Middle School Pep Rally Thursday

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Brian

Brian

DJ
Oct 28, 2006
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North Carolina
www.southcharlottedj.com
I've got a gig this thursday, (rare for me to gig durring the week) and I'm looking for some help/ideas on it. Its a pep rally for a local middle school before their last football game of the season. I'm playing officially for about 1hour, but theres a good chance I'll play longer. Because its a shorter gig, I'm wondering what I can do to really make the pep rally a success, and make myself really stand out to the kids, besides the usual of just playing music. I've already ordered 400 glow bracelets, and i'm passing out around 200 for later that night at the game. Anybody done any pep rallies like this before? What worked and what didnt?

I'll be posting pics that night as well for you all to look foreward to.

Thanks
 
Bump :)
 
So I just got back from it, and I have to say, it was a good gig with the exception of the few parents yelling at me to turn it down, and an employee from the local YMCA telling me he could hear it all the way there. The turnout was about 400 kids, all of which were out dancing and playing football in the field before the actual game started. When the game started I got my first complaint. A dad, who wasn't staff at the school came and said if I didn't turn it down he would "shut me down" because they couldn't hear the football game. (which was complete BS as the stadium is on the other side of campus and not loud at all) I told him that if he had a problem with my job, he could take it up with the people who contracted me, and pointed them out. I did turn it down a bit as I was maxing out my new PLX amp, it was a bit loud. He later came back and said something about how this was my last warning and if I did not turn it down he would "shut me down". I told him the same thing, and he left. Other then that, there really were no issues. It was from 3:45 to 5:00, and I charged for 2 hours because that is my minimum. Sorry if the pics are a little red, I couldn't find my camera and had to use an older one, that for some reason added a red tint to each picture. I did my best to clean them up.

If you can see in the upper right of the bottom picture, there is a mob of about 400 middle schoolers all racing towards the field where the rally was.
 

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Looks very good, congrats!!!!
 
Brian,

If you are getting complaints from it being too loud, Please walk around and check your levels.

My idea is that i can always turn it up if needed. and "save" some volume for when you might need it.

Some people just don't tolerate loud music very well, and proper volume control is a very important part of our job.

Telling the guy to go complain to the people who hired you is a no-no.
Just turn down. (you can always gradually turn it up again if needed)

You will get more referals from good volume control, rather than blaring loud
music (unless you have a killer rig)
 
Travis B said:
If I had an employee from the YMCA complain about sound levels I'd instantly cue up some Village People and put him on the spot.
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Hahah I really with I had thought of that! I was tending to requests when he talked to me, so I just played Kiss Kiss.

The ironic thing was that he wasn't specifically complaining about the sound levels, he tried to tell me that because they could hear it at the Y, and had lots of younger kids there, I needed to play more music appropriate for younger kids. It was very weird, considering all the music I had played so far was Jock Jams type music, with the exception of Soulja Boy, and Cyclone.
 
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