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ok so I was lucky enough to gig on nye, while I enjoyed the night overall I couldn't help but reflect on some of more crazier aspects throughout the evening ! heres some examples:

Moaning minnie..she kept coming up to the rig and moaning about everything, from flat beverages to lighting and music
Moaning micky..he kept moaning about the karaoke, the music genre, the atmosphere
Play my dam cd..cheez all my tunes are on a laptop hun, I've not long played two tracks from that album, now she wants more
multiple maggie..she doesn't request one tune at a time, oh no, she slams 4 on me, straight off the bat !
oh the highlight of the evening..someone behind the bar pulls the plug on the projector screen with 30 secs to countdown lol classic ;)
We must be more than just dj's..we're bar managers, counsellors, magicians lol

Anyways, whats your most 'memorable mad moment/s' ..? and survival techniques for 'moaners' !
 
Posté Mon 03 Jan 11 @ 6:50 pm
Um, I Dj'd at a swing club. Different moaning... man was it wild!

One lady keep bad songs to dance to. And the owner did not put the TV on the right channel for the ball drop. So everybody counted down to scroll text and just kept dancing. What a great crowd!
 
Hi Folks,

I too DJ'd at a Swingers Club for 12 years. It was Pimp and Hooker Night this one evening. All the guys got $5000 in play money. The ladies did favors for the play money and whoever had the most cash at the end of the night got a nice prize. I was playing in a split room. Behind me was a door into the room not being used. Some of the ladies would take a guy back there for a bit. Curiosity got the better of me and I had to take a peek in, All i saw were heads bobbing up and down. Folks would leave with smiles on their faces. This one girl in particular went back there 7 times. I think the only reason she stopped at 7, was that she was full, LOL.

That was my first gig with this group. Every time there after was another interesting evening. Leather and Lace Nights were interesting as well.

-DGee
 
#1 evil fucking thing to do to laptop DJ's... yup. bring your apple remote to a gig... maybe even an IR booster... chances are they didnt turn off the remote shit on their mac... launch itunes / media center at will... then check out his face when Brokeback Mountain pops up in front of his serato and starts playin. :)

y...ou didnt hear this from me.
 
@ biggus, your a dick. stop spamming the forums with your pants comments, no ones cares what you have to say when your spamming. grow up.
 
My past moments, good and bad...

1) DJ'd a wedding where the whole bridal party were heavy metal fans. Played metal and hard rock for 3 hours to a mostly empty dance floor yet they still said at the end of the night they loved the music and had a great night!

2) Some drunk requesting a song while its actually playing...the look he gave when he realised just after I told him its playing, priceless!

3) Playing a current top 10 charted song which had a disco beat to it and a heckler on the dancefloor screaming "stop playing old shit music"

4) Driving 1,540km (962 miles) round trip over 2 days for a Country DJ gig. Gig was actually fun, the drive was not.

5) Having to wait at the end of the night of a wedding while the family opened up the gift envelopes so they could pay me (early days of DJing, changed to upfront payment straight after)
 
now that i like lol, opening the gift cards to pay you. classic!

i need to start practicing a lot more. i want to be doing some events. i need a new career and merging hobbys and empoyment sounds good to me.
 
First Wedding I'd done after leaving nightclubs and starting a Mobile operation, Wasn't even my client it was a Sub-contract for another company. Three seniors come up to the booth, One grey haired old lady, two grey haired old men.
Man#1 asks "Do you have "Strokin' by Clarence Carter"?
Me: " Um sure but You know what that song's about?"
Old Lady: "Yes dear; The song about fucking. Please play it"



Nothing has shocked me since.
 
ohhh !

NOW i know what it's about ......
 
I worked in clubs from about 1982-1997 and it appears nothing has changed.

I always dreaded New Years Eve because you get the crowd of amateur partiers that only goes out once or twice a year and they tend to act like idiots even more so that the normal problem children. They are demanding about music and everything else.

Why would you go to a club that plays house music if you want to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd? I used to tell people, "Look, you've heard only this type of music all night, the beat has never stopped, and you haven't heard any slow songs so why would I play "Unchained Medley" now?"

One of the worst barfights I ever saw was on New Years Eve on the second story of a two-story dance club I worked at. It was not good and I will never forget that one.

I love the comment above about people requesting a song while it is playing. That happened to me multiple times and was usually followed by the comment, "Oh my god, can you start it over?"

Yeah sure, let me just grab the needle here and....
 
i've actually done that - started the song over and embarassed the living hell outta the schmuck that came up to ask me to do it.

of course later on i was gently slapped on the back of my wrists by the manager who also hated said schmuck.
 
I DJd the trailer-trashiest wedding ever a few years back. a complete clusterf**k right off the bat. First off they booked the reception hall on the Monday of a long weekend to save money i guess. Most of the bride's family lived several hundred miles away so hardly anybody from her side of the family showed up. Another cost-saving measure was to make the meal a pot-luck dinner which is the first time I had ever heard of that for a wedding reception. I can certainly understand being cost-conscious but this was pushing it especially when you consider that they ran out of food before all guests were served. it didn't help that there was zero coordination as to who brought what. This is why they edded up with a bunch of salads and veggie platters and not much else. The couple already had three grown daughters who were all pissed off at each other AND their parents so it really set a pleasant tone for the entire evening. Midway through the evening there was a sudden rush to sell raffle tickets. I found that strange because you usually do that at a stag and doe leading up to the wedding NOT at the wedding reception itself. But whatever, i bought a raffle ticket and didn't give it a second thought. Well it ends up that they used all of the proceeds from the raffle ticket sales to pay me. Strange, but i got paid in full so that's all that really mattered. The icing on the cake though was when they drew the raffle ticket for the grand prize which was a Texas Mickey (60 Oz) of Jack Daniels. Who won the grand prize you ask? ME!!! All-in-all a gong show from start to finish.
 
biggusjunior wrote :
#1 evil fucking thing to do to laptop DJ's... yup. bring your apple remote to a gig... maybe even an IR booster... chances are they didnt turn off the remote shit on their mac... launch itunes / media center at will... then check out his face when Brokeback Mountain pops up in front of his serato and starts playin. :)

y...ou didnt hear this from me.


Umm WTF is this post doing here?
 
biggusjunior wrote :
#1 evil fucking thing to do to laptop DJ's... yup. bring your apple remote to a gig... maybe even an IR booster... chances are they didnt turn off the remote shit on their mac... launch itunes / media center at will... then check out his face when Brokeback Mountain pops up in front of his serato and starts playin. :)

y...ou didnt hear this from me.

Umm WTF is this post doing here?


That guy was posting that thing everywhere, just to be a jerk.
 


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