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This reminds me of people who watch "Law & Order" or "CSI" and all of a sudden have become "experts" on law enforcement. People like that used to tick me off, now I just laugh at them

Tony! Tony! Tony! I followed the wedj.com link to find that you only seem to have an advertisement there trying to book gigs but no information on any existing gigs where someone might go to check out your "style" before they decided to hire you. Most "successful" KJ's have a web site where they list their weekly shows so people can find them and show up and spend money there. It's beginning to look like you don't have any regular shows at all. Could it be because you like to sell spots in your rotation and you've been fired from all of your gigs because of crazy whining complainers who don't appreciate getting skipped by your ego maniacal style of karaoke hosting???? Hmmmmmm!

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!!!

http://www.maurajasper.com/Cueball.html

It's amazing when you search what you can find.

Actually Nice job !! --no joking

no, everyone that's computerized is at best a violator of copyright. This is allowed for personal use under the Fair Use Act. We STRETCH that use for commercial use as long as we don't have a 2nd set in use MAKING MONEY or profiting us in any way.

You can split hairs all you want. But I won't be accused of piracy!

ami wonder...if every kj bought (replaced) all their discs that went bad or wore out over the years

I have flown quite often in my life and I have never had a reason to complain about a pilot. I guess I've just been very lucky. I've only been delayed for de-icing once and I'm pretty sure that all of us on the plane were happy to wait the required amount of time to ensure a safe take-off. Everyone waited the same amount of time in that situation.

There are plenty of parts that go into be a KJ. Getting gigs, setting up and tearing down equipment, making song books, etc. The one specific past of being a KJ that I keep referring to is the actual running of the show after all of the other stuff has been taken care of. All the KJ has to do is make sure the song slips stay in the proper order so no one gets skipped and no one gets bumped ahead for any reason. I can't believe that it can be all that difficult. Maximum amount of slips for a 5 hour show would be about 70 slips. If you have 40 or 50 people in your rotation like someone has reported having; running the rotation should be even easier because you're only going to have one and a half rotations for the entire night. Let's face facts. The reason that KJ's like to make exceptions to a fair rotation is because they want to excercise their authority to make them feel like a big shot to someone. God forbid the poor KJ might have to say that he CAN'T Help out the poor little lady that just has to sing next. It would make him look powerless in the eyes of the damsel in distress. It's so much more of an ego boost to say "I am the KJ and I can do whatever I want at my show because it is my show and I don't care who gets pissed off and never comes back" as long as I get to feel like a BIG SHOT in front of a couple of people at my show who will think of me as their karaoke god. How sad!

OK, so back to BRIBES, (not that the cat fighting wasn't fun!)

I've toyed with the bribe idea (or at least formalizing my policy around it). My show is supposed to be 9:30-1:30 but always overruns up to closing. I thought about offering up the final half hour as a 'pay to play' with pretty much anything goes. Some people want dance music, others want to sing. By having the bribe session after the regular show hours it might work out okay. The plan would be to take the bribe in and then if more money came in from someone else you would get bumped. Those who got bumped out completely could either be out of luck (and cash) or get their bribe refunded (probably a safer bet).

I should note this is at the same bar that fights occasionally happen at including the dent to the hood of my car!

Things that could keep the regular singers happy... using the bribe money to buy them a round at the start of the show next time (encouraging early repeat business).

Just a thought.

I know some here like the idea of a true and simple show and others want to experiment with the traditionally accepted idea of 'Karaoke Night'. I have venues where one thing works which would get me shot in another (I mean, seriously, they're packing heat!)

Buying the next singer's spot from them could definitely turn nasty without an arbiter, buying the whole rotation a round should diffuse all but the most ardent bribers.

- Jonn