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Things have been a little quiet here in FORUMSVILLE ... So I thought I'd try to get a new thread going.  I hope you'll all share some great stories!

I don't know about you ..... but I have witnessed some really funny things while at a Karaoke show or while singing publically.  

How about you?  

Tell us about something really funny that you've seen .... or even better ... that has happened to you.  

I'll go first ...This happened to me.  I have TONS of other things I will add later on, too!

I was singing Footloose at a show.  The audience was having a great time ... dancing, singing along .... I was having a blast ~~  I'm sure most of you have seen the movie ..... where the kids are dancing in the barn .... pretty much at the end ?  

Wellllllll......... All of a sudden ..... across the room... three college guys come running full steam ..... and one at a time .... they take these giant leaps across the front of the stage ~~ and slide on their knees ..... across the whole room.  

The crowd went CRAZY .... and well...... it took me by such surprise ..... that for the remainder of the song .... all I could do was just LAUGH into the microphone.  I couldn't pull it together ..... Hysteria set in.  

Now..... its "anticipated" by the crowd.  Whenever I get up to sing the song... these three guys always put on their spectacular show of leaps and slides.  Its really become a "favorite part" of the song.

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I went to a local small bar here in vancouver and was starting ot sing a custom version of a bon jovi song, created by a friend on Mirc.  well that night they happen to be doing a promotion where the bartender at the back of the bar also had a microphone so they could banter back and forth with the DJ during breaks.  I get about 2 minutes into the song and all of a sudden I hear thne bartender talking on the mic over my singing yelling at the KJ to start karaoke cuz there were people wanting to sing.  well in the middle of her talking I stopped singing (to hear what the hell was so important LOL) and I started just talking back to her LOL the KJ just stood there with a weird perplexed look on his face because he didn't know how to respond and i simply told the bartender that he HAD started karaoke and that it was ME singing the damn song.  she turned about 5 shades of red (sorta the color foxy gets when I show her my polaroids LOL) and she slunk away to the other side of the and turned off her mic LOL well I finished the song and before i had gotten back to my table she had come up (still foxy red) and was apologizing saying how she thought it was a cd the KJ was playing and not a karaoke singer.. well I took it as a compliment and laughed it off but I ended up not paying for any of my drinks that night LOL...

Another funny moment is ANY time that I slide and writhe all over the floor (in the style of madonna's like a virgin video) in front of any singer who is currently singing any madonna... makes the drunks spit beer out their noses... try it sometime.. it works- tig

Tig slid across the floor one night when I was singing, the kj is a buddy of mine and he started hootin' and hollerin' and I just lost it.

Another moment when I lost it (Tig I've gotten used to, but he still surprises me from time to time), was at one of our gigs, it was dead, so I thought it'd be a great time to try a hard song I always wanted to do.

Kenny Loggins "For the First Time".

Tig's wifey Deb walks by right as I'm doing a very high note, and says (in her OH so PETITE AND TINY SMEGGIN' VOICE) "Oh, WHAT IS IT WITH YOU AND THESE NUTBUSTER SONGS, ANYWAY?"
I just LOST it. Stopped singing altogether, nearly dropped the mic as I was hee hawin' like a donkey, the bartenders were cryin' Tig is rollin' around on the stage...

and the worst part is, I couldn't get back to the song. I tried and kept laughing... finally turned the friggin' thing off... Then Tig and Deb finished singing it.

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Also had a regular one night start out with "Whip It" by Devo, and at the right part of the song when you hear the whips, he WHIPPED off his belt and CRACKED it on the floor. Made all of us jump like three feet OUT of our skins. And he got a standing ovation after that! !

!!!! OMG! Matt and Tig!! you two have me CRYIN here!! !!

I've GOTS to get ma butt down there to one of your shows.... I'd be practically passin out with laughter! !!

well.... I WISH I had some funny stories..... I'm sure there are plenty... only I'm always too drunk to remember 'em.  :dancin:

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Great stories!  Love to hear 'em...I don't think I have anything that funny.  I don't go to karaoke nearly as often as I'd like and we are usually gone before midnight, soooo...

Years ago in our favorite karaoke place in San Bernardino, CA, which was a Japanese restaurant, this Asian guy came in and sang "Green Grass of Home" but I swear to you he sang it Gleen Gleen Glass of Home...sorry I know that sounds terrible but it was very funny (especially with alcohol).  Also  he had trouble hitting the high notes so every time one came he would scrunch up his body in this very amusing way like he was, you know, trying to go to the bathroom or something.  We had a really hard time not laughing ourselves silly at the poor guy's expense!  But we sure have laughed a lot since.

The only thing thing that springs to mind was when we were in Alaska, I was doing karaoke there and there was this very drunk couple.  They had been arguing loudly during the evening.  The wife came up and stood RIGHT In front of the stage (it was not a very big stage or very high off the ground and there was a railing in front of me, she stood on the other side of the railing).  She not only sang along very loudly but kept grinning at me (leering kinda) and STARING like I was suddenly someone she was in love with.  It made me very uncomfortable and I kept asking her to step back because she was kinda crowding me, but she was too stoned to hear.  That was kind of more disconcerting than funny, at least at the time...

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as a redhead, she's a HOTTIE. I miss her blond look, though!  :hi5: !

Lord almighty Crystal!! I agree....you look hot!! ok....wheres my cig and cold cloth?

At karaoke in Dec....i am singing....and wearing REALLY LARGE hoop earrings...i go to push my hair back.....my hand slides thru the earring and i yank my head back and hit the juke box!!! yes....this 15 minutes after i gave out prizes...took a swing of beer and it shot out my nose!!!  :whistle:

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!! Ooooo lookit!! I gots people talkin about me!! WHOO HOO!

well... Deb.... I like it.... I think..... well..... maybe not.... I dunno..... I have no idea.

I liked it when I took those pics ("those" being the batch that I took to get that avatar) but when I look at maself in the mirror... I feel like I look like something was butchered on my head.

If I do decide that I like it, I'm gonna have to do it again, cuz it didn't take too well to the blonde... lookin a little faded..

bottom line... I DON'T KNOW!!!

.oO(should I start a poll?)........... I'm KIDDING!!!!

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yah... right now it's just a semi-permanent just in case I didn't like it, but I'm thinkin WHAT THE HELL... I'll just go for broke and do it again... get it all good and vibrant, and if I dont like it... who cares... it's just hair... it can be dyed again (I'd get it done professionally tho if I went back to blonde)

hmmm.... I just thought of somethin to change my avatar title to!

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I have had so many horrible and funny things happen to me while singing.....i was in a musical called "yearbook" when i was in my grade 11 year of highschool. There was this number where we had to lift this guy up, so he was standing on us, and we had to sing at the same time. Well me being the ditz i am, sang my little heart out and when he began to slip, i began to backwards, and what were the loud words to come out of my mouth? "oh sh*t!" I didn't say them loudly, but enough to be caught by the mic and have everyone laughing and some people raising their eyebrows.....

Another time i was on stage, and doing a set of 6 songs back to back. Well on the 5th song, for some reason i could not remember the lyrics....it was a quick beated song, so i began to rap. It was so funny, i couldn't almost hold in the laughter....lets just say i won't be the next eminem anytime soon....

But being a chick and singing is kool, and i have about 1000 other funny stories to do with singing on stage, and things like saying macbeth on stage....but we shall save them for another day

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