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F . A . Q .
- A Bit of Humor...
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- ! A T T E N T I O N !
- Before Requesting Songs, Making Comments Or Asking
Questions of the DJ,
- Please Check Below For Your "Special" Request
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- 1. PLAY SOMETHING GOOD, SOMETHING WE CAN DANCE TO!
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The D.J. 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 D.J. They have to put up with
smoke-filled rooms and dangerous decibel levels all night ... 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 this club and, as their spokesperson, you're requesting the song.
5. EVERYBODY WILL DANCE IF YOU PLAY IT!
The D.J. won't! I guess that blows
a hole in that theory!
6. I CAN GET THAT GIRL IF YOU PLAY IT!
Why settle for one night? Buy
the album and get that girl for a whole month!
7. I WANT TO HEAR IT NEXT!
The only people who can
get away with that statement is the people who write the DJs paycheck.
8. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WANT TO HEAR ... 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 D.J. to recite the name of every record in the
booth.
9. HEY MAN, NOBODY CAN DANCE TO THIS! .
It Is 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.
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Somethings not to say to the DJ
If you ask for a song and the DJ says he just played it, please don't say,
"Well, I just got here!"
It makes absolutely no difference to the DJ when you got there!
Please Don't Ask the DJ, "Is this the only kind of music you play?"
If you go to a Chinese restaurant, you wouldn't ask for Italian food. Rock
clubs play rock,
new wave clubs play new wave, discos play disco; etc., etc., etc.
If you ask for a song... BE SPECIFIC. Don't Say ... "I want to hear
something...anything but this."
Try going to the bar and saying, I wanna drink something... anything but
this...
You can't complain if you're not SPECIFIC.
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HOWEVER, if you ARE specific and the DJ says he doesn't
have that song, Don't SAY,
"What? What do you mean you don't have it? What kind of D.J. are you?
Why don't you get into the wonderful world of fast food You obviously don
t know what you re doing as D.J."
HE MAY SHOOT YOU!!
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A Special Note
A night club DJ gets very little respect. They are expected to play everything
for everybody. It is impossible to satisfy all of the people all of the
time, yet Club Jocks are expected to do just that. If a Radio Jock tells
his listeners a song is a hit, the majority of the people figure it must
be because they said so on the radio. However, 80% of the time, that SAME
song was being played in a club long before the radio DISCOVERED the NEW
song.
- So give the D.J. a break. The next time you request a
song, stop and think before you speak.
And above all... If the D.J. has one hand on the mixing board,
one hand on a turntableand the headphones on... DON'T BUG HIM ...
- ! He's Mixing !