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| Author: | Marble [ Tue Jul 15, 2014 8:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | BBC radio 4 documentary on Portland karaoke |
Not sure if our American friends can access this - but I'd be curious of your thoughts if you can. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0497zz3 |
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| Author: | jdmeister [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC radio 4 documentary on Portland karaoke |
Yes, I'm listening now.. |
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| Author: | chrisavis [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC radio 4 documentary on Portland karaoke |
Just listened to the story. Thank you for posting, Marble. The only issue I have with it is what I heard at 2:53 "He is part of a world wide karaoke jock collective that includes KJ's in New Zealand and England who all make tracks and the trade with each other...." I honestly don't care if he makes his own tracks and shares those out. But I have never found any and I have been spot checking for over a year now. He must be doing something right because he has a show in Seattle, a couple in Portland, and he is expanding to Los Angeles - https://www.facebook.com/events/1443698189224519/ |
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| Author: | Cueball [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC radio 4 documentary on Portland karaoke |
chrisavis wrote: The only issue I have with it is what I heard at 2:53 Are you anywhere near to check out his show/s? I heard them mention Baby Ketten being described as THE PALCE to go to.
"He is part of a world wide karaoke jock collective that includes KJ's in New Zealand and England who all make tracks and they trade with each other...." I honestly don't care if he makes his own tracks and shares those out. But I have never found any and I have been spot checking for over a year now. |
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| Author: | Lonman [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC radio 4 documentary on Portland karaoke |
chrisavis wrote: Just listened to the story. Thank you for posting, Marble. And yet they are very successful for years, create their own tracks (most likely w/o licensing), multi state working now and haven't been touched by anyone. We should just start a KJ Collective locally & create all our own tracks as well. Have you seen their songbook - INSANE amount of songs with tracks you cannot find ANYWHERE, not even sure where they found the instrumentals alone on many that I've been looking for!
The only issue I have with it is what I heard at 2:53 "He is part of a world wide karaoke jock collective that includes KJ's in New Zealand and England who all make tracks and the trade with each other...." I honestly don't care if he makes his own tracks and shares those out. But I have never found any and I have been spot checking for over a year now. He must be doing something right because he has a show in Seattle, a couple in Portland, and he is expanding to Los Angeles - https://www.facebook.com/events/1443698189224519/ |
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| Author: | chrisavis [ Wed Jul 16, 2014 2:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC radio 4 documentary on Portland karaoke |
I am not even going to speculate. I know he is a musician and in the BBC program it was mentioned that he has a bunch of musical instruments and that he spent a lot of time getting a bass line correct. |
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| Author: | NoShameKaraoke [ Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC radio 4 documentary on Portland karaoke |
Lonman wrote: chrisavis wrote: Just listened to the story. Thank you for posting, Marble. And yet they are very successful for years, create their own tracks (most likely w/o licensing), multi state working now and haven't been touched by anyone. We should just start a KJ Collective locally & create all our own tracks as well. Have you seen their songbook - INSANE amount of songs with tracks you cannot find ANYWHERE, not even sure where they found the instrumentals alone on many that I've been looking for!The only issue I have with it is what I heard at 2:53 "He is part of a world wide karaoke jock collective that includes KJ's in New Zealand and England who all make tracks and the trade with each other...." I honestly don't care if he makes his own tracks and shares those out. But I have never found any and I have been spot checking for over a year now. He must be doing something right because he has a show in Seattle, a couple in Portland, and he is expanding to Los Angeles - https://www.facebook.com/events/1443698189224519/ I was genuinely sad that my Portland trip to get that karaoke tattoo for that tv show fell on a Wednesday-Thursday, as I couldn't make it to one of their shows. Just the Tom Waits stuff alone. And the Pogues stuff. And the A Tribe Called Quest... it was pretty much every song I had ever wanted to sing that wasn't produced by a major manufacturer. |
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| Author: | chrisavis [ Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC radio 4 documentary on Portland karaoke |
cueball wrote: chrisavis wrote: The only issue I have with it is what I heard at 2:53 Are you anywhere near to check out his show/s? I heard them mention Baby Ketten being described as THE PALCE to go to."He is part of a world wide karaoke jock collective that includes KJ's in New Zealand and England who all make tracks and they trade with each other...." I honestly don't care if he makes his own tracks and shares those out. But I have never found any and I have been spot checking for over a year now. They do have a Seattle show. That is the one my patrons have described as being "annoyingly loud". But they mentioned in the BBC story that he plays loud to emulate a concert experience. So I guess that is his schtick and it obviously works. They do 4 nights a week between two clubs here. I going to go check them out soon. |
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