the crappest DJ you've seen?

Most of the DJs in Arena, Exeter. And Rococos. In fact, most of the clubs in Exeter.

You’d think their mixers looked like this:

or this:

One time at a hip hop event, I DJ’ed the songs for some local hip hop artists – this lasted a while and after they were done they had a different DJ come up to play the last two hours. Now he had roadcases, a full serato setup – plugged in to the mixer and I was telling him that the mixing board is touchy… to which he says, “Do I look like an amateur?”. I thought alright true enough… anyway through his set he kept pushing into the red and clipping the speakers but acted like nothing was wrong! I went up and told him (on the way off chance that he didn’t hear it) but he ignored me. Eventually the bar owner went up and turned down the master volume. Other than that he was playing a hip hop set, but just starting one song at it’s very start, spoken word intros be damned!

pilotmike327, post: 2029 wrote: lol. this sounds a bit messed up but one of the big motivation factors that pushed me to actually pursue the idea of DJ was the following: I was at a club and the house room DJ wasn’t really catching my attention. So I went to the Top 40 Room.

I was there for 10 mins….Tops.

This guy was leaving gaps between songs, played maybe 30 seconds of songs before going on to a next one, and would jump from One by Swedish House Mafia to Danza Kuduro by Don Omar. I was so mad!! THESE ARE SONGS I LOVE AND HE’S TAKING A POOP ON THEM!!!

After leaving the club I couldn’t stop thinking “Man, I could have done a totally better job than that guy.” So I went online, started looking at what DJing really is about, and since then fell in love with the art behind it.

Exact same thing happened to me

I never saw a “consistently bad” DJ, but I do remember the first time the big club in Chicago brought out the Crystal Method to play as DJs. They got drunk and trainwrecked like crazy…but people loved them because they were Crystal Method.

For all the guys who complain about kids on laptops stealing music, pressing sync, and undercutting pro DJs…I more get unnerved by big name headliners who can’t DJ to save their lives, but put out some big release that made them famous…and the supposed “musically minded” will love them the way Apple fanboys will love Steve Jobs no matter what he does.

I also remember going to a teen club to see my buddy play, and Playboy DJ Colleen Shannon was there. I came on the stage behind her to say hi to some colleagues, and I saw she really wasn’t even mixing, just sloppily fading one track into the next while showing off her tight body in a skimpy skinsuit. I found photos on the promoter’s site:

Her DJing was nonexistent. She wasn’t matching beats or even trying to make things work. She was more or less a gogo dancer in the DJ booth. Eye candy.

When I came on stage to say hi to colleagues, she did a “blend”. I looked at my colleagues with a “WTF?” look on my face. My colleagues laughed simply because they knew she was just eye candy there.

She knows how to operate the gear, but not how to DJ. I’m sure it’s all just to slap the Playboy name to clubs. It is an affront to female DJs who try to build the talent and rep.

Oh well. It’s a popularity game like I said in the guide.

I’ve never, in my entire life, gone to see a DJ (or a band). I’ve gone to hear a few, mind.

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