I heard a story about PvD in a chatroom. I think he was in Canada when some girl jumped into the DJ booth and accidentally kicked his cd case on the floor and almost knocked down his laptop from which he was spinning. Then the smoke machine guy screwed up and put way too much smoke into the room, PvD got so pissed cuz of the whole situation he stormed off during the smoke and was gone by the time the smoke cleared.

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Originally posted by DjCoz I heard a story about PvD in a chatroom. I think he was in Canada when some girl jumped into the DJ booth and accidentally kicked his cd case on the floor and almost knocked down his laptop from which he was spinning. Then the smoke machine guy screwed up and put way too much smoke into the room, PvD got so pissed cuz of the whole situation he stormed off during the smoke and was gone by the time the smoke cleared.

that's gotta be an invention, or two stories put together, i remember something about pvd and a smoke machine on the love parade one or two years ago

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Originally posted by DjCoz I heard a story about PvD in a chatroom. I think he was in Canada when some girl jumped into the DJ booth and accidentally kicked his cd case on the floor and almost knocked down his laptop from which he was spinning. Then the smoke machine guy screwed up and put way too much smoke into the room, PvD got so pissed cuz of the whole situation he stormed off during the smoke and was gone by the time the smoke cleared.

ROFLMAO.... PVD was gone when the smoke cleard. HAHAHA



On June 13th of 2003 when Tiesto was in Montreal some Craked-up hoe jumped a rail and pulled out a wire while trying to get close to Tiesto. The place went silent like I've never heard before. That is probably the story you were reffering to.

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mixed up when PvD spun 2 hours instead of 3 or 4 because of the cdj (his cd was scratched)

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A couple years ago at ULTRA, some DJ (I think it was either George Acosta or Danny Tenaglia) was a no show when his set time came up because he refused to play because he was not playing on the main stage.

Damn egos.

Wish I could remember which DJ it was.

Dave

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PvD was playing Passion back last year and mysteriously decided to just leave an hour early.

Nobody knows why.

Man, dont even get me started on shady promoters and how much shit i had to deal with... screwed up timeslots, no monitor, broken/insufficient equipment, money that i was told to be paid and never gotte it....

Trust me... if a big name dj storms out, its for a reason, i'm sure there is more to those stories then you think. For any big dj at all a promoter required to sign a contract which has a list of things that promoter MUST provide/make sure its operational... starting from equipment and ending with peanut butter sandwiches with no crust if thats what the DJ requests... and if any of the following items on contract isnt satisfied a DJ has the right not to perform at all and keep the deposit for him.

If your CDJ overheats... you better have a back up... so it goes for any other equipment...

And i seen on numerous occasions when a big DJ went out of his way and continue to perform under the conditions not suitable by contract or even changed the venue (as in sandra collins in nashville case as tennessee_raver mentioned (i was @ that party)), just to satisfy the fan thats paid the door fee to see them perform...

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i remember seeing sandra collins one night in boston & and the club had the tables set up on the stage, when security told her she had to stop playing by 2 she got rather pissy and cued up wavy gravy(it was a new track back then) and just walked off the stage and never came back. The tracked played out and everyone was like what the f@%k!!

Neither of these are walk offs actaully a testament to djs putting up with shit, anyway here goes umm a couple of years back Mauro Picotto was at a club here in Houston called Lotus Lounge, Mauro was number 5 in the world at this time, and he comes in first off there are too many jackasses in the booth it wasnt that big, then the monitors were like on the ground and he couldnt hear them or something well u know monitors are supposed to be up so these jackasses had to prop it up on a cooler and a piece of carpet, then on top of that his equipment wasnt working, he was so pissed the whole night he mixed with one hand drank with the other, smoked and DID NO EQ EFFECTS. I ask you does that sound like Mauro?

Then not too long ago I saw PvD at Meltdown in Dallas and he was complaining about one of his tables kept going out threw out the night but he stayed and played and in the end it was great. So there.

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Nikola Gala - Blue Impulse
Ozgur Can Feat. Nick Beman - Not Even Winds
Powerplant - Turn It To Gold (Madoka's Mix)
Sultan & The Greek - Wadi (Original Mix)
Carlos Vives - Comu Tu (Paul Oakenfold Mix)
Bjork - Violently Happy (Mercurio Mix)

on one hand, you can' blame teh dj's, there pro's so its fair to expect the same from the organizer from the party, so the gear should be good.

at the other hand, there pro's and make lotsa $$$ so they better just deal with it and stfu

Aphex Twin supported Bjork (the Icelandic pixie with the nice voice) in London earlier this year. Instead of coming on stage and doing the live set he was supposed to, he plugged in a synth to the speakers back stage and played white noise at full volume for about 20 mins!

Needless to say, the crowd weren't too happy. But I guess it made Bjork's set even more enjoyable for those that were there.

Not exactly a DJ storming off stage, but funny story nonetheless.

I've seen a lot of promotor fuckups myself as well (of course, with me being a DJ, I see them as promotor fuckups.. ). Usually it's bad equipment, bad sound etc. However, one thing to keep in mind, from the DJ's perspective, is that if you stay and play on subpar equipment or the like, people might perceive it as you being the one to blame. Thus you might end up losing more money by not walking off in the form of less gigs (reputation is important, needless to say).

I can't understand why Tijs would storm off just because the following DJ's unplugged his phones though.

Anywho.. A story of my own. I was playing at a medium sized club about two years ago. I was supposed to spin for two hours. It starts with the mixer being completely in the dark, no light on it what-so-ever. I request some light on the mixer, but all the electric sockets were already taken by cords to the sound equipment. I requested a candle, but you weren't allowed to have fire close to the cords. It ended with me having to settle for a flash light which I leaned towards a coke can and the wall.
Then, since I wasn't on a stage, people came up to me before I had even started spinning with requests involving all sorts of music except the kind I play, i.e. EDM.
Then I started spinning. The sound then died twice because of a broken cord. Once they replaced the cord, they managed to connect the speakers incorrectly, and nothing came out of the speakers but mono. At this time, about 20 mins into my set, I'm pretty ticked.
Then came the highlight of the night. A girl had managed to get herself into the DJ booth, drunk beyond belief. At first she started to try to hit on me while I was mixing (hint guests: don't talk to the DJ when he's got his headphones on and hands on the mixer). She then threw up on the mixer.
Needless to say, I took my records, my headphones, my money and left.

I have contract demands nowadays. Pretty much involves the following:
1. Pioneer 600 or Allen & Heath X:Zone 62 mixer.
2. Pioneer CDJ 1000's. At least two.
3. Technics 1200's or 1210's. At least two.
4. If possible, a stage. Don't like to spin in DJ booths.
5. No vomiting near me.

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