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 Why that would be me!!!  But I love praising the good singers like Tammy more then bad mouthing the bad ones!  :)

I would never think of screwing with someones song while they were singing.  Like making sound effects and such.  That's just plain ignorant.     You're lucky he didn't club you.   I might have.     And I would expect that  to happen to me if I messed with somebody like that.    I don't care if they chased everyone in the place out.     Bad manners to the max.    :whistle:    Not to mention insulting and just plain bad taste.     For shame.  :shock:

I don't think it's at all funny.    :no:

Bigdog:
O.K. so it's me and a few regulars who are there early, and ALL friends, and I'm playing around with the sound of a kid who is ALSO a friend of ours, and he's having fun with it too! We were just PLAYING AROUND before the main crowd got there. If I didn't think he'd be amused by it, I definately WOULDN'T have done it. Apparently he has more of a sense of humor than you've got !

"Ignorant", "Bad Taste", "Bad Manners", "Insulting" "Lucky He Didn't Club You..I Might Have"? - Please get off the high-horse that's climbing the mountain that you've converted from a mole hill.

Guess you had to be there .

If he's a friend that's a whole different ballgame.   I was thinking something else.    :yes:  LMAO  :wave:

Around here we have really big moles.    Makes Everest look like an ant hill.

I am married with kids and have developed selective hearing

I have regulars that I can goof around with. I have added funny effects without telling them I was going to do it. It is just all in fun.
I have even sped up and slowed down the songs to the extreme just funning around.
If you know your people well enough you know who will think it is funny or not.

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Sorry to give a little late night grumpiness on my last post . Kinda threw me off, since I did know him. Agree with ya' though about the fact that it can be mean to do that to someone you didn't know, out of the blue, during a show.

Definately go out of my way know my regulars boundries when it comes to stuff like that .

I never try to look at it that way, as "being bad" (with some exceptions).  Often what is summarily dismissed as being bad or lousy can be quite entertaining to listen to if you are willing to take it for what it is.  One of my favorite "unlegitimate" musical instruments is a saw...I could actually sit and listen to someone playing the saw (with a jew's harp accompaniment ideally) for hours on end.  Why? Because it's just so perfectly awful.  Then again, I've sat through more viewings of "Plan 9 from Outer Space" than I care to mention!  MJK

I agree that "bad" performances can be good too sometimes. We went to karaoke one night and there were these 2 goth guys there. They got up and sang songs you would least expect. One did Oops I Did it Again (very well I might add) but kind of yelled it. Then he got up (complete with a cowboy hat he stole off someone's head) and did Chattahoochee....without looking at the screen. That means he was either a country fan at one time, or he deliberately learns songs people would never expect him to sing. It made for a very entertaining performance.  LMAO

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I usually stay up by the mixer and adjust the best I can.  Especially the mic volume if they go from soft to loud in 3 seconds.  When they are done, always ask the audience to "Give it up" for them and offer encouragement.  I do not like to discriminate between good and bad singers.  

Of coarse some recommended tequniques are to:  Ignore, Tune out, smile, drink beer, pull CDs for the next 20 slips, visit/mingle with the audience, keep adjusting the mixer, restroom break or simply doze off into a "Happy Place".

The truly "bad singers" are the drunk, obnoxious and even vulger singers...  Using my own keen judgement, I'll cut these singers off and save my microphone from their evil grasp.

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I love to hate the guy who did American Pie off key ALL the way and almost half a line behind the backing music. Thats 8 min of .....

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That's a tough song for even good singers to sing, with all those vocal "nuances" for that amount of time. But I bet that it might also be entertaining to watch with a bad singer singing it.....maybe .

The 'good' part is that the crowd need to stay and 'help' him sing it. No, not help. but rather drown his voice; everybody in the bar will be singing so you don't listen to his singing. Except the last bit of every line since he is ALWAYS off tempo.
And he sing that song every time he is around. Nice bloke, but no one wants to tell him his singing suck BIG TIME.

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At least you've got crowd "participation" which probably makes him feel good. He's almost getting 2 songs for the price of 1 at 8 1/2 minutes, so you ought to tell him he should sit out the next rotation to make up for it....just kidding. It's great to hear that you have a crowd that would do that for him. Shows that they probably understand & care.

Maybe you could talk him into singing "Tequila"- Three words in the whole song !

Some of you may disagree with this practice - I do not allow American Pie
to be sung any more unless it is a very slow night. It is way to long and the crowd hates it. I do give people the option to sing it if they don't mind me fading it out after the first 5 minutes. I only have 1 other song like this One Bourbon, One Scotch....

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Oh and let us not forget to thank the Eagles for giving us Hotel California (6:31) and Lyin Eyes (6:23) that everyone loves to torture us with. I tell you it is a good thing Illinois is not a carry concealed state.

I didn't realise Hotel California was that long. It doesn't get sung much here.
Maybe the version I have is shorter.

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I always threaten my friend Bob the KJ on Saturday nights that if he ever pisses me off, I am going to sing Taxi by Harry Chapin on his shift. I have the SC version on my custom disc just so he knows that I am not kidding.  LOL

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Seize the day and SING!!!

Well, that is frightening. But I have a track of Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick Part 1 and Part 2 almost 45 minutes of mind numbing torture .  

Break out the body bags for this one.  LOL

I got shanghaied into a "duet" with a friend of mine a while back on "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"...it had been a while since I sang that song...

...and now I remember why!  Hard to do, and VERY TIRING...and MUCH longer than I remembered!     No mas!!