Retirement Gig Went Great

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jokerswild

jokerswild

Chief Bottle Washer
Feb 11, 2007
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Elkhart, IN
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For some this might be a yawn...

Did a retirement party last night. Since it was mostly a social event music was very low key mostly background music.... But, I did get some dancers...

Your favorite DJ and Mine.... Me
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My setup sorry new camera and this came out blurry looked ok on the camera though...
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My first and only dancers... the did dance all night and had a ball....
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Fun with ballons...
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Even though there weren't many dancers we all did have a great time and I recieved a lot of complements on sound and music selection.... and passed out many cards.
 
Thanks for the pics Rob! It was a very important night for some people and you help make it special for them. Some gigs are very successful and meaningful without the dancing crowd. Great job!

I noticed that it looks like you are on the second floor; was that difficult?
I also noticed the red microphone; that is different.

Nice pics..thx
 
We were on the first floor but the building was built into a hill so it appears to be in an upper floor room... so it was very easy to load in and out they even let me back my vehicle up to the doors....

The mic just had a wind screen on it from my last gig... which was an outdoor event... I just never took it off....

When I do Karaoke I use two colors... blue and red. It helps me distiguish what mic a person has.
 
Michigan DJ said:
You look to be the best (most) dressed person in attendance. Do you wear that to every event?
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I might have been overdressed... I had just got that outfit the day before... and yeah I would wear that to almost all gigs.... I could have simply worn a pair of nice slacks and a polo shirt but I wanted to try this outfit on and wear it... i call that my wedding semi-formal...

I didn't have to dress that way but the last time I went casual I got blasted in my survey's...

Here's the full look...

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Dancing or no, the guests enjoyed your service. That's what matters.

That is a nice outfit... it looks great on you. We too are concerned with possibly underdressing due to the clients' and guests' impressions. If it's outdoors and informal, that's different. I could be the odd man out but I figure it's better to overdress a little than to underdress. :)

Nice, clean system setup, too. I like that. Bet it was rather warm working next to that window with the sun beating down. :eek:
 
Thanks for the kind words Frank...

You know it was funny... I discovered durring this show that from one of my albums the tracks were incorrectly named... or rather they were the right names just on the wrong tracks.... which made for an extremely funny surprise song... I wanted to play "Car Wash" but instead I got "Disco Duck" I was LMAO... and so were the guests.
 
Mislabeled tracks... Ouch... :eek:

If you're getting your track listings from online databases, be sure to personally verify every track for spelling and correct song title with the CD label before letting it go through.

I've found more than enough mistakes at the CDDB. The worst is misspelled words (and ALL CAPS, damn asinine people :mad:) but there are a lot of mislabeled CD entries out there, trust me on this. One CDX disc entry is 100% wrong ~ the person who entered the info was looking at a different disc. :(

Aww damn, I've hijacked your thread. My sincere apoplogies, Rob. Carry on. :)
 
Yeah I thought I did... but it might be possible durring the conversion from MP3 to the Ots DJ format that something whet wrong... not sure yet.. it is the only one I've found like this... so that's good.

It was ok I was really the only one that knew something was wrong until I played Disco Duck and started quacking up.... and told on myself.
 
Michigan DJ said:
Wasn't knockin it...just seemed a bit too dressed for a retirement party (imho).

Good looking clean setup.



His name is Fred...not Frank.

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Oh no I knew what you were saying and didn't take it the wrong way just thought I'd explain myself in case someone else was wondering the same thing.
 
Is OK... I've been called worse. :D
 
DJ JohnThe1 said:
Nice clean set up. It's nice to see that you value your clients input from the surveys regarding your attire.
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We would all be advised well to take what our clients say and think of us very seriously even if we think they are wrong... in the end who will the next potential client listen to... their friend who thinks your mother dresses you funny or you?

This is how I view things...

Almost 100% of the time clients get and build their opinion of you and your service based on how you present yourself whether it's in the way you dress, how you speak, or even your web presense and if you make a mistake in either place you probably have reduced your chance of booking them by almost 50%... that is hard to recover from.

So here I am in a room of about 100 potentially new clients... sure I could have worn a polo shirt and a nice pair of slacks and still had a nice appearance... or, I could pull out all the stops and dress to the nines and impress them with a higher standard of dress even for a casual event. The proof was in all the great comments the guests had made as I walked around the room getting to know them and introduceing myself and my business to them.

So now what do you think their opinion of my service is going to be and what is the chance that they would desire to hire me for their next event?

Man I love this board... you guys have sooo many encouraging things to say and yes even constructive criticism... which can only go to help improve both my earnings potential and others that read these boards and are just lurking.
 
Fred Stewart said:
Mislabeled tracks... Ouch... :eek:

If you're getting your track listings from online databases, be sure to personally verify every track for spelling and correct song title with the CD label before letting it go through.

I've found more than enough mistakes at the CDDB. The worst is misspelled words (and ALL CAPS, damn asinine people :mad:) but there are a lot of mislabeled CD entries out there, trust me on this. One CDX disc entry is 100% wrong ~ the person who entered the info was looking at a different disc. :(

Aww damn, I've hijacked your thread. My sincere apoplogies, Rob. Carry on. :)
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I still don't know how it happened but I took a listen to the album in question on Ots Studio and they are named correctly there so I opened Ots DJ and of course there they are miss named... so I did a file refresh and vola they now match...

Don't know how or why this happend so I'll just push my "I Believe" button and go on...
 
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