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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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'A genius is one who can do anything except make a living'. Joey Adams.

Yes, I'm listening now..

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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-Chris

Are you anywhere near to check out his show/s? I heard them mention Baby Ketten being described as THE PALCE to go to.

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!

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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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-Chris

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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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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-Chris