Night Club Owners...........
DeeRock
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I don't know about any other cities but my own on this. It just seems to me that these clubs are just bad business and they do not care about making any money! I honestly think these guys have clubs to try to impress young sexy 21 year old girls and try to get some tang off em'. I could write pages of things these dumb ass club owners do to lose money but I'm not. I just wanted to write about this new spot I just started at in particular. They told me NO HIP HOP music at all! Strictly house, downtempo, soul, rare grooves etc. I was so so happy to dj here! Well of course an hour into my set of steve parks, Trilark, Mighty Ryders, etc. the club owner comes over to me all pissed off and asked me what was that shit I was playing????????? Please keep in mind every last customer was dancing and having a blast. He tells me THE BARTENDER wants to hear Nelly and Black Eyed Peas and stuff like that and to play it now. WTF????????? I play there again tonight and I'm not sure what musical direction HE wants me to go in. He is saying play hip hop now but the sexy kind. What a fucking joker! I told him he knows what time it is with me and to let me do me and just own the club and worry about making money as a good business man. I told him it is rude to tell a dj what and how to play and when and that I don't come into his club and tell him to remodel because it's kind of ugly!!!! Feel me? If we wants to stick to the script and create a dope different club night for our city with good music being played then lets do that but if not this will be my last night. This guy really wanted me to dj for the bartender instead of the paying customers. LOL.
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yeah no shit,
fuck bullshit club owners. club owners are DEFINITELY into this business to get laid. of fucking course. do they know one fucking thing about music??? no. night club owners are always half ass promoters acting like they know, and are really praying that they booked the right person. i love that "play the sexy kind of hip hop" shit. that is soooo real. it's like, "yeah we want it funky, jazzy, bla bla bla" but they won't be happy unless you play milkshake. i try to stay away from situations like these, i am too much of a prick to deal with idiots of this calibur.
wtf?
I felt like reaching over and picking up the needle and droppin' it at the beginning again! Bom Bom Bom Bom....
Don't act like people don't get riled up off of shit.
Club owners have insurance, people tear shit up, insurance goes up. It's like any business, except clubs mostly cater to drunken fools.
Oh.. I forgot to say.. It was in one of those clubs where it's got shit like a dress code and other measures. The club was 70% women...
I could have understood if fools got up and started to throw their shit around. But all that happened was some people yelled out at the beginning and then went back to dancing with the ladies they were with.
But so what.. Even if they do get a lil out of hand... They got 30 bouncers for what? I'm not saying that it's a good thing. But tell a DJ to bring classic hip hop... Don't play Wu Tang? Maybe he should have told him to bring PM Dawn...
classic.
After reading this and listing to all the "Do You Have Anything That I Can Dance To..." stories I've come to the conclusion that people or the general public or whoever just dont understand how or what DJing consisits of.
You just can't please all the people, all the time. Plain and simple.
'Preme - make your money for as long as you can and bounce. That shit sounds like a headache, and will have you second-guessing every record you drop.
My 2 cents - when I play at a place for the first time at a club or if they say some "Don't play this or that kind of music", I ususally pack a hodge podge crate of sure fire hits and lowest common denominator shit (a little bit of everything) and just try to feel vibe. If they come at me later in the night wanting hip-hop (and they ALWAYS do). Boom, I got it covered.
If you don't rock the top 40 or are fortunite enough to read people's minds, your only hope is that you fall in to a place that has a like-minded clintele.
Two requests from the same (Sunday, dead, doing-it-just-for-the-money) restaurant/club gig the other week:
REQUEST 1
Young Guy: Do you have any Daft Punk?
then about 20 minutes later
REQUEST 2
Middle Aged Woman: Do you have any Southern Rock? Like Lynrd Skynrd or Marshall Tucker Band.
I split the difference and played 80s boogie 12"s.
my homeboy was playing a really A-List spot and the owner (who had already asked him not to invite his [black] friends the week before) said "don't play dance music if "unsexy" people are dancing. "only keep the energy up if sexy people are dancing." these dudes all have their heads up their asses. high on cocaine and anxious as fuck coming over to the booth asking you to change it up every five minutes - relax. i know what i am doing. trust me to play it right or hire somebody else.
if you pay me enough, i'll play hits all night. if you pay me little, i'll entertain myself. owners are wack, but they foot the bills, you can't fight city hall...
Im with what the other person said "Make your money and in the meantime find another joint"
K.
i agree but it is unrealistic to try to make a living doing that.
Hello sailor!
Agreed. But if you have other things going on, it can become a healthy supplement to your income.
K.
no doubt. everybody should have at least monthly where you just do you (no ayo) and don't worry about the money too much.
"Music was fantastic last night. In the future I see the
music going from where it was last night, into more of a dancey, hip hop,
funk, hip-house, tech-funk, electro-hop, disco-soul.......whatever you feel like conjuring up and makes the girls nod
there heads and shake their butts, as the room fills up and people get their
insobriety on. This room always starts out loungey and ends up clubby."
You see what I'm dealing with here............
gheezus christ.
in the future i see technotronic, nine inch nails, milkshake remix, me telling you what to play, jocks getting drunk.
and every promoter loves to say lounge. or ultra lounge. some dickhead promoter was actually trying to tell me about why his club is better than a lounge, why? "because it's an ultralounge, this town is sick of lounges, we need an ultralounge"
That's hard to do. Like saying "no" while nod your head.
Is your boss unusually short?
Classic material, no doubt. This is exactly why I have no desire whatsoever to be a real fo' real dj. I swear, I don't know how y'all guys can stand it.
He clearly wants more US3.
Glad to know I am not the only one dealing with similar issues.
i have dodged many a glass ash tray in basement part of a bar in the LES of manhattan, more than once. however i could play protect ya neck, cream, ain't nuthin to f*ck wit when ever i wanted....just as long as they were movin.
HAHAHA how bout some death-house or some tech-folk? priceless.