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are dj's cover bands?

do you think dj's are like cover bands, in that, they get rich off other people's material?

discuss =)

absolutely. is also why i wonder why DJs get so much flak for playing similar tunes to each other or what they were playing 6 months ago- cover bands the world over play the same tunes, no matter where you are, and people still go off and have a good time.

however, id say its harder being a DJ in that playing to crowds is a lot more difficult. no lil rest between tunes, planned setlist etc. not that im criticising cover bands either, got a few good friends that play in them (and let me sing when im lucky )

at the end of the day, does it matter? fvcked if i wanna wait for *insert DJ name here* to tour my state so i get to hear tunes i like. im just as happy to see begic as i am nu-nrg if theyre both playing music i get into

Yes, but if you look @ most of the succesful dj's, they produce their own music as well.

in my opinion DJs can do so much more than a cover band. if a track sucks like soups no matter how brilliant the singer/guitarist is the track will still sucks.

a brilliant DJ however can do so much more with a track. layering it up, cut it up, drop acapella over the top, etc.

to produce a set that 'progresses' using these tracks is more harder job than a cover band doing their best rendition of other's songs/tracks.

heheh...nup.

sound engineers, conductors, teachers....but cover bands nah, i dunt reckon.

DJs are gods I tell you, GODS!

We should all bow down on the dancefloor and worship their ability to place a plastic disc in the correct horizontal position on a rotating tabletop such that it makes a musical sound.


[sorry, I'm just a little sensitive, Tiesto is coming to Toronto at the end of June, which means all the posers with 5 posts are gonna be swarming our board with threads worshipping his mastery of the crossfader and every minor detail of his life. So I will be in here more often over the coming weeks to prevent the flaming of the e-tarded 'tiesto is god' fans]

*EDIT* As an example to the insuing tiesto madness, it's june 2, he's coming on june 30th, yet we already have 2 ticket threads, a thread about what clothing he's gonna wear, a poll about if he should be spinning in the booth or on a stage, and an event thread.

i like you sly guy.

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Originally posted by DaveBegic i like you sly guy, can we spoon and hate DJs together? (im the big spoon though)

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ohhh thhhtop itttttt!

nah i only start these dj debates cause i know it pisses jpl off

Re: are dj's cover bands?

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Originally posted by DaveBegic do you think dj's are like cover bands, in that, they get rich off other people's material? discuss =)

yeah somewhat true.

however cover bands still need to re-create the talent of the bands by learning how to play and perform the songs. they are still creating the music on stage (altho not original material)

however, DJs just play a record, they are no re-creating that song, just re-playing it. but they do need to mix

to make things identical, a DJ would need to play a LIVE set of someones elses music, and which DJs in australia could do that?? not many

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Originally posted by Light The Fuse heheh...nup. sound engineers, conductors, teachers....but cover bands nah, i dunt reckon.

DJs are sound engineers?

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Originally posted by j�c� DJs are sound engineers?

i wouldve thought that EQ work would be similar to that of the pro roadies you see at concerts working their mixers.

heh.. i think sound engineers look more in depth into frequency ranges than "bass cut, mid cut, treble cut, and gain"... is what jace is trying to say.

haha, its a lot harder to EQ a room than drop the bass off a record..

hahaha. youre both spastics. i was saying the processes are *similar* as is the desired outcome: make the music sound good

hehe i know what you mean, the process is similar but not really comparable - DJs dont tweek the EQ to make the record sound good, they tweek it to look cool

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Originally posted by Sly_Guy *EDIT* As an example to the insuing tiesto madness, it's june 2, he's coming on june 30th, yet we already have 2 ticket threads, a thread about what clothing he's gonna wear, a poll about if he should be spinning in the booth or on a stage, and an event thread.

well thats understandable, imagine if dave begic or jason midro was playing there, it would be chaos!!!

you take that back phil, you take it back right now.

THERES NO WAY I COULD BE EVEN ON THE SAME LINE UP AS MIDRO, it would be too insulting to the great man, the myth, the robocop.

i said 'or'

Djing is pretty simple shit imo. It's not rocket science and you're not playing an instrument.

Having said that, there is a pretty massive difference between the good, the bad and the mind blowing.

You have to ask yourself what one does that another does'nt that separates all three.

If it were simply putting a "plastic disc in the correct horizontal position" there would be no difference between any of them.

Talk to ignorant ppl outside of the dance scene and they will laugh at all the edm producers saying "the computer does the work" and that "you dont actually play an instrument so you're not a musician" so there is no real talent.

Are they wrong? of course they are, but how funny when you dumb down any ything how simple it sounds.

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