Tone-deaf writer mimes karaoke well
16.08.09
The recommendation came from everywhere: Don’t be nervous. Be the song. Drink heavily. Pass muster your fly.
The best tip came from a 39-year-old video unflinching programmer with a ponytail who told me to ham it up — scowl, air guitar, lose and swivel like a rock star.
“Distract them from the experience that you can’t sing,” he said.
I was at the Ventura County Objective on Friday night to compete in karaoke and I had a problem: I can carry groceries and golf clubs but not a tune up.
I bellow classic rock like Zeppelin and The Beatles in the car and in front of the computer at tellingly. I’m really good at volume, not so much at melody. As far as key, that’s what I use to start the car.
Robin Sanford, the karaoke debate master of ceremonies, thought I was being modest. My wife knows excel. She thinks I’m good at everything — but music. She teases me not only for being intonation-deaf but also for butchering the “doo-dahs” in “Camptown Races” and making up lyrics.
Source: Ventura County Star