Karaoke

I haven’t found a good karaoke place yet in North Carolina and I think that’s a pity. While I didn’t necessarily have a primary place in Victoria there was a place I could go to in town when I (rarely) got the urge. It also helped that San Antonio was only 2 hours away. San Antonio, for me, remains the best karaoke town I’ve ever been to. There are dozens of places you can go to that have great sound and a receptive audience willing to cheer you on. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a hostile audience and I couldn’t always say that with Victoria; a crowd that prefers you sing country music, thank you very much. I learned years ago, however, to sing whatever you want to. You’re up there to entertain but in a way you’re up there for yourself as well. I like singing songs that make me feel good and sometimes that’s a slow song that has meaning to me.

I have actually made the effort of looking for a place here. I’ve been to three. Of those, the sound from the first KJ wasn’t great and the crowd was mostly dead. She was also slow in shifting between songs and performers. The second place I went to was in a small bar, again with bad sound. Felt pretentious. Was pretentious, it was in the hipster side of town. The last place I went to I may have been 15 years older than the average crowd. I don’t necessarily care about that, but I do care that walking through the door I had to pay a registration fee AND went I went up to put in a song there was a minimum 2 hour wait. What? Nah, I’m good. I’ll buy one warm beer and listen to a few tunes but I am gone after that.

I’m still looking. North Carolina seems to have quite a few places and the hope is I one that’s close to me. Always good to have a local place to go to; you get to meet bartenders and barbacks and they become friends. Even better, you can say hey and come in to sing a song or two, then talk with your friends in between. That’s cool. I was getting pretty close to having that in San Antonio and haven’t been able to have that for years.
Hopefully, I’ll be jamming out soon.

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