Re: playing night-clubs

From: Leslie N. Shill (icehouse@redshift.com)
Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 00:26:58 CET

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    Marco,

    i have been on the air for going on 20 years! and besides the eternal
    "please play this for my friend" people who are obviously NOT even listening
    to the show, i have some regular freaks who call and ask for some VERY
    strange stuff and i have also had a couple of much scarier calls and even
    one written death threat from some ardent fan (!?) that had me having to
    visit the local law-enforcement offices where i was advised to "keep my eyes
    open" and to "vary my routine" and that, were i to feel threatened to call
    them post-haste. Happily, it's been more than a year now on that little
    score and i am still here. For more than ten years I have had one obviously
    inebriated sod asking for a very obscure Ray Charles track that i could not
    even find listed anywhere. it's been a trip but then you know about that
    although you might not have had the death threats, gosh, i am out there but
    i do not consider myself a threat. one of the prices paid for delivering
    good music to people for nothing over two decades. the stuff i have faced in
    clubs is sometimes a joke compared to some of this stuff. On the other hand,
    i have had some delightful benefits from my work that far outweigh the
    negatives, keep on keeping on, we just gotta keep doing it!

    leslie/The Power of Sound/www.kazu.org
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Marco Pringle <freakymarco@yahoo.com>
    To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:45 PM
    Subject: Re: playing night-clubs

    >
    > --- "Leslie N. Shill" <icehouse@redshift.com> wrote:
    > > i have almost never played a night club where some
    > > supercilious idiot and those are equally divided
    > > genderwise, did not come up to me and ask me to play
    > > something so totally out of touch with reality in terms
    > > of what i was playing that i just smile and nod my head
    > > like a dime-store puppet.
    >
    > Just can't seem to get away from 'em, can you? I have very
    > limited night-club experience, but as a radio host, i've
    > got hundreds (and I'm sure all of the hosts on this list do
    > as well) of stories of completely inane callers. Despite
    > the fact that my show's on a alternative radio station, it
    > never fails that some idiot wants me to play the
    > latest/greatest hit from "insert lamest group you can think
    > of here" and give a shout out to his homies, B-Dogg and
    > Ass-Master Fred chillin' at the hizz-ouse. Give me break -
    > You know they own the cd already, and are plenty able to
    > use the phone to call their friends. I'm sure we could
    > start a never ending thread (maybe there's already been
    > one) of idiot callers/listeners.
    >
    > A friend was relating what he considered to be one of the
    > best pieces of advice given to him for club dj's: Always
    > have one line which is basically hooked up to nothing.
    > That way, when some idiot comes along complaining that the
    > bass is too strong, or volume is to low, or whatever, you
    > can twiddle knobs on that channel 'til the cows come home
    > in order to please the guy, but not really affect anything
    > else. Problem solved. I've never tried it, but it seems
    > like a pretty sound idea to me.
    >
    > --
    > Currently can't get enough of these tracks:
    > Ananda Project - Colours
    > 100% Pure Poison - Windy C
    > Schmoov - Destinations
    > --
    >
    > =====
    > Marco Pringle, host of
    > the Fat Beat Diet - Way late, Tues nights/wed morning
    > CJSW 90.9FM (Calgary) - in real audio at:
    > http://www.cjsw.com
    >
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