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I know some of you have said you don't allow drinks or cigarettes
on stage when people sing. I actually don't mind this. I don't have
anything they can spill on except the monitor which is fortunately kind
of protected where I have it. Most people are right handed there for
hold their beer in there left hand. I keep the monitor slightly to the right
mid of the singer and there's a table with an ashtray to the left. I've never
had a problem as of yet. Knock on wood.

The question is do you allow drinks and smoking on stage?

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The only time I smoke is when I'm hot.  

No drinks or smokes allowed on stage.  Years ago had a drink spilled into a floor monitor, dropped that privledge then & there!

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Smoking allowed but the singer's station is 3-6 feet from the gear (not counting the monitor/mike).  No tune lube allowed on stage.

No smoking at all in doors in NZ (bloody nazis) we have to go outside to smoke. But a definate no no to have drinks anywhere near my gear

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"Be who you are and say what you feel... Because those that matter... Don't mind...And those that mind... Don't matter."

I won't dare tell a musician not to smoke..  Explained this in the past..  Although I've been smoke-free for 20 years, seems that alot of musicians smoke, I don't feel I have the right to take that away from them... BUT... If they end up sticking a ciggy in the headstock of my guitar, and it start's burning too close to the wood, that's where I draw the line... No damaging my equipment... My lungs can take it. But you don't dare burn my toys !!!

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The whole bar is my stage. If I were to tell them they can't drink or smoke in the bar they might get mad.

The whole bar is my stage. If I were to tell them they can't drink or smoke in the bar they might get mad.

At the beginning of the show. I go through my little do's and don'ts of Karaoke. I usually put on something like Suzy Q, which has a couple of breaks in between verses, that's when I tell them the house rules. No drinks or smokes at the mic, I have a table set up next to where the singers stand. We call 'Instrumental Breaks' beer/smoke breaks, they can get a swig or a drag, but have to be ready for the next verse. It's done in a comical way, and I've never had a problem with anyone following the rule. On some nights the audience even gets in on it. The singer will get to a 'break' go to the table raise their glass, make the announcement 'beer break' and most of the folks will raise their glass in a toast as well. Like I say it's done in a comical way, but it gets the point across just the same.

James
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That sounds like a comfy way to "lay down the law" in a way that people will be cool with it.

James, I gotta see your show sometime. It sounds like a very audience specific show and very entertaining. Might even be able to learn a thing or two that I could use.

There is no smoking indoors here in St. Petersburg but ONLY at places that make more than 15% of their profits off of food.

My bar actually gains part of their popularity off of being one of only about 3-4 bars in town where you can still smoke. We serve about 4-5 menu items like wings, burgers, and other bar food, but defiantely keep it under the 15% rule.

Anyway, as a result, it is a smoking and drinking madhouse. I allow smoking and drinking on the stage, and always set up an ashtray and have a designated area on my table behind the singers to place their drinks. If they try to place their drinks anywhere near any of my equipment, I've always just gone and picked it up and put it in the designated place, and no one has ever seemed to mind since they probably knew they were committing a no-no when they set their stuff near my stuff in the first place.

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KJ, FL

I just get mad when someone walks up to me to request a song with a cig stuck in their mouth and are talkin' a mile a minute, or worse yet, blowing the bleepity bleep right in my face!!

Talk about NASTY!

My stuff smells ENOUGH like cigarettes as it is. If you can't put the cig down for five minutes of your song, then don't participate.

And no beer or alcohol or even water or soda next to my equipment...

I can't wait until they ban smoking and drinking in bars.

For safety reasons there should be an area close to the stage/singing area where a person can place their drink.  I always take my drink with me when I sing.  Not necessarily so I can drink during the song but so that I can watch it closely.  If there is not a place to set my drink I will place it on the floor by where I am singing.

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This is not wholly related, but I can remember when I did piano lounges, coming in many a fine night and finding the keys all gummed up and sticky from people slopping beer n' s--t all over them, usually those really sweet drinks with the umbrellas in them (at least this is how I imagined it as I sat down to play--always a drink with an umbrella in it!)............ugh! I can see why you kdj's don't want that stuff around your equipment--even doubly so!

No smoking is allowed in bars here in California (which I am all for)....it irks me when some guy or gal comes up to the singing area with their bottle ( security blanket)..leaves it there.. drinks it during instrumental intermission.. they stand their stiff just slurping it while singing the 6 minute version of American Pie...

Originally my reason for no smoking or drinking while singing your song was that most folks have a problem holding on to the mic and drinking at the same time. Their coordination diminishes over the course of the evening and it's usually the mic that suffers the loss.

However my main reason now is that when someone smokes or drinks while singing the smoke and moisture ends up getting in the microphone head and staying there. It smells really gross. Yuuuckk!

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