Let me hit you with my observation on most of the haters out there. I’m talking about most of the DJs who consistently post, complain, and come down on digital, laptops, etc.
These guys complain to death about the new technology always talk about how DJing was better when it was analog vinyl, and maybe CDJs.
So imagine when it was before Final Scratch. These guys complained to death about how there’s loads of punk kids who charge pennies for a gig and thus they get hired…and how they illegally download all their music. How the promoters never go for “quality”.
OK, so we’ll then somehow magically make it that promoters/owners will run that one Australian program to check for pirated music, or even only hire vinyl-only DJs. They even pay these guys decent money.
THEN…these same DJs complain to death how they have to play all this pop/top-40 crap. How they used to just rock a room and never had to take requests, but now they have to play all the David Guetta/SHM/Katy Perry/Ke$ha stuff…or how they have to play all the P. Diddy/Beyonce/Britney Spears stuff.
So we’ll imagine then promoters pop up who will put barriers so no one can take requests, and even the DJ is fully allowed to say “no” and refuse to play anything but the house they love.
Now those DJs will complain to death how the only guys who get booked are the “popular” guys. They go on and on about how unfair it is that they’re now required to bring in 50-100 people in order to get booked. Or they complain how they have to promote and hand out flyers…when they used to just spend all week looking for music, sleeping, playing video games, and just show up to play.
Don’t you all see what’s going on? These guys really aren’t complaining that kids with pirated software, sync buttons, pirated music, pop music, table service, politics, etc…is “destroying the culture”. They’re complaining why they have to work to get somewhere in DJing. They might have had a string of success for a bit, but they got comfy and it all died out…now they’re unemployed and no one’s booking them. Their 15 min of fame ended.
No matter what you do, what counter-argument you give, they’ll complain…forever. They’ll cling on to some fantasy of a time when a local noname DJ could walk into the club, play anything he/she wanted, and get paid good for it. I look back at my own DJ life and never saw this. I saw SOME guys getting to play whatever they wanted, but they were the few who worked even harder and sacrificed a lot to get into that position.
These complainers are like the old men who keep rambling about “the good ol days”. I try to ignore them now, because I notice MOST of those DJs are not playing anywhere, and seemingly just want a crowd to worship them and their tastes. They want to do no actual work to get that DJ spot many want. Life doesn’t work that way. I used to complain like that, but I had to learn. This is why I backed off and only do things I love in DJing…even if it means I only play to myself.
I think I “liked” your page. I’ll stay in touch and share music. Just ignore the complainers though. They’ve dug their own grave. Most successful people work to adapt, not force others to live in the past.
.
