Rob Hood in Toronto back in '98....lights on still playing, he wouldn't leave no matter what was said..just kept playing....needless to say...SWEET
Trevor Wilkes inyerear.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Scuccimarra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "313 Detroit" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [313] may's djing > I've never heard of a DJ getting an encore in the US, except for the Jeff > Mills Liquid Room CD which I also thought was bizarre. The closest I've > ever come was Doc Martin at Twilo sometime in 95 (right after it turned > from the Sound Factory). They kept trying to turn on the lights and turn > off the system and every time they did it he would throw on an even better > record and everyone would start dancing and they'd turn the lights off for > another 10 minutes or so. > > But I've never heard of a DJ getting an encore in this country at least. As > I said in a previous email it seems very bizarre to me since it takes a > good DJ hours to do anything worth listening to and I don't see how that > can be replicated in a few minutes in an encore. > > I don't find the idea of a crowd wanting a DJ to continue strange - that > was happened lots of times - but I find that people generally get annoyed > if the music stops playing so that the DJ can bask in the glow of the crowd > or the MC is announcing the DJs or anything like that. > > So here I think people would get more annoyed if a DJ stopped playing to > wait for the crowd to ask them for an encore than if a local DJ kept the > music going. > > Just something I found a bit strange. > > Eric > > At 12:40 PM 2/27/02 +1100, Cyclone Wehner wrote: > >I don't know about elsewhere but encores are traditional in Australia. It > >gives people the chance to give props to the DJ. If there's no screaming for > >encores, it's seen as a diss to the DJ. Jeff Mills, Derrick, Stacey, all > >have done them. And lo behold local DJs coming on after who don't give the > >DJ a chance to do them..... Then it's ice grill time. People leave. > > > >---------- > > >From: "David Gillies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > > >Subject: RE: [313] may's djing > > >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:41 PM > > > > > > > >>To me the point of having a DJ is having someone create something over a > > >>matter of hours. So playing one record over the monitors seems a > > >>particularly bizarre way of doing an "encore..." > > > > > > He'd been playing overtime from what I remember. The security in the place > > > turned off the sound system. The monitor was all that was running. Nobody > > > wanted to go home. > > > > > > That was a seriously AWESOME night. Probably one of the best nights of my > > > life. I doubt I'll ever experience anyting like that ever again. > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
