just a little asshurt venting
The_Hook_Up
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ok, this DJ dude who is an acquaintance of mine and shingalings calls the store the other day. Keep in mind I like dude, he is super nice/cool...plays early soul/ wild RnB/ Norton records kinda shit, but dude is a lame DJ, dude rocks comps..and I just dont mean plays a couple songs offa comps, I mean, leaves them on the table and bounces back and forth between them for like a dozen or so tunes. Dude gets PAID for this. Anyway he calls the shop "Im being flown to the UK to DJ (???WTF?!?) and I dont want to play what I played there A FEW MONTHS AGO(?!?WTF #2?!?), so I was wondering if you could hip me to some really cool and rare stuff because I wanna impress these people" (?!?WTF???!?#3) How do these dudes get set up like this? Flown to the Uk to DJ, twice in a year? Plays comps? Wants to "impress" so he is asking what is some hot shit to play? Dang. Yeah Im mad doggie, yeah Im asshurt, I wanna go play in the UK...I have little records with the big holes in them, real ones...I gotta passport...sheeeeet
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why dont you "hip" him to some played out ish that'll take the wind outta his dj
sails?
gettin some one else to compose your set:
the
or ultimate
Hook Up, did you get my PM?
apparently not, this is his second trip 'member ?
how do you call out microwave djs on some nerd og press bull?
Yeah fuck, i thought the Uk scene was really anal about original pressings and shit. A northern soul collector I knew from Sydney said that she wouldn't even take original LPs to play over there - strictly OG 45s!
I think that's a bit too anal, but being flown to the UK to play comps is next level wackery.
Rather than hate, study that science and boost it.
One of my first roommates had been the tour manager
of the Sex Pistols, drank beer with Lou Reed in an
NYC jail, had a scene in "Taxi Driver" that got cut out, etc, etc....
Ha! This sounds like an awesome lie. Man, I love liars and half-nuts people that believe their own BS. Highly entertaining.
Saying though.
Every talentless DJ I've ever seen blow up was hustling hard. Contemplate the amount of time anyone on here spends hunting records - and imagine the results if all those hours were spent hustling promoters instead.
SSP.
Shameless Self Promotion. Dudes who have mad skills are "usually" fairly nice chilled chaps whereas dudes with no talent have to make lots of noise to compensate.
Compare this situation to one where you put a lot of work into planning and executing a dope set only to have people asking you if you got any trance or can you play some rock and roll etc.
Sayin' though!
SoulOnIce:
You should start a thread about awesome & farfetched lies! I would but I can't seem to think of any at the moment. Plus I gotta work in 4 hours and I haven't slept yet. Salma Hayek and Scarlett Johanssen won't stop tickle fighting in my bed. How am I supposed to sleep through that?!?!
Herm
Has Djing ever been dominated by skills?
It??s important to mingle with people and dude seems to know the deal.
are you sure they aren't microwave records? because that is cool......right guys? especially when travelling. which one leaves you with more street cred, comps or microwave? i'm not saying one is better than the other but is the medium more important than moving the crowd?
anyway if he is a cool dude and you sell records why not sell him a few good records? hip him to some things that he might not know, you don't have to put his set together. you win by selling records, he wins by playing them. if he comes back saying he killed it you both know the reason why. not to mention get to know him better. if he is flying out there 2 days out of the year there are 363 other days they could be flying you out. sometimes in order to succeed the master must become the student.
There are lots of dudes that come to my shop with fantastic jobs, gigs, assignments, etc and it is my job to lace them with nice records... no matter how much of a tool they may be, no matter how much I wish I had their gig. If I do my job well they will come back... but if I really wanted that gig I wouldn't be spending my time running a record shop I would be trying to do what that other dude is doing.
It does suck to have to serve a clown though.
I could go off right now on my current situation relating to this, I have been dealing with this on a slightly different angle for quite some time.
...just one word GYPSYMANIA.
I see how figuring out how they do it could be beneficial, but some of these tactics are too low for me.
Its one of those things that is just painful to watch from any perspective...selling them records or booking them in a club.
I can relate.
They'll fit right on in with this new breed of poster that doesn't know anything about records!
i like this Chizzle guy....
shit, yeah I did and I forgot....I will hit you back here in a little bit...sorry..
quit the record store, as its demise is inevitable, get serrato...become a producer...make heat...then someone might fly your crybaby ass to the u.k.
so yer ego might be stroked
just a suggesstion....
Woiuld this dude pay $$$ for records? You know that northern ish ain't cheap. If so, sell! sell! sell!
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thats the thing...he doesnt pay $$$ for records...plus, the style he plays, shit on Mr. Manicotti comps (early soul, screamin' RnB( i think they call it "new breed RnB" in the UK now) is kinda the shop's forte/secret squirrel and it isnt HUGELY in demand at the moment...were still talkin' $100 tops(which is WAY outta dudes range, see? a "lame" DJ) for some 45s, the hot shit in this genre is (still) cheap(ish).
Haha, that's pretty douchy.
Wow.
Dude has unbelievable ballz. No pasue.
oh man. has it gotten that bad Jonny? I'll lend you some dough if you need homes. hate to see you get that low.
You could be his "rental sommelier" and demand a ticket to the UK and boarding to escort said records to and from the events super DJ will be doing.