Ode to Nettiemac
Hello all! I read from my friends, the Glecks, about an experience they had aboard a casino ship with their friend, the ever-wonderful nettiemac. It involved nettiemac doing a karaoke duet, pretty much against her will, with some drunk pathetic loser, just to get the poor guy to shut the hell up. What a trooper!!
However, the more I thought about it, I thought back to my first karaoke experience. It was in 2001, at my ex-wife's Christmas party at her place of employment. Well, being not just musically-inclined, but a musician myself (not professionally), & knowing that all of my ex-wife's employees knew it, they hounded on me to take the mike from the guy who was doing a terrible impression of Britney Spears. Finally, I took the stage, & managed to get the crowd to sing the chorus to Roger Miller's "King of the Road". Then, I did "Can't Help Falling in Love", Elvis impression and all, & the crowd went crazy! I chose to do one more & dedicated it to my wife: Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" (my ex loves that song, and it is, by far, my least favorite Clapton song). A good time was had by all - and we all were SOBER!! None of us drank that night (that's what I got for living in a dry county). How strange was that?
Since then, I have had a couple of karaoke experiences, courtesy of my family at the annual reunions (and alcohol definitely factored into that), but none as memorable as that first one with my ex.
OK - with all due respect to the wonderfully talented Nettiemac, humor me on this...
I got to thinking about something - one song that needs karaoke'd is "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"! I'm sure it has already been done, just not right. It really needs a good karaoke treatment. It needs to be done right, with the Phil Rizzuto play-by-play and everything. There is just one problem - I need someone to be the Ellen Foley to my Meat Loaf. Someone who, strangely enough, knows the words like I do.
What do you say, Nettiemac? Are you up for it?
That's it for this one. Later...
Bolivar "Karaoke King" Shagnasty
posted by bolivar @ 10:59 PM
3 Comments:
Hey, maybe we all could find a bar somewhere halfway -- say, Huntsville or something -- and get together to make this happen. I'll do Phil R.
Seraphim can play the part of producer Jim Steinman. What good is a bombastic, throw-in-the-kitchen-sink brick wall of sound production without that guy around???
-TG
I would give my right EYEtooth to have "Paradise" on karaoke! I love that song! Sincerely -- I sing along with it every time it plays on the radio. I know Ellen Foley's lines by heart.....
Great idea!
PS: Glad someone else hates that Clapton song as much as me. Some friends of mine used it as their "first dance" song at their reception -- and I swear it was all I could do not to run from the room, wretching and gagging. My eyes rolled so much you'd have thought I was a slot machine....
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