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Platypus wrote:and it is really difficult to say "no" to a 16-year-old who requests Fletcher Henderson "Hotter than Hell".......

Sounds like a wet dream... what? nothing

HA HA HA... not that I know of, but then again I didn't go to Swing Pit or 3rd Street (the only two places where I'd except that stuff to get played.)

PS: I voted "I don't play either of them" because 1) I don't have the Barbara CD and 2) I rarely play Mora's CD now that I have most of the originals.

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I noticed them too.
I think they were assuming to get another Camp Hollywood.
They got anything but.

Lot's of shit swings.

And you can read the above many different ways.

I'm all for boosting energy with sound levels but not when it gets beyond a comfortable listening level. Jesse Well... I didn't want to playing the music at a listening level... I wanted to play it at room-packed-full-of-people-dancing-hard-plus-loud-enough-to-reach-outside levels. And as loud as t...

We were BLASTING it all night long tonight. It was rad.

When I DJ I want it to sound like the same song was playing for four hours.

You didn't read Ron's post?

It's not about length. The cd that holds 80 minutes of music can hold more data then the cd that holds 74 minutes of music.

700MB of data = 80 mintues of music
640MB of data = 74 minutes of music

At least, I think it was 640MB... haven't seen a 74 minute CDRs for sale in ages.

I wasn't talking about a few examples... everyone is like that.

Yeah, I've seen a few people genuinely take in feed back, but it only results in small tweeks to their play lists. It does NOT changes to their overall style, taste, flava or whatever you want to call it.

I originally started this thread by simply asking that DJs of a certain style play better "token" uptempo tunes. I was not embarking on a quest to change DJs. And here is why: Unless they are a complete and total sell out (and some DJs certainly are, as they seem to want to play whatever S...

You're reading into it far to much. It was simply a change in style. Pull out those archived CDs of yours and listen to Krupa, Webb, and Greer. They were hitting the same cymbals, hitting the same high hats, and you can hear them on the recordings... they are just doing it in a different way.

*You* are playing Ramsey Lewis "The In Crowd"? Now that is FUNNY. At least you did pick a good token groove song. I wouldn't play that song, nor a number of other songs on that list, at a dance. I like that song, but I don't want to dance to it. Remember, these are "radio" shows...