I said I never had any intentions of trying to get the gig. Me and my friend could have done it together but like I said I wasn't asking if I or we could do the gig.
DJ agrees to do a 4th of July event but doesn't have equipment.
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Then why all the sour grapes... Who the F cares if some cheap ass DJ took a cheap ass gig...
Because HE could have been that ...
Obla-Di, Obla-Da, Life Goes On, Oooooooo, lawdy how the Life Goes On...
GJ
GJ
Not sour grapes. Just amazed at how a so called DJ can agree to do a gig and don't have any gear.
It is his way of distracting us from him never answering any of the questions asked of him in the other threads. Now he will stop commenting on this post also and come up with another stupid story.
What stupid story? I just found this funny as hell. A mobile DJ and no gear to use. How does this person call themselves a DJ.
Pretty much what I think about you. Doesn't pay taxes, doesn't have a legal music library, Can't work a job by yourself and need help moving gear.
I think you are closer to being right than wrong on that.
I think in order to consider yourself a business, you need to answer the questions I asked first. It doesn't matter if you're a DJ, plumber or anything else - if you are not following business rules yourself, you can't call anyone else out.
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But Mix your the one with the skills they should of though about YOU first
No they should have asked my friend first. I don't care to do those types of gigs. I don't understand all music they would want to be played and that kind of crowd won't care if a song is clean or dirty. They will get upset if you don't have certain songs and certain versions of those songs. Been there, done that. Not for me.
I did find out my friend did help this DJ out with the gear. I disagreed with him doing it. He explained why he did it. He's got 2 gigs to do around there. A charity basketball event this Saturday and the following Saturday a block party. So he didn't want them to consider getting someone else. Besides one of the guys heard of him but never saw him in action. He was blown away after what he saw. He told me the pay was $200 which they split that.
Again if I was asked I would have had my friend with me if I decided to do it. What I have done in the past is quote them a price I know they won't agree to pay. That way I don't get to do the gig I didn't want in the first place. For example if I told them $400 -$500 to be out there all day they would quickly walk away. Never mind getting them to sign a contract. I'm going to do my best to be there next Saturday. This Saturday I'm busy with something else.
This post creates more questions than it answers.
If you know what crowd will be there, how do you not know what they will want?
You don't feel like you can read a crowd?
What does him having gigs around there have to do with him loaning gear?
Why does he care who gets a $200 all day gig?
How was he blown away? DJ was good? DJ was bad?
Why do you want to be there next Saturday?
Why should your friend do this?
Why would you have your friend with you if you did it?
First my friend is good at playing tack head music for the tack head crowd. That's not my cup of tea. I would play a little and he would cover the rest. I never said I agreed with his decision to help him out. I just figured out how I would have gotten him to get off my case and never ask me again. I would have told him I could help him out if he agreed to pay me $500 cash in advance for helping him with the gig. The gig paid $200. Me telling him I needed $500 cash upfront would have had him run for the hills.
I couldn't see any reason to help this guy out. As for the other 2 gigs coming up I would have let the chips fall where they may. If they wanted me then good. If not oh well. What would me helping this guy out have to do with anything with me doing those other gigs? Just my thoughts. I want to be there to sit in my Giants chair drinking Pepsi chilling out while he plays. Also I want to have fun with him busting his chops.
...Crazy for trying, and crazy for crying, and I'm crazy, for loving you...
GJ
GJ
Worry? Why do I let myself-- worry? Wondering, what in the world should I do???
GJ
GJ
Mix,
Please try to think about what subjects are actually "post-worthy".
I don't ever wanna say that one man's idea of a good story is or isn't worth posting...
but DJ's get gigs and lose gigs every day. It's part of the business.
Rather than "I heard about this guy", or "this DJ friend I know says he..."
perhaps you should stick to only posting about things that actually happened TO YOU.
Then you don't waste any of your time posting about nothing...
and WE don't waste any of our time reading that "nothing".
Please try to think about what subjects are actually "post-worthy".
I don't ever wanna say that one man's idea of a good story is or isn't worth posting...
but DJ's get gigs and lose gigs every day. It's part of the business.
Rather than "I heard about this guy", or "this DJ friend I know says he..."
perhaps you should stick to only posting about things that actually happened TO YOU.
Then you don't waste any of your time posting about nothing...
and WE don't waste any of our time reading that "nothing".
coherence or coherency
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noun
1.
the act or state of cohering; cohesion.
2.
logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability.
3.
congruity; consistency.
4.
Physics, Optics. (of waves) the state of being coherent.
5.
Linguistics. the property of unity in a written text or a segment of spoken discourse that stems from the links among its underlying ideas and from the logical organization and development of its thematic content.
Compare cohesion (def 4).
I'm sorry but I just find this guy to be all over the road-map when it comes to presenting any sort of meaningful argument. Think I will bow out and go the filter route. It does make for some good humour at times when I'm really bored
I think he must have been having a "Frankie Goes To Hollywood" moment whilst scribbling his diatribes:
[koh-heer-uh ns, -her-]
noun
1.
the act or state of cohering; cohesion.
2.
logical interconnection; overall sense or understandability.
3.
congruity; consistency.
4.
Physics, Optics. (of waves) the state of being coherent.
5.
Linguistics. the property of unity in a written text or a segment of spoken discourse that stems from the links among its underlying ideas and from the logical organization and development of its thematic content.
Compare cohesion (def 4).
I'm sorry but I just find this guy to be all over the road-map when it comes to presenting any sort of meaningful argument. Think I will bow out and go the filter route. It does make for some good humour at times when I'm really bored
I think he must have been having a "Frankie Goes To Hollywood" moment whilst scribbling his diatribes:
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