Hey everyone!? (The exclamation point is for if there's anyone there, the question mark is also for if there is anyone there, but it's more of a question. As in IS there anyone there?) We had a pretty good night tonight. I went for a theme night, the theme being Lost Classics. By Lost Classics I mean songs that were pretty big when they came out(if not singles, you could at least hear them on the radio) but you never hear them anymore. I started off the night by paying tribute to the late Levon Helm with Chest Fever. I prefaced it with "this is a lost classic in two ways" etc. Then Alan did Foreigner's Cold As Ice. I think you can still hear this on Classic Rock radio, but probably not as much as you hear Feels Like The First Time or Urgent(maybe). Alan brought his sister Taylor, who is very fun to hang out with, and her first song was Berlin's The Metro. She felt like she didn't know the song well enough to be doing it, but she did fine. That was followed by this guy named Tim who I don't think anyone knew previously, but he came in to talk to Chris(The owner of Tres Amigos) about his Cinco De Mayo party he's trying to get together. He did Charlie Daniels' Long Haired Country Boy. Marc Sloop made his return with a continuation of the tribute to Levon with The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. My P.A. started acting up at this time and things were sounding like shit.(actually it started sounding bad when Tim came up. At first I thought he was just holding the mic too close, but I couldn't adjust accordingly so by the time Marc came up I realised that the P.A. was being a dick again) I should point out that about midway through the first verse, Tim decided to come up and join in. Afterwards I tried messing with the P.A. to try to get the sound back. It stayed kind of shitty for the next few tunes before getting back to normal. I kicked off the second rotation with Van Halen's Atomic Punk(not a big VH fan, but Alex(the bartender) wanted to hear some so I did that one for him.) Then Alan did Firefall's Strange Way. Taylor did In A Big Country, followed by Tim with (Devo's) Whip It, then Marc did Men At Work's Overkill(Taylor filled me in on the fact that their Flute/Saxaphone Player died on the same day as Levon Helm. I didn't hear about that one, did anyone else?) I started off the 3rd rotation with The Guess Who's Running Back To Saskatoon(which I must point out the karaoke company chopped to shit. No intro, they skipped a bar at the beginning of each verse throwing the timing off, and I actually had to start it over after missing my non-cue. At about the last verse they actually decided to put in that bar that they kept taking out, after I had gotten used to it not being there. I'll know not to do that one again.) Alan's third and last song was Steely Dan's Black Cow(I introed that as "It's Steely Dan time again. Alan's favorite time of the night) Taylor did The Go Gos' Our Lips Are Sealed, which was followed by Tim's version of What's New Pussycat. Marc then did The Ohio Express' Chewy Chewy. He told me when he got there that he was reading Bubble Gum Is The Naked Truth. Then we had a new singer by the name of Jose Luis. He did some song by Jose Alfredo Lopez(I didn't bring the books in because of the rain and I can't read the slip he filled out. Why do Latinos have to wait till they are too drunk to keep up to put in a request?) I started off the 4th and final rotation with Three Dog Night's Version of John Hiatt's Sure As I'm Sitting Here. This was kind of appropriate as I had done Chest Fever pretty much in the same fashion as their version(which I heard first). Tim did A Flock Of Seagulls' I Ran, followed by Mark with Joy Division's Transmission. I finished up the night with Larry Groce's Junk Food Junkie as the oldie from hell. Pretty fun night overall, I just wish we could get more people in. As I mentioned before, it did rain again(as it had for the last two weeks) but at least this time it held off until we were in full swing, so it didn't keep anyone away.