isnt IM gonna be in philly soon? hey your from mt laurel...is that near haddenfield? i have frineds there and cherry hill..very nice area...

I.M. was here last weekend for bang...amazing performance as always....yea i live like 10 mins from haddonfield and i work in cherry hill....

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my first gig ever

I had only been dj'ing for a few months and some lady at my work needed a dj for a fundraiser she was putting on. It was for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Ojai, California.

I drove almost an hour to get out to this place. During this time I only spun trance. I told her I spun trance and she said that would be fine and the people there wouldn't mind it.

I was self conscious about my mixing still so I invited a friend (Global-Trance) to come mix with me.

The lady wasn't going to pay us for this, we donated our services since this was a fundraiser for a good cause, to raise money for the foundation in the memory of this one ladie's son that died with the disease. We would however get all the food and drinks that we wanted. That was a big plus, especially for starving college students.

We brought two big speakers + stands, positioned them so that we could use them as monitors as well. 2 turntables, and mixer. I brought 2 big bags of records. My friend was playing with my records.

We set up all the equipment...it was 100 degrees outside!!!! This was an outdoor event and we were right on the lake's edge.

I start off the set, as soon as I put on the record, people's heads turned. They gave a weird look. I was like OMG wtf. I got really self conscious and going into my first mix I fucked up. Big time. Absolute trainwreck.

After this my friend took over and delivered a really good set.

I went through all that work to bring equipment and set everything up and I practically didn't even play.

Every few minutes people would come up requesting hip hop or something more 'family oriented'. This one lady came up and was like "do you have anything that doesn't make me feel like I am in a club?" I was like wtf. This was like the worst day ever.

This is my worst dj'ing experience.

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Once I DJed on CD players with no pitch adjustment... beat match? Heck no.

my friend one time got so drunk while playin he knocked one of the technics off the table.

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Originally posted by Greedy my friend one time got so drunk while playin he knocked one of the technics off the table.

ow

only bad thing that ever happened to me was lack of interest. nothing major seing as i only ever played house parties so far

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at least you didn't get mugged at knife point outside a shady club in Istanbul just before you were supposed to spin

it happened to that guy

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wow these stories are awful and make mine pale in comparison

rustyryan: at least that dj who got mugged turned out alright....

epdarks: how did you manage djing that night

Greedy: is your turntable still ok...what happened to the record (if one was on the table)

wizniz: I have seen that happen a couple of times at a house party...people have like ADD at house parties

SVGmethod: I dj'd for a fundraiser type thing...people are picky and whats worse is that the people who ask you to do these things don't realize that the dj looks bad if he doesn't play the right music and not the person who asked the dj to do the job.

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I just switched tracks during breakdowns or moved the fader very quickly lol. It wasn't a serious party so no big deal.

on the night of my first dope gig someone put a bunch of ghb in one of my drinks..

it sucked, but at the same time it was the best ever hahaha becuase I managed to totally wing it and pull it off, despite tripping all over the place and looking like a dolt.

this one time at a house party...a friend and i were doing a tag team set. when it was time for me to lay down my first track...i had it beatmatched and everything. i went to bring it up and i thought the beats were dead on and it sounded good....turns out the crossfader was on and i didnt slide it over. I am used to keeping the crossfader in the middle, or off, and just using the upfaders. The song ended and I never actually brought in the other track. What an embarassment. Hahaha.

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