[quote][i]Originally posted by marvymarv[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by obs[/i]
<br>Funny, I was watching some techno documentary, and Derrick May or one of those Detroit godfathers was talking about how you go into a club, and you find that Boy George is the deejay and it's like, WTF???
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Yeah, the whole celebrity DJ thing is getting a bit bizarre. I read an interview with Tommy Lee (yeah, the Tommy Lee from Motley Crue) in a recent issue of DJ Times and how he loved playing club music, how he "brings down the house". I think he did a set at Pacha in NYC. The whole thing was just too strange for me.
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"Bizarre" is not the half of it. Here in Vegas, it's almost comical, as many of these shitty clubs here hire alot of these celebrity jackasses to "DJ" their events, and truth be told, 95% of them can't mix cake batter, much less records. Tommy Lee has never "brought down the house" at any club he's spun @ I can assure you. He's a horrendous DJ and spins the same SHIT music @ every gig. Myself and a couple of really REALLY good DJ friends of mine went to an event he was @(we got free tix to), and they both laughed at his "DJ skills" and said they wouldn't have him play a funeral, much less a club.
It's all Bullshit man, the whole "celebrity DJ thing". No one gives 2 shits if Tommy Lee, Danny Masterson, or any other "celebrity" is djing @ a club, as most of the places they spin aren't very good anyways. Plus, it's just a marketing scam to get people to come into their shitty establishment(s). if you have to pay some "celebrity"- $50,000- $100,000 to come in and spin @ your place, then you're place isn't very good to begin with. Nobody who has any sense would allow a "celebrity", especially not very credible ones, to come in and go anywhere near any DJ equipment.
Ive heard alot of them, and they ALL SUCK. Including these useless women who go around claiming to be: "World hottest DJ", "worlds sexiest DJ"...etc...no one cares.
While I find it cool that women can spin, and some are very good, alot of them are shit, and they know it. They ruin it(much like the "celebrity" dj's) for guys like you and me, who have put in their time and spun inm shitholes, and dives for no $$$$, while they haven't done anything, and just used their name to get these gigs.
I laugh continually whenever i see ads for "celebrity djs" spinning @ clubs here, as most of them are a joke.
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