This is an absolutely interesting time in my life. I have five months in which to absolutely focus on DJing, and I intend to do that. My drive is back up, and I think today I'm going to bike around to different places to see if they have a place for me to DJ. I'd like to do this every day throughout the week--every time I do it live, I get better.

Last night, though. I was feeling like rocking out, which didn't quite fit with the meager crowd which was around. The DJ that goes on before me, God bless him, puts on some really depressing shit a lot of the time and it always seems to drain the place of energy, not to mention people, before I go on. It's really annoying. But whatever. I biked 14 miles yesterday and I was all about throwing down a good set.

I managed to f*ck with The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" to get the timing right to beat match to other tracks, and this led to me rocking out in the DJ booth. I was surprised at how many rock/pop tracks came out--Led Zeppelin, Freeland, Talking Heads, Michael Jackson--and all due to the fact that I was FEELIN' IT!

While I'm absolutely fond of people coming by and telling me that I'm doing a great job, one of my repeat fans was back, rocking out in my booth, getting way too close to me for my comfort, offering me drugs I didn't want to do, playing the role of a cougar, constantly apologizing for being an "asshole," all at the same time asking me what I was doing and wondering why I wasn't constantly paying attention to her. I don't know if she thought that I was surfing the net while letting a pre-mixed set play or what...

Some of my favorite responses to her: "No, I don't want to do any coke. It's Tuesday night"; "Really, I promise, I'm not gay"; "Yeah, sorry, I'm DJing."

It was a triumph when the few people stayed until the end of my set to listen, and I was able to end the set with this awesome rock track from my hometown that holds a special place in my heart, and play with timed delay and feedback to make the climactic end draw out for about two minutes. w00t.

http://www.last.fm/m...rworks/_/Shiver

Also, I'm definitely becoming a better drunk DJ. Much better drug of choice for this than shrooms.

Oh, yeah, I also weaved in four Chemical Brothers tracks.

@Whitenoise: you'll be happy to know one of them was The Golden Path. That went on right before The Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime"

clearly the obvious question is - was the cougar hot?

come on man, thats what dj'ing is all about, blowies under the decks from ropey old birds and lines of bronson off the wheels of steel - ESPECIALLY on a tuesday night!

like your story, pooter! especially the thing about the "feeling" of deejaying. it's a nice feeling, when a segue works, or dropping a bomb and people went crazy. love it too! btw: some beer's and t*c are the best thing for a successful gig. never tried shrooms or other psychadelic drugs during a dj set (proud of you, you did a great job anyways ).

my next gig is in about two weeks at a breakbeat party. hopefully a good one!

mippio, on 07 April 2010 - 02:41 PM, said:

Hahaha, mips you crack me up!

Glad to hear you had a good set nonetheless, Pooter!

Mmmmm, how wise of you, MadPooter.

Mippio... lol. But if she's really that annoying, would it be worth it?

MadPooter, on 07 April 2010 - 05:33 PM, said:

True, true, but for me some good weed is the best for a tight set. The only problem is you get thirsty, and booze and weed don't always work so well together when spinning.

beer=fun set
weed=masterful set
beer+weed=neither of those

WhiteNoise, on 08 April 2010 - 02:46 AM, said:

Hard to talk when her mouth is full.

lol mippio.

MadPooter, great threads. Keep 'em coming!

We should devote a forum section to Pooter. Seriously, you seem to be the only person who is getting into more crazy adventures the older you get... That's a good thing, I assure you. shine on you crazy diamond!

::laughs:: Absolutely unintentional, I assure you. It helps to be able to share my stories of my growth as a DJ. Glad you all enjoy them.

For the record: the cougar = burnt

MadPooter, on 09 April 2010 - 01:10 AM, said:

Watch out for the Hep C. Seriously, I look have to look at medical records at work all day and that seems to be a common one, and being a horny drug-addict with a few years under your belt only does so much to the probability.

MadPooter, on 07 April 2010 - 10:33 PM, said:

DJing drunk is an art. Especially when there's no monitoring in the DJ Booth and you have to do a transition.


I was DJing too 2 days ago. Worst night ever. It was a student party, I was doing the warm up. 3 or 4 persons came asking to play more "general" tracks.
One girl even came and spoke for almost 1mn about how I was supposed to represent the spirit of the school, that the music I was playing was not showing the right image, bla bla bla. I replied that if the music I play is not what they wanted then they should have hired another DJ, that I was doing this for free, so I wouldn't care a bit stopping the music, taking my laptop and leaving right away, no music at all would probably be a better "image" for her school then.
Much more crap happened that night, and I don't want to get into details.

EDIT : oh and I didn't even get to do the Hungarian friend I was with that night.

This post has been edited by Ben_j: 09 April 2010 - 2:13 AM

I rely on my intuition when it comes to who I choose to involve myself with sexually. I stayed away for many good reasons.

haha ok, just so long as you don't one day ask me for my liver.

rotfl.

I take care of myself.

Ben_j, on 09 April 2010 - 03:05 AM, said:

I just read this on boards.ie:

1. PLAY SOMETHING GOOD...SOMETHING WE CAN DANCE TO !
The DJ has to play for more than one person...so what you hate may be another's favorite song and EVERYTHING played here can be danced to one way or another.

2. WOULD YOU PLAY SOMETHING WITH A "BEAT" !
BE SERIOUS! We know of NO songs played in a club that don't have some sort of BEAT!

3. I DON'T KNOW WHO SINGS IT AND I DON'T KNOW THE NAME OF THE SONG, BUT IT GOES LIKE THIS....
PLEASE don't sing for the DJ. They have to put up with smoke filled rooms and dangerous decibel levels all night long...Do them a favor and DON'T give them a rendition of your favorite song.

4. EVERYBODY WANTS TO HEAR IT !
Oh, sure... you polled everyone in the club and, as their spokesperson, you're requesting the song.

5. EVERYBODY WILL DANCE IF YOU PLAY IT !
The DJ won't. I guess that blows a hole in that theory!

6. I CAN GET LAID IF YOU PLAY IT !
Why settle for one night? Buy the album and get laid for a whole month!

7. I WANT TO HEAR IT NEXT !
The ONLY people who can get away with that statement write the DJ's paycheck!

8. WHAT DO YOU HAVE ?
It's a lot easier for you to go have another beer and figure out what you want to hear than it is for the DJ to recite the name of every record in the booth!

9. HEY, MAN, NOBODY CAN DANCE TO THIS !
It's NOT advisable to say this when the dance floor is packed (but some people do anyway) ! HOWEVER, even if there is only ONE person on the floor, it STILL contradicts the statement!

10. PLAY IT SOON, BECAUSE WE'RE LEAVING !
If your gonna leave after he plays it, why shouldn't he wait till the very last song so you stay all night! If you wanna get your request played faster, try writing it on the back of a $20 bill and handing it to the dj.



Copy, paste, print.

rotfl. Love your Mitch Hedburg sig.

That's definitely a fair list of shit people throw out at the DJ.

I dj for free right now, so I just have fun with it. I like to make people's night when they make a request, so I don't have a problem with people coming up and ask me to play something. In fact, it's a bit of a challenge to mix in things that don't quite mesh together so nicely and I have to make a path from point A to point B, which actually ends up being point E because no way am I going to mix in Beck with this Autotune remix. True story.

@Ben_J: I missed your story before, man. Lame night. Hopefully you've had better nights recently, especially the not getting laid part. School spirit? I got your school spirit right here, baby. ::grabs crotch::

Hey Chin, you missed:

"I know you just played 'song X/artist X', but I was outside/in the bathroom/on the phone. Can you play it again?"

Yeah, #3 on your list is the worst, right up there with any general invasion of personal space.

#3 is also something that happens to record store employees!

hey everyone. tomorrow i will play a bigger gig @some breakbeat party. my last track will be escape velocity. very exited about how it works...

too bad that it's about 140 bpm. that means i can only play it at last track ;) and not embedded during my hour and a half.