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[0bleak]

Ah that's a shame. Any flyers of the nights? Amazing pics BTW

nope, it was a weird club that mainly advertised through word of mouth, I guess?
We we actually kind of in a shopping mall, kind of... like connected to it, but not part of it - I don't know how to describe it

 

[0bleak]

but I might have had to go around the back of a lot of the stuff in the booth and really move some things around to get things set to record into the deck, and they probably wouldn't have been too happy about that, but I don't know - I'm kind of fuzzy on some of the details. Like, I remember we also had pro CD decks, but i don't even remember what it was like at all when using them. Did they even have things like CDJs with pitch control back then?

but it would have been really helpful to have a tape especially since I was kind of unceremoniously booted from my position by the owner when he opened a new, bigger club and closed that one (but I later find out the new one is more commercial leaning) even though the owner told me I would still be DJing at the new one, and so on the night it opens, I take my crates of records, CDs and tapes down there and get to the door and get told, at the door, by bouncers (like they were waiting for me) they have another DJ.
Although I did find out about another cooler club opening located more downtown, and I tell them about myself (seemed like it was being opened by some rich girls fresh out of college or something), and they ask for a tape and since I didn't really have much of my own gear at the time, I just had to make a tape of the kind of stuff I would play given the opportunity. Needless to say, they probably weren't very impressed because I never heard back from them. OTOH, it could have just been they weren't interested in rougher sounds since when I did go there the DJ (also a better DJ than I anyway) was playing house.
Didn't matter much though because for another long story, i would soon be off to a bigger city...

OR MAYBE, and I don't know because no one ever said anything to me, they also didn't want a DJ that regularly left the DJ booth to dance to his own selections, or to talk to girls, or to get another "free drinks for the DJ" (they never told me there was a limit, so...) 😄

edit: and then have to run back up to the booth to get the next track going before the current one ended

 

[IdleRich]

Great thread. Entirely seriously I love hearing these stories, keep em coming don't hold back.

 

[0bleak]

ok, but I feel bad because @sus opened this thread for a reason, and i've already been going on for ages so I kind of feel impolite if I keep going on in this thread, so maybe we can think of another thread for some kind of general thread (if there already isn't one) for going off in all directions (I mean, i can still try to keep it related to women/djing/being a weirdo)

 

[Goth Feet ASMR]

(the smart people will notice the schoolly d sample)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAAAHHAAAHHAHAHAHAHHAAA ive listened to both that siouxsie album and that schoolly d album like a thousand times each and never made the connection! thanks!

 

[catalog]

Can't wait for you to dj via zoom at p3 annihilation eve @0bleak me and K-Billy are meeting first thing in Jan to get it sorted

 

[0bleak]

ok, but I feel bad because @sus opened this thread for a reason, and i've already been going on for ages so I kind of feel impolite if I keep going on in this thread, so maybe we can think of another thread for some kind of general thread (if there already isn't one) for going off in all directions (I mean, i can still try to keep it related to women/djing/being a weirdo)

just tell me when to shut up:

no promises (re: women, djing, music, the weirding way, etc.)

I just ain't that smart, but apparently @IdleRich and maybe one of two other people find my plotless, inane rambling stories and thoughts amusing so I'll continue here instead of commandeering someone's thread. The first thing that came to mind a few minutes ago: WRONG, STILL As Flavor Flav...

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