you got. If you wanna keep em, play I'm a Good Ol Rebel.

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Melani
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 10:19 PM

Fiver, we're in San Francisco.

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 04:25 AM

..better wear a kevlar vest to Stoney Stratford in case the alcohol makes me remove the duct tape.
RtS ("I've been thrown out of better joints than this")

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: mooman
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 04:33 AM

OK..."My Way" is "off" at Stony Stratford, even kazoo versions!

mooman

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: Suffet
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 07:07 AM

Chilino Sanchez was a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles whom drug dealers hired to write songs praising them and their exploits. Hardly anyone had heard of him until one night when a patron of a rowdy club pulled a gun on him while he was on-stage performing. Chilino responded by pulling out his own gun and shooting the assailant dead. By the next day, Spanish language radio stations throughout the US Southwest were playing Sanchez's songs and he literally became an overnight sensation.

A few months later, Sanchez himself was gunned down, presumably by one or more pals of the man he had killed.
Sic transit gloria!

--- Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: GUEST,Fiver
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 10:16 AM

Well, that is one way to get to the top--Steve--

Melani, I am on the East Coast, but once lived in the Bay Area, and come back from time to time--haven't connected much with the folk music scene there in a long time, tho I once wrote about it for a local music magazine--

Subject: RE: BS: Careful wher you sing
From: LR Mole
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 11:08 AM

Oh I, I've just been stabbed,
I sang off-key at karaoke,
Mistake, this tryn' to make
It singin' pop, not as a folkie.
Some say that Barry Manillow
Is cool, but Ol' Blue Eyes say:
Just stick to your guitars; don't try it my wayAAAAAHRG..