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We were just getting ready to make the 6 hour round trip trek to a former karaoke haunt when we learned it had burned to the ground last night. The place had the same hosts running the show for 16 years and some cohosts took it over last year when they retired. The original hosts were to be honored there tonight so we were going to join the gathering.
The restaurant was family owned for 70 years and a local landmark. When the original hosts started karaoke there, they worked for dinners the first year to prove it could work. Now we are heading to a potluck in a rec room as the regulars are in shock and want to do something. It seems to have been a part of people's lives for so long. The boyfriend and I met there over 8 years ago and now have our own karaoke business.
Most of the karaoke equipment had been bought by the restaurant when the original hosts retired. The present hosts just lost a few of their own discs and some microphones. This particular show ran about 80% on singers bringing their own discs, anyway. The original hosts each took two songs in every round and would let politics interfere--slips with Dixie Chicks songs on them got "lost." They had real instruments they would pretend to play behind the singers, all with a deadpan, serious expression that made it sublty hilarious. They broke all of the "rules" yet had a successful show two nights a week at the same place for 16 years. We got calls from two different states this morning from former regulars wanting to share the news.
The restaurant was family owned for 70 years and a local landmark. When the original hosts started karaoke there, they worked for dinners the first year to prove it could work. Now we are heading to a potluck in a rec room as the regulars are in shock and want to do something. It seems to have been a part of people's lives for so long. The boyfriend and I met there over 8 years ago and now have our own karaoke business.
Most of the karaoke equipment had been bought by the restaurant when the original hosts retired. The present hosts just lost a few of their own discs and some microphones. This particular show ran about 80% on singers bringing their own discs, anyway. The original hosts each took two songs in every round and would let politics interfere--slips with Dixie Chicks songs on them got "lost." They had real instruments they would pretend to play behind the singers, all with a deadpan, serious expression that made it sublty hilarious. They broke all of the "rules" yet had a successful show two nights a week at the same place for 16 years. We got calls from two different states this morning from former regulars wanting to share the news.
