Favorite Praise while DJing!!!
batmon
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What feels better when djing.............Praise from:Music Hipster/knowledgable catHot chic on the dancefloor who really gets itOld School cat who didnt think you knew about thatYoung cat who's wants to know what record that izFeel free to add or just pick ONE, along w/ a story to tell.
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ha, not reeeeeally.
Actually its kind of "all the above" - the honey's, c'mon, that's always nice! Fellow DJ's/music heads/old school heads giving respect is always cool too. But for me its just people really vibin when I play. I used to DJ these backyard bbq's for a cousin of mine (actually my mom's cousin). Everyone was in their 40's/50's (crazy right?), BUT all I played was funk & soul - ALL NIGHT. Nothing rare, but solid shit all night and the people really grooved to it. King Floyd, James Brown, Beginning of the End, Dyke & The Blazers, Archie Bell, Blackbyrds and so on. People didn't really dance they just head nodded and gave me a thumbs up or wink (no homo) when I dropped another track. I DJ'd like 4 or 5 times about once a month but it was straight "good times" up in there... For me I don't necessarily need to have people dancin but just having a good friggin time...
Truer words have never been spoken my friend. I love playing places where it is not always about every person shaking on the floor, but cool heads that are looking to hear quality stuff, have a good time. I love playing in cresendos. Starting off with good vibes, picking up the pace from there. By the 2nd hour rolls around, you have the place going into a frenzy, then when things are at a fever pitch, pull the rug from under them. I mean it all depends on the situaton though. If you are playing a places that is stricly looking to dance, then you have to stick to that, and when the crowd trusts you, then stat throwing curvebals.
It still kind of confuses me as to if a good beat is known or not, it is still a good beat. People should understand that notion regardless of popularity.
"Hey, I'll pay you double if you spin at my club"
but that never seems to happen to me.
people who come in for the drinks or wander in off the street and stay til the end
REWIND!
hitting the tables and/or walls
whistling
praise from people in their 50???s and older and especially when they slow dance
Earnest Random dude: "You are the greatest DJ I have ever seen!"
Me: "Thanks, but you need to get out more."
YES
This woman asked if I could move in w/ her and be her personal live-in DJ,somethin'like a personal chef. I actually thought about it. She wakes up and I play some ________________.
"I didn't one song you play tonight, But DAMN those some good tunes"
My reply was that he raised me right.
K.
"This is the best music at wedding ever!" at this wedding I djed 3 weeks ago.
The bride remembered me from when I did house parties and a radio show at Penn State from 1997-1999, googled me 9 months ago and found my email on my soulstrut dj page, flew me and my gf down to St. Petersburg and put us up in a hotel for 2 nights, and paid me as well. Turns out about ten of her friends all listened to my (and Raj's) show religiously and even traded tapes of it for years afterwards, and they all had this memory of this house party one of them had where I played all night, and people stayed even after the 3 kegs were kicked. I didn't really remember it, but that was probably due to the jello shots they were handing out.
So, that was flattering.
I must say though, the ice luge was pretty tough competition for attention.
I do my first one next year (hopefully it all works out)...
Very true indeed, although it's fun to see people dance to the music you're playing (got to admit, most of the times I spin, there's only a handful of people dancin', while the rest is just knodding their heads).
It still kind of confuses me as to if a good beat is known or not, it is still a good beat. People should understand that notion regardless of popularity.
Yeah, maybe they should, but more often it seems the case they don't (except for maybe five or six people), always get more reaction from a sampled or more wellknown (james brown f.e.) tune..
I like all comments, but these are my favourite:
comment from the girl: very good for the ego..
comment from a good dj: maybe silly, but I like to get recognition from people who I 'looked up to' when I was younger or who I like to hear spinning..
comment from the older knowledgable guy: these guys always are surprised that someone still knows and plays that kind of music and then start to tell stories about when they were going out and about certain clubs that played the same type of music.
also very nice: the house dj's who come to the dj booth to ask what's playing (we mostly open up for house dj's at these particular parties where we spin till 1 or 2 am), they're always shocked at how blatantly these houseproducers copied some of these discosongs.. Then a few hours later we hear some of the records we played but then with a somewhat more accentuated beat (good thing about these deephouseversions is they let the corny parts out though).
One of the most surprising comments came from this schwarzenegger nazi-type bomberjack-wearing bouncer at a club we were spinning. He came up to the booth a couple of times to give us a thumbs up and claimed he had never before heard that type of music (funk, boogie, latin,..), which he liked very much.
hah! i think in your case, this request is more charming.
at the wedding?!
This is about the only kind of praise you get in Memphis.
"Man, I just wanted to say your set was incredible. I have never heard you before but you are one of the most professional DJs I have heard in this town. The only other DJ who is as good is P--e. He is DJing my party in a few weeks and I want you to do it too. It will be awesome. Do you have a card?"
Of course, "P--e" is a local Spanish electro/techno CD DJ who is a very nice guy but a real amateur who can barely beatmatch, which leads me to believe that
No. No good DJs in Russia.
That was a good night.
peace, stein. . .