Rockin’ it at The Inn Place
So, about last night.
I think we need to sit a few seats back from where we did, though, ’cause I was entirely lipreading for half of it, and by the end of the night I was trying to be subtle with my finger in the ear pointing toward the speakers.
There were some incredible highlights. I sang duets with Melanie and Carrie (two of my three “best chicks”) and met a friend of KT’s. We had a bunch of people show. I sang and gestured wildly to Mr. Roboto. We had an older man singing The Killers, in a Shatner-esque way, and it was amaaazing how the bar rallied around him, both literally and vocally. I mean, 80% of the people who sing there do a fairly admirable job of it, and yet we were all behind this guy, and we helped him carry the song. How fun is that?
Near the end of the night, this woman gets up there – kinda squarish, with maybe a bit of a barrel chest, long face. Holy shit. Carrie and I spent almost her entire song with our mouths agape. She got a standing ovation. It was an incredible performance (I don’t know the song), and gave you the feeling you were at a concert listening to a professional. Which she may have been, I don’t know.
There were a fair number of same-gendered middle-aged couples there, sometimes dancing, but all clearly feeling relaxed there. Our waitress, who is clearly gay, rocks the hell out of Me and Bobby McGee every time we’re there, and sang the hell out of the girl part in Paradise by the Dash Board Light. Something about that kind of puts me at peace, there – maybe it reminds me of playing pinball in the basement bar of my grandma’s sister’s house while their softball team caroused.
When Me and Bobby McGee came up I turned to Dave and said “Uh oh, that’s a hard one.”
And then she totally blew me away. WOW.
I think we need to sit a few seats back from where we did, though, ’cause I was entirely lipreading for half of it, and by the end of the night I was trying to be subtle with my finger in the ear pointing toward the speakers.
WHAT??
The best part of going to karaoke is when people just get up there and blow away your expectations. For us, having not been there before, it was the waitress – she was fantastic.
(Well, the best moment of the night was clearly Carrie and KT’s duet on “Son Of a Preacher Man”, but you already knew that.)
We had a great time. I’ll probably never get up and sing – I literally can’t finish the tutorial on Rock Band – but it was fun. If not for the smoke, which is just really tough on Angie, we’d have stayed a lot longer.