Rant on DJs
mjx01
Aspiring Global Hound
Just got back from hitting 5 clubs in 2 days. Besides more hearing loss from excessive volume, I feel the need to rant on some DJ related BS from this adventure.
Incident #1:
Most of time I can't understand a single word the DJ says. I stop in this one club, and there's no dancers on stage. I sit around for 40 minutes chated with one dancer, and still no dancer on stage. I ask the girl, what's the deal with the stage show? She syas she doesn't know and will ask the manager for me. Next thing you know, music stop, dead slince, then:
DJ (perfectly clear voice): "So you want us to do our job and put some dancers on stage do you?"
Me: "uh, isn't that part of what you guys do here?"
DJ (perfectly clear voice): "Fine, I gues we'll do our job and put some dancers on stage, but if you turn out to be a cheep bastard we're going to have a problem."
Gulp.
Incient #2: (differnt club)
DJ anounces: "Uh, dude, no using you cell phone at the stage."
Now, I can't be 100% sure that was directed at me, but given the number of guys ITC and the location of the DJ booth... I'm think he's refering to me.
No Mr. DJ, that big square-ish thing in my hand is a big stack of one's. You bitch between each song to tip the dancers right? How you think I'm going to do that with out a stack of bills?
Incidnt #3: (yet another club)
Not some much an incident, but an observaton... Walk into this club, and not only is the music loud, but the situation is so bad the speakers are actually making a high pitch squaling sound at certain parts of the song. Yo Mr. DJ, I believe that's called clipping. Your speakers can't go any louder. Not only is that bad for you equipment, it's not remotely plesant to listen to.
Incident #1:
Most of time I can't understand a single word the DJ says. I stop in this one club, and there's no dancers on stage. I sit around for 40 minutes chated with one dancer, and still no dancer on stage. I ask the girl, what's the deal with the stage show? She syas she doesn't know and will ask the manager for me. Next thing you know, music stop, dead slince, then:
DJ (perfectly clear voice): "So you want us to do our job and put some dancers on stage do you?"
Me: "uh, isn't that part of what you guys do here?"
DJ (perfectly clear voice): "Fine, I gues we'll do our job and put some dancers on stage, but if you turn out to be a cheep bastard we're going to have a problem."
Gulp.
Incient #2: (differnt club)
DJ anounces: "Uh, dude, no using you cell phone at the stage."
Now, I can't be 100% sure that was directed at me, but given the number of guys ITC and the location of the DJ booth... I'm think he's refering to me.
No Mr. DJ, that big square-ish thing in my hand is a big stack of one's. You bitch between each song to tip the dancers right? How you think I'm going to do that with out a stack of bills?
Incidnt #3: (yet another club)
Not some much an incident, but an observaton... Walk into this club, and not only is the music loud, but the situation is so bad the speakers are actually making a high pitch squaling sound at certain parts of the song. Yo Mr. DJ, I believe that's called clipping. Your speakers can't go any louder. Not only is that bad for you equipment, it's not remotely plesant to listen to.
23 comments
I hope there are some DJs on here that can explain why you have to speak in that over the top fake DJ voice. Let me make this clear. WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND A WORD.
I had been given a t-shirt at a strip club during a promo deal. I wore it to a different club once and the DJ made an announcement that I was rude. I felt like saying FUCK YOU. Where is my free t-shirt from this club?
Music choice and volume has little to do with the DJ. That is a management issue and he does what they tell him to do.
Al Bundy: "Peg, it's a place where horny men congregate to watch surgically altered hooters sway to bad music."
'nuff said.
The dancers make money which in turn helps them make money - then talk in a voice so we can understand the dancer's name!
I am usually a daytime customer who like most who visit during the day are not looking for a party atmosphere. Maybe the loud music and DJ rantings are appropriate for a nightime party crowd, but it would be nice if they did away with that during the day. I would be satisfied if they eliminated the DJ all together. Mons Venus in Tampa may be THE most successful strip club in America and to my knowledge they have never had a DJ in over 30 years of operation. And their nightime atmosphere is as wild as anywhere I have been. the crowd responds to the dancers, not the DJ.
On the volume front, I actually think that many clubs have gotten a lot better about this. Nowadays, I can usually have a conversation with the girls in most of the clubs that I frequent. Back in the day, the loud volume approach seemed almost universally applied.
Thank you. I applaud you for that. I don't mind the obnoxious or intrusive antics. I understand what they are trying to do. My complaint is talking in an unnatural voice we can't understand.
On the other hand, if the music wasn't so fucking loud that a banshee would complain, then I'd sit very close to her just so others couldn't overhear.
I appreciate your candor on this subject, but "so you'll sit closer" is an idiotic reason. I don't need ear bleed inducing volume to prompt me to sit close to a pretty, mostly naked, girl. And anybody who does is in the wrong place...
I am...skeptical of the claim that people don't see through this. At one local club, the DJ plays music so loud that you literally cannot hear someone shouting from more than a foot away. The ostensible target demographic for this club (as stated by the management on more than one occasion) is young, black, "thug" wannabe types. I have heard, while sitting outside the front door in the "smoking" area, on more than one occasion that very demographic complaining about the excessive volume as they leave.
If it works for you, then it works for you. I'm thinking customers are a little brighter than you give them credit for, but maybe in your locale that's not true.