WHAT ARE SOME DETAILS ABOUT YOUR JOB THAT YOU WISH PEOPLE TOOK THE TIME TO NOTICE? it aint that easy.... i get song requests by customers to play a song and expect to just play it on the next song... there is a consistant speed transition... we can't just play it... there is a certain speed to match the tempo of the music or the song might be off the type of music we might be playing at the time....
WHAT ARE THE BEST THINGS ABOUT BEING A DJ? WHAT ARE THE WORST AND MOST STRESSFUL ASPECTS? the best thing about being a dj would probably be, doing something i love to do and i get paid to party with some of my friends.... some stressful aspects would be reading the crowd... i get frustrated trying to figure out certain genre or era of music to play to get the party started but when you get it, its a sense of pride that you got the party going..
FOR THOSE THAT THINK ALL A DJ DOES IS PLAY MUSIC, HOW IS THAT THE FARTHEST FROM THE TRUTH? we set the tempo of the club... we are the reason why a guy can go up to a girl and ask, "hey, do you wanna dance?" its kinda hard to do if the music isn't right or the mood is all wrong... we pretty much do all the work to have everybody jumping in a club to give them the courage to go up to a guy or girl to talk to them...
WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF A DJ? HOW MIGHT YOUR DEFINITION BE DIFFERENT FROM THE AVERAGE EVERYDAY CLUB GOER? someone who doesn't just play music like everybody might think... sombody that truly understands music to know what song to play and when to play it....
WHAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT DJS? my biggest pet peeve is a customer would come up to me and tell me, "hey, if you play this song next the dance floor is going to get slammed." yeah well, how bout you give me 20 bucks and i'll give it back to you if i see atleast half the dancefloor half packed when i play the song... we love to play for the crowd don't get me wrong, its just that there are certain customers in the crowd that think they can just get up on the dj booth and just start djing.... it takes sometimes months to years to truly understand just the fundamentals and basics of djing...
WHAT WAS THE SCENE LIKE IN GUAM? HOW DID U ESTABLISH YOURSELF THERE? HOW OFTEN WERE YOU SPINNING? guam was great... i learned how to spin for the first time when i was living there... i was spinning about 3 days a week... mostly on the weekends..
AFTER TWO YEARS AWAY FROM THE TABLES WHAT WAS THE MAIN REASON YOU DECIDED TO GET BACK INTO IT WHEN YOU GOT TO HAWAII? i would go to all the clubs on the weekends and i would get a really bad itch for it... it was almost like cigarettes... as soon as i touched a pair of tables i got hooked... and the second time is always the worst....
HOW HECTIC IS YOUR CURRENT DJ SCHEDULE AND WHERE CAN PEOPLE HEAR YOU? i spin friday at redlion and playbar, saturday, sunday, tuesday, thursday at the playbar.
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE AN ASPIRING DJ WHO WANTED TO BREAK INTO THE CLUB SCENE? it may get frustrating and time consuming at times but if you love doing it don't just give up what you love to do...
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