A couple days ago Lexi decided that I had to go to karaoke at the Crown & Anchor with her and some friends. It was Tyler's last chance at karaoke before moving back to Alberta so everyone was coming out kind of as an impromptu going away party. Four young female baristas, a couple locals, and a fair number of guitar students made for a hilariously fun evening! A couple of the guys got started right away making a list of songs for Tyler to sing, both ones they knew he likes, and more that they just thought would be hilarious to see/hear him sing. Tyler is such a fun, easy going and enthusiastic young fellow, so he just laughed and thought it was a great hoot being called up every second song with no idea what the heck he was going to have to sing. He certainly was the best performer that whole night and had the largest fan crowd out of everyone who stood to sing.
I found a fellow Nickle Creek enthusiast in Mike (guitar student) while at the same time finding out that Paul (another student) has lived his whole life in ignorance of that wonderfully talented group. House of Tom Bombadil was mentioned, discussion of the roots behind that particular strain of music was explored, and talk moved on to other strains of music generally considered more popular.
I might say that one of the highlights of the whole night was listening to a song by Frank Sinatra being sung by a young grease monkey in terribly torn jeans and an "Iron Maiden" t-shirt. That was such a complete surprise I really didn't know what to do but sit and listen in stunned silence.
The night went long but fun and I won't say what time we left, but the doors to the bar were all locked for quite some time before we got our lazy butts off the picnic bench and removed ourselves from the vicinity.
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