Mas Interesante

I don't really understand why or how, but my friend Jonah is featured in a Spanish paper about karaoke in the US! I went ahead and translated the article via Freetranslation.com. Enjoy.

During my stay in New York, last summer, the attention called me a phenomenon that succeeds among the fans to the music of the Big Apple: the karaoke. But not any type of karaoke. In the "City", like they refer her the new yorkers, they devastate the karaoke in which a band, with its guitar, its low one and its battery, touches in direct on a setting. Nothing of music pregrabada. The brave one that decides to rise to the boards chooses among an extensive list of themes, the band touches it, and he or she they enjoy the sensation to be all a star of the rock for some minutes.

One of the "live karaoke" more requested of new York is the one that takes place once monthly in Otto' s shrunken head, a small localities situated in full East Village. There, Bunnie England & The New Originals offer an extensive fan of versions that go from ACDC to the Beatles, passing for the Ramones, Green Day, Motorhead, Nirvana, The Cure, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin and a great quantity of classics of the rock of all the life that can be consulted in their myspace.

As an example, you abandonment the video of my friend Jonah being burst the vocal cords with the classic of Motorhead "Ace of Spades". How large. Until it carried the letter prepared and all...

The case is that, after seeing the success of the one that enjoys an initiative as this to the other side of the puddle, one not to can stop asking if something thus would succeed in Spain. The certain thing is that the American one Rachel Arieff already brought, under the name of Anti-Karaoke, somewhat quite similar to Barcelona and Madrid, in a mixture of spectacle of drag queens and karaoke to the style of that of Otto' s. The idea harvested a considerable success, and continues being celebrated each month in the rooms Sidecar and Sun.

But beyond the initiative of Arieff, I believe that is complex that an idea of these characteristics succeed in our country to a greater scale, just as occurs in New York. Hardly anybody dominates the letters of the large classics of the rock, beyond the refrains. And the fact is that the level of English that have in this country leaves much to be desired, almost so much as the musical culture of good part of the population. There, the songs of the Ramones or the Creedence form part of the popular culture. Everyone knows them. In case to wanted to remove ahead an idea of similar spirit in Spain with espectativas that succeed, would not remain more remedy than carry out with songs of The Men G, Amaral, The Secrets, Meccan or The Song of the Lunatic... Or not?