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Things to never tell a DJ...

B

Butters

I GOT BORED AND DECIDED TO POST THESES.......FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THE LIST!



1. CAN'T YOU PLAY SOMETHING GOOD? The DJ has to play for more than one person... So what you hate may be another favorite song and EVERYTHING played here can be danced to one way or another.


2. WOULD YOU PLAY SOMETHING WITH A "BEAT"?! BE SERIOUS! We know of NO songs played in a club that don't have some sort of BEAT!


3. I DON'T KNOW WHO SINGS IT AND I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG, BUT IT GOES LIKE THIS.... PLEASE don't sing for the DJ. They have to put up with smoke filled rooms and dangerous decibel levels all night long...Do them a favor and DON'T give them a rendition of your favorite song.


4. EVERYBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT! Oh, sure ... you polled everyone in the club and, as their spokesperson, you're requesting the song.


5. EVERYBODY WILL DANCE IF YOU PLAY IT! The DJ won't. I guess that blows a hole in that theory!


6. I CAN GET LAID IF YOU PLAY IT! Why settle for one night? Buy the album and get laid for a whole month!


7. I WANT TO HEAR IT NEXT! The ONLY people who can get away with that statement write the DJ's paycheck!


8. WHAT DO YOU HAVE? It's a lot easier for you to go have another beer and figure out what you want to hear than it is for the DJ to recite the name of every record in the booth!


9. HEY, MAN, NOBODY CAN DANCE TO THIS! It's NOT advisable to say this when the dance floor is packed (but some people do anyway) ! HOWEVER, even if there is only ONE person on the floor, it STILL contradicts the statement!


10. PLAY IT SOON, BECAUSE WE'RE LEAVING! If your gonna leave after he plays it, why shouldn't he wait till the very last song so you stay all night!
 
Butters said:
7. I WANT TO HEAR IT NEXT! The ONLY people who can get away with that statement write the DJ's paycheck!

8. WHAT DO YOU HAVE? It's a lot easier for you to go have another beer and figure out what you want to hear than it is for the DJ to recite the name of every record in the booth!

10. PLAY IT SOON, BECAUSE WE'RE LEAVING! If your gonna leave after he plays it, why shouldn't he wait till the very last song so you stay all night!
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Has someone who helps out in the DJ booth at a dance club in Wolcott, Connecticut I hear these 3 all the time.
 
liftsboxes said:
Not much anymore ... how many radio DJ's take requests or even pick their own playlists anymore?
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ME :eek:
91.7 FM
Http://wxci.org fridays 3-6 active rock, Hair and Classic Metal
 
liftsboxes said:
Not much anymore ... how many radio DJ's take requests or even pick their own playlists anymore?
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How many DJs even work in radio anymore? A fraction of the number from five years ago and a miniscule fraction of the number in the biz when I started in the late 70s.

#13. This song is terrible. Can't you play something else? DJ reply: Ma'am, You've obviously been around for 60 some years. Can't you take four minutes out of your life to let others enjoy this?

#14. The music's too loud. Can't you turn it down? DJ reply. No one else is complaining. You can move further away from the speakers.
 
#15 Typically from the redneck crowd at any bar or club "Stop playing this (INSERT ANTI AFRICAN AMERICAN OR ANTI-LATINO RACIAL SLUR HERE) crap and play some rock!"

hmmm.... I don't know, cowboy, by spinning this stuff I have a floor filled with chicas shaking arse. I, along with the majority of the other patrons, would rather see that than you... Perhaps, you're at THE WRONG BAR.
 
cooper said:
#15 Typically from the redneck crowd at any bar or club "Stop playing this (INSERT ANTI AFRICAN AMERICAN OR ANTI-LATINO RACIAL SLUR HERE) crap and play some rock!"

hmmm.... I don't know, cowboy, by spinning this stuff I have a floor filled with chicas shaking arse. I, along with the majority of the other patrons, would rather see that than you... Perhaps, you're at THE WRONG BAR.
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If we're honest about it, this can cut both ways.

Or, maybe the DJ is clueless about the crowd, the floor is *not* filled with "chicas shaking arse", but said DJ just keeps trying to flog "the hits" as he sees them, because after all, he's a "professional DJ". Probably got his degree as a "professional DJ" at Wossamatta U.
 
I love how some Club DJ's think they are good enough to be Radio DJ's!! In 20yrs of Radio I have had my share of wanna be's.....They (club DJ's) think that its simple as cracking a mic and talking! A few yrs ago down here on one of that morning shows I produced we let a local Club DJ on the air after him bugging us about him thinking he was better than us. So we gave him a hour on the morning show to see how well he could do. We had him talk up a song. The post was a minute 30. after 30 secs he just stopped talking! We then had him read a live copy....FAIL!!! (10) TEN minutes into the show he walked out of the studio! He just gave up......Lesson to Club DJ's everywhere, just cause you can get a crowd dancing and mix two or more songs doesn't make you a Radio DJ. Nor does watching TV Shows like WKRP, News Radio, Frasier or movies like FM or Howard Stern!!! So Please Leave the hard work of Radio DJ'ing to the Professionals.......
Oh and if you call my request line and you tell me and not ask me to play your favorite song.....rest a sure it WILL NOT GET PLAYED!!! LOL
........Oh and CHUCK FOSTER & ALL HIT VIDEOS ROCK!!!!!!
 
cooper said:
#15 Typically from the redneck crowd at any bar or club "Stop playing this (INSERT ANTI AFRICAN AMERICAN OR ANTI-LATINO RACIAL SLUR HERE) crap and play some rock!"
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I hear this one at least once a month. 20 years ago the club where I work was straight up Country. Now-a-days (except for Wednesdays) we're a mixed music club 65% Non-Country to 35% Country, but that will vary by who's in the crowd. And the young kids have made up their own line dances for the non-Country Music. You should see the crowd doing the line dances to "Fire Burning" by Sean Kingston or "Right Round" by Flow Rida or "I know you want me (Calle Ocho) by Pitbull.
 
Used to do a small club back in my hometown in England..

Continually got fed up with being asked to play some decent music, so one night I brought in the 1812 Overture, with the guns at the end courtesy of The Royal Artillery..

So I put it on.. locked the DJ booth and enjoyed the light show..

Funnily enough - the kids never asked me to play decent music ever again!!

Jazzy!
 
Thanks Butters. (That was the last thing I expected to read in your post)
 
Hah, Whats a "D.J." is that the person the spins those black 7" plastic disc's that look like a pancaked frisbee's that go on those machines that looks like a pottery wheels with an crooked arm that pops out with a sharp sewing needle at the end.HaHaHa.
Hum .Todays automated radio .plus vted jocks.there are a few that still have a real jock in the studio.I will say thank you for all of you that are still doing the job.Eddie Stubbs from WSM made a comment on WSM this pass tuesday about disc jockeys that still take requests and commenting also about the automated world of todays radio.
 
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