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Jerry_Jelinek
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#16 Post by Jerry_Jelinek » Fri Apr 30, 2004 9:32 am

Very quick, and funny story.

I was taking my parents out to the airport. I popped in a cassette tape from one of my radio broadcasts to listen on
the way home.

I dropped my parents off, and began to drive home. The music was playing and I said "Wow" that is a great song - I have
that one. Then another one and I said "Hey, that is another great song, I have that one also". Another song came on
and I again said it was great and that I had that song in my collection. I began to think the DJ on the air was playing
some great music.

Well after 3 songs the announcer came on to back announce the songs. Guess who the DJ was?? It was ME!!! I had left
the cassette playing and I really thought I was listening to the radio live.

Talk about giving yourself a surreal wakeup!!!! I think it took about 15-20 mins. to get my head back on straight after
that experience.

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#17 Post by julius » Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:36 am

i hate piracy.

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#18 Post by julius » Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:36 am

dude, that is hilarious.

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#19 Post by GemZombie » Sat May 01, 2004 5:50 pm

Take a moment to think about how silly it is to "keep" a song to yourself. I mean, we're playing music that's been around since before we were born, it's not like the songs are a secret. :P

If it swings, play it.

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#20 Post by Kyle » Mon May 03, 2004 7:50 am

you're just mad because I wouldn't tell you the name of a song you want gem. Geebus, let it go man, let ... it ... go...

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#21 Post by GemZombie » Mon May 03, 2004 2:02 pm

Kyle wrote:you're just mad because I wouldn't tell you the name of a song you want gem. Geebus, let it go man, let ... it ... go...
I don't recall that, but uh... ok. ;)

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#22 Post by Mr Awesomer » Mon May 03, 2004 2:22 pm

GemZombie wrote:
Kyle wrote:you're just mad because I wouldn't tell you the name of a song you want gem. Geebus, let it go man, let ... it ... go...
I don't recall that, but uh... ok. ;)
I think the real reason he won't tell you is cause he only knows the song as "UnknownAlbum_Track9.mp3"
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#23 Post by julius » Mon May 03, 2004 2:24 pm

<blazemore> omg i love this song
<blazemore> Now playing: Unknown Artist - Track 2 @ 128 Kbps. (0:47/3:24)
<Javi> blazemore: yeah, that's a bad ass song

www.bash.org, quote #3630

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#24 Post by Greg Avakian » Tue May 25, 2004 6:02 pm

I think it's a pretty basic tennet of being a DJ that you will get songs from others. It seems hypocritical to keep the ones you find to yourself. Of course, copying them for somebody is another story.

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#25 Post by Swingwombat » Tue May 25, 2004 7:24 pm

What about rather than swapping cd's you get a whole bunch of dj's together over a weekend. at the beginning of the weekend all names are put in a hat. Who ever's name you pull out you dj your set that weekend with their music.

Would make for an interesting time I think

:P Di

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#26 Post by Greg Avakian » Tue May 25, 2004 7:35 pm

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but I wouldn't want to risk it.

I screwed up big time at NADC by not bringing my CDs (by mistake). I thought I was cool/experienced enough to just DJ with a bunch of CDs I had in the car. Big mistake: my worst set since I can remember. The only thing that saved me was that BillB and Shorty Dave and I traded 3 song sets. So at least the dancers didn't leave. :)

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#27 Post by gatorgal » Wed May 26, 2004 5:58 am

I think it would just be fun to see the poor soul who has to navigate through my stuff.

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#28 Post by LindyChef » Wed May 26, 2004 8:14 am

The biggest compliment you can give a DJ is playing a song that you heard them play ... so I always like to ask if I hear something I like and I'm always very free if someone asks me.

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