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🏖3️⃣Style and Tenor: Jack Black, The Association, The Murderer...and Me

🏖3️⃣Style and Tenor: Jack Black, The Association, The Murderer...and Me

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AUSTIN, TX—This story revolves around singers. In about 2012, I discovered karaoke. I had just entered retirement, and singing, virtually nightly, was not only fun, but gave me something to do, even though it was at night, from about 9-midnight.

I’ve been singing most of my life:

🏖1️⃣I Was a Teenage Lead Singer! The Early '70s Brimstone Saga (with Approximate Setlist)

🏖1️⃣I Was a Teenage Lead Singer! The Early '70s Brimstone Saga (with Approximate Setlist)

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I didn’t/don’t drink, so my time in a couple different Austin karaoke bars was spent singing and chatting with old and (mostly) new friends. One of those friends videoed me one night in December 2013:

For the first time, FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE, a video of me singing. That’s a prop cigarette, and I’ve lost about 20 pounds since then (he hastens to add):

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