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Children, children, please...let's not be mean to one another.

All you men are grown-ups. I am reading this thread, and it is embarrassing. Punches, name calling, insults...

It simply comes down to everyone having different opinions. It's ok you guys. Respect one another's differences. That really is what makes this an awesome forum. Because people are so different, you get great ideas from different people. If we were all the same, it would be pointless really. I use the advice and ideas I get from the forum to make my shows better.

While I do not accept bribes from people, I am not so harsh that I don't EVER understand a person's special situation. I have been skipped in a rotation before. Yes, it made me very angry. I was so obvious that I got skipped several times, I finally did leave. And if I walked in a bar and he was working, I would leave, but I am in no way a hard-Azz. The person singing in front of me said, "Hey, Bridgette (that's me) get ready, you're next" when he started to sing. My name was scrolling across the bottom of his screen. While he was singing, some little blond, young girl was rubbing all up on the KJ. When the guy's song finished, the KJ called the blond girl, but the computer started playing MY SONG!! And I'm not rubbing up on any of you KJ hotties to sing next. (Sorry Koyote...I don't need 6 minutes... Please don't take that offensively...I am , just in case, with all the tension here) Anyway, if he would have called me in the next couple of songs, I would have been fine, although I feel that was in bad taste on the KJ's part. But he never called me again the whole rotation. It was unfair, to say the least.

I am a KJ. I run one show on the beach, and this show can be very different from regular karaoke shows. We have to juggle all kinds of things at this show that I don't have to juggle in my other venue, which is a small town, regular karaoke show. We have to keep the tourists happy so they come back, but we also have to cater a little to our regulars that keep us afloat in the winter. So things are different. I do have to insert DJ songs at times, even though I'm not fond of it. Tourists love to sing, but they LOVE to dance...or whatever they call it. I have been known occasionally to let one of my regulars sing out of turn, because the bar is packed like sardines and they can't take it anymore. They are leaving. If they have a song in the rotation that they haven't sung yet, I go ahead and let them. The tourist don't notice anyway, and the other regulars know what is going on. It is not a big deal at that show.

So Bruce, for once, I understand what you are saying. While you are a little harsh about it, I understand your frustration. It is not easy doing my job. It looks easy to most singers sitting on the other side of my table. And I have a rich customer who likes to buy everything she wants and she can afford it. She offered me $200 the other night to not play anymore slow, country songs. Before you attack me, I didn't take it. I told her I couldn't control what people sing, and it is karaoke. I don't like people who buy their way anymore than you. I think it gives unfair advantages to rich people, which is one thing wrong with this whole country, so I don't want to promote that idea at my show. Anyway, I understand you.

Koyote and Jam, I understand your positions too. I don't think it makes you an awful KJs to symapathize with someone's position. I think you may be a little more on the compassionate side than others. Like you, I have learned which of my singers will always have a special circumstance, and I don't cater to them anymore. If you ever once tell me you need to go ahead and sing because you are leaving, and I put you up, but you don't leave, I will never do it for you again.

I think an amazing KJ is one that can work a little on all ends of the spectrum. You're a firm, karaoke Nazi when you need to be, but you are also understanding to customers and know how to manipulate things to work the crowd and best benefit the atmosphere when you need to.

When people walk in a bar, they want to be entertained. It doesn't matter if it's karaoke and they don't sing. If the show is upbeat enough, they will stay. I have many regulars that never sing. My show is fun. (And believe me, it's not because I let 15 songs in a row be slow, sappy. I work it... )

I am never what I consider unfair, but I am flexible when it is necessary to my business. And guess what? Everyone, singers or not, love my show. I've got more shows offers than I can accomodate.

I just think we all need to try to understand different opinions. Being harsh and mean to one another and taking sides is really not necessary. There is a happy medium...Find it!!! Don't be so childish about it.

And any of you are welcome at any of my shows anytime...I would LOVE IT if some of my forum buddies walked in. I might even have to give you guys special privileges because of who you are...hehehe. And look...I'm still an

I like the forum so much I was going to suggest that one week-end a year we should all get together somewhere and have a karaoke "workshop" together. Really, just a chance to meet each other and share some personal karaoke experiences, but never mind. We would have to hire bouncers, and I don't think we could afford it.

You know, we could take turns hosting...but like I said, never mind. Bad idea. !!

I apologize to those who were not directly involved and I hope you find this entertaining at the least!

How Many singer would accept a $20 bill to forfeit your spot in 1 rotation ???
hmmmmm....you are actually thinking about it aren't you ?

Well, it's obvious that you can't even spell obsession. I wonder if you can spell paranoia? Why are you so worried about someone showing up at a public place to check out your karaoke show? Do you think that I would go to the trouble to kick your <span style=font-size:10px><i>(@$%&#!)</i></span> because you called me a few names? Karaoke is a hobby of mine. I have plenty of free time to learn new songs and surf the web for all things karaoke. I enjoy reading about other people's karaoke experiences. I also enjoy giving my opinions about karaoke on a karaoke FORUM.

FORUM:
1.
a. The public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city that was the assembly place for judicial activity and public business.
b. A public meeting place for open discussion.
c. A medium for open discussion or voicing of ideas, such as a newspaper, a radio or television program, or a website.
2. A public meeting or presentation involving a discussion usually among experts and often including audience participation.
3. A court of law; a tribunal.

You are on this Forum as much as anyone else, Tony, so why do you attack others for enjoying the site with an insult like "GET A LIFE". We all have lives and this Forum is just a part of those lives. Spending time checking this forum is no different than spending an hour watching your favorite TV show. People have various interests and for the people here, karaoke is a part of their lives; not their entire life. I enjoy reading this Forum and I do indeed have strong opinions on certain parts of the karaoke experience. Most businesses enjoy getting suggestions from their customers that might just improve their business. I suggested to a KJ recently that he should buy an A/B switch for his system so he wouldn't have to be swapping cables when he went from his PC to one of his CDG players when he had to play a customer's CD. I went to his show the following week and , lo and behold, he had himself an A/B switch and he loved how it made his system easier to use. Amazing how someone who is not a KJ could help someone who is, huh? Sometimes the customer is the one who comes up with the idea to make a show better because the customer sees the flaws where the KJ is too defensive to admit that he might be doing something wrong. Well, the sun is finally out so I'm gonna take the old laptop out in the yard and continue my web surfing while in the pool. See you soon, Tony. I'll be the guy singing Rosalita.

"A frequent flyer can not tell the pilot how to fly a plane even if they have been on a thousand flights."

great analogy!!! comparing being a KJ to being an airline pilot. Yeah! They need the identical set of skills for that. Controlling a multi million dollar piece of flying equipment is exactly the same thing as keeping 30 or 40 slips of paper in order while playing music at the same time.

How about a passenger in a TAXI being able to know that the guy driving the cab is doing a lousy job when he's following too closely or cutting in and out of traffic in a dangerous way. ....and I certainly know the difference between a good landing and a bumpy one. If the overhead compartments open up on their own because of a hard landing; I think I have the right to tell the pilot that he did a lousy job of landing the plane. A good pilot would just acknowledge the fact and apologize for the bumpy landing and tell the passenger that it was an exception and it wouldn't happen very often. I don't think he'd tell the passenger that he was an idiot and that he should shut up until he could do it better himself.

Didn't say that hosting was as complicated as flying but I have invested many years in practicing my craft and again I wouldn't expect you to understand that.
I'm quite sure you would be right up after the fasten seatbelt light goes off to tell the pilot he sucks and like many hosts of the shows you attend the pilot will be a happy camper when you have exited the plane shouting "I'll never fly this airline again".

Might add that I tell my hosts One bribe and they are done.

Slightly more annoying than the custy that tries to bribe the Kj is the custy that thinks that just because they have been to 1000 karaoke nights that they are an expert on how to host.