dealing with party guest
dealing with party guest Posted on: 06.05.2008 by DiscJoker aka GP well recently at the house parties I play, some body will request a song and I will be like ok I will try and work it into my mix. But five mins later they will come back up to the table and be like when are you gonna play my song. I am ready to hear it. And I am like its coming don't worry. As I am trying to work up into the bpm's to get to there song they come up again and is like why haven't you played my song. They don't understand that I may be in 80 bpm range and there song they wanted might be 120bpm.I hate it when people come up to me like that it pisses me off. so I was wondering what do you guys do for these kinds of people. | |
| Hanna Ridenbaugh 24.04.2010 |
Originally Posted by sarasin
chuckle chuckle |
| Wilton Schelter 23.04.2010 | |
| Tianna Laguerre 23.04.2010 | don't worry, this is actualy somewhat timeless thread and should be necroed every now and then.. |
| Leeanna Ayla 23.04.2010 |
Originally Posted by sine143
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| Jamie Carotenuto 23.04.2010 |
Originally Posted by photojojo
The very worst which is what I deal with a lot is when you are playing electro and someone will come up and ask for hiphop/top40s and when you switch other people will come up and asking what happened to the electro. Moral of the story is you cant please everyone, so ya gotta deal with it and keep your cool so you can stay focused. |
| Roselle Mcnaul 23.04.2010 | dont look at me, I wasnt the one who necroposted lol |
| Latoria Kavulich 23.04.2010 | *cough cough* damn cobwebs |
| Al Henger 23.04.2010 | EPIC thread res haha. I was like, wow, ean posted on something thats on the first page wat? |
| Roselle Mcnaul 22.04.2010 | What happened to the good old days you could kick someone in the dick and they went away. Chrimany, patrons these days. |
| Gilma Marchini 22.04.2010 |
Originally Posted by EanGolden
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| Carroll Guglielmetti 22.04.2010 | lucky for me most requests I get are for shit I don't have. Unfortunately that doesn't keep some people for repeatedly asking for the same song I don't have and just standing there like it's going to make a difference. One time I got a request for a song I didn't have but the girl told me where I could download it for free. I took the 5 seconds, downloaded the song and played it. |
| Leeanna Ayla 22.04.2010 | 20 years ago I worked in a club that had a booth that was about 10 feet above the floor. People would write down their requests, complaints, and love notes and throw them up into the booth. It would piss me off to no end when there little piece of paper would land on the record playing. We finally put up some wire up to keep that crap out. I can't complain to much though cause one of the chief note throwers is in the next room getting ready for bed. I found out a couple of years ago that she told all her friends back then she was going to marry me. |
| Verona Fashbaugh 22.07.2009 |
Originally Posted by LiveFastStephen
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| Roni Batchan 22.07.2009 |
Originally Posted by Rumblejazz
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| Amada Brierley 22.07.2009 | Once I was at a pretty grimey drum n bass evening
in the proper cellar of a bar. Packed out, jump up, hard drum and bass etc, quality evening
. I was a bit fucked so I thought I'd mess about... "You got any Pendulum mate? That Slam tune?" Joke was * definitely * lost on that guy and his crew. Oh well :P |
| Roni Batchan 22.07.2009 | thts a bit scary.. |
| Jene Martley 22.07.2009 | hahaha nice my mate was asked to do an indian wedding haha he has no idea what to play as they have requested that indian songs be played heh i wonder if he will go through with it |
| Roni Batchan 22.07.2009 | haha nice one! I dig the whole "when you gonna play some music" from some top40 girl. I play a mixture of underground gigs, where they love anything that theyv never heard before; right through to mobile disco type events, when friends who know I'm a DJ believe, "ah, you could DJ at my wedding" type thing - thus I freak out when I look at my library and find no summer of '69 etc.. I did a school prom recently, parents and teachers included, with my new laptop, which i'd only had a chance to put about 150 new songs on. There was Summer of 69, Livin on a prayer, and a lot of michael jackson + about 50 hard dubstep tracks, and a ska album. That wasn't a fun 2 hours for me... but I still got |
| Sherika Lasee 22.07.2009 | my friend Cory came up with a pretty straight forward solution to that problem... photographed below ha yea, maybe not exactly the way most of us would like to come of, but it worked for him. good times. - S |
| Tajuana Osterfeld 11.06.2009 | i had a guy tip me too play a song and when i played it he had left the club an came back like an hour later asking when was i going to play his song i told him i all ready had played it at wich point he called me a liar. i told him to take his money back. i work in a top forty club and i take requests all the time if it's innapropriate or just doesn't feel the vibe i tell them i don't have it period end of discussion. smile and move on. what i hate is the girl who says when ya going to play something to dance too. then when i ask what they want to hear they say what ya got. i got no time for that, thats what i got. i smile turn around an go back to work they usually get the message. |
| Lilliana Perris 11.06.2009 | @Ean.....lying works well..agreed! I play many Psytrance parties. You always get the girl asking for Infected Mushroom. I just say, "This IS Infected Mushroom!" "You don;t know this one?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
| Dotty Fadeley 09.06.2009 |
Originally Posted by DvlsAdvct
lmao!!! Fukin PERFECT description man! On that note...one of the only parties I ever played (a classic frat party on campus in....an actual...frat house) was a situation I thought was going to be just like that. However...surprisingly it wasnt. My friend (a Hardcore Gabber DJ turned mobile DJ) spun top 40 in the main room (everything from Brittany Spears to Black Eyed Peas). I spun strictly EDM in the "hard alcohol room" for 4+ hrs starting with ambient breaks to old school trance to UK hardhouse to funky house to techno....and they loved it (with not ONE request). Perhaps my happy face is not as approachable and inviting as I thought it was. Alcohol is a strange beast. Peace be to the arrogant, elitist snobs. **cheers** |
| Khalilah Loneman 07.06.2009 | if they ask u for a song just tell them that the jukebox evening is tomorrow |
| Harold Jaras 07.06.2009 | not sure how lying would really be a big deal, are people going to have to chance to scope your whole collection and be like "LOOK! LOOK! HE'S GOT IT AND SAID HE DIDN'T! WHAT A BAD DJ BOOO!" little white lies my friends |
| Sean Sibanyoni 06.06.2009 | This was my technique for girls... "You got it, but you'll have to give me some time as I have lots of other requests to get to". Eventually I'd try to get to it, but if I didn't and they ask me later "sorry I really tried, but there were just too many requests before yours and I ran out of time... come see me earlier next week and I'll get it on". Worked a charm, nobody ever mad, and because the ones whose tracks I didn't get to felt like I would pay them special attention next time, they usually came back next week. Didn't matter either way, full club with a line regardless, but always good to protect your evening
. This was my technique for guys... "Okay man, I'll try to get to it in a little bit, but that group of girls over there (don't actually point or single out anyone though, just sorta give a nod like gesture) requested a couple songs and said they would get really crazy, like I'm talking Girls Gone Wild and stuff, so I'm going to get their tracks on as quick as I can". This works because 90-95% of guys who request a song will now be completely focused on every girl dancing believeing that they might see some boobs. and totally forget that they wanted to hear something. The other 5-10% of guys don't matter, you can tell they didn't fall for it, so then you move their track into the girls request pile. |
| Thisun Manuranga 20.04.2009 | Hey man, did you ever make that T-Shirt?? |
| robert chanda 13.05.2008 |
Originally Posted by Murat
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| Ben Strauch 12.05.2008 | 2dfruit:you have my compassion :eek: RIHANA is not good company and to the thread... ...as i never experienced an request,if it should happen to me i would choose the little lie... |
| Thisun Manuranga 11.05.2008 | "some kind of meat jukebox" |
| NATAN SHMIT 10.05.2008 | How about this then? Have you, as a DJ ever made a request? I sometimes do, only when I know he's finished mixing and he's doing nothing else..I always try and believe of a song I like that's inkeeping with the set. That being said, I live in a smallish town in Ireland and most dj's play rhianna or Journey so my music is never really inkeeping...ugh. So when I was for a John O Callaghan remix I usually get a "wtf?" face. |
| Alex Mayer 10.05.2008 | dj elitists unite! |
| Random X 10.05.2008 |
Originally Posted by orca
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| mohammed farhan 09.05.2008 | I would go back and agree with the little lie, just to get them out of the way right away. |
| Ben Strauch 10.05.2008 | DvlsAdvct:yes,juke box dj is the right name!hmmm i'm glad to play in the underground where people understand that an dj needs his workspace to bring the story that they enyoy!!!i love psytrance |
| daniela klein 10.05.2008 | In America, if you are at somebody's party, I can almost guarantee at some point someone will ask for hiphop or rap no matter what you are playing. |
| Roberto Viccione 09.05.2008 | orca: it really does depend on the scene you're in. In the scene I DJ in (goth/industrial) there are evening s based entirely off of requests, and evening s where the DJs refuse to take them. Both are hit and miss. Hell, I have a huge divide with the guys I work with because they have an 'open CD policy' of 'you bring it, we spin it'. So I started spinning on my laptop so I can say "Sorry, no CD requests." People aren't always happy, but, well, there are other DJs for things like that. I call them juke boxes. :-) |
| Ben Strauch 09.05.2008 | oh my god am i living on an other planet? i have newer seen people reqest an song by the dj!in about 7 years of partygoing and djing.the dj is an audiopilot not the people that are dancing,and they respsect it!!!or is it so just in ungerground styles(psytrance,techno)?you scared me peple :eek: ! tekki LoLz I am still missing the "Fuck off, I'm mixing shirt." this is an good idea |
| Random X 08.05.2008 | LoLz I am still missing the "Fuck off, I'm mixing shirt." |
| 07.05.2008 | if all fails use this...hehehehe |
| Steeve Lauritano 07.05.2008 | Before I was a DJ I never understood why other DJs wouldn't play my requests, as I figured they were sure to get people on the floor. The reality is, people don't even know what you're doing up there, and why you have a set a headphones. There's no point in becoming frustrated with people, because I'm sure that if they understood your role as the DJ that they would leave you alone... So I guess I would try to explain why I can't play the track or whatever, you know? Or if you don't have the time, just lie and say you don't have the song. |
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