What is a "real D.J."

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DJ Ducky said:
Well, I don't understand why anybody should really concern themselves with the terms if they are already doing a really great job. To me, that's just like saying that you have to know every single fact about the innerworkings of a grill in order to make a great burger.
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Well knowing what makes the grill work the way it does and where the heat ranges are on a particular grill has a lot to do with making a great burger.

Knowing what meat to grind the portions of the salt and peper or other additives also goes into making a great burger.
 
Thunder said:
Well knowing what makes the grill work the way it does and where the heat ranges are on a particular grill has a lot to do with making a great burger.

Knowing what meat to grind the portions of the salt and peper or other additives also goes into making a great burger.
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I've never had a problem making a great burger and I don't know jack squat about the grill, except how to get the fire going.
 
DJ Ducky said:
I've never had a problem making a great burger and I don't know jack squat about the grill, except how to get the fire going.
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Well that brings us to the point where it has to be asked, "do you make a great burger or is it preceived as great by yourself and those around you?"

Have anyone who considers your burger great ever tried a burger that someone else makes and considers great?

If you didn't know how how to light the fire in the grill would your burgers still be great?
 
People like my burgers. They're great and can measure up to the burgers other people make. However, making burgers is not my profession.

DJing is my profession and I have had a lifelong passion for it. People love my DJing. I know a bit about music theory, but I don't find that I use much of that knowledge when I DJ. In fact, my mentors barely know a thing about music theory, yet they are both very talented and knowledgeable DJs.

Proformance has yet to explain those terms he so boldly pointed out, and he has not yet explained how they are relevant to being a DJ. You've done a great job defending him, but I'm still not buying any of it.
 
My point is not to defend him.

The burger argument is a good one and needs to be pursued!

Making a burger is more than just tossing it on the grill and waiting for it to turn brown!

Deciding the heat level, how close to the charcoal the rack needs to be for the burger to reach the desired penatration level for the final product to be rare, med rare, med well, well done, or burn that sucker until there ain't no juice is reached.

Now me I like mine to look well done but to actually be very rare, to achieve this the rack must be lowered almost to the coals of the grill. For a well done burger the rack needs to be raised well off the coals so that slow cooking will allow heat penetration. However there are ways to achieve both with the same rack setting by placing the coals in the grill in such a manner to allow a "colder side" on the rack. You place the burgers you want well done on the cold side of the rack well in advance of the burgers you want rare, then wait for the "well done" burgers to reach almost to the ready point before putting the rare burgers on the hot side of the rack, now both will come off and be ready to eat at the same time!
 
Proformance said:
True, the size of the show isn't really the issue.

It's the size of your personal tool box, from your basic music knowledge, to your creativity, and finally your business sense.

Too many DJs claim to be all about the dance floor - but lack the basic music skills necessary to support a real dancer.

I think if you gave a quiz, 2/3 of today's mobile DJ crowd would not know why the numbers 32 or 16 are significant, could not define syncopation, or explain the difference between pitch, tempo, and key.

Real DJ to me means you are still a very valuable and tradeable entity even without a single piece of gear. It means you're able to get paid for doing your thing - not just bringing the sound.
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I'm still waiting to hear about how these terms are significant to DJing. Like I said, my mentors don't know much about them and they are very talented DJs.
 
I got it! A "REAL DJ" understands syncopation, is a secretary, a cashier, and does great barbecue!!

And ALL this time, I was such an idiot (I still am, anyway) because I thought that the fact that there is a local market for "DJs"; the fact that I call myself a "DJ"; the fact that other people call me a "DJ"; that fact that other people refer me as a "DJ" to others; the fact that I have a "DJ" contract; and the fact that other people sign the contract for my "DJ" services (and, actually, so much more) made me a "REAL DJ."

But, then again, I don't even know if I'm actually "REAL." Hey, let's first work on defining what is "REAL."

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Hey, now, here is a good point, which I hope that EVERYBODY will seriously consider: Mr. Durio could go around and poke at everybody's use of the English language (yes, I'm pretending that he doesn't already :p), and then claim that only a few of us are actually "REAL ENGLISH" speakers (even though the real ones live only in Canada--though 2/3 Americans do not know this :p :p/:p :p :p).

...all of this makes you wonder why the general public often does not take DJs seriously. Threads like this show exactly what a bunch of clowns we can be and often are. I'm okay with it, though, cuz I got medical documents to support my claim of being retarded.
 
Thunder said:
To me no but to someone else you may be old as dirt!
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A few years back I felt old as dirt.... I was standing at a rack of T-shirts in a trendy store called Hot Topic.... a couple of teenagers walked in and started to examine the shirt I was looking at and with bewildered looks on their faces they asked each other what the T-shirts graphics were....

I then explained that one had the symbol for The Green Lantern, Flash Gordon, and a few other assorted Marvel Comics super hero symbols.... which got me more bewildered looks.... so I just walked away shaking my head... and just wondering how old this old codger must have looked to them... :sqbiggrin:
 
Well that brings us to the point where it has to be asked, "do you make a great burger or is it preceived as great by yourself and those around you?"
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That's pretty deep right there. I mean, like big fish in a little pond relativistic kind of deep.

Pay attention boys & girls, 'casue you're not gonna find little pearls of wisdom like that on your tea bag.
 
Proformance said:
That's pretty deep right there. I mean, like big fish in a little pond relativistic kind of deep.

Pay attention boys & girls, 'casue you're not gonna find little pearls of wisdom like that on your tea bag.
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Yes it probably get's right up there close to the drops of wisdom that you have left in this thread!:sqlaugh:
 
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