trevcda
I've been haunting around for awhile, posting here and there, not contributing much until lately. What this forum needs is some humor. So I thought sharing some funny on the job horror stories might be interesting. I'll even start with a recent faux pas that happened to me.
I was doing a gig for a family reunion kind of situation. I started in the early evening, which meant there were a lot of older people and younger children in attendance, before it went into full party mode later on. One of the kids came up and asked if I could play Macklemore's Downtown. Seemed like a reasonable request and as they had just recently completed the video for the song where I live, I absent mindedly threw it on and brought in from the next song. I started it and wondered off to get a beverage when I realized that the first line was, "I went to the moped store, said 'F*** it'". I sprinted back to the booth and the only option I could think of to edit it in next couple of seconds was to hit the beat grid button on the table it was on. Talk about a backfire! All I succeeded in doing was repeating the word F*** four times with beat grid I had set up! I got a couple of looks and a few more laughs, but the world did not end. I mostly work for the drinking crowd but I'm known to be family friendly when needed, so this was a little embarrassing.
Let's hear some of your stories!
I was doing a gig for a family reunion kind of situation. I started in the early evening, which meant there were a lot of older people and younger children in attendance, before it went into full party mode later on. One of the kids came up and asked if I could play Macklemore's Downtown. Seemed like a reasonable request and as they had just recently completed the video for the song where I live, I absent mindedly threw it on and brought in from the next song. I started it and wondered off to get a beverage when I realized that the first line was, "I went to the moped store, said 'F*** it'". I sprinted back to the booth and the only option I could think of to edit it in next couple of seconds was to hit the beat grid button on the table it was on. Talk about a backfire! All I succeeded in doing was repeating the word F*** four times with beat grid I had set up! I got a couple of looks and a few more laughs, but the world did not end. I mostly work for the drinking crowd but I'm known to be family friendly when needed, so this was a little embarrassing.
Let's hear some of your stories!
Inviato Thu 24 Sep 15 @ 9:38 pm
FunctionDJ
I think my most embarressing story (just a dumb mistake of mine)
was this June when i played on a big summer break party.
I used the Bass eq to make some effects but i forgot that i had it on kill on the right deck when i played on the left from the last song i used the eq for.
Then i qued some more songs into the playlist so i had more material to work with when i started the right deck with Martin Garrix' Animals.
Even though i don't like it and it's overplayed, it did fit in that moment.
But since it wasn't my rig i was DJing with the EQ didn't reset on a new song and also there was no EQ on the Headphones.
So guess what, i was busy and didn't hear it and when the drop came,
wow. No power. Lame.
Good thing i noticed it 4 beats after the drop and took the EQ back so nobody was mad,
but still i was pretty embaressed.
Regards,
Daniel
was this June when i played on a big summer break party.
I used the Bass eq to make some effects but i forgot that i had it on kill on the right deck when i played on the left from the last song i used the eq for.
Then i qued some more songs into the playlist so i had more material to work with when i started the right deck with Martin Garrix' Animals.
Even though i don't like it and it's overplayed, it did fit in that moment.
But since it wasn't my rig i was DJing with the EQ didn't reset on a new song and also there was no EQ on the Headphones.
So guess what, i was busy and didn't hear it and when the drop came,
wow. No power. Lame.
Good thing i noticed it 4 beats after the drop and took the EQ back so nobody was mad,
but still i was pretty embaressed.
Regards,
Daniel
Inviato Tue 29 Sep 15 @ 6:40 pm
trevcda
NIce! I think the best stories are all about the recovery after the mistake. I had Party Rock (another overplayed but appropriate for the moment songs!) going and didn't realize that I was still in Content Unlimited mode from looking for something else and had inadvertently downloaded a botched version from CU instead of my HDD. Out of nowhere, the song just ends about two minutes from the end. But the crowd keeps singing the chorus and I throw it to cue mode and find the pickup out of the chorus and mark it as a cue point, then bring it back in right after the chorus. They're loving it! So I let it play out mostly to see if it was the track or the computer and sure enough it was the track and we do a crowd sing along again, back into the post chorus and then fade into the next song. If I hadn't said half jokingly, "I only wish I were doing that on purpose!", no one would have been the wiser!
Thanks for chiming in Unlimited. I was beginning to think that I was the only one that made mistakes around here! It seems we're missing the community part of this whole thing in favor of the whining and bitching. Lighten up, Francis!
Thanks for chiming in Unlimited. I was beginning to think that I was the only one that made mistakes around here! It seems we're missing the community part of this whole thing in favor of the whining and bitching. Lighten up, Francis!
Inviato Wed 30 Sep 15 @ 6:25 pm
FunctionDJ
Dude, search 'DJ Mistakes' on Google or YouTube and you will find the global top deejays messing something up.
There is no perfect DJ and mistakes are a requirement for a DJ to become better.
I believe that many DJ's though just don't have the guts to admit mistakes.
I don't blame them, but i think it's good to share yours and get tipps for awkwardness-prevention.
Regards,
Daniel
There is no perfect DJ and mistakes are a requirement for a DJ to become better.
I believe that many DJ's though just don't have the guts to admit mistakes.
I don't blame them, but i think it's good to share yours and get tipps for awkwardness-prevention.
Regards,
Daniel
Inviato Thu 01 Oct 15 @ 4:04 pm
derwoodski
"When you stumble, make it part of the dance" I had one recently...cued up Please don't stop the music and at the same moment bumped the pitch slider with my arm....the song was playing about 30 bpm to fast, after I corrected my blunder, I said to the crowd "Come on, you guys can dance that fast!" got a few laughs.
Inviato Thu 01 Oct 15 @ 9:42 pm