Re: [bomp] "I Am a deejay, and what should I playyyyyy...?"

[Dave Monroe <monropolitan@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Sknoof@aol.com wrote:

> What a totally FCCing specious argument this is.

It's not realy an argument, per se, so much as a
meeting of different methodologies ...
 
> I get such a kick out of people who spin records
> in a bar and think they're putting on some sort of
> legendary performance.

Me, I'd assume that I was being competely ignored,
were it not for the occasional feedback (in either
direction), and the times at which What People Do
seems not so coincidentally to coincide with What Gets
Played ...

> (I'm not talking about anyone here.  Or maybe I am. 
> But probably not.)
> 
> "You should play popular songs!"  "You should play
> only obscure songs!"   

Me, I've never told anyone what to play.  I won't even
request anything unless it's something I only get to
hear from a given person, or want someone else to hear

> Jesus Friggin' Alou.  Okay, let me dust off
> something from my "Duh! File" for ya:
> 
> You're being paid to keep people in the room and
> keep 'em drinking....  

Heywaitaminute--there's MONEY involved in this?  Money
that I'm not shelling out for records?  Damn ...

> How do you do this?  You bring a whole gamut of
> records (or whatever you use) in the style that they
> hired you to play, and then you start playing those
> records and -- here comes the huge revelation --
> you SEE WHAT WORKS, that night, in that room, with
> those people.  And whatever works, you keep doing
it.

True dat.  But my bone of contention, at any rate, is
that you really oughtta keep on doing that, seeing
what works, that is, rather than simply playing what
already has worked.  To me that's the challenge and
the fun and maybe even the art of it.  But, yeah,
tehre are plenty of people who go out to hear the same
old stuff every month/week/night, and those who are
perefctly happy to play it for them.  Just not me ...


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