William's Week-Night
San Diego Karaoke Reviews
"Kountry
Karaokee" in Santee
Email:
laceyjsroadhousesaloon@gmail.com
Lacey
J's Roadhouse Saloon & Grill (aka Wagon Wheel)
Mulvaney's
is now the "Wagon Wheel" under new management. It features
karaoke Wed
nights. Other weekday nights there is line-dancing. Bands perform
from an
elevated stage on the weekends. A bigger dance floor to wheel your
partner
around in I can't imagine, although Cahoots in Mission Valley rivals it.
Check
out the variety of musical styles their bands offer:
http://www.facebook.com/LaceyJsRoadhouseSaloon
Karaoke
here at Lacey J's on the corner of Mission Gorge and Magnolia in Santee
was
informal, low-key. friendly, slow-paced mostly country karaoke courtesy of the
KJ - Mike.
Maybe 20 people were there tonight. Half were singers. The youngest looked
to be 20
and the oldest, well that would be me...Nearly all the songs seemed to come
from the
pinnacle of American country music, 1955-1980. That suggests good taste to my
ears.
The ladies were the stars. Clemencia say "Never, Never, Never" as
perfectly
as you
will ever want to hear while Lana brought the house down with "Blue",
universally
a Leann Rimes favorite.
The Karaoke
sound was definitely "subdued" almost soft, somewhere above
"background."
This is not a bad thing. People can talk without getting hoarse
or
they can easily listen to the performance, maybe 10-30' at a distance, as they choose.
I
liked that It was easy to walk around and talk to most everyone there.
Three video
displays let the audience see the poetry of the songs wherever you sat.
The
tables have movable wooden chairs, making it easy to move around and talk
to
different people, too. And the food was very good. No greasy spoon - this.
There
was a long menu of burgers, chicken and fish with lots of healthy green extras.
And
joyfiully, the prices were quite modest.
I
especially liked that we could bring our own karaoke CDs and not have to depend on
what
the KJ might have in his computer. Too often when the songs come from
a
computer, it means the singer risks singing familiar songs that are unexpectedly now
in a
different key or have different words or are missing whole verses altogether.
"A
clean, well-lighted place" with lots of free parking and a long, well-stocked bar,
there
were no rowdy drunks here. Only easy-going, no pressure friendly singing.
That
something I'd gladly drive 20 miles to on a Wednesday night.
Smiling
bar-keeps
