SwingDJs

Sorry about the late notice. I seriously thought this would be mostly local (NYC-DC) ...but I have gotten emails from Canada and California.

And I do think that, in general, trading collections produces less knowledgeable "DJs". This is really a separate topic, but that way I see this process work is this: Newbie DJ downloads dozens of albums that s/he knows nothing about. Newbie DJ then gives all his/her music to friends/othe...

I think that, as DJs, we often know more about good bands than anyone else in our communities. For that reason, when the Philly exchange committee (which I am not a part of) couldn't get Ray Bryant, I suggested Wycliffe Gordon -who they have contracted to play. I was also the person who suggested Ra...

Trading large collections? Despicable. Stealing collections by recording someone's sets? Despicable. Trading or gifting a mix CD between serious buyers of music? Gray area for my morality -and I agree with Reuben that it's stealing so yeah, I'm stealing. Like most 'bad' things I do, I try to compens...

Greetings DJ Brethren (and Sistren)! Want to spend some 'music time' with other DJs who are experienced spinning at dances, exchanges, competitions and other Swing/Blues events? Come join PLLX DJs Jesse Miner, Rayned Wiles, David Jacoby, Greg Avakian, and Isaac Mognet as we co-host a session for DJs...

I was given my nickname and man did it ever stick. When I traveled, no one even knew my real name -which is why I started insisting that my name is Greg.

I'd say 'no'; unless the teacher just didn't get very far with it (lousy teacher), then maybe it could be fun. But my basic strategy is to bust the balls of the teacher by playing better music then they did (if possible). It makes me really happy when the energy level goes up when I DJ. I'm not tryi...

Whip out the stop watch that you keep in your DJ bag and get the BPM of the last song that the class danced to -or the teacher's count if they don't have music. You need a stop watch to tempo match? Newb! :D Hehehe. Seriously though; it's surprising how many DJs, teachers and musicians insist that ...

I think the advice thus far is very good so I'll just add this... If you're the first DJ after a class: Whip out the stop watch that you keep in your DJ bag and get the BPM of the last song that the class danced to -or the teacher's count if they don't have music. The first song should be an upbeat ...

What I love about this song is that it is such a crowd pleaser that it is worth owning a variety of versions. Every now and then when I'm feeling cocky I'll play the Satch & Josh version and the follow up with Carmen McRae. The two go really well together and people usually laugh when they here ...

Violinist Antoine Silverman has a nice instrumental version on his album "Swing shift". The guitar provides a nice pulsing odd-even rhythm (not a great bal), it's very well recorded and doesn't get too crazy. I think the tempo is a brisk 200BPM, but the feeling is so relaxed it doesn't sou...

I just found a nice, easy ...and very available song:
Bob Wilber's version of "My Blue heaven" from the "For dancers only" CD!
... And I consulted on that album!

I exchanged that computer for another of the same and it's fine. I still might go with XP, although I'm starting to like Vista's features. I'm mostly worried about software compatability... Swifty, are you actually DJing with vista? If so, did you have any problems at first? What program are you usi...

OK, it's definitely not the speakers, so I'm happy about that. I saw that someone else had a similar problem and tweaked the performance-appearance ratio in Vista and fixed it. I've tried that and it hasn't helped. I'm going to swap this computer tomorrow and probably go with installing XP. I read t...

That's a good reason I would think it's the speakers ...not that I use speakers on my laptop very often. Maybe I'll go watch a DVD and see what it sounds like...