Karaoke to go
2010/08/08 A recent Friday at 8:11 p.m.: Inside a van he scored from a Craigslister a few months ago, Glen Calub, a.k.a. Glenny Kravitz, the Karaoke Shark, provides air guitar backup for karaoke scene regular Ash Townsend as he screams Alice in Chains lyrics. Tonight the party is parked at the corner of Indiana and Tulare streets - far from neighbors who might be offended by amplified karaoke versions of "Mama Said Knock You Out" or "Who'll Stop the Rain?" He uses a power inverter connected to car battery to run the PA and lyric-bouncing video screen. A handful of attendees hungry for the microphone brave the frigid fog of a San Francisco summer night with a level of enthusiasm that is, thankfully, not rated by the quality of the notes being sung. After more than a decade of hosting karaoke nights at clubs around the city, Kravitz decided it was time to expand the party beyond the confines of barroom walls. His followers seem to agree. "I just tell them where I'm at and they follow me," he says.
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