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He is, he has stormed off stage, more times than most deejays put together. I mean one cdj...sighs....shit set anyway.

was that the set that the water was dripping from the ceiling of kool haus?

dunno, it was fucking december, doubt any rain was around. I just remember him getting paid 25K for 4 hrs and him showing late, playing like shit then fucking off an hour early due to an overheating cdj. I gave up on him right then.

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Originally posted by Radagast I heard Armin Van Buuren broke a nail and threw a hissy fit once while transitioning from Super 8 - Alba to Solid Globe - Sahara.

wtf?? thats probably the worse thing to get all worked up about unless its half the fingernail gone... then again theres djs hands whatever the hell that is

not a storm off stage but worth a read..

When Sander Kleinenberg played here in Sydney last year he wouldn't start playing until the champagne that was supplied to him was of a high enough standard. He started 30 minutes late lol

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Originally posted by idoru Ti�sto was really, really close to picking up the turntables and throwing them at one of the Gatecrasher's last year; he said it himself. Here's what Tijs said about it... Reports from people who work with Ti�sto said that that the fireworks didn't go off at Traffic, and mentioned a couple of other things. Folks in the audience said that Ti�sto looked extremely pissed.

I was listening to that event on Galaxy radio online (horrible ass radio station though ) and heard that fuck up during Traffic firsthand. Man, that had to suck. I know at least one person who was there and got to see it for herself.

Re: Whooaa!

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Originally posted by Sumit_A When Good DJ's go Bad....They Trainwreck! cheers.

I should be on that show.

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Originally posted by webmeister Tiesto was supposed to finish playing at 6am. 6:30 and he's still going, so the guy who was playing the closing set understandably had the shits. Adagio for Strings was clearly going to be Tiesto's last track, he wasn't beatmatching or anything and hadn't selected another track to play. So to start cueing up his first track, the guy playing after Tiesto unplugged Tiesto's headphones and plugged his own headphones in. Tiesto glared at him for a few seconds, tossed his headphones into the crowd (a TA caught them ), hit stop on the CD-J and stormed off the stage.

I always said Tiesto is a dick... I have this shirt that i have all big name dj's sign and i asked tiesto to sign it and he told me he cannot sign anytihng that doesnt have a direct reference to him...

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Yeh heard that as well. The guy had a t-shirt on that said "Jules can't mix" and kept pestering Jules relentlessly, so in the end Jules got so pissed that he punched him in the face. He made a public apology later I think.

Well... it's true... jules cant mix for shit

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Originally posted by idoru Ti�sto was really, really close to picking up the turntables and throwing them at one of the Gatecrasher's last year; he said it himself. Here's what Tijs said about it... Reports from people who work with Ti�sto said that that the fireworks didn't go off at Traffic, and mentioned a couple of other things. Folks in the audience said that Ti�sto looked extremely pissed.

what a baby.

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Originally posted by CKYTEP I always said Tiesto is a dick... I have this shirt that i have all big name dj's sign and i asked tiesto to sign it and he told me he cannot sign anytihng that doesnt have a direct reference to him...

I really like the work Tiesto or whoever behind him makes it. The music that comes out of him is great! You cannot deny that.

But-
He is a pop artist. Meaning that some AR made him sign some contract to do that to make him(the marketing tool), look bigger and better.

I heard a story about PvD in a chatroom. I think he was in Canada when some girl jumped into the DJ booth and accidentally kicked his cd case on the floor and almost knocked down his laptop from which he was spinning. Then the smoke machine guy screwed up and put way too much smoke into the room, PvD got so pissed cuz of the whole situation he stormed off during the smoke and was gone by the time the smoke cleared.

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Originally posted by DjCoz I heard a story about PvD in a chatroom. I think he was in Canada when some girl jumped into the DJ booth and accidentally kicked his cd case on the floor and almost knocked down his laptop from which he was spinning. Then the smoke machine guy screwed up and put way too much smoke into the room, PvD got so pissed cuz of the whole situation he stormed off during the smoke and was gone by the time the smoke cleared.

that's gotta be an invention, or two stories put together, i remember something about pvd and a smoke machine on the love parade one or two years ago

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Originally posted by DjCoz I heard a story about PvD in a chatroom. I think he was in Canada when some girl jumped into the DJ booth and accidentally kicked his cd case on the floor and almost knocked down his laptop from which he was spinning. Then the smoke machine guy screwed up and put way too much smoke into the room, PvD got so pissed cuz of the whole situation he stormed off during the smoke and was gone by the time the smoke cleared.

ROFLMAO.... PVD was gone when the smoke cleard. HAHAHA



On June 13th of 2003 when Tiesto was in Montreal some Craked-up hoe jumped a rail and pulled out a wire while trying to get close to Tiesto. The place went silent like I've never heard before. That is probably the story you were reffering to.

mixed up when PvD spun 2 hours instead of 3 or 4 because of the cdj (his cd was scratched)

A couple years ago at ULTRA, some DJ (I think it was either George Acosta or Danny Tenaglia) was a no show when his set time came up because he refused to play because he was not playing on the main stage.

Damn egos.

Wish I could remember which DJ it was.

Dave

PvD was playing Passion back last year and mysteriously decided to just leave an hour early.

Nobody knows why.

Man, dont even get me started on shady promoters and how much shit i had to deal with... screwed up timeslots, no monitor, broken/insufficient equipment, money that i was told to be paid and never gotte it....

Trust me... if a big name dj storms out, its for a reason, i'm sure there is more to those stories then you think. For any big dj at all a promoter required to sign a contract which has a list of things that promoter MUST provide/make sure its operational... starting from equipment and ending with peanut butter sandwiches with no crust if thats what the DJ requests... and if any of the following items on contract isnt satisfied a DJ has the right not to perform at all and keep the deposit for him.

If your CDJ overheats... you better have a back up... so it goes for any other equipment...

And i seen on numerous occasions when a big DJ went out of his way and continue to perform under the conditions not suitable by contract or even changed the venue (as in sandra collins in nashville case as tennessee_raver mentioned (i was @ that party)), just to satisfy the fan thats paid the door fee to see them perform...

i remember seeing sandra collins one night in boston & and the club had the tables set up on the stage, when security told her she had to stop playing by 2 she got rather pissy and cued up wavy gravy(it was a new track back then) and just walked off the stage and never came back. The tracked played out and everyone was like what the f@%k!!

Neither of these are walk offs actaully a testament to djs putting up with shit, anyway here goes umm a couple of years back Mauro Picotto was at a club here in Houston called Lotus Lounge, Mauro was number 5 in the world at this time, and he comes in first off there are too many jackasses in the booth it wasnt that big, then the monitors were like on the ground and he couldnt hear them or something well u know monitors are supposed to be up so these jackasses had to prop it up on a cooler and a piece of carpet, then on top of that his equipment wasnt working, he was so pissed the whole night he mixed with one hand drank with the other, smoked and DID NO EQ EFFECTS. I ask you does that sound like Mauro?

Then not too long ago I saw PvD at Meltdown in Dallas and he was complaining about one of his tables kept going out threw out the night but he stayed and played and in the end it was great. So there.

on one hand, you can' blame teh dj's, there pro's so its fair to expect the same from the organizer from the party, so the gear should be good.

at the other hand, there pro's and make lotsa $$$ so they better just deal with it and stfu

Aphex Twin supported Bjork (the Icelandic pixie with the nice voice) in London earlier this year. Instead of coming on stage and doing the live set he was supposed to, he plugged in a synth to the speakers back stage and played white noise at full volume for about 20 mins!

Needless to say, the crowd weren't too happy. But I guess it made Bjork's set even more enjoyable for those that were there.

Not exactly a DJ storming off stage, but funny story nonetheless.

I've seen a lot of promotor fuckups myself as well (of course, with me being a DJ, I see them as promotor fuckups.. ). Usually it's bad equipment, bad sound etc. However, one thing to keep in mind, from the DJ's perspective, is that if you stay and play on subpar equipment or the like, people might perceive it as you being the one to blame. Thus you might end up losing more money by not walking off in the form of less gigs (reputation is important, needless to say).

I can't understand why Tijs would storm off just because the following DJ's unplugged his phones though.

Anywho.. A story of my own. I was playing at a medium sized club about two years ago. I was supposed to spin for two hours. It starts with the mixer being completely in the dark, no light on it what-so-ever. I request some light on the mixer, but all the electric sockets were already taken by cords to the sound equipment. I requested a candle, but you weren't allowed to have fire close to the cords. It ended with me having to settle for a flash light which I leaned towards a coke can and the wall.
Then, since I wasn't on a stage, people came up to me before I had even started spinning with requests involving all sorts of music except the kind I play, i.e. EDM.
Then I started spinning. The sound then died twice because of a broken cord. Once they replaced the cord, they managed to connect the speakers incorrectly, and nothing came out of the speakers but mono. At this time, about 20 mins into my set, I'm pretty ticked.
Then came the highlight of the night. A girl had managed to get herself into the DJ booth, drunk beyond belief. At first she started to try to hit on me while I was mixing (hint guests: don't talk to the DJ when he's got his headphones on and hands on the mixer). She then threw up on the mixer.
Needless to say, I took my records, my headphones, my money and left.

I have contract demands nowadays. Pretty much involves the following:
1. Pioneer 600 or Allen & Heath X:Zone 62 mixer.
2. Pioneer CDJ 1000's. At least two.
3. Technics 1200's or 1210's. At least two.
4. If possible, a stage. Don't like to spin in DJ booths.
5. No vomiting near me.

The DJ that has impressed me more than any other to stop through locally is Ferry Corsten. He played in my hometown March 18th, for a show that featured Ronald Van Gelderen, Ferry and Lisa Lashes.

Headliner DJ, plays for huge crowds, every increasing in popularity and what does he do? He hangs out near the DJ area for an hour or more before his set, chatting with fans, signing autographs, having pictures taken, etc.

Nice to see a DJ that knows who is responsible for his paycheque each night.

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Originally posted by torontotrance He is, he has stormed off stage, more times than most deejays put together. I mean one cdj...sighs....shit set anyway.

i remember when a friend of mine was spinning and a cdj AND a tunrtable died. it was a 2 channel mixer, so you had to switch the line/phono to use one thing or the other. the ones that died were both on the same channel, so he actually had a vinyl running, goes around the table, unplugs the CDJ, plugs it in the other channel and repositions it, and keeps mixing for another hour cd <-> vinyl.

damnit, DJs should stop being so damn arrogant (as in the headphone unpluggage deal). max graham spun here and goes to take a piss, and the idiotic local DJ starts playing with the volume fader, taking it out and bringing it back in. just doing stupid shit. max walks up on stage, and just gestures to the crowd as if saying "whats wrong with this kid?" and continues his set.

sander k actually stopped the opnening DJ's last record when he came here. not mix in, he pulled the needle off. some say it was a mistake, and he didn't do it on purpose though. shit set by sander that night btw.

tiesto at roxy last year

hmmm... about that...

i dunno, he was just done. he said he was contracted to play 4 hrs, started at about 2 and at six was all done. i got the feeling he had a hard time connecting that night, and wanted to go get some rest. i am not sure though because i had half a bottle of grey goose molesting my liver and was pretty hazy. so when smiley asked me to go back on i said something like, "gglllllrrrbbbbblllle... sure... play records. right. ok..." i was visibly drunk, and bindra asked me more than once if i was ok to spin, because he would just end it there if i wasn't... i managed to stop slurring long enough to address the mike in the middle (as i was seeing 3 of him)with enough coherency to allay his fears. i mean it would have been worse i think if i got on and was horrible, than if it just ended. fortunately from what i can recall, it went reasonably well, and i played til nearly 8 am.

i have heard a lot of accounts of that night- that he had stormed off, or whatever, but i think it was a little less dramatic than that. he just decided he was done and was on his last record. i happened to stumble by at just that moment. he left, i played. the end.

but then i was really, really, drunk, so maybe i missed a bunch of stuff... who knows?

peace

noel

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