legaldeejay
This ad has apparently been taken down, but not before my buddy e-mailed it to me. This ad is not for the attractively-challenged:
Looking for a Good-looking DJ (NY)
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Date: 2010-02-24, 2:36AM EST
Reply to: gigs-wqskr-1615333172@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
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Here's the deal. I am a house music DJ. I am 21. I am quite talented, and very good looking. I don't say that to be shallow, I just believe it will help my cause.
It is also why I am only searching for a good looking DJ, male or female, and into house music. (Trance, Techno,Electro,Tech,Minimal; all is good)
I have come to find, through my experience, and the experience of my friends, that it really difficult to get gigs. EVERYONE'S A FREAKING DJ!!!
But I also know that if a DJ can get a fan base, that they are in. So that is why I came here. I want to start getting fans... and lots of them. I have some ideas,
and I keep trying to think of more. I believe that starting out is rough though, so I would like a partner to get out there with.
If you have this dream and desire too, then let's talk. If we work on it, it will happen. Maybe sometime, but even a start is better than waiting.
If you like this idea, and it really can not hurt you to try, email me. Oh, and please give me a picture. Otherwise I wont even bother.
Remember, sex sells... so thats one more up that we will have.
Location: NY
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Compensation: We will talk about that!
Looking for a Good-looking DJ (NY)
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Date: 2010-02-24, 2:36AM EST
Reply to: gigs-wqskr-1615333172@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]
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Here's the deal. I am a house music DJ. I am 21. I am quite talented, and very good looking. I don't say that to be shallow, I just believe it will help my cause.
It is also why I am only searching for a good looking DJ, male or female, and into house music. (Trance, Techno,Electro,Tech,Minimal; all is good)
I have come to find, through my experience, and the experience of my friends, that it really difficult to get gigs. EVERYONE'S A FREAKING DJ!!!
But I also know that if a DJ can get a fan base, that they are in. So that is why I came here. I want to start getting fans... and lots of them. I have some ideas,
and I keep trying to think of more. I believe that starting out is rough though, so I would like a partner to get out there with.
If you have this dream and desire too, then let's talk. If we work on it, it will happen. Maybe sometime, but even a start is better than waiting.
If you like this idea, and it really can not hurt you to try, email me. Oh, and please give me a picture. Otherwise I wont even bother.
Remember, sex sells... so thats one more up that we will have.
Location: NY
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Compensation: We will talk about that!
Inviato Fri 26 Feb 10 @ 8:53 am
tayla
beauty is in the eyes of the beholder... or the X Factor talent scouts.
Inviato Fri 26 Feb 10 @ 9:24 am
sataryst
Really? WOW!
I Did it the Real Way.... Hanging out at the Record Store, Listening to The Vetrans, Getting Invited to the venues by the Vetrans, Watching them, learning, and eventually doing a set here and there. Then it progresses to filling in for them on nights off, and eventually getting your own gig and residency! There is no Perrfect way to brreaking in to the business, just follow the guys out there and WATCH! Any D-bag can mix music one that elevates moves and controls the crowd.... Thats your DJ. The Entertainer!
I Did it the Real Way.... Hanging out at the Record Store, Listening to The Vetrans, Getting Invited to the venues by the Vetrans, Watching them, learning, and eventually doing a set here and there. Then it progresses to filling in for them on nights off, and eventually getting your own gig and residency! There is no Perrfect way to brreaking in to the business, just follow the guys out there and WATCH! Any D-bag can mix music one that elevates moves and controls the crowd.... Thats your DJ. The Entertainer!
Inviato Sat 27 Feb 10 @ 1:03 am
jakeintox
No wonder I don't get any gigs! I'm not sexy enough! I bet this guy rocks a spray tan and a blowout haircut.
Inviato Sat 27 Feb 10 @ 7:24 am
DJ Four Forty
sataryst wrote :
Really? WOW!
I Did it the Real Way.... Hanging out at the Record Store, Listening to The Vetrans, Getting Invited to the venues by the Vetrans, Watching them, learning, and eventually doing a set here and there. Then it progresses to filling in for them on nights off, and eventually getting your own gig and residency! There is no Perrfect way to brreaking in to the business, just follow the guys out there and WATCH! Any D-bag can mix music one that elevates moves and controls the crowd.... Thats your DJ. The Entertainer!
I Did it the Real Way.... Hanging out at the Record Store, Listening to The Vetrans, Getting Invited to the venues by the Vetrans, Watching them, learning, and eventually doing a set here and there. Then it progresses to filling in for them on nights off, and eventually getting your own gig and residency! There is no Perrfect way to brreaking in to the business, just follow the guys out there and WATCH! Any D-bag can mix music one that elevates moves and controls the crowd.... Thats your DJ. The Entertainer!
Dang! All that hard work for nuthin! All we had to do was run an ad like that instead of all those countless hours of work, work, and more work lol
Inviato Sun 28 Feb 10 @ 7:12 pm
dj-e-lectric
That ad may have well been placed in Scottsdale...if you look good and are willing to work for free to put a Scottsdale club on your resume you will get all the gigs here.
I have actually been told (sometimes at the interview and sometimes through the grapevine) that I don't fit the clubs "image" or that I don't "look like a dj" or "you are too old to relate to our crowd"
The current club I work at on Friday night in Scottsdale didn't hire me originally because I "Didn't fit their image"....after the DJ they did hire brought in a rough crowd, started running off their very wealthy over 30 crowd they called me back and decided as the Dj I guess I didn't really need to fit their image as long as my music does! I am happy to report that after only 3 weeks their rich crowd is back, the gangstas are gone and this past Friday they were the busiest they have been in months according to the manager.
When I worked at the "Rise" in Denver a number of years ago I overheard the owners telling the program director "I don't care how much sales have gone up, we can't have our customers see -THAT- (read by their body language and hand expressions "fat old guy") in the Dj booth"......the owners were, let's see how can I be politically correct and still get my point across......Flamingly Fashionable......and so vain they didn't care I raised customer count on Wednesday night in 5 weeks from 200 to 1000 per night!
In the end they hired some skinny young man and they were back down to only a couple hundred customers a night within weeks.
I have always contended the only thing more poweful than greed is prejudice....
I have actually been told (sometimes at the interview and sometimes through the grapevine) that I don't fit the clubs "image" or that I don't "look like a dj" or "you are too old to relate to our crowd"
The current club I work at on Friday night in Scottsdale didn't hire me originally because I "Didn't fit their image"....after the DJ they did hire brought in a rough crowd, started running off their very wealthy over 30 crowd they called me back and decided as the Dj I guess I didn't really need to fit their image as long as my music does! I am happy to report that after only 3 weeks their rich crowd is back, the gangstas are gone and this past Friday they were the busiest they have been in months according to the manager.
When I worked at the "Rise" in Denver a number of years ago I overheard the owners telling the program director "I don't care how much sales have gone up, we can't have our customers see -THAT- (read by their body language and hand expressions "fat old guy") in the Dj booth"......the owners were, let's see how can I be politically correct and still get my point across......Flamingly Fashionable......and so vain they didn't care I raised customer count on Wednesday night in 5 weeks from 200 to 1000 per night!
In the end they hired some skinny young man and they were back down to only a couple hundred customers a night within weeks.
I have always contended the only thing more poweful than greed is prejudice....
Inviato Tue 02 Mar 10 @ 6:44 am
DJRudeDoGG
Amen!!!
Thank God I'm a fit, good looking "old" man. It has also helped me in my main career as well (no, not as a man-whore, lol). People often perceive looks to be synonymous with professionalism and class, but that's because they haven't met my brother lol.
The plus side is that I actually do know what I'm doing. It doesn't always work that way though. For the most part the people in charge of hiring could care less about talent, vanity trumps ability to them.
On certain rare occasions a regular guy will get the job based on his abilities but not always in the entertainment field where vanity counts the most (see Milli Vanilli).
While it is certainly wrong, sex really does sell.
DJ RuDe
Keep Spinnin'!!
Thank God I'm a fit, good looking "old" man. It has also helped me in my main career as well (no, not as a man-whore, lol). People often perceive looks to be synonymous with professionalism and class, but that's because they haven't met my brother lol.
The plus side is that I actually do know what I'm doing. It doesn't always work that way though. For the most part the people in charge of hiring could care less about talent, vanity trumps ability to them.
On certain rare occasions a regular guy will get the job based on his abilities but not always in the entertainment field where vanity counts the most (see Milli Vanilli).
While it is certainly wrong, sex really does sell.
DJ RuDe
Keep Spinnin'!!
Inviato Tue 02 Mar 10 @ 8:52 pm