Songs...

I got to thinking about the songs that I have now done in public
at kareoke. It's fun! Terrifying, but fun.
And if you feel that you've done well, then it can be a total rush
when people are all clapping. Good for what ails ya.
Good for what ails ME, anyway.

So I got to making a list of all the songs I've done, and wow, they
add up! Let me see...Hmm...
some of them are sooo funny ( Three Little Pigs by Green Jello - I did all the voices myself)!
I'm just having a good time.

Burden in my hand Soundgarden
Easy To Be Hard 3 dog night
Fairies Wear Boots ( I LOVE this, it ROCKS) Black Sabbath
War Pigs ( also rocks) Black Sabbath

Scheiss. I left the list in the car. I actually brought it Saturday
night because it was easier than trying to figure out new songs, and not singing
at all. Besides, I did "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" Lenny Kravitz,
" Voices Carry" Til Tuesday. They were on my list.
I try to do new ones every week. But I've noticed that I tend to get distracted
once I'm there, and seeing/talking to people. Drinking. And then I forget what
I'd planned on singing, hence the list idea.

BTW, That til tuesday song, wow. Awesome. She's so naked in that song.
Damn. I actually was a little verklempt at the end of singing that one, and I haven't
done it again. Felt really naked. But I did get a good response, people seemed to like it.

Ha! The first time that I ever did Black Sabbath, it was War Pigs, and it was funny,
so funny. Because everyone was doing cheesy stuff all night, and I was sick of it! And
I'd noticed to my surprise, that War Pigs was actually in the book of songs. I wrestled
with it, the idea of doing it, and then said the hell with it. I want to hear some rock,
even if I have to sing it myself.
One can only listen to "Landslide" by Stevie Nicks/The Dixie Chicks so many times in one night!
It turned out to be a defining moment in my singing publicly. I wasn't ever used
to singing in front of people. I'd actually done some studio stuff, vocals, for this guy from
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. A VERY long time ago.

I was afraid to sing in front of people, in public, and this was/is a good way to conquer that
fear. THAT was my original reason for trying to kareoke, but it's really become a fun
way to spend a Saturday night. Met a lot of neat people that I now consider to be friends.
Of some sort, anyway. LOL Maybe they are fellow drinking/kareoke buddies. Of all ages and
backgrounds and sexes and ethnicities.
It's neat.
Kinda snowballed into a little "thing". And people have the neatest lives, their stories.
It's been surprising me lately, the people I have met in that little bar.
Anyway.
I need to get my list out of the car, because I want to copy my list here, so that I won't lose it.

Sometime I might write about people at the bar. That's why I'm mentioning this stuff.