First 'Mobile' Gig...

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  • FM
    Wooooooo!
    • Jun 2004
    • 5361

    DJing First 'Mobile' Gig...

    In my ever continuing forms of DJ'ing, yesterday afternoon I was offered as a fill-in to do a mobile-type of gig for last night.

    Basically it was a new 80's/retro night at an establishment that was taken over by new owners, one of whom is a longtime friend of my DJ friend who got me the gig (it's going to be his weekly as is, but he needed someone to fill and I happened to be able to volunteer after a couple of others flaked out). While said establishment is called a "cafe", it's a downstairs bar room currently with pool tables and the like Maybe it'll get built up and converted, who knows...

    Keep in mind this: I've never done straight 80s before and really never had any in the library (used to have some tracks ages ago, but many got corrupted and a lot are in shite quality). Many years ago I would rail against doing these things because it didn't fit my philosophies and my style.

    Well, I played some 3.5 hours of 'selected' stuff (i.e. what I had and the like ), the crowd was good (as I think we all kind of expected the worst given the first night), everything covered, and I was able to fulfill some requests...that I could remember because they were coming in pretty fast and furious at times Pays $150 too so I can't complain! hahahahaha

    Oh and the booth? Total ghettoness; Behringer DJX700 mixer (since I have one I felt at home), and some really old-school Gemini dual-deck CD players...CD's everywhere from the previous setups (mainly did hip-hop there and the like...had a box of leftover CD's of some crappy stuff in there, but a few rock things which I was able to utilize). All I can say is thank god I left my 1000's in the car...my babies came through once again.

    I'll say this, for those who have never done an 80's night and/or are thinking about one:

    -Being a jukebox works, although I got creative to be creative...and it does inject a little variety into things.

    -Better have like every 80's/retro track known to man I got some good requests that I didn't fulfill, because I didn't have time to dig that deep.

    -Fulfill the owners requests, and they'll love you She likes more of the disco/funk times, he's more of the mid-decade stuff with rock...but all they asked I filled no problem.

    -Do one. Seriously. Just to be different and try something totally out of your comfort zone.

    Now I need to build up a mobile library Uggh, more music to sort through...
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  • jeffrey collins
    Not cool enough
    • Jun 2004
    • 7427

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    Re: First 'Mobile' Gig...

    Nice bro. Glad it went pretty good for ya. I'm sure it'll be better next time. Especially since you'll be more prepared. It'll also help you if you ever wanted to eventually try to get an electronic music night going on there.
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