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- Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:34 pm
- Forum: Tech Talk
- Topic: Ripping DVDs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8557
Ripping DVDs
Does anyone have any advise on ripping DVDs to a library. And editing the videos, for use to blow up on a big screen and DJ the video files. I can't even get to the first step I try to rip the DVD to an external hard drive using normal factory loaded software and I get an error messaging saying that...
- Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:02 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: listening to the lyrics
- Replies: 32
- Views: 31880
- Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:50 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: listening to the lyrics
- Replies: 32
- Views: 31880
I tested this out by playing a 1935 Delta blues song from Lucille Bogan with some nasty lyrics late at night. I got no response from most people on the dance floor. Late in the song after saying phuck for the umpteemph time, a follower near the DJ booth looked at me and said what the hell is this? F...
- Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:06 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: Spinning Under The Influence
- Replies: 13
- Views: 14839
- Thu May 12, 2005 12:05 pm
- Forum: DJ Skillz
- Topic: The Best DJing environment.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 20663
Room temerature-Hot rooms can create lots of sweaty dancers who will then want the tempo's slowed. Dance floor-Nice floor, concrete or carpet hampers turning ability which in turn happers what speed the dancers want to dance to. Other DJ's- I've been to a few events where the first DJ decided they j...
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:04 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Cutting Contests
- Replies: 18
- Views: 15294
I got a chance to talk to 94 year old franz about this. He played with the big band in NYC from 1938 to 1943 before travelling around the world with the USO. And Prior to that was in Chicago. He stated he never saw them the swing era artists never really did it. It was something that was common with...
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:47 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Jess Stacy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4206
- Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:13 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Kansas City Jazz
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11551
- Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:12 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Recommendations for New Swing Club
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9692
I would fore warn you that whatever people dance to in class is likely what they will stick too. So, while it's easier for dancers to learn at slower tempos, they will tend to stick to that tempo. So, I would recomend teaching at various tempos to various era's of swing music. Things with easy to he...
- Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:24 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Rosetta Tharpe - Document or Proper?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3554
- Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:52 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Willie Nelson
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3680
I'be been eyeing the Willie Nelson Jazz CD. I heard him on a show called piano Jazz with Marian Mcpartland and unexpectingly I was blown away by how good he can play Jazz. How's the rest of the CD?Manu wrote:Woooooow No ones told about the Willie Nelson version of that song... It is for the Best ever...
- Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:05 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Best proper box sets
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17997
Ben Webster Fats Waller Hoosier Hot Shots Slim Gaillard Illinois Jaquet Lionel Hampton T-Bone Walker Sidney Bechet The Big Horn These one's all look interesting to me I left out the few that are I found interesting that have already been mentioned in this thread or artists that I have a huge amount...
- Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:07 pm
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Best proper box sets
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17997
Best proper box sets
I only have a two and they are both excellent. I want to pick up some more. I hear that they are all great but if you only had to pick a few of them which ones would you say are best?
- Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:58 am
- Forum: Swinging Music
- Topic: Music you should buy
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16768
- Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:18 pm
- Forum: Upcoming Events
- Topic: DJ Battle of the Bands format
- Replies: 24
- Views: 24015
Any DJ contest that interferes with dancing I think is a bad idea. Pulling names out of a hat coulb be just that. It might decrease the quality of they music because you may get an artist that the DJ has but is not familar with or has very little of that kind of music. I agree broad ranges would be ...