Being a DJ

[The Lord of Flatbush]

On 2002-04-02 17:06, StuckIn1979 wrote:

If you really want to be a DJ, it really helps to tell them your gay. I think it's a requirement necessary which comes with the artistic gene.....

The point in question is, "What does someone's sexual preference have to do with becoming a DJ or acquiring residence in a bar or club?"



Anyone can self-proclaim themself to be a DJ, but talent within creativity defines the difference between the missing link and the weakest link! Goodbye!

[DJ P]

I got my interest going around '77 in Disco Music. I had found a small lounge on St. Petersburg beach that played this new form of music (atleast to me!!). It was small but enjoyable, great music and a adequate dance floor. I got to know the DJ (Paul if my memory serves me correctly) and was asked to fill in as he lost his part-timer. I basically just faded records at the start, but this was a chain of bars/disco in Florida (ABC Liquours) and they opened a larger bar (bigger dance floor, a more advanced light show, a circular revoling bar, and a dry ice machince!!). I went to the opening of that club and met the DJ 'Cindy Leis'. From her I learned about mixing, BPM's, counting BPM's, percussion breaks, rimming (playing two exact copies of the same song, slightly behind the first to give a 'electronic distortion effect') and overlays. I worked for the ABC chain for around 4 years. Then in 1980 (the so-called 'death of Disco' year) I moved to Baton Rouge, LA. and mixed in a club called the '3D'. I started missing Florida and returned within a year. From that point in time I moved to Wisconsin and DJ'ed in a club off of State Street know as 'Bogie's' (a tribute to the movie star the late Humphrey Bogart). My blood never thickened for the Madison's winters so it was back to Florida!! I went away from DJ'ing til the 'Retro' craze caused the 'Fever' to happen again and started DJ'ing at a 'Disco Nite' (it was on a Wedensday first, then it turned so succesful the club owner's moved it to Saturday nites and it has been running ever since 1994!!) at a club called 'Stormin's' til they ended the Wedensday nite version of it. That is my recollection on my start of Disco DJ'ing.



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Evolution only pertains to Disco, and the beat goes on...

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