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Posted by Dean Millson on Feb-07-2006 12:11:

the funniest part about it was that aaron did the same thing earlier in the night.

i gave him shit about it for at least a couple of tracks, before i pulled off my own rendition.

Thank god that the new CDJ's have a play lock that wont let you eject when it's still playing... I might email them and see if i can get it named after me

Posted by jizza on Feb-07-2006 21:43:

ok so i have this record where at a certain groove the needle just loops and loops (perfectly i might add), so to combat this i just give the headshell an ever so slight nudge with my soft hands and it would usually just skip to the next bit of the track - a barely audible skip. a barely audible skip AT HOME that is. i tried the same thing in a club and err lets just say it sounded like a jetplane landing on the dancefloor. the one lasting image was everyone in unison shrugging their shoulders trying to cover their ears. that was my one and only gig in a club.

Posted by Lister Cooray on Feb-07-2006 22:17:

quote:
Originally posted by PauLie_C
when i played at open decks @ altitude tour, i trainwrecked a mix really bad, i was mixing in tilt - 12 (dousk remix) at that time it was the most played record in my bag, i played it out all the time in my bedroom and at listers house, i couldnt believe i stuffed the mix up, i was so embarassed until i looked at the crowd..........

there was no crowd

dont fkn lie paulie there were five ants smacked on bikkies under a chair. they werent impressed

Posted by Philby on Feb-08-2006 02:53:

haha no blow jobs required, it was my sisters boyfriends 21st
and the worse part is there was only 1 record playing, the other tune was on cd

Posted by Teflon_Teapot on Feb-08-2006 03:04:

quote:
haha no blow jobs required, it was my sisters boyfriends 21st

so you had to blow your sisters boyfriend for the gig? i will give you one thing philby you are persistant

Posted by Philby on Feb-08-2006 03:23:

well apparantly thats how it is in the industry so i guess the sooner i learn the better chance ive got to go somewhere

Posted by Aesthetic on Feb-08-2006 03:59:

Just dont use your teeth Phil. Promoters hate that shit.. i've been using that line since 1998 and its still timeless. woot.

Posted by Philby on Feb-08-2006 04:14:

haha dave

lucky i dont have braces then!

Posted by Dean Millson on Feb-08-2006 04:23:

*waves at Philby*

Hi!

*winks*

Posted by Teflon_Teapot on Feb-08-2006 04:56:

your a shocker millson

Posted by Philby on Feb-08-2006 05:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Dean Millson
*waves at Philby*

Hi!

*winks*

ooh
is this an invitation to a very special "private function"?

Posted by Aesthetic on Feb-08-2006 05:57:

At brown alley..

Posted by AngusG on Feb-09-2006 03:16:

lol...

i once played josh wink - higher state of conciousness... i tweaked the eq a bit so i had a bit of extra hi and mid and a bit less bass (that tracks got dodgy highs at the best of times)... at the time the venue i played at didn't have a decent monitor so i used to mix a bit in my headphones... i looked up to see the bouncer laughing his head off, took my headphones off to an ear piercing screach!! i quickly toned it down a bit, 5 minutes later the manager comes up and says... crowd wants more of what u were doing before, give it all you got

another time the vibrations from the speaker caused my record bag to fall over... onto the record i was cueing up :S

i once forgot to check the position of the crossfader (i have mine off at home) so was bringing in the next track, i was dropping the high's on the previous track while tweaking the high a bit on the next track and thought fark this is smooth ....... and then it was the mids turn :|.......... and then the lows and then i looked down to see what i'd done wrong

Posted by Jer on Feb-09-2006 04:55:

quote:
Originally posted by narcism
u wish

I suppose I should ask nicely then.

Posted by malfabric on Feb-10-2006 07:09:

taken needle of the record a couple of times...

here's a sample of MAL CHIA'S TRUE ADELAIDE DJ STORIES

after a 6hr set at sugar, by which time i was quite smashed, after mixing out of a track ejected it from the cdj put it in my wallet only to pull the same disc out again and mix it straight back in. funny thing was while i was cueing up i actually thought (a) "wicked - don't have to touch the pitch control"; and (b) "this intro sounds familiar", without actually tweaking to my faux pas until it was too late.

when i was doing closing set at red room on friday's i'd pretty much hang around there all night abusing the tab. one week i took it a little too far and was more-or-less being held up on stage and actually took a tumble over some record bags perched right next to me. somehow, despite my quite obvious inebriation, everyone including the venue manager thought my set was hot leading me to ask myself, "i want what their having"

Posted by kittn on Feb-10-2006 07:29:

At the risk of jinxing myself, I haven't seriously fucked up in a long time. (Apart from the slightly off not-quite-a-trainwreck-but-could-easily-become-one mixes that happen to us all.) My first CD players that I used to use at gigs were top loading with no latch or anything, so it was pretty easy to open the wrong side...CD stops... DEAD AIR.

My biggest dramas have happened due to punters. Either from them dancing too close to the booth and bumping into it, causing the needle to jump, or using the booth as somewhere to put a drink and knocking it over, or leaning over drunkenly to say THIS IS SHIT, PLAY SOMETHING I CAN DANCE TO! and knocking the tone arm...
One time this girl was standing right in front of the booth, her eyes about level with the turntable, staring at a record going round and round...mesmerized... then she reached out her hand... and touched it.
Silence.
Glare.
So she let go of the record and off we went again.
Funny in retrospect.

I want an electric fence.

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