Worst request?

during a club/top 40 type night… Slayer – reigning blood ; the guy promised it would start a mosh pit and get everyone pumped! – despite knowing that song quite well, I never played that one.

I got the “play something I can dance to” and the “play some good music” on Tuesday.

I was DJing at my school at lunch time for fun and marketing. Filled the school hall! It was a 45 minute “screw the popular crowed, let’s find the people with my taste in music” set, so there was plenty of electro house, dubstep and a bit of DnB. The closest I got to mainstream was Dodge & Fuski’s “Guettastep”. When I got the “play some good music” request, I just said “I’ve just played you half an hour of good music” and stared at her until she went away. It also turns out that something-I-can-dance-to’s friend loves EDM. I knew there were EDM fans in that crowd somewhere! SUCCESSFUL MISSION!

I just thought that those two requests were DJ myths that you guys tell to newbies like me for a laugh.

Anything that is just plain un-danceable by ANYBODY. I’ve seriously had impassioned pleas for Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. No lie.

Them: “I’ve got it out in my truck! I can go get it.”

Me: “You’re half correct. Do go out to your truck. Do NOT come back with it, though; go listen there.”

“Teach me how to dougie”

Especially when I already have a full dance floor… why ruin it….

DJ Max D., post: 359 wrote: Mainstream house night, dude comes up and asks for Nothing else matters (MetallicA).. a good song but the most out-of-place-and-time request ever..

Exactly. Whenever I get these requests I try to explain that it just wont work for the music of the night, most of the time they get it and we get to talking about music, other times they’re really drunk and they want me to play if off their iphone and I have to find a way to say “Good God, NO…”

Benny Mackney, post: 246 wrote: It was a 45 minute “screw the popular crowed, let’s find the people with my taste in music” set, so there was plenty of electro house, dubstep and a bit of DnB. The closest I got to mainstream was Dodge & Fuski’s “Guettastep”. When I got the “play some good music” request, I just said “I’ve just played you half an hour of good music” and stared at her until she went away.

Benny, I mean this is the kindest, as-helpful-as-I-can-be manner; really:

You kinda deserved that request, and she was probably right. Your taste in music is only relevant in so far as it is used to make you better at making your crowd as happy as you possibly can. It’s not your dance floor; it’s theirs. I, for example, hate country music. But I make sure I know it enough to be able to play it when needed.

You kinda said it yourself, you didn’t care what the majority wanted. You might want to change your angle a smidge, or you are in for some long, painful nights. 🙂

[INDENT=2]Case in point: My brother had a summer job working at a burger joint. He cooked up some tasty burgers. He’s a vegetarian.[/INDENT]

I was playing deep soulful house at a lounge when two trixies asked me to play some ABBA or Ian Van Dahl.

Second worst was when I was resident in a Top-40 club in the suburbs of Chicago. Two women who you could tell the obviously never go to a club asked me to play the Chicken Dance or Electric Slide.

Ugh.

actually one of the things I like about being a digital dj is if someone has a cd they want me to play. I can just say “I have no way of playing that. Sorry.” – But I usually then have to explain that I disable the cd drive on my laptop at which point they stare at me in disbelief….