> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 July 2003 13:43 > > In the middle of my set I drop the Jacksons "Can You Feel It" > and the crowd goes wild. Funny thing is -- this girl comes up > to me and says "Can you play the original?!" and i'm like "Huh?" > > "You heard me! Can you play the original of this?" > > Bewildered I reply, "THIS IS THE ORIGINAL!" > > And she persists in an argumentive way and says "No it's > not...the original has a woman singing over it with a harder > beat! What kind of DJ are you?"
For shame, for shame... Now while that did make me laugh, I would have to say that it actually isn't funny, but depressing! I'm sure I've had situations like that before (people who have apparently transmigrated across from alternate timelines where, for example, Dr Dre preceded George Clinton, or Jam'n'Spoon preceded Underground Resistance) but have blocked them from my mind because it's just so... wrong... Do you think these people really hear the strident trebles and excited musicianship of 1970s music and think it stylistically obvious that the hard 909 kickdrum and joyless trance arrangements of the 1990s are a more vintage sound? Or has the word "original" become, for them, a euphemism for "version most familiar to me"? Brendan
