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On many occassions during karaoke nights customers will come up to me and ask where they are in the line up. I tell them they are next and they say great... I call their name to find that they just went outside for a smoke! Back of the line boyz.
 
I had a couple come up and beg for this one song and I finally said "Sure, I'll play it next". As the song started they walked out the door.
One of them all important songs they needed to hear I guess.

And, hey Dude, "How 'bout playing some Fleetwood Mac?"
Which one, "which ones you got", so I name thirty of them, he says, "pick one".
So I load in dreams; he says, no, any one but that one.
Came back later wanted to hear more Fleetwood Mac,
came back at least three more times.
Only band he now I guess.
 
I had a guy come to the dj booth a couple of weeks ago and asked me to play Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven. I looked at him and told him NO, flat out. I was playing Tribal/Electro House.

Syberman
 
Besides retarted song request I believe some people just do not think beyond what their lips are about to say . . goes like this:

Place is jamming (500+ people), getting hit up with multi song request, the vibe is excellent finally I get an about 25-30yr lady asking if I could announce that the ladies restroom needs toilet paper and if it could be done quickly because nobody is wiping! Yep . . WTF! . . so had to ask so what did you use . . ready . . my sock!! : /
 
Oh yeah had to come back . .

How about the frantic person coming to the booth yelling and screaming turn on the lights, turn off the music announce if someone finds it to turn into you. Find what??. . I lost my wedding ring and my girlfriend and I can't find it. My wife is going to kill me!!! Oh, OK what's your name?? Frank.

So of course it so happened to be close to the end of the gig and ironically enough I was slowing it down; soooo kicked in the lights just a tad bit and announced . . Ok going to take it down a notch, time to get cozy with your partner and OBTW if you happened to find a wedding ring please bring up to Frank. Wave Frank . . him and his girlfriend would really appreciate it!
 
funkmasterfrank wrote :
On many occassions during karaoke nights customers will come up to me and ask where they are in the line up. I tell them they are next and they say great... I call their name to find that they just went outside for a smoke! Back of the line boyz.


Just a Tip to save time. Give out a first call and with in seconds if no response give a final call and if still no taker place the ticket to the side. An hour also later should they come up tell them you have called them twice and that they will be on next and to stand in your eye shot. This saves you time and obviously and waiting time for others especially if your busy. More often than not they will respond the first shout next time, although it has happened exactly as you stated on many occasions.

The other irritating thing is the person who has been in eye shot all night and they come up when you wrapping up, " Can we sing not sung alnight " . This happened with a group of girls last night after I had unplugged everything, " yes go stand in the middle of the dance floor and you can sing, they were so happy untill they realised I was packing up my gear and as I was 45 minutes over and not being paid for this time they were taking the urine.
 
djrenee wrote :
He brought me a "burned copy" of a CD with no label on it and asked me to play track #4.


1) Been There, done that...now it's "I have it on my (Ipod, blackberry, mp3 player of the day) can you plug me in?"
2) The inevitable "Led Zepplin" during your hot dance set.
3) When you tell them you don't have their request...."I'll pay you it?"....What part of I DON'T HAVE IT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND!
(I actually once told a guy that tower records was open 'til midnight and if he hurried he could go buy the cd and try to get back through the line to get in the club and MAYBE i'll play it TOMORROW if you let me take the cd home to burn it.....the idiot actually did and then never came back the next night for his cd!
4) and there is the ever popular "Me and my cru just made this hip hop track...everybody loves it and it's not gangster rap or nuthin' like that, can you play it next"...what's it called..."Go Fuc* UR Self Hoe B*tch".....not gansta rap ha!
5) Anything by Mickey Avalon (even in a gay bar "My Dick Your Dick" Sucks!)

Hey we could do this all night!
 
 
Another of my faves is the lad (usualy) who comes up to me to say either, I used to be or I am a DJ. He will then procead to to tell me how to do my job and how the music should be arranged for the whole night. My usual response goes allong the lines of "when you are being paid to be here I will listen".

I even had a lad tell me that I was not a real DJ because I could not mix with decks. He had no idea how long I had been DJing ( probably longer than he had been alive) and had no clue that I had been working with decks for 20 plus years. VDJ helped set my imagination free without breaking my back. It did not stop me being a DJ

Daz
 
OOOOH I was reminded of this one last night....the women that just put there purse (coat, hat, child car seat, whatever) under the Dj counter and just say "WATCH THAT"....not asking, but almost demanding.....I know I don't look "like a DJ", but I surely don't look like a hat check girl either!
 
Electric,
They do that to me as well but I have an advantage being a woman. I can rummage through their purses and see what they have inside and it doesn't look as funny as you would doing the same thing.


 
I had one guy come up and say "Gee, you must have a lot of songs in that hard drive". Do you think we could get together some time and I could get a copy of it?"
 
bryantpb wrote :
I had one guy come up and say "Gee, you must have a lot of songs in that hard drive". Do you think we could get together some time and I could get a copy of it?"


I have a guy in my hometown working in one of my previous residencies who has a laptop and thinks he is a DJ. He has tried that twice with me. 1st time was about 4 months ago when he phoned me and asked if I could put some songs on his laptop. I asked if he was transferring his tunes from another laptop or CDs, he said no, he wanted me to put MY tunes on his laptop!!! I said ".....do you think I look like Santa Claus?" and told him to try buying some music and go forth and multiply in not so many words!!!

Then a week ago. I was in bed asleep and at 1.30am he rang my mobile phone and asked if he could have a copy of my hard drive with all my songs on it!!! I said no, then he said I'll pay you, I said no again and hung up. When I see him next I'm probably gonna break his legs!!! I heard off a friend of his last night that he could not understand why I won't share my tunes with him as all DJs should help each other!!!

Jeez, I've been DJing over 32 years and been using computers for DJing since 1998. I have most of my vinyl recorded which took several years to do and still haven't finished. I got tunes on there that you won't find on any download site and this 21 year old wants me to "just give him a copy", yeh rrrrrrrriiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhtttttttttt.

Of course, now that I'm all video, I often use the excuse that "Sorry, I just have it on video". :-) I also use this excuse when I'm constantly being asked to make a CD for someone, sometimes other DJs too. Sod them, not giving my tunes away to anybody, its every man for himself!!! Shame it's so easy to download these days with a decent internet connection.
 
The internet and mp3 players have reduced the value of music to "0" for most people. It has become disposable, just something to share like pens at the insurance office or lollipops at the dentist....just take one, two or a terrabyte worth! They're FREE!

I don't mind trading with certain Dj friends and I may even purchase the few copied DVDs already ripped...but even though they are copied I pay a fair price for them due to the hard work the other Dj has put into collecting, ripping, titling, tagging, etc. I am not paying for the copied videos as much as I am paying for the hard work they have done that saves me a ton of time and makes the cost very worthwhile.
 
"dude, seriously! if you play i gaurentee all the girls are gonna get up dance to it. i'll give you $50 if there are less than 50 girls out there dancing if you play it!"

i needed smokes and gas money, so...

30 seconds into bon jovi's "you give love a bad name" he's dancing by himself. to give him a microscopic amount of credit - he did pay up, and became a regular at the club, but has never asked me to play anything again.

remember the customer is NOT always right in this business.
 
yeah, but think of the entertainment value it generated with 1000 customers laughing and gawking at one one with white man's disease by his drunk lonely ass on the dance floor....you can't buy that stuff....well actually I guess you can for $50
 
i got offered dunkin' donuts coupons once.......

i think my fave is when they ask for the current song .......

or during the cocktail hour you are on like song #2 and they're asking for Metallica .....
 
How about:

Drunk Customer- "Did you see the movie XXXXXXXX"
Me- "NO"
Drunk Customer- "Well, Can you play the song from the scene when xxxxxxxxx"
Me- "I said I didn't see the movie"
Drunk Customer- " Yeah, but you know the scene when xxxxxx and xxxxxxxx go xxxxxxx and they find that xxxxxxxxx"
Me- "Sorry didn't see it, why don't you go to Blockbuster and rent me the video for after tonight so I can see it"

At that point they are so confused they mumble something and walk away.
 
when they start singing the song , i ask 'em , "what did i ever do to you?"
 


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