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SMALL STAGE PERFORMANCE VENUES
(SSPVs / Karaoke Stages)
The new breed of SSPVs are enabling and encouraging the upward evolution of what are currently karaoke joints. In a few years SSPVs will change things big time, and its going to be amazing. They probably wont be called karaoke joints anymore, and theyll be THE place to be and to be seen. Get up on that stage and do your act sing, dance ventriloquist act, eat a banana any act. Do 8 minutes of belly-laugh comedy, you got an act! Dance a seductive Tango on stage with your wife under surround sound and spotlights, knock em dead! SSPVs will enable virtually any kind of nonsense from Aida to Zappa, from acrobatics to xylophone solos, and do it back to back with live comedy, great Em Cees, and an occasional stupid human trick. Of course, singers will always be part of the show, too.
Thats right, karaoke is going to not only gain acceptance, but due to the current and upcoming evolution, venues that used to be karaoke joints will be equipped with great stages and prepared to feature any type entertainment that walks in the door on an impromptu basis.
Many venues will offer complete video and CD recording options. Any act or singer will be able to tape and/or record high quality audio and video of their performance. Put 10 songs on a CD and sell your own CDs! They could be reproduced on demand in quantities of 1 or more. Talk about fun. Someone will walk in and tape a video as a letter to his mom, done live on stage. Hell pay about $10 for the tape, and Mom will be so happy.
Youll also be able to create your own karaoke video live on stage, or record video of you holding up different lyrics for your own song.
Wow! What a concept! In the next few years karaoke will take on a whole new look. Sound crazy? Wait till you hear some of these ideas. I cant be the only one who thinks its time to take the big step.
Heres what weve already got: We got thousands of little karaoke shows going on every night of the week in almost every city & state on the continent, not to mention the rest of the world. In all those places a very simple thing is happening. People are getting up in front of their friends and neighbors and performing. People love to do it and people love to watch it. And venue owners love to profit from it.
Strangely enough, no one quite understands why karaoke is so much fun, or why it is so successful. I have a few ideas about that. My theory is that its not really the karaoke that draws a crowd. I think its the idea of watching a live, non-scripted, sometimes amazing, sometimes funny, sometimes heart-wrenching form of entertainment, performed by normal folk (some of whom they know) for no pay! Whats so amazing about that?
If that was a little confusing. Let me try it this way. If I said I was going to open a nightclub where there is a live, in-house troupe of 20 or 30 performers who put on an impromptu show with music, dancing, and jokes every night for three hours, would you want to check that out? How about if I added the fact that you could meet almost anyone there, and they might not be bombed on whiskey or droopy-eyed from drugs?
Everyone, everyone, everyone can have fun at a karaoke venue. Church people can have fun. Prostitutes can have fun. Lesbians and left-handers, blonds and balds, young, old, happy, angry, depressed, ANYONE! And they all become part of the flavor of the evening. Theyre all part of the show, and the fun is automatic if its done right.
The amazing thing to me is that karaoke has so much potential and so few venue owners who recognize it. Its evolving right before our eyes every night, and when it finally matures its going to be a ton of fun, and probably make a lot of people a lot of money. Itll still be mainly folks singing a song while they read the words on a TV screen, but therell be soooo much more.
In order to best explain the current evolutionary process taking place in the karaoke world, we must first understand the situation. As I mentioned there are tens of thousands of places (venues) where karaoke happens every week, sometimes every night. There are 10s of millions of people doing it every night. And there are 10s of millions more watching the shows. This is all happening in a Small Stage Performance Venue (SSPV).
And the future is wide open!
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