I don't know if they were the worst experiences that I've had DJing but there are a couple of frightening moments that I remember real well. One was when I playing at one of the biggest clubs in L.A. (at that time). It was my first night playing there and it was about 5 minutes before they opened. Just as they were about to open the doors to let the line of people in that were waiting outside, I was up in the booth, cueing up my first record and one of the bartenders came up to ask me a question. As I turned around to answer him, I somehow snagged the wire on my headphones (which were on my head) and ripped the wires right out of my headphones. So there I am with no headphones and they're starting to let people in. I was in a panic. As it ended up, someone went to get me another set of headphones that lived close by which only took about 20 minutes. In the meantime, the first few songs I played, I made sure they were songs with cold endings so it all worked out ok.
Another time that I can think of was when I was playing, the place was packed. I put on a fairly long song and went downstairs to get a cocktail. Just as I turned around to head back up to the booth, the record started skipping.
It was so crowded that I couldn't get through all the people to get back up to the booth. Lucky for me that the skip in the record just happened to be right on beat so it sounded like a loop.
Well...that's just a couple of scarey moments that I've had and there are many more besides those.

Making a flawless mix, while completely drunk nonetheless, and then taking the wrong record off. Oops!

LOL ....doesn't that just suck! The first time I did that, I froze for about 15-20 seconds. I couldn't believe I had done that. It's quite a shock when the music suddenly stops like that, huh?

Yeah, I was a little slow to realize what I had done too, but I wouldn't contribute it to shock. Most people laughed cause they saw the look of complete confusion on my face, and then the stupid grin when I realized what I had done. Alcohol is a bitch, stay away from it girls and boys. At least when you have to operate heavy machinery or spin.

Another fun one is when you take off a record and put it in the cover of the record that you just put on and continue to do that for a while. Then the next night when your record is running out, you go to grab a song and....none of your records are in the right cover!! OH NO!!!!

Well, I can add a little to this thread.
I guess everybody had the problem with taking the wrong record off when in a hurry.
Another thing that happened a couple of times was broken monitor speakers. Not my fault, but my problem. Because nobody in the crowd knows you're playing with no monitor. F***ing sucks!
At Loveparade last year, one guy reached over my decks and pushed the needle off the record twice in 10 min.
And one time I played in a club where the PA is just way too large. They had no limiter or anything and the master volume on the Pioneer Mixer was at 3 (of 10). After a mix I turned to my record bag and accidentaly touched the master volume and turned it to 0. Everybody was looking at me and I wanted to get the music going quickly so I turned the volume up all the way cause I forgot it was only set to 3.
Blew everybody AWAY !!!
But I guess you have to live with stuff like that...it's part of the job, and I love it...

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there was this one show i was spinning at, my very first one too
and about halfway through, everything went dead
it turns out that a lot of the stuff i was using was hooked into the same breaker
i just stood there in utter confusion, thinking i had hit something, when about a couple of minutes later, everything came back on, thanks to someone running and resetting the breaker
it was scary, because my lightshow, my sound system, everything was dead
my lightguy was running around checking all the power cords, it was funny after though

and removing the wrong song has happened a couple of times to me already

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Twice in 10 minutes, huh? OUCH! What sucks also is when you're right in the middle of a mix and some idiot tries to pull your headphones off so they can request a song. That has happened many times.(and usually the song they request is something you played about 2 songs ago).
Well, at least we can all laugh at these things later, huh?

me too..
i took the wrong record off once..
that was very bad..
actually i pulled the record back and thought it was the right record to pull off.. then the sound just went off.. and i was like .. "oh shit".

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mine was 2 days ago haha my first gig ok i was the last to perform so when the last band played i went on then all of a sudden i play my first record and bam! every1 left so i was spinnin to no1 just my 4 friends who were helpingme out every1 else left i swear to god i was pissed....I WILL NEVER PERFORM AT A SKOOL MUSIC FESTIVAL AGAIN!! hehe it suCkED

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well, it's quite often when the records skip...

the thing that really drove me nuts was when the set was played in the street and there was no light around the booth... the mixer wasn't mine either. so trying to locate the knob i needed, i often touched the wrong knob.

the other thing: i was "in da mix" close to the point where the breakdown of the incoming song comes in... so i prepare to slide xfader to the incoming song. while doing that, i wave my hands, cry out things and try to have some fun. at the moment when i should slide the x-fader, i , of course, forget in which direction i should do it and bring the outcoming song back. it sucked.

but when the crowd doesn't show its irritation, everything's fine. the really scary thing for me is when they start to boo you. thank godness didn't happen to me yet.

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