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One to three beers helps me to relax and loosen up. More than that makes me tired. Some of my shows are 4 hours and without a couple of drinks it can get kind of boring and monotonous. Three beers over a four hour period isn't much IMO.

Anything that dehydrates your vocal cords is bad for your singing, but if that's what you have to do to get your courage up to get up there, go for it.

yup, it never snows, but damned if you wont melt in August.
i would love to actually meet someone form the board in real life.
sing drunk if you wish, but as far as the clothes.....that depends on the night.
at a good old irish pub, it may be appropriate.

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Paradigm Karaoke, The New Standard.......Shift Happens

Alcohol makes Karaoke in bars possible.

I wouldn't be in this business if not for alcohol!

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KingBing Entertainment C'mon Up! I have a song for you!!! [font=MS Sans Serif][/font]

. . . and after THAT, it makes her run around outside yelling, "If you can catch me, you can HAVE me!"

(true story)

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Dave's not here.

No amount of alcohol could make my singing any worse... nor could anything short of a complete vocal-cord transplant make it any better.

Rumour has it, the CIA were exposing suspected terrorists to recordings of my singing to extract information from them, until the courts declared it to be cruel & unusual torture.

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Earl
(BS, PHD & Certified CurmuDJeon)

[font=Times New Roman]"Growing Old may be mandatory... but growing UP is still optional."[/font]

Couple of ways to interpret this question: Is "you" intended to ask each of us if WE sing better with alcohol? Definitely not. But I guess "better" is also subjective, isn't it. Better than what? Better than a squeaky backporch screen door? Better than Carrie Underwood?

Most people should STOP singing at a certain consumption level. They make fools of themselves...but if all of their peeps are also at an over-the-limit place, who cares? Certainly not them. Only the people who haven't over consumed look to the stage and see a singing axx.

I find that over-consuming singers and their peeps have the ability to disrupt an otherwise great social environment by getting louder and louder and louder - they start ignoring all the other singers except those singing in their group, and then not only ignore other singers but make it hard for them to be heard and appreciated. So you'd better hope that you have a room full of those people, all at the same level of having been over-served or eventually those who don't share that propensity will go somewhere else.

And yes, I understand that selling alcohol and food is what pays for us -- fact is, there are as many different shows as there are venues and hosts. I don't care for a room full of 20-somethings power shooting pure alcohol and then getting up and screaming into the mics...some of you cater to that crowd.

My response to the question? Alcohol doesn't make anyone sing "better" - just takes away inhibition so they have the nerve to get up and sing.

I guess I didn't hear what they heard because I was drinking light.
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