Beck and the Karaoke Experience (...almost!)
Glen Liu
Re, re, BeckFans,
Just me, Glen, sounding out from the land of Lurkdom. I managed to see Beck at the
Galaxy Theater in Orange County last Thursday. It was my second Beck concert yet. (The first
was at the World Beat Center last year in San Diego? I'll never forget the power outage during the
concert and Beck's acoustic set...) Anyways, the Galaxy Theater was a strange dinner theater kind
of outfit, where there were tables with people eating arranged in an ampitheater style setting with a
pit in the front. Beck came out in a a yachtman's attire complete with smoking cigar and all.
Opening with Mountain Dew Rock and finishing with Beercan, it was a solid mellow gold show all
the way through
Particularily cool though was the invitation he gave all of us right before he launched
into Pay No Mind (...or Got No Mind...a little bit of both!) He told the audience (this was a small
venue) that they were all invited to a small karaoke bar called "Only You" up the street in Fountain
Valley after the show. During Pay No Mind, he changed one of the lyrics to "Give the finger to the
folk singer, and he'll see you later at Only You..." I thought he was kidding, but when I got home
and checked the phonebook, there *was* a karaoke bar called Only you just where he said it
would be. I am kicking myself to this day for not going, because I had a feeling that not a lot of
people understood what he was talking about except for the first 3 rows. (I happened to squish my
way up to the front...)
Anyways, did anyone here catch the show and actually go? If anyone has any
interesting Beck encounters to share, I'd love to hear them. I wonder if he really does the whole
karaoke thing. (I had a damn camera with me that night, too!)
Okay, thanks to all the responses for my request for Western Harvest. Unfortunately,
my friend erased my mail for that day by accident while using my account. So, Laura/Lori/I'm
sorry if I butchered your name, could you please e-mail me about your offer ASAP? Thanks!
Well, that's enough Bandini for now...
Glen
gl...@ucsd.edu
chr...@mail.idt.net
in the DAzed and Confused magazine article,there was a little blurb
in there about how he used to go next door every night to a Philippino
family and they would have these "kareoke orgies" singing Burt Bacharach
and Maria Carey songs.He also says that he owns a little Radio Shack
kareoke machine.
Let me say,I feel really bad for you.I feel so bad.I feel like -I
MISSED THAT KAREOKE THING!-but I didn't 'cause I'm all the way in NY
and wasn't at the show in the first place.Anyway,I just feel really bad.
I feel so bad...
-kristine