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Acid John, I suggest you don't do what you're planning on doing, because you can't "win" in any case.
First off, even if he trainwrecks, he will consider himself good - hell, he might not even beatmatch, just slide the x-fader across as a "transition." And people won't be able to tell the difference, being kids and all. Just being behind the decks will be "success" to him, and will make him look "cool."
Second, because of the above, you won't be able to "wow" them because they seriously won't know the difference between proper mixing and just sliding the fader across. Even if they did, they probably wouldn't care at all. Unless you scratch, they consider it all the same.
So save yourself the trouble and potential problems (equipment-wise, etc.) and just tell him "NO."
Just my 2 cents of opinion/advice.
Edit:
When DJ'ing, think of what you're doing as your "performance" (which is what it is! I'm just emphasizing it). What are some other artists that "perform"? Let's take guitarists. Would anyone come up to a guitarist in a band, while performing, and say, "dude, let me try! 'ya know i'm good'" (like your friend says). What do you think that guitarist would do? I leave that to your imagination. 
What I'm trying to say is that you should carry an aura of respect about you - YOU're the DJ, and no one should be messing with you while you perform. Of course, this is respected in proper clubs and parties, where the crowd knows what it's there for. But at a high school or such, you will have to work hard(er) to get that same respectability. Don't tarnish it by letting some jackass, know-nothing kid behind the decks - nothing good will come out of that - certainly not to you nor your rep.
Last edited by Alccode on Nov-21-2002 at 20:15
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