The Woodshed Lounge

It's a dive. You go here when you're too drunk to have high expectations for any establishment, and want to pretend you know how to sing well. Both bartender and bouncer were touched with a bit of the snark the last time I went. Like any run-down karaoke bar, there are your regular superstars who you know it's the highlight of their week to sit down on a stool and croon a mediocre rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody. The Shed ain't great, and it ain't bad. It serves its purpose as your run-of-the mill karaoke lounge with some generic bar food, decent drinks, and a weird crowd of patrons

I've been to the Woodshed a few times since the 1990's to present day.  It was never that great.  Either the DJ was lousy and the other staff was great, or vice versa.  The crowd ran from being in with a bunch of old geezers huddled around the bar, with the place half empty to it being so crowded and loud, you'd couldn't hear yourself think much less sing.  The drinks were ALWAYS strong though - maybe to compensate for what wasn't.  Al's Alaskan Inn out on Old Seward was always much more fun and had better music and a more varied crowd but, except for a few, their staff was about as snotty as the bartender Jeannette mentioned by someone else at this site.  I'd go again, just to see how it is today since every time i went, it was totally different!

I used to go to the woodshed a lot in my hey-day before kids...and getting married.
Their selection is small and kind of sucks. If they've updated it in the last while that would be a shocker!
The seating arrangements there are pretty awkward, there's not a whole lot of seating eventhough they've tried to expand a little.
The sound system is horrible, you can't hear yourself sing at all unless you stand in one certain spot...and finding that spot is like finding a needle in a hay stack!

The last reason I don't like that bar and the main reason I'll NEVER go back is this...my friends and I (which I usually bring a LOT of business with me when I go out) were hanging out waiting to sing. We were there for 3 HOURS when my coworker came in to sing with us. She's extremely attractive, big brown doe eyes, tan, long black hair, thin and just gorgeous. People kept going up to sing, at least 2-3 times while we waited. I asked the DJ if he had our songs, he said yes. I asked him when I'd be able to sing, he said I would be next to sing. The next person called up to sing wasn't me...it was MY COWORKER! I'd been noticing this trend happening with all the "pretty" girls wearing next to nothing being the only ones to sing. He then had the balls to say over the mic that this is HIS gig and HE'S running the show and if we don't like the way he's running HIS show then we can go down the road to a shady part of town.
Needless to say, I got up, walked up to him, told him that he just cost his boss a ton of money because I come there a lot with my friends and he's the worst karaoke DJ I've ever had the displeasure of having to deal with, we'll take our business to Al's and he can take his little "show" back to the carnival where it belongs.
I knew the owner at the time and told him this would be the LAST time I'd ever step foot in his establishment with that jerk running "the show". That DJ didn't last very long, but I still never went back.