man this is a great thread... brings big smiles on a shitty day... i never played out, not good enough yet, but ive done that whole take the wrong record off thing... and sometimes when ive gotten stoned and mixed, half way through the mix ill forget which way or deck i was going

Forgeting my mixer to amp cable at home =)

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Doing backspin and knocking the cart off the record, which produced the aforementioned skreech sound.

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Took the needle off the wrong record, upfaded with the wrong channel right as the track was ending, all sorts of shit.

Honestly, its kind of a right of passage before you really get comfortable up there.

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friend of mine just left. we threw done a lil session. he took out the wrong CD... heh.

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I was djing in front of a crowed of about a two thousand when a very bad series of events happend. *takes a deep breath* The night started off fine mix was going good i was cueing up the next record when all hell broke loose some drunk fell over in the dj booth knocking the tone arms of booth decks across the records making the screaching sound as he fell he grabed the dj stand and took it down with him the events decks and my vinyls on it!!!!! after that we got everything set back up and were rolling while the crowed was starting to get back into the grove i had the bigged train wreck i had cued up the new track and was bring the fader up on the new track when i noticed there was no sound i looked around and I had knocked the power cord out of the surge protecter with my foot needless to say that night was not good.!

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I wasnt mixing or anything i was juz playing music using a laptop during a radio show. About half way through the show as i hit play on the laptop my sleeve touched the touch pad and stopped the song.

yeah well i was at a house party, going off!!!!

but you know what there like when they havent seen vinyl much of before. they just love to ssscccrretcch screcchh like cueing sort of action while playing trance man i was pissed about 40 people did this.
now the main thing that happened was a friend was directly in front and went to shake hands with the mate on my side of the booth, oohhh
no!! (he doesn't realize that turntables have tonearms cos he is half pissed. so he brings his arm straight down on the record playing and smashes the needle right down hard on the the record. \
it totaly made the record unplayable. but what got me was that the needle survived with no sign of damage, the carts and needle i have are ORTOFON GT'S TUFF STUFF FOR A GREAT PRICE.

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Originally posted by Max Thomson ... upfaded with the wrong channel right as the track was ending,

yea I forgot about when I did that.

About two weeks ago i was playing in a litle club here in Reykjavik, i was dropping mad tunes everybody were loving it , the dance floor was full, then out of the blue the club owner comes into the booth and asks me if the "smoke machine" is'nt working i say that i have no idea since i hate the smoke from it. Well the guy reaches over one of the decks and he takes the tonearm of the record that was playing with his jacket, his face went from being pale to bright red as the crowd looked at him like they wanted to kill him. I set up the next record i had cued up and he backs off and tries to check the "smoke machine" under the table and under there he takes the mixers power cord out but now the crowd is looking at me like they wanted to kill me.

and the off shottrain wrecks last weekend when the cd players i had were sucky...

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Originally posted by Inertia friend of mine just left. we threw done a lil session. he took out the wrong CD... heh.

if it wasnt for pio cdjs, id pt that on my list...

lessee... the maddest night

1. Headliner didnt end set til 4:30 was supposed to end at 3, i had to close from 4:30-6 AM (I fuckin hate closing)

2. Headliner was so drunk and stoned he smashed a table just as the breakdown for smells like adam freeland was going off, killing the breakdown completely.

3. Master cuts out 3 or 4 times throught night, monitors doing ok, speaker replacement at 2 AM

4. My homey has to literally hold the speaker plug in so the speaker doesnt shut off.

oh well fuck it. shitty night and i will never work with that dj again. i would have kicked his ass, but id never have been employed again if i did.

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