Jas
DJ Extraordinaire
I was quite adept at spaghetti code
Mobile DJ or Event DJ
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DJ Ricky B
DJ Extraordinaire
I'm not gonna lie, you do look like Uncle Steve the DJ! That can be a great selling point. "Don't think of me as your DJ! Think of my as your Uncle Steve!"
Proformance
DJ Extraordinaire
If you can't play an instrument you're not a musician.
If you can't mix, you're not a DJ. - Simple and Intuitive
My guess is you didn't actually discover the DJ world until after 1988 - which is when magazines like DJ Times, Mobile Beat and the whole retail movement began promoting all things disc jockey to the mainstream American youth market?
The truth is - all this stuff has been around and been done before wherever and however technology and money made it possible. For a long time, that was cruise ships, destination resorts, hotel venues, and dance clubs. This is where the money was to deploy better event capability.
The proliferation of lighting (and everything DJ) is function of it's cost. DJ class gear is considerd to be a retail rather than professional product. That's why it's comparatively so inexpensive. DJs couldn't afford to buy it if it wasn't. Compare just the spin and puke lights: The original "Derby" (Lampo circa 1985) cost $800 and weighed about 32Lbs. The cheap import versions that later followed cost $99 and weighed less than 8Lbs.
Just like today - professional class gear usually requires special rigging considerations, electrical distribution, and specialized knowledge while retail DJ products run on batteries, require no special knowledge, and can be used by anyone almost anywhere. The DJs have always been here - what's different today is the proximity of the average Joe to a party product that he can afford. LEDs in general remove any need at the DJ level to worry about electrical distirbution and that means even a 12 year old can get jiggy with some real bling for short skrill.
If you can't mix, you're not a DJ. - Simple and Intuitive
My guess is you didn't actually discover the DJ world until after 1988 - which is when magazines like DJ Times, Mobile Beat and the whole retail movement began promoting all things disc jockey to the mainstream American youth market?
The truth is - all this stuff has been around and been done before wherever and however technology and money made it possible. For a long time, that was cruise ships, destination resorts, hotel venues, and dance clubs. This is where the money was to deploy better event capability.
The proliferation of lighting (and everything DJ) is function of it's cost. DJ class gear is considerd to be a retail rather than professional product. That's why it's comparatively so inexpensive. DJs couldn't afford to buy it if it wasn't. Compare just the spin and puke lights: The original "Derby" (Lampo circa 1985) cost $800 and weighed about 32Lbs. The cheap import versions that later followed cost $99 and weighed less than 8Lbs.
Just like today - professional class gear usually requires special rigging considerations, electrical distribution, and specialized knowledge while retail DJ products run on batteries, require no special knowledge, and can be used by anyone almost anywhere. The DJs have always been here - what's different today is the proximity of the average Joe to a party product that he can afford. LEDs in general remove any need at the DJ level to worry about electrical distirbution and that means even a 12 year old can get jiggy with some real bling for short skrill.
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Jas
DJ Extraordinaire
I can play several instruments which makes beatmixing super easy to me. I just don't have much desire to work on it since it's so easy.
DJ Bobcat
DJ Extraordinerror
I was quite adept at spaghetti code
Then you would know... EVERY other programmer's code (except for your own) is spaghetti code.[emoji1] Just like EVERY dude who plays music, but doesn't beatmix is an Uncle Bob.[emoji1]
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DJ Ricky B
DJ Extraordinaire
I hype up my shows by standing to the side of my table with a Cowbell, and a Triangle. In short. I bring more Cowbell than other DJs with the music that I play!
The triangle makes for an AWESOME Grand Finale at weddings! #TriangleDJRickyBWeddings #MoreCowbellinyourWeddingDJ
The triangle makes for an AWESOME Grand Finale at weddings! #TriangleDJRickyBWeddings
#MoreCowbellinyourWeddingDJ
or Uncle Steve
I get the re-drummed versions of songs .. I'll have to look for the re-belled ones.I hype up my shows by standing to the side of my table with a Cowbell, and a Triangle. In short. I bring more Cowbell than other DJs with the music that I play!
The triangle makes for an AWESOME Grand Finale at weddings! #TriangleDJRickyBWeddings
This is absolutely not true - assembly/machine language dudes were different, and were easily recognzed by the mandatory wearing of pocket protector's, and a funny gait as they shuffled along hunched over with a blank stare. Geez man, everybody knows this!!!
The real problem is kids have it too easy today. I had to walk up hill to school, in the snow, in both directions. I had to wear goggles before pulling a floor tile to check buss/tag cables - since there was a hurricane under the floor...and we inputted data with a few of these -
I used punch cards my first year of college .. You could buy them in the school bookstore. They brought in hundreds of terminals and a new mainframe (IBM 370/3033) before my second year.
You'd write a program like Print "Hello World" .. and there would be as many job control cards as program cards. Then you'd submit that 4 line program and it would take 10-15 minutes before it got queued to compile (you'd watch the queue on a green monitor) and then another 20-30 minutes for you to receive your output card(s).
Kids today freakout when their WiFi drops for 2 seconds ...
You'd write a program like Print "Hello World" .. and there would be as many job control cards as program cards. Then you'd submit that 4 line program and it would take 10-15 minutes before it got queued to compile (you'd watch the queue on a green monitor) and then another 20-30 minutes for you to receive your output card(s).
Kids today freakout when their WiFi drops for 2 seconds ...
We forget. This is the lead sentence from an article on mainframes -
"How bad it was (1990’s)
Let’s review how bad the mainframe was back in the early 1990’s.
1) Water cooled, very large, heavy servers with large amounts of electricity and cooling required."
IBM finally had to go to water cooling. I'll never forget the first time going under the floor and seeing the big water pipes going to the heat exchangers outside the building! Too bad my salary wasn't as large as the electric bill!! Suck that, iphone X
"How bad it was (1990’s)
Let’s review how bad the mainframe was back in the early 1990’s.
1) Water cooled, very large, heavy servers with large amounts of electricity and cooling required."
IBM finally had to go to water cooling. I'll never forget the first time going under the floor and seeing the big water pipes going to the heat exchangers outside the building! Too bad my salary wasn't as large as the electric bill!! Suck that, iphone X
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DJ Bobcat
DJ Extraordinerror
I remember writing out programs on forms with 80 little squares per line, then going to an IBM keypunch machine, and punching my cards... one per program line. Then I'd take my stack of cards down to the basement of SAC Headquarters and submit it for compiling. You only got ONE compile per day, so it was VERY important to have zero errors in your keypunching and your code. The next morning, you could go back to the basement and pick up your compile log/error report (printed on green bar).[emoji1] If you had an error, it really sucked, because you had to wait another day for the next compile. Taught me patience.[emoji1]
Proformance
DJ Extraordinaire
So, it would appear the present direction of the thread supports the observation that the bulk of Mobile DJs today are IT people (logicians) rather than musicians or creatives?