KaraokeChris – NegativeEleven

After a couple of inconsistent months, Feb 9th, I’m doing karaoke every (almost) Thursday. We’re starting with a video game theme party… prizes for best costume/karaoke and bar tabs for top scores on old school arcade cabinets. And As/If is gonna play a set at some point in the night. Should be lots of fun!

Also booked at the Rock Lounge, Star Wars Day – May the 4th be with you… anyone got ideas?

Got all 148 new songs in the books, and the list is updated here!

We’re doing Live-Band-Karaoke once more next Wednesday. It’s gonna be a little more “open mic” than karaoke though, because I’m inviting anyone who thinks they know the songs to help out on guitar or bass as well as vocals. I’m excited to see how you guys like it. I’ll have lyrics for all the songs below, and if you need em, a little bit of notes on how to play most of the songs. Unfortunately, we’re trying out a couple of new guitarists, so they might not know of the more intricate lead parts of the songs.

Feel free to bring your own notes, lyrics, etc if you want us to play something else with you… maybe.

4 Non-Blondes – What’s Up
A-Ha – Take on Me
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
AC/DC – TNT
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
Bryan Adams – Summer of ‘69
Beastie Boys – Fight for Your Right
The Beatles – Come Together
Pat Benatar – Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Pat Benatar – Love Is a Battlefield
Blink 182 – All the Small Things
The Bloodhound Gang – Fire Water Burn
Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer
Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead or Alive
Dropkick Murphys – Barroom Hero
Garth Brooks – Friends in Low Places
The Cars – Just What I Needed
Cee-Lo – Fuck You
The Cranberries – Zombie
The Cure – Love Song
Danzig – Mother
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me
Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
Dixie Chicks (or Me First and the Gimme Gimmes) – Goodbye Earl
Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
Green Day – Basket Case
Green Day – Brain Stew
Green Day – She
Green Day – When I Come Around
Hole – Violet
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
Billy Idol – White Wedding
Joan Jett – I Hate Myself for Loving You
Joan Jett – I Love Rock ‘n Roll
Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
Ke$ha – Tik Tok
Kiss – Rock and Roll All Nite
Huey Lewis – The Power of Love
Michael Jackson – Beat It
The Misfits – Where Eagles Dare
Modern English – I Melt With You
Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
No Doubt – Don’t Speak
Oasis – Wonderwall
The Outfield – Your Love
Pennywise – Bro Hymn
Tom Petty – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Tom Petty – Runnin’ Down a Dream
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
The Pixies – Gigantic
The Pixies – Where Is My Mind
Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Prince – When Doves Cry
Presidents of the USA – Peaches
Queen/Bowie – Under Pressure
Radiohead – Creep
Radiohead – Karma Police
The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
The Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
Rancid – Ruby Soho
Rancid – Salvation
Real Life – Send Me An Angel
Saved by the Bell Theme Song
Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me
Sir Mix-a-Lot – Baby Got Back
Skid Row – 18 and Life
Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
Social Distortion – Ball and Chain
Social Distortion – Story of My Life
Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
Sublime – What I Got
Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone Now
Van Halen – Panama
Van Halen – Runnin’ With the Devil
Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun
Weezer – Say It Ain’t So
Weezer – Undone (the Sweater Song)
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army

Over a month since my last update… sorry. It looks like live-band-karaoke is over for now. If anyone knows of another venue where it might work, please let me know. We just couldn’t seem to get a consistent crowd on Wednesdays at Jimbo’s Rocklounge. I’m still there every week with my regular karaoke setup, though, and I’m still looking to throw together some more theme parties in the coming months.

Just updated my NEW SONGS page with a lot of stuff that’s going into the books next month!

I had so much fun at Star Wars Day, I’m investing in another costume party at Jimbo’s Rock Lounge on September 28th… just a week and a half from now, but the costumes don’t have to be as elaborate as Star Wars. We’re doing 80′s movie night! I’m gonna have prizes for the best song/costume combinations. Also, we are gonna try to get those stripper poles set up again!

I’ve got a bunch of new karaoke songs listed here, and I’m gonna try to get those in the books before this party. Let me know in advance (email chris@negativeeleven.com or facebook message me) if you want a song purchased to go with your costume, so I can get that on the list if possible.

Also, this party will be your last chance to let me know which songs my band needs to practice before our next Live Band Karaoke on October 5th.

It’s the first Wednesday in September, and here’s our list of songs that the band knows for Live-Band-Karaoke. It’s now 83 songs! That’s 7 new ones this month, and we dropped a few of the ones that no one ever wanted to sing. As always hit me up on Facebook and let me know which ones you wanna sing tonight and I’ll try to hold them for you. Also, let me know if there’s any you want us to learn for October!

4 Non-Blondes – What’s Up
A-Ha – Take on Me
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
AC/DC – TNT
AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
Bryan Adams – Summer of ‘69
Beastie Boys – Fight for Your Right
The Beatles – Come Together
Pat Benatar – Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Pat Benatar – Love Is a Battlefield
Blink 182 – All the Small Things
The Bloodhound Gang – Fire Water Burn
Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer
Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead or Alive
Dropkick Murphys – Barroom Hero
Garth Brooks – Friends in Low Places
The Cars – Just What I Needed
Cee-Lo – Fuck You
The Cranberries – Zombie
The Cure – Love Song
Danzig – Mother
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar on Me
Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
Dixie Chicks (or Me First and the Gimme Gimmes) – Goodbye Earl
Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
Green Day – Basket Case
Green Day – Brain Stew
Green Day – She
Green Day – When I Come Around
Hole – Violet
Billy Idol – Rebel Yell
Billy Idol – White Wedding
Joan Jett – I Hate Myself for Loving You
Joan Jett – I Love Rock ‘n Roll
Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
Ke$ha – Tik Tok
Kiss – Rock and Roll All Nite
Huey Lewis – The Power of Love
Michael Jackson – Beat It
The Misfits – Where Eagles Dare
Modern English – I Melt With You
Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
No Doubt – Don’t Speak
Oasis – Wonderwall
The Outfield – Your Love
Pennywise – Bro Hymn
Tom Petty – Mary Jane’s Last Dance
Tom Petty – Runnin’ Down a Dream
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
The Pixies – Gigantic
The Pixies – Where Is My Mind
Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Prince – When Doves Cry
Presidents of the USA – Peaches
Queen/Bowie – Under Pressure
Radiohead – Creep
Radiohead – Karma Police
The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
The Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated
Rancid – Ruby Soho
Rancid – Salvation
Real Life – Send Me An Angel
Saved by the Bell Theme Song
Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me
Sir Mix-a-Lot – Baby Got Back
Skid Row – 18 and Life
Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
Social Distortion – Ball and Chain
Social Distortion – Story of My Life
Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
Sublime – What I Got
Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone Now
Van Halen – Panama
Van Halen – Runnin’ With the Devil
Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
Vanilla Ice – Ice Ice Baby
Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun
Weezer – Say It Ain’t So
Weezer – Undone (the Sweater Song)
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army

Looks like we’re gonna change our Live-Band-Karaoke at Jimbo’s to just one Wednesday a month. Tonight (June 21st) will be our last weekly attempt at it. It’ll be last Wednesday in July or first Wednesday in August before we bring it back. I’m still gonna be there every week with regular karaoke. It’s looked like the crowd has been the same size whether the band was there or not, so I think we should cut back on the effort we’ve been pouring into it. If it picks up, we’ll be happy to switch back to a weekly setup.

The best part of this, is that you folks that come out every Wednesday to sing with me, will get the chance to suggest songs for us to learn. You’ll also be able to let me know in advance what songs you plan to sing, so I can make sure to hold them for you.  My favorite part of the style of music we do, is that we change up the originals to make them heavier, faster, and more fun… but maybe that’s not the way you like em. With three weeks to practice, you can request that we change the songs in a different way (did you see how we’ve done Cee-Lo’s “Fuck You” as a mellow folky song and as a driving punk rock song?)… or you can insist that we learn it as close to the original as possible.

The list below, from June 1st, is missing the last two songs we learned:
The Beatles – Come Together
Dropkick Murphys – Bar Room Hero

I’ve got over 180 new songs to put in the books this weekend. They’re all on the “new songs” page if you wanna check em out now.

Wednesday May 4th is Star Wars Day! That means we’re decorating Jimbo’s Rock Lounge, showing up in costumes, and proudly being nerds in public. There will still be live-band-karaoke with As-If (who will be uncomfortable playing in costume) and a bunch of Star Wars themed art for sale and display (I might not wanna part with the Han In Carbonite that’s being build in my garage).  Also got a projector for the movies and/or video games.  If you’ve got anything to add, please send me a message on Facebook or call me at 843-345-3406!

More info here, including a PDF for flyers you can print and distribute for me!

-Chris

This is an experiment… As/If (my punk 80′s cover band) is on hold right now as we learn a whole bunch of songs to play during Wednesday night Karaoke at Jimbo’s Rock Lounge.  We’ve got a book of lyrics on stage and karaoke singers are invited to join us in performing a variety of songs, all of which we transform into high energy pop punk.  The past two weeks have been fun, and with some love from the City Paper and the bar staff, I think it’s gonna be pretty popular.

Every Wednesday, it’s regular karaoke all night, starting at 9-9:30, with two short sets from the band jammed in there around 10:15 and 11:30.