As many of you have probably figured out by now if you have been on Church Street for the past couple of Thursdays, that Stereo has shut it doors. Relax, this is only for summer and because we are willing to accept when the town is dead, unlike every other promotion company in town who are still pushing/shoving their parties down your throat. Which brings me to my next subject that Dawe and I have been dying to blog about because it so desperately needs to be done and who better to do it then the only promotion company in town to put people on blast publicly?
IT’S. FUCKING. OVER.
Remember back in 2006-2007? Or maybe even 2007-2008? The glory days when people actually stormed the photographer to get their picture taken at whatever night they were at so they could make it their default in the morning? When college bars would have lines down and around the building just to get in and drink warm, flat beer? Yes we were all a part of them (at least some of us depending on how old you are) and we are all most likely guilty of having at least ONE default picture with a Greezer, Knightlyfe, WhatsHot, OCC, etc. If you didn’t have one of those companies in your default then you were probably at the original Saturday/Thursday or Crush getting your picture taken by, in my opinion, the best photographers/editors in town, Kcoll or the oh so hot Kapoow.
Promotion wasn’t even that hard back then, post a couple MySpace bulletins here and there and you were good to go. The best promotion that was going on was seeing all your friends with pics at some bar that made you want to go to that bar and get your picture taken yourself.
Well here we are in 2009 and my how things have changed. Greezer and Knightlyfe have basically fallen off the map, WhatsHot has one night a week (at least I’m pretty sure they do), Baboom is drowning and pretty much any college kid with 1,000 or more Facebook friends has a “promotion company”.
THE FORMULA
1. Start “promotion” company
2. Get photographer
3. Get cheap drink specials
4. Get horrible “Top 40/Mashup/Electro” DJ that will play for next to nothing
5. Spam, Spam, Spam
Seriously? This is what this town has become? It’s so sad. Incase you guys haven’t noticed by clubs reincarnating nights every 3 months, this formula is FUCKING DEAD. Nobody and I mean nobody cares anymore. It’s all been done before, the drinks don’t need to be cheaper, and nobody cares about getting on your guest list, nobody. If I get another invite from Dawe saying “THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST NIGHT IN ORLANDO” I am going to jump out the window with Ron Browz.
There is no reason to re-post your event on Facebook ONCE A FUCKING HOUR, EVERYDAY ALL DAY. We know what the flyer looks like, we know how ‘awesome’ its going to be, and we also know we will never go because you annoy the absolute fucking shit out of us. Let your night speak for itself or better yet LET YOUR DJs SPEAK FOR YOUR NIGHT. Is that not the reason these nights flourished in the first place? What happened to actually going somewhere not for the cheap drinks, but because the DJ actually kills it? Oh thats right, every college kid with a trust fund gets an Apple, Serato and cheap equipment and is all the sudden a “DJ” and takes all the other DJs nights because they say they’ll play pretty much for free and play whatever the bar/club owner wants leaving actual talent, originality, pride, and loyalty by the club to be lost.
And since we are on the subject of dead, can we just go ahead and admit that NO ONE will ever have a successful night at Fusian? I’m pretty sure EVERY promotion company has had a night there on EVERY night of the week and it has always failed after no more than a month. I like the venue and the sound system is great but it’s just too far away from anything to even give a shit and the manager will pretty much give a night to anybody who says they can pack the place out, which they never seem to be able to do. Even after one of the biggest scandals in the history of Orlando, the Casey Anthony saga, and pictures of her at Fusian partying turned up, you STILL can’t get people in there.
Something new and fresh needs to happen in the Orlando nightlife hustle, because meanwhile the little bars are all laughing at you and thriving. Places like Cleos, Caseys, Tatame, BBQ-Bar and even I-Bar have seen a resurrection simply because people are tired of the bullshit and just want somewhere to go no matter what the drink specials are, the name of the night, the theme, etc. They go because they know the music is going to be good, the bartenders pour a strong ass drink, aren’t a complete stuck-up cunt/asshole, and they aren’t surrounded by complete tools wearing Ed Hardy/Affliction/Smet/insert douchebag clothing line to go with their pointy shoes, ripped up jeans and blown out hair.
Dawe and myself hope to change the game here soon with something new, fresh, original and actually worth going out to. In the meantime, don’t think we are just sitting back waiting for something to happen. Dawe has a money maker out on I-Drive a couple nights a week, Ice Bar, while I DJ every Thursday at this little dive bar near Full Sail and couldn’t be happier about it. I get to play whatever I want, am complimented for it and there is no stress about attendance numbers, flyers, and all that other bullshit you guys deal with downtown.
I hope this blog has either pissed you off and/or opened your eyes, made you re-think your strategies and will hopefully make you step your game up.
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BLOG OF THE YEAR!! I wish I had something to comment here, but you already said everything I would say. All you young ass herbs wanna be promoters listen up to this blog!!
BEST BLOG! I couldn’t agree more all of this needed to be addressed!
Do I get to make any points on here? Fuck it.
1. Dawe, a big smack in the face for giving up when it “isn’t busy downtown”. STEREO was a cool night and truth be told, I think your a pussy for bitching out (although I know the management at Antigua and they are… “small minded”, for lack of a better term)
2. Social networking tools are great, and still are great. If you have a good night, good dj, good specials, and all the other stuff that goes along with a party…use it. If you don’t i.e. anybody that some dumb nickname like IParty or Mr Orlando…. LEAVE IT ALONE! YOUR PARTY IS GOING TO SUCK.
2 1/2 Don;t live on facebook… you know what makes a good promotions company. 3 things. 1)a sick dj 2)a front man that everybody knows and wants to party with 3) $$$ , why do you need money? BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT GETS SLOW BUT YOU NEED TO KEEP THE PARTY ALIVE
3) If you think 2006-2008 was good… your dumb.
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
To all the start up, dirt tossing, bad mouthing, broke, ugly tool bags that want to be a promoter. STOP. JUST STOP. Being broke means you can’t afford to go out… so don’t. Being ugly means your not photogenic.. so don’t take pictures…. and being a tool bad means that when you think your “cool parties” and status messages on facebook means a shit to people… your right… they amuse people bc we laugh at you. The same jacket in every picture HA! God it is embarrassing.
Whew, I feel like I just had a therapy session. Thank you D Lux (who I don’t think I’ve ever met) and Dawe (whom I met, liked, disliked, hated, sort of liked, and now am fond of…not specifically in that order).
Chris Biggins
aka FUCK YOU
I already see it coming “Fuck you bro” “Your a dick head” “Your fat” blah blah blah… Thank you and please if anyone has any extra haters lying around PLEASE PLEASEEEEEEEEE send them my way.
Agreed.
i just used 2006-2008 as a reference because literally EVERYBODYS default was a club night.
thanks for the input though mr. nault, you pretty much picked up right where i left off and put the nail in the coffin and to that i say good show and nice dick.
Yeah, let’s take promotional advice from Chris Nault. Orlando’s biggest scumbag. The same guy who owes money all over town, the same guy who has lost a club night at every club in Orlando.. It’s pretty bad when you lose a night at Knight Klub.. Right, Jeff?
Mr. Nault, you are the biggest loser this city has ever had to live with, and you can go fuck yourself.
P.S.
This blog post blows. dLame has never had a successful club night either. Lastly, why is it that everyone gets away with bashing Dawe on his own website week after week, and he doesn’t notice?
because i base my success as a dj off my club nights? and lets get it straight, i quit knight klub because i refused to play paper planes and all the other horrible music that gets played there on a nightly basis so fuck you anonymous tough guy.
go ahead and name me ANY other DJ in this town with 200,000+ downloads for mixtapes in a 3 year span and featured on pretty much every major hip hop mixtape site on the net……all from my bedroom. no paying for graphic artists, no studio time, nothing.
go ahead ill wait.
dont believe me? google me bitch, check the numbers.
I am fond of you as well sir. Points taken…
It wasn’t as much giving up, as it was looking for a fresh new outlet. in 1993 Michael Jordan retired and played minor league baseball for a year, before coming back and winning 3 more championships.
Soon, I will get tired of my summer vacation. I believe the best has yet to come. I don’t believe in throwing a party just for the sake of desperately trying to keep your promotional companies name on peoples tongues. Sometimes there is no shame in being out of ideas, thats when you take a break, examine the situation, and find creative outlets that don’t necessarily have anything to do with the situation. Clearing the head is a good thing.
Couldn’t agree more about having the upfront money to run a promotional company. If you can’t afford to pay a graphic designer to make you a flyer, so you made it yourself on Microsoft paint go the fuck home. This isn’t a get rich quick scheme. Sometimes there is a lot of money to be made, and other times there are massive financial losses. You better be ready for both.
Promoting events on social networking sites is finished. I think its almost to the point where people will NOT go to the event because they are tired of getting 100 inbox messages counting down the days until your stupid party at some shithole venue.
I truly believe we have turned down more nightclubs than any promotional company in this town, some from major clubs, and others with large budgets. We always have had pride in our events, and thats way we never had 4893748934 nights going on in a week. Quality is better than quantity.
Hey, at least the photographer came in at rule #2. Ha!
Good points all around…. at least this didn’t turn into a bash blog. Glad we can all get along in the ‘09.
i think all of us are just in the general consensus that there is no reason to bash this because its just so undeniably true that if you do bash it you’re clearly in denial.
dLux: mixtape maestro and blogger of the year.
Good work, sir.
Wow, good post. So much all very true.
Chris Biggins is a DOUCHE of all DOUCHES, you wear a different coat everytime because you bought it with the money you owe other promoters! You fame is built on the backs of other peoples labor and you don’t need help you need JENNY CRAIG! If you created a staple of nightlife in orlando than I would rather never venture downtown again so I wouldn’t even run into someone that you know! The blog is totally right on and targets people like you…dude you don’t call some one a child molester for 20 years like micheal jackson unless it’s true!! Your a CROOK
First off…. to all the guys from OCC you guys fucking rule!!! I absolutely love your blog posts just about as much as I love you guys (no homo) Dawe, Lux, Colombia, Draven, Phillips…keep doing what you are doing and I cant wait for Stereo to come back. Now on to the reason Im posting this comment.
I love how Nault is the self proclaimed founder of the 2006-2008 hype. That just goes to show you how big his ego is.
1. You call me and Louis out about our “dumb nicknames” when you have been going by Biggins for years. We all know that Biggins not only refers to your size but also the ego and that little world that you have created inside your head. Get a grip bro.
2. The last time I checked you were only doing 1 night a week when I started with you. I fucking helped you create WhatsHot to what it used to be before you let your ego get in the way and decide to fire Rob and also tell him that you were going to fire me. You cant keep a solid night anymore…why? Because you do things like assault dj’s in the dj booth at dragon room, you leave nights without informing management that you are leaving, you treat everybody around you like the dirt of the earth, you dont pay your promoters who are the only reason people come out to your parties, and you dont appreciate anything that anybody does for you. Fact….
3. Your service announcement? Haha a fucking joke. You tell upcoming promoters to not talk shit but your whole entire post is doing NOTHING but talking shit. I’ve extended my hand in peace to you multiple times to try to stop this elementary school bullshit but you are too prideful to give me the respect that I deserve. All the nights standing on the streets bringing people into your nights, all the flyering that you never did and that I NEVER GOT PAID FOR, the buses that I put people on and ran so you didnt have to…if anybody has a right to talk shit about you, its me. You are the only person I talk shit about because you deserve. You are a fucking joke.
Clint’s service announcement: Take whatever Chris “Biggins” Nault says with a very very very tiny grain of salt…much like the size of his brain because he is to unintelligent to say anything smart. He has conned everybody in Orlando out of money and will take advantage of you without hesitation. Dawe…he still owes you money so why are you playing buddy buddy with this joke?
Ok…I think im done. Once again, thank you OCC for this wonderful opportunity.
Point proven
in the words of gucci mane….WELL DAMN!!!
we officially have had people from whatshot, knightlyfe, occ and now mr. orlando has joined in on the blog!! where you at xclusive events? baboom??? absolute???
I believe my point of you being to unintelligent to say something smart was just proven.
Half a year at UCF and binge drinking for 5 years worked for me….
I’ve been sitting here for quite some time now trying to think of anything that I could add to this debate in my comment. Did I say debate? Excuse me, there is no fucking debate. You killed it with this one dLux. This whole town is a joke and so are it’s computer promoters/DJs.
As far as you go Nault, you took the words right out of my mouth you fucking douchebag—-> “Fuck you bro” “Your a dick head” “Your fat” blah blah blah. Please, do the scene a favor and just kill yourself.
LONG LIVE DLUX!!!!
Hey Biggins
You have so many jackets since me and another person on this blog saw you walkin in TJ MAXX with your fauxhawk haha eat shit
I’m here too. This post is just silly. Of course you stated the obvious, something that even a blind retard could state about downtown. The themed club night scene has been waning for a while now. I noticed this a long time ago when I couldn’t even find people IN the pictures I was trying to make fun of. But to write as if you were never ever involved in promoting an ailing club night(aka STEREO, ext. ext) as long as you could possibly do so, is kinda weak. You said a lot of contradictory things in this post, but the fact remains that you are guilty of everything you are accusing other promoters of, the only difference is you quit…probably because that was your ONLY option?
I just think its cowardly to make fun any captain who chooses to go down with his sinking ship, while you sit on the shore WAITING for everything to get better. Dive bars and Idrive don’t count and you know it. Right before Sat/Thurs’s popularity was at it’s peak, downtown was just as deathly as it is now. If some promoters sat back and said “DOWNTOWN IS DEAD. END OF AN ERA” Orlando would never have seen the surge it did. Orange County Concepts may never have seen the inside of Firestone. Shit, I may never have had a fucking blog.
I don’t know what your plans are, I just wonder if it involves waiting for someone else to start up the next best thing? Or maybe this time you will be the ones to figure it out, and everyone else can follow.
Either way, I wish all of your promotion companies luck. And that’s ALL of you. If you guys could see how much alike you really were, and stopped trying to pick each other apart all the time, maybe you could collectively create the downtown you so desire…
hey i never said we’re not guilty, hence me including dawe in the invite sentence. shit, if anything we pioneered the facebook ASSAULTING that it has become and thats why i wanted to be the one to openly say it needs to fucking stop.
i def know that dive bars and i-drive dont count and we aren’t using them as an outlet, just wanted to let people know we havent fallen completely off the dj map.
and whats funny is we both make more money there than any club is willing to pay and all we have to do is show up.
oh how ive missed you defame, i didnt even get a comment on my blog i wrote all about you : (
…i know you fucking read it too bitch lol
BIGGINS YOU CAN SUCK ON STRAWBERRY SCENTED HORSE TURDS!!!!! WHILE FLUSHING THAT DOWN WITH A EXPIRED MILKSHAKE FROM STEAK N SHAKE, MISED WITH A BIG SLUS FROM 7-11 WITH RAT SHIT IN IT!!!!!!! AND U CAN SUCK ON A PUB… YES A FUCKIN PUB!!!!! AS IN A FUCKIN DOG YOU UGLY ASS PERSON YOU!!!!!
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WHOOOOO NOW THAT THAT IS OUTTA THE WAY.. I WOULD LIKE TO THINK GOD, MY FANS, MY FAMILY, MY SON DOMINIC, AND ANYONE ELSE WHO I FORGOT TO MENTION… I THANK YOU FOR THIS 2009 OCC.COM BLOG ACADEMY AWARD LOL I SHALL CHERISH IT FOREVER!!!!! LOL EVEN THO I JUST GOT CALLED OUT!!!!!!!! BIGGINS GO EAT A DICK!!!!! LOL HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
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NOT BUT IN ALL REALNESS!!!!! I DONT TAKE THIS AS A DISS OR AS SHIT TALK ABOUT ME… I TAKE THIS AS HARSH LOVE & RESPECT BEING SHOWN .NO HOMO. I MEAN THE “NOT” TOO PROUD FOUNDER OF THE 18TH CENTURY HYPE SAID MY NUCKNAME YOOOOO!!!!!!! HELLZ YES!!!!! LMFAO JK (damn biggins im rippin you right now hahaha)
NO BUT SERIOUSLY…. IM NOT A SHIT TALKER… I HAVE NO PLACE TO TALK SHIT… THERE ARE THOSE WHO MADE ME WHO I AM AND THOSE WHO ARE STILL BY MYSIDE TO THIS DAY…
DAWE.. I GOTS MAD LOVE FOR U MY NINJA
LUX.. I THINK YOUR REALLY UGLY BRO LMAO HAHAA JK
MR. ORLANDO/MEDICIS/TABU/REVOLUTION KNIGHTS OWNER… WE WERE CO.WORKERS…. GOOD LUCK WITH REVOLUTIONIZING THE NIGHTLIFE!!!!!
&& LAST BUT NOT LEAST…. MR. CHRIS *BIGGINS* NAULT!!!!! WTF CAN I SAY ABOUT YOU?? WELL BESIDES YOU BEING A BIG, COCKY, RUGBY PLAYING, ASSHOLE OF A DICK!!!!! (lol had to say it) I JUST WANNA SAY I JUST TALKED TO YOU NOW AND ALL IS GOOD HOMIE…. I DONT HATE OR TALK SHIT… AND YOUR PROBABLY THE ONE I SHOULD THANK FOR WHO I AM AND FOR WHAT MY STATUS IN ORLANDO HAS BECOME…. YEAH YEAH YEAH EVERYONE CAN SIT HERE AND SAY BIGGINS THIS, & BIGGINS THAT.. WELL I DONT HAVE SHIT TO TALK ABOUT BIGGINS BESIDE….. WHATS UP WITH OUR BOXING MATCH BRO? WE NEVER THRU DOWN… IM MISTER GOLDEN GLOVE REMEMBER!!! HAHAHA I KNOCKOUT MUTHA FUCKERS!!!!!
NO BUT SERIOUSLY THANK YOU! THIS ISNT SHIT TALKING, THIS IS JUST YOU TELLING ME TO STEP MY GAME UP LIKE YOU ALWAYS HAVE DONE SINCE I STARTED THIS PROMOTING SHIT WHEN I WORKED FOR YOU…. YOU KNOW SHIT TALK MOTIVATES ME TO SHUT YOU UP AND THIS BLOG COMMENT DEF BOOSTED MY SELF ESTEEM TO PROVE TO YOU THAT THE TITLE OF “BEST PROMOTER IN ORLANDO” DOES FIT WELL AROUND MY WAIST!!!! THERE HAD TO BE A REASON YOU BROUGHT IN STARLITE TO HELP YOU WITH THE PLAYBOY U PARTY AT AKA LAST YEAR AND IT WAS REVEALED TO ME 3MONTHS LATER BEFORE I JOINED YOU… IT WAS JUST A WAY TO RECRUIT ME TO WHATS HOT!!!! SMART MOVE GUY….. REAL SMART MOVE!!!! BUT BESIDES THE TOUGH GUY EXTERIOR, THE WORLDS BIGGEST DICK ATTITUDE TOWARDS EVERYONE, AND THE MANY DRUNKEN NIGHTS WE WOULD TALK SHIT TO EACHOTHER ABOUT FIGHTIN ONE ANOTHER….I HAVE TO SAY YOUR MY BIG HOMIE…. EVEN THO I LEFT WHATS HOT YOU STILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT WHATEVER THE FUCK I DO AND YOU PASS ME GOOD ADVICE TO THIS DAY!!!!! I CANT SAY I HATE YOU!!! I CAN SAY WE DO HAVE A FUCKED UP RELATIONSHIP THO… ITS LIKE YOUR MY PUNKASS, BULLY OLDER BROTHER WHO IS SELFMADE &
IM THE LIL BROTHER WHO GOT HIS NAME FROM TATTOOING YOUR COMPANY ON ME (which is still there… wtf was i thinking.. i think i was drunk, high and on meth hahaa) BUT PAST THE BULLSHIT AND ALL THE DRAMA WITH ME AND RANDOM BITCHES…. KNIGHT KLUB BRAWLS, THROWING GUYS THROW WINDOWS AND DOORS, AND THIS BLOG FULL OF MY FRIENDS WHO HATE YOU LOL I GOTTA SAY 1 THING AND 1 THING ONLY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I ♥ NO HOMO BROHAM!!!!!
ITS 2009 && OBAMA IS PRESIDENT!!!!! FUCK DRAMA AND SHIT TALKING!!!!! TIME FOR CHANGE… ITS M.O.E.A = MONEY OVER EVERYTHING ATTITUDE!!!!!
OOH AND UMM YEAH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GO LAKERS!!!!! HAHAHAA
who can argue with a $50 white jacket that is going to get ruined.
TJ Maxx is boss.
louis….where da weed at? lol
LOL @ The TJ Max comment!!!
I only briefly skimmed this post. I’ve only ever been to this website once. Kevin (KCOLL) sent me a link to this post. I have a couple points to make
1. Crush who has been around since 2005 has a line around the block every monday, and we reach capacity by midnight. Just saying, not all is dead or shitty. Crush is the most fun it has ever been, and its the first of its kind in orlando. We have had our dead moments and its captain went down with the ship, and we have had our amazing moments, and its promoter only poured his heart into the night and just didn’t give up. So if you want a consistent and successful night, DON’T TAKE A BREAK. NEVER TAKE A BREAK. It won’t benefit you, you will be forgotten. Keep consistent. Saturday Thursday had such terrible nights in the beginning and we were all terrified, but we never gave up, and ST flourished. That is why CRUSH is so successful right now. We (especially Paul) never abandoned ship, and we never gave up hope.
2. I don’t speak for any Dj’s but myself and my fellow crush Dj’s. I started djing my sophomore year of college. I was so broke. I absolutely did not have a trust fund. In fact ramon noodles and peanut butter were a luxury in my home. I just knew that I loved music and sharing it with people. I was no musician but I was a super fan! So, one night I had a few extra sips of my drink, grew a pair and said “Paul I want to dj your night. You need a girl spinning your night. Bitches know what bitches want.” I walked to Pauls house the entire summer, and I busted my ass to learn how to dj and he gave me a shot. I in fact I put my equipment on credit at Sam Ash and I am still paying it off. All of the dj’s at CRUSH and JESUS are broke (sorry boys, but its the truth.) We all come from broke families. I was dating Justin while I he and I were getting into djing (2004/2005) and believe me we were broke kids. We just love music and we love people. I Dj for cheap when I do it for someone or something I love. Paul has been true to me for years. He stuck with me when I was the most terrible Dj out there. He just knew that I loved to do it, and never gave up on me. Thats why I do it for him for cheap. I don’t dj for money. Justin, and Evan most certainly don’t dj for money either. I’ve spun gigs that payed me close to 500 bucks, and I hated every second of it. I would rather make nothing, and have a ball.
I don’t assume that you were speaking of any of the crush dj’s, but I am just putting this out there incase you had any misconceptions of us. We are just all true music lovers, and have fun doing what we do, and I think it shows.
So basically… No trust fund. Crush rules because we have all stuck together as a team and never gave up on it.
Phew.
HAHAHHAHAA LUX U SO WOULD SAY THAT WOULDNT YOU!!!!! THE WEED BE AT MY HIZZOUSE HOMIE!!!!!
HIT ME UP MAN… 407.529.9138
I probably should have read this most more thoroughly. I am probably way off with my response. Whatever, I just wanted people to know that Crush is still awesome and not all is dead. <333
im saying tho…. my clothes are nothing but top of the line shit but fuck what u heard… biggins is onto something
TJ MAXX IS DEF BOSS!!!!!
i totally and whole heartedly agree with you missfit. i myself had to take out a loan to get both my equipment and laptop. i already had a ridiculous music collection and i spent mannnnnny sleepless nights practicing the craft and will openly admit i am nowhere near perfecting it. crush had already started before the whole serato boom that took over the entire town/nation/world.
i def opted to leave out the crush kids because i knew and you guys knew that you didnt fall into this stigma that i wrote this blog about.
Anita, you are 100% correct. We have mad love and respect for Crush. It is a true testament to hard work promotions, and a party where the mighty dollar is not king. It may be the only party in town where the bottom line doesn’t effect the music that is being played.
When people are having fun at the party they are throwing, everyone else is as well, it doesn’t matter if there are 10 people or 1,000 people there. I didn’t give up on our party as much as I just didn’t like the direction we were taking. I think some time to regroup is a good thing, plus I can go to JESUS on Thursdays now!
We’ll be at Crush tonight!! See you there
OMG I Completely forgot about the whole “being a broke DJ thing”! ….When I started playing records in 2000 I didn’t know one other person who DJed. Not ONE person. I just knew I loved the electronic music I was hearing at Firestone, H2O, cyberzone, etc and I wanted in on it. I went to Vinyl Frontier, Rock ‘n Roll Heaven, and Drop Shop and started buying up records like crazy. Then I went to the local pawn shop and bought the shittiest Gemini turntables money could buy, and some fucked up radio shack mixer. I played in my room NON STOP for 6 months, and taught myself how to beatmatch, scratch, blend, etc. There were no youtube tutorials in 2000 to teach me that shit, and I didn’t know any DJs to have it taught to me, I would just stare at the DJs in the club and go home and try my best to duplicate it. I played sooooo many parties for free. If there was a party in East Orlando between 2000-2001, I was there with my turntables and my little speakers. Then I picked up my first weekly, I did it at this small little shithole downtown called Alpha Bar. I played every week for close to a year for a $25 bar tab!! So believe me, I didn’t have anything handed to me either…
Sigh
I do know of the type of dj you speak of. The ones who use special programs and don’t even know what beat matching means. If you are religious then you will see what I am saying. God grants things to people who are true, and work hard for what they love. Although I sometimes feel like that god does not have a place in our world of party djing, but he is always in my heart. Good things do not comet to those who take the easy way out. They will loose any success, just as quick as it came to them, and just as quick as they became dj’s. I don’t let the phonies bug me and you either. If you know you are a genuine talent, and you work your butt off for it, then God will recognize that and shouln’dt grant you the success you deserve (this applies to everything in life of course). So keep it up if your heart is in it.
I meant “and you shouldnt either.” not you either. I also meant god should grant you success, not shouldnt. I am typing fast, trying to get ready for Crush and type this at the same time. Oi
WOW ALOT HAS CHANGED SINCE I BEEN GONE
I’m really just an observer these days. Anita. If I had it my way I’d tilt the sun and aim to burn up every DJ on earth like ants under a magnifying glass. Please leave me out of this one…
Dad, I beg of you, burn all the DJs you want, but please spare Steve Aoki. The world needs him!
JESUS, my son, I told you never to approach my chair in those fucking Supras you insist on wearing with your neon green robe. Just for that, Steve Aoki will be struck by a deadly laser beam reflecting off a white trash tampa kid’s glowstick on the eve of the 26th, location Czar.
WOOOZZEERRSS..this post getting b a n a n a s!!
Promoters take heed if you fail repeatedly, rip people off, don’t pay your staff, or throw something together slopily, no one will forget and you don’t want to be downtown having people point and say, “Oh it’s that guy”!
Oh my god.. Can we please stop sucking each others ego’s off and pretending you had a rough time growing up. Nobody cares, welcome to reality.
Was the second blog really necessary, Jeff? Nobody’s really reading this. It’s the same people over and over commenting from OCC. You’ll never be influential, and nobody actually gives a fuck about music, let alone yours. It’s money. Don’t kid yourselves.
See you at Crush and JESUS Dawe ! Ill still be around if you ever need anything bro.
^_^ @ anonymous awesome people.
“Oh my god.. Can we please stop sucking each others ego’s off and pretending you had a rough time growing up. Nobody cares, welcome to reality.
Was the second blog really necessary, Jeff? Nobody’s really reading this. It’s the same people over and over commenting from OCC. You’ll never be influential, and nobody actually gives a fuck about music, let alone yours. It’s money. Don’t kid yourselves.”
Was that really necessary? Really?
If no one is really reading this how the hell did you end up here, guy? (I say “guy” because you obviously feel strong enough about what you are saying and want to back your point that you chose to remain anonymous) (p.s. that line back there, that was sarcasm. Just in case you are one of the many who can’t catch it the first time around.)
There really aren’t enough people in OCC to cause this many comments or to be this outraged. I’m sure you’ve noticed the posts from other promotion/production/whateverthefuckyouwannacallit companies bitching/moaning/belittling/applauding this blog and the people involved in this industry. No one would waste their time if they weren’t fueled by something.
If you really didn’t care, if no one actually cared, I highly doubt there would be as many damn comments and replies as there are.
Suck on that one, let me know how it tastes.
Meagan can I get an angry reach around, your anger is…well quite sexy!!
This is why our company has decided to start now. We have been working along side the wake boarding company “Ten-80″ for four years now doing silk screening printing and some parties. just recently we have decided that instead of spamming a bunch of people to have them cram into a dark smokey room full of jerks who do WAY too many drugs for anyone’s good…. we are creating a more whole some, party friendly, and even sometimes kid friendly environment. with events like the WWA wake boarding championships, surf expo, and other such competitions, we have decided to bring orlando’s best musicians and some of the worlds best artists in to pump these events up. Combining sports that everyone is down to watch and music that most people love and everyone wants to hear without the bad egos behind it….we are making a new era for an actual SCENE! see, the scene hasn’t existed here for quite some time…..so….its time for something new. this….we are bringing to the table so please check out the events because this is a way for DJ’s, musicians, artists, and performers to reach an entirely new crowd of people and create a solid name for this music industry! Orlando can and will be saved.
funny funny stuff up in here…..thats for sure.
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I don’t know any of you guys beyond the email blasts i get or posts or flyers i see that i admire….which may be a plus with all the crap im reading. btw..flyers are lookin good. looks like charlies work.
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feel free to stop by Vintage or Vixen, we do it up proper (=
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