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  • October 20, 2012 at 4:34 pm #1014084
    Mike Check
    Member

    If you’re looking to keep the gig it’s probably best to cater to the owner 1st. At the same time I think there’s definitely a way to suggest to the owner that you get a sense the crowd is looking for _____ type music. He’ll either be receptive or shoot it down and you’ll know your boundaries w/ song selection.

    Good luck.

    October 20, 2012 at 11:52 pm #1014100
    Arthur Kokanov
    Participant

    Ugh … I’ve been dealing with this for the past two weeks… I will report back tomorow (sunday)

    October 21, 2012 at 7:43 am #1014104
    Stazbumpa
    Participant

    The problem with club and bar owners is that the majority of them are complete idiots. I had one club owner storm into the DJ booth screaming “play rnb nobody wants to listen to this play rnb now!!!”. The 400 people I had pogo dancing to the Prodigy were obviously just a figment of my imagination. It’s very rare to play in a club or bar were the owner(s) will actually let you judge the crowd for yourself.

    October 21, 2012 at 9:39 am #1014118
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    The people on the dancefloor are your customers.
    If the manager comes up to me and still harasses me with 500 people dancing and drinking his liqueur supplies empty a rare sight happens (and I did it only once):
    Take Mic. Activate speak over and shout “do you feel good?” wait for the “yeah” shout “do you love this music” wait for the yeah, up the volume 5% and tell the manager “they love it, should I really change?”

    If he still fires you, he is not worth your time. But it never happened to me as long as they drink enough and the cash register is full.
    Sometimes you need to be direct (stay polite and calm) and show them, that you are in charge of music.
    However you play music for the crowd and not for yourself. So if they want top40 no use to play hardcore.

    October 21, 2012 at 6:10 pm #1014145
    DJ Menno
    Participant

    I hear you Terry, and I did try to give them the style they wanted above the owner’s choice or my own preference. But to me top 40 music is like fast-food. Once in a while it’s delicious, but when you’re given only fast food it gets boring, not to say disgusting. Yesterday I went to a club where the guy was playing hit after hit after hit and I was missing a little depth or personal touch. But maybe I’m the only customer thinking like that… I like to discover a new song when a DJ is playing…not that I go harcore or trance, but for example that night I played a house remix of a sirtaki song (128 bpm with a nice bass running underneath the classical sirtaki melody), which I thought was witty and funny. And just after that smashed some good ol’ Chris Brown… trying to build something intelligent instead of hitting play on a radio playlist 🙂

    Actually the owner told me he wanted to stay in contact and do a gig again, but I think the venue doesn’t suit me… that may be the problem as well…

    Thxs for the comments, it’s good to read about other’s experiences.

    October 22, 2012 at 7:01 am #1014172
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    It is about numbers and satisfying customers.
    If I can make 500 people happy by playing Hard Industrial but 10 leave because it is to heavy for them… so be it.

    October 22, 2012 at 9:58 am #1014185
    DJ Yaka
    Participant

    Totally agree with ya Terry. It’s impossible to please everyone….. As much as you want to

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