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who's been completely embarassed when DJ'ing?
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| xstalkrx |
| Any DJ's out there that couldnt seem to get the crowd going at all? Like the dancefloor just cleared after a track or two. I mean...what do you do or say after an embarassing set? |
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| shades_of_gray |
| nothing..........just bite the bullet and try to learn from that experience |
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| Dirk W. |
| i dropped a drink on some equipment at my residency. luckily it was after hours and i was able to clean it up, but that was pretty stupid. |
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| bokus |
| 6 billion people on this planet and 1 little club of people not liking your shouldn't phase you. Keep trucking. |
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| keithos27 |
| quote: | Originally posted by bokus
6 billion people on this planet and 1 little club of people not liking your shouldn't phase you. Keep trucking. |
True, but when you are getting paid to please that little group of people it can make a difference. ;) |
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| dartman |
The first little club that I played at and actually got paid was a place that played mostly hip hop with some top 40 and alittle cheesy trance thrown in, but I was told that I could play whatever I wanted to for the first 2 hours or so because there usually weren't too many people there and the people that were there didn't really care. Sooooo I was playing a bunch of trance. When people started rolling in, nobody would dare step foot on the dance floor.
Cue the hip hop, got people dancing...... play the wrong hip hop song..... cleared the floor. Repeat three times. I felt pretty embarassed each time but in the end I think it taught me alot about reading crowds. I live in the sticks so just being able to play to a crowd got me excited, hence me playing at a club that was mostly hip hop.
You have to take the good with the bad and learn from everything. Don't beat yourself up over it and move on. Its just music, have fun. |
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| PVD fanatic |
so sure that EVERY DJ whether big time, or little time, has at one point or another, has been completely red-faced from doing SOMETHING retarded behind the decks....
For me ??? It was taking the needle off the wrong record in the middle of my trainwrecked set (due to nervousness OF COURSE) .... horrible, when i picked up the wrong needle and realized... I actually stood there for an extra second, and laughed to myself... thinking "NO, I did NOT just do that.... Perfect..." lol lol .. but i look back, and it's just another learning experience is all .... keep moving... |
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| DannyO |
| quote: | Originally posted by PVD fanatic
so sure that EVERY DJ whether big time, or little time, has at one point or another, has been completely red-faced from doing SOMETHING retarded behind the decks....
For me ??? It was taking the needle off the wrong record in the middle of my trainwrecked set (due to nervousness OF COURSE) .... horrible, when i picked up the wrong needle and realized... I actually stood there for an extra second, and laughed to myself... thinking "NO, I did NOT just do that.... Perfect..." lol lol .. but i look back, and it's just another learning experience is all .... keep moving... |
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Ah yes good times, we've all done it, just part of the process. |
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| iammesol |
| thankfully.. nothing horrible has happened that i couldn't easily recover from, (like hitting cue.. then fast forwarding like it never happened :p ) but like you guys say.. Something is going to happen :D |
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| xstalkrx |
| Well I'm all too excited as dumb as that might sound. I'm going to a shop in town to look at some tables and ask a lot of questions. I'll probably end up getting a fairly cheap belt driven set just so I can get the very basics down and have a lil fun and make sure I can really get into this. |
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| zizack |
| this past Friday I opened for two pretty well known DJs in NYC and after teasing a song in, I went to re-cue the record and completely forgot that the fader knob was still on...it made this very loud awful scracthing sound and a lot fo people looked up to see what my problem was. I kind of just shrugged it off. There are worse things that could happen. Funny though. |
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| djsnazzy |
| last sunday night i was playing in the back room of a bretty big gig , anyway after a messy set where i was playing tracks i never heard in my life before because ther wernt mine and the decks were in bit and the needles were awful. anyway after i got through that i moved on to some techno stuff so i was 3 deck mixing and one of the track had ran out so i said i would leave it and grab another track anyway whatever i did i turned around and started cueing the 3rd track into one of the tracks witch was slightly of of the other track , so of corse i nudged one of the track in the worng direction and i was fased with the bigest trainwreck in the world 3 tracks all of beat i said ooh and cut the 2 old track that were almost finished anyway and after this huge raw techno 3 deck it just droped to a kick at the very start of the new track i brought in , of corse everyone reverted there heads twards me went as red as a cherry and just started laughing at myself . hahaha terrable |
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