The Strangest Request A DJ Can Get

Remote Setup And Studio Update

SPEAKER_02 0:00

I think that's the fucking What's up, everybody? We said on the last episode we were gonna have the new studio ready. Well, we got two different studios today.

SPEAKER_04 0:30

Yeah, yeah. We're out of our space. We're not together. Welcome everybody to Beyond the DJ Booth, your favorite private event DJ podcast. I'm Joe Bunn. That's Brian Bonasisi. We are not sitting side by side holding hands like we usually do. Tell them where you are, Brian, and I'll tell them where I am.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

Today I'm in Florida, but it's been a tour of sorts for the last like week. I got one more week of heavy travel. Next week I'm in Kansas City to start, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and then finish in Florida again before headed home. And then I'm a little bit more relaxed.

SPEAKER_04 1:02

Yeah, right. And then we'll get together. And that's the main reason we did it. I was telling Brian, I pretty much, for the most part, got everything together yesterday. So up until then, it was a bit of a mess in here. This was a major renovation. I did a pretty decent job documenting it, and it will be out on YouTube soon, this entire office renovation. But I bought two office condos, they're very old, so they needed a lot of you know love to become Joe Bun approved. And so this has taken up an incredible amount of time. Of course, it couldn't be worse timing because we're in the middle of wedding season here. And I went to Germany and blah, blah, blah. So anyway, apologies to everyone for not being in the same space. To my knowledge, it's the only one so far, and it's probably the only one this year, at least, we'll say. I don't want to say ever. Right. Because your boy Brian B is out there sometimes, but it is the only one that we'll have to do this year remote like this.

Sponsors And Patreon Momentum

SPEAKER_04 1:55

And it's presented by? It is presented by our friends over at Lead XS. That's Lead E X C E S S. Uh, if you're coming to the DJ Collective, you'll hear more about them. But it is the system that uh myself and tons of other DJs across the country, maybe even the world. I haven't asked Craig if he's got worldwide fame yet, but uh are using to help us respond to leads. And the sole goal for us is to lead them to booking a meeting with one of our DJs. And I'll just say it has helped tremendously over the past year plus now. We've been a member. We are a paying member, by the way, and were before this podcast even popped, or even before they sponsored it. And so I don't want to say we popped. I'm acting like we're the you know, we're the new Amy Polar or something. We haven't popped. But anyway, I was a customer and still am a customer. Love the product. Check it out, Lead XS. If you're gonna be at DJC, make sure you set aside a little cocktail time with our friend Craig Loftus over there. Our Patreon's been popping off, dude. Patreon, you know what, man? I would like to publicly apologize to you. There was a lot of convincing. There was. There was. And I shit on it, and I would like to say I'm sorry, bro. You were right. If that's what you want to hear me say, you were right. I was wrong on this. I love that people love it selfishly. I love it too. Before I go do a gig, I hop in there and make sure that I haven't missed anything, uh, especially of the gold that you drop. I put a little bit of work into it as well, but I just appreciate you know the work you put into it. And and you were right. And I hope that the people that are listening and are members are getting value out of it. And if you haven't tried it yet, just try it. You can quit anytime. It's patreon.com/slash beyond the DJ Booth Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 3:41

And because we're remote, we don't have the shout-outs today, but we will make up for that when we're together and double them up. Hell yeah.

Taking The Podcast On Tour

SPEAKER_02 3:49

Let's break some news. You want to break some news today? Uh do I know the news? I think you have an idea. Okay. But okay. This is more of a float. So this isn't a polished idea that we have firmly landed on. Okay, okay. But you and I have discussed. I'll let you read it. Lead it, because you you put it in there.

SPEAKER_04 4:08

I'm not a podcast listener. Brian listens to a few, I think. And every once in a while I'll be on a road trip and just I'll get tired of my own music and turn on a podcast of some nature. But I think you are the one that actually put me on that show. And now I'm spacing on what it's called. Smartless. Smartless, right. So it's Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, and then I forgot the dude from Will and Grove.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

Sean Sean something.

SPEAKER_04 4:33

Sean something. Right. And Bateman to me is godlike. Arnett is hilarious as well. And those two go at it like me and Brian do, but like ten times worse. More like brothers go at it. Anyway, it's called Smartless. Uh the podcast is great. I don't catch it very often. But they actually made this documentary, this TV show, kind of following them to the different cities. And basically what they did is they took the podcast on the road. And every night in a different city, one of the three was responsible for bringing on somebody, let's just call it a list. And I can't remember. Oh Ferrell. Yes, he was one of the first ones. But they don't tell the other dudes. Right. So they would go into this thing and they would start kind of reading the bio or like this person did this, this, and then like the other two are like, who is he talking about? So anyway, if you haven't seen it, I don't remember, I think it was maybe on HBO. Is that something?

SPEAKER_02 5:23

I think it was like Hulu or Netflix, one of those two.

SPEAKER_04 5:25

Anyway, so I started thinking about for next year doing something different, right? Everybody's doing a DJ show now. Everybody's got this, everybody's planning for that. Like, what if we went to the people? Like, what if we went like looked at our numbers and went to the cities where the most listeners are? And listen, I'm not saying people are gonna show up like we're Jason Bateman and Will Arnett, but to work with somebody in, again, pretty much major markets that we know we're we we do okay in. Dallas, Salt Lake City, Arizona, somewhere, somewhere in New Jersey, Arizona, somewhere down in the south, right? North or South Carolina. Like do it like in a wedding venue. You know, we call in favors, get somebody there to be kind of boots on the ground, help us kind of put this on. They can provide the PA and stuff like that. We record from there, but we do it live, you know, and include the studio audience. And I don't know, man. I floated it at Brian Brown, I was like, dude, I kind of like this idea. And, you know, we would charge something. I mean, it's not going to be $1,300, $1,400, obviously, like a two or three-day conference that we've produced, but we would sell tickets and make it a whole evening, basically. Right. You know, sometime during the week, I'm sure. Probably a Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday. And we just kind of wanted to float it out there. Brian, do you have anything to add to it that I'm leaving out of this mind dump I'm putting on the audience?

SPEAKER_02 6:40

I think it was just more or less, does this have legs, right? We want to see if you as a listener, would you go to something like this? Now, we haven't fleshed out, you know, how this is gonna roll. Obviously, we record a podcast, but beyond that, there may be some behind the scenes, like a producer pass. Maybe you've thought about doing a podcast and you just didn't know how to do it. Think of it like an SNL writing room where, like the day before we're putting the show together and you're a part of that process, and then you know, the day of you get to be a part of it, and we'll come up with something else. Maybe there's a dinner. I don't know. We haven't gotten that far into it. But there is the option to see the behind the scenes, not just the show. Or if you're just like, hey, I don't care about any of that, I just want to go and watch and just have a fun night out. Cool, do that too. But these are just ideas, they're very loose. We just wanted to gauge your thoughts.

SPEAKER_04 7:23

Yeah, we didn't want to plan it without you guys because it, if y'all aren't gonna show up, then there's no need to get on a plane and go do it, right? I mean, so we're all about hearing your ideas, we're all about how this can be a value add. You know, this is a bring your spouse kind of thing, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, bring your staff. I think they would think it was fun, especially if they're fans of the show. I think we always are gonna leave you with something funny, but also hopefully educational, like some learning moment. And again, I think it would be a great staff night, you know, or a team building kind of event or something like that. So, anyway, respond. Let us know uh, especially in the YouTube comments. That that's probably the easiest place to respond when you say Brian, or message us. A lot of you guys have our numbers or our emails. Shoot us a message, let us know what you think. Throw your ideas into the pot because it's super, super early. But we just wanted to float it out there in the ether and see what you

Pop Culture And Taylor Swift Talk

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guys thought.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

All right, let's hit the pop culture minute. Brian B.

SPEAKER_06 8:16

Jobon, dropping heat just for fun. Pop talk spinning like a wreck of spine. Pop culture class where the stories collide. Two DJs bringing the flavor we're wow.

SPEAKER_02 8:34

Dude, we haven't recorded in some time. So much has popped off in the last like couple weeks. So hopefully it won't be too old by the time this drops. But I wanted to share with you a couple things and get your thoughts. Did you see that the uh new T Swift album dropped? Have you listened to it? What are your thoughts?

SPEAKER_04 8:50

Well, it was basically just a continuation of the life of a showgirl, right? It was just like additional songs.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

I'm not a I'm not a Swifty. I don't know. Okay, is that what it was?

SPEAKER_04 8:59

From living with now three girls uh that somehow have magically appeared in my life over the last two or three years. Yes, it's just the life of a showgirl extended. So I think there were four or five songs added. Again, Swifties, please don't come for me. I I don't know that that's complete factual. Patient Zero was the single that they played. I uh that are they're playing, and I've heard it on the radio and I've heard it on Sirius XM. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

They started though with Cleveland. That took a dookie, and then they went to Patient Zero. Oh, I never even caught Cleveland. But are you getting any requests at all? Anything on the side?

SPEAKER_04 9:32

No, in fact, and I again, Swifties don't come from my head. Don't shoot the messenger. But I promise you, Brian, let's call it six of my last 10 are no Taylor Swift.

SPEAKER_02 9:42

Yeah, I've got a few of those this year. So for sure.

SPEAKER_04 9:44

Tomorrow, literally line one, I can hold up the schedule right now. And it just says no Taylor Swift, minimal Bruno Mars, no line dances.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

Well, there was a critic who gave his take. It's kind of funny. He wasn't too pleased with the album, so I'm gonna go ahead and play this clip.

SPEAKER_08 10:04

Angel, they say I hate that. Yeah, that house was gorgeous.

SPEAKER_13 10:08

Oh my god. Why is she making another Christmas card on the same album? We just got a booklight.

SPEAKER_09 10:17

She was only a form. He was never a girl's ghost, he was just a god.

SPEAKER_13 10:28

I feel like I'm brilliant.

SPEAKER_08 10:37

Well, they say I hate that. Never house reports.

SPEAKER_13 10:41

Oh my god. Did we just rhyme dish and bitch, but she's not bold enough to actually say bitch? Why are we writing as if this is kids bop, dude? Like you wrote an entire song called Wood about every innuendo that that is about, and you can't say bitch? I feel like I'm listening to the Macy's thing to be a great. Please be a saving bridge.

SPEAKER_09 11:11

You only need to find one person in this entire world who doesn't find you completely insufferable.

SPEAKER_13 11:18

Oh my. Is this what you want the reaction to be? I need this to be. I feel like I'm being looped into a trance that I really, really don't want to fall into. I don't mean to be this person right out the gate, but like, is that one of her worst songs ever? Because that ultimately is what this felt like.

SPEAKER_04 11:44

I bet they came for his head. Bro, I would not want to be on the wrong side of that audience.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

Do you think that song sounds like anything? The interpolation, as they call it? No, it's not coming to me. See if you think you agree with this girl. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04 12:05

Oh my god. Wait, the theme song of a TV show. Yeah. Friends? The office, I think. I think it's the office. It is the office, right? Wow. It's the same melody, for damn sure.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Oh my goodness. Well, I haven't gotten anything off of that album yet. One of the last episodes we did, we talked about that baby doll song. I thought this was an interesting take, and I thought I'd share it with you here.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Radio is missing it again. There's a song blowing up on Instagram and TikTok right now called Baby Doll by Jamie Miller. Have you heard this? If you haven't heard it, go listen to it. Love it or hate it, I'm telling you, this thing is a hit. It hit number one on iTunes, and Jamie himself said in the last few days that it's basically changed his life overnight. And radio is nowhere. That's a problem because radio used to be where this happened. Radio used to be the place you discovered the song before everybody else, and it was where you went to find out what was happening right now. It influenced culture, and we all experienced it together at the same time. Today, radio waits for culture to tell it what happened. Think about what has to happen for Baby Doll to become a hit on traditional radio. Jamie is signed to Republic, which is part of UMG. So first the label has to decide they're going to work the record to radio. Then begins this months-long process of convincing stations to add it. And what does radio do when they finally consider it? They test it. They'll play 15 or 20 seconds of the hook for people and ask, do you like this? And worse, they do this over the phone. Then, if the research comes back right, maybe they added a tiny little rotation and start increasing spins over time. And by the time radio decides it's a hit, the rest of the world could have moved on six months, twelve months ago. And that's why radio keeps becoming less relevant. We need to stop testing and start playing. Radio should be on the bleeding edge of music. It should be the place where somebody gets behind the microphone and says, I just found the song. You have to hear it. That's what made radio exciting. The personalities were the influencers before we called people influencers. And I understand why that's hard today, okay? Corporate radio has gutted staffs, program directors are running multiple stations and doing five different jobs. They don't have the time or the freedom to sit in the studio discovering records and taking chances. I get it. But that's exactly the problem. Radio is terrified that somebody might tune out because they heard a song they don't recognize right away. Meanwhile, people are actually tuning out because there's nothing left to discover. Give personality some freedom again. Take chances. Play the record nobody else has played yet. Make radio feel alive. I've been doing this for almost 40 years, and I'm telling you, people didn't stop loving radio. Radio stopped giving them a reason to love it.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Couldn't be more true, man. That song has three million streams last at the time of the thing. I mean, like, that's crazy that radio hasn't picked it up. I looked on some of the pools. They don't even have intro edits of this track. I'm like, how is this not even released? That's crazy to me.

SPEAKER_04 15:21

It is absolutely insane, man. That take is so spot on, man. So I told you I wake up to 96.9 local station. It's through uh the Alexa tune in or whatever it is. So the alarm goes off, the DJ comes on usually, or there's a song playing. And I I'll be honest with you, man, they're doing the damn Drew Pierce. The first song today was that Tame and Paula Dracula thing. Okay. Guess what followed that? Timber. You know when Timber came out?

SPEAKER_02 15:48

That's crazy. 2016? 2013. 2013. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

But I mean, it's the Drew Pierce thing. Like, take whatever year it is, subtract 10, plus or minus. I mean, that's that is the local pop current station. Like, anyway, man.

SPEAKER_02 16:03

I wanted to show you something funny for some levity, just to kind of mix it up here. This is also on my socials, so just thought you'd appreciate this. This is a DJ. He's going through a tough situation. Curious how you would respond. Explain this to the people who are just listening and not watching, because it would still have a subtext.

SPEAKER_04 16:47

A guy's playing, like it looks in a bar, like it looks to be early in the night, like before everybody's kind of there, and he's kind of just warming up and just playing, you know, whatever RB track. And a girl walks up to him. He's got he's running his 360 camera.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

You can't hear wearing all black.

SPEAKER_04 17:03

Yeah, he's wearing all black, kind of like one of those under armor, like he's a real thin guy. Like he's like he's I wouldn't even call him in shape. He's just like a really thin dude. And she goes, Can I touch your nipples? And he's like, he looks down, he's like, huh? And she's like, Can I touch your nipples? They're like staring at me from across the room. And then he just he basically tells her no and to beat it. But like, have you run into that? I I've I've been I've I've been asked and said a lot of things, drinks thrown in my face. Uh never had the nipple requests. Never had the I've been slapped. I had my ex-girlfriend slap the shit out of me so bad my ears were ringing. But but some girl or dude coming up and saying, Can I touch your nipples? No. Wow, bro. Well, it's out there. What do you think you've seen at all? I I hope that and I hope that's not trending up. No. Uh well, let's hit the story time.

Fundraiser Lessons And Redemption Gigs

SPEAKER_02 18:03

So you had some gigs that we're gonna be circling back on here. You had the one that was the fundraiser over at Angus Barn. We don't have our stinker button, bro.

SPEAKER_04 18:13

Hold on, do you want me to go run get it in the back? I know where it is. You want me to get it? Should I go get it? This is with Glenn, your boy. Look, I posted a video a couple days ago of the organizer coming up to us. I caught it on the end of the 360 reel and I posted it. I mean, she was like, guys, you were incredible. And basically, I was like pointing Glenn. I'm like, Glenn saved that show, Brian. I'm going that far. And you know I'm kind of iffy on the whole sax DJ thing. Sure. I feel like had he not been there, which was their idea to bring him on, it would have been a double dog stinker, like a triple dog. I mean, it just for 300 people on a I think it was a Thursday night, you just would have thought it would have reacted better or the dance floor would have reacted better.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:56

And it just seemed like there was two different rooms. And once they did the program and the auction and it was kind of a sad subject or a charity, and the video played and they're pulling at the heartstrings, it kind of sucked the mood out of the room to try and get them to come back into my room, if that makes any sense.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

What was your track to bring them back in? Do you remember?

SPEAKER_04 19:13

Yeah, I do remember because it was Studio 54 themed. So the first five songs were, you know, Staying Alive or Dancing Queen and some of the very 70s disco-y.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

I did that disco party. It's like, is that a thing that's coming back all of a sudden? It's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 19:27

That's a good question. I don't know. And what's a little interesting about it, uh kind of went down the rabbit hole of like what is Studio? I mean, I know what Studio 54 was, but it was like, when did it really pop? Like when was it really hot? And it was really late, like almost like 79 before it came to hot shot. So then it crosses over into the 80s, which as you know, the music flipped completely. Right. Then it becomes you know, New Wave and Madonna and this, that, and the other. So I I kind of played it like that for a little while, Brian, but you know, it was a mixed range of ages, first of all. And it didn't seem like the young people were reacting to the older music and the older people weren't reacting to the young music. And it just it was kind of a mess from the start. Now, did people dance? Absolutely. Did they raise hundreds of thousands of dollars? Absolutely. So I still put it as a success in the success category or in the success column, but it just it wasn't as fun as I thought it would be.

SPEAKER_02 20:22

You were able to reclaim yourself with the Epic Games live stream. I think it was the next day.

SPEAKER_04 20:27

It wasn't I did three in a row. I did the Epic Games live stream the next day. It was it was probably one of the last days I was at my office before I I went out of the country. Everything was basically off the walls, packed up, other than like the DJ booth and a monitor, like and the internet connection. And so I finished out that there. That was just three hours, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern. So all the people in Europe are at the end of their day. They're already like drinking and stuff. All the people on the West Coast barely out of bed. Bedhead. Yeah. Yeah, right. Those are fun. I got one more coming up two weeks from today on the 30th, the day before Halloween. And then I played a wedding at a residence. In fact, me and you both, I think on the same day were at a residence, which I don't remember the last time I did a wedding in somebody's residence.

SPEAKER_02 21:12

It was one of my first in a long time. Long time.

SPEAKER_04 21:15

And it was in Durham, which is you know 20 minutes from here, and this lady, the the groom's aunt, had built a saloon behind her house, like complete with the swinging doors, the playing piano, the bar. It was tiny, it was hot, but it was fun, man. And it was uh it was somebody I knew, which is kind of rare. You know, we yeah, rarely do you and I play for people we actually know. Right. It kind of went off, man.

SPEAKER_02 21:43

Well, it's nice when you get some redemption gigs, especially after a sticky.

SPEAKER_04 21:45

Exactly. Right, right. We had fun. That's awesome. How about you? You you were on the grind for a minute, weren't you?

Corporate AV Problems And Repeat Clients

SPEAKER_02 21:51

Yeah. The two I was gonna share today. I I basically had a corporate in Atlanta. And man, I'm just finding that these. A V companies. Hopefully we don't have them listening to this podcast. But boy, brutal. Just the hotel, most of the hotel staff. I'm not even just talking AV, I'm talking about the events people. Man, they could use some help. They are not America's finest. Let's just talk about it.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

Well, I I you mean from a production level or just uh customer service or the way they treated you?

SPEAKER_02 22:22

So I showed up, and basically the way that this rolls is it's a one-day event where they have a bunch of people on a panel. Okay. We had ordered chairs for it to go on the stage, like these nice, you know, kind of lounge seating style. Well, this stage was like four by four, and we had like six chairs. I was like, Yeah, that's not gonna work, bro. I'm sure they gave you the dimensions of the stage. There's no way. Well, he was so busy. I could tell he was wearing like 10 hats, and he had another meeting, he had some other things, and so he's like, that's what we have. And he left. Well, the banquets guy was there. So I talked to him, I'm like, hey man, um, this just gotta fit all these chairs, and I know for a fact that they would have ordered the right sizing stage. He's like, Let me go look. Well, this turnabout takes forever. We can't set any TVs, nothing until the stage is built out. Finally, after an hour, hour of waiting, the banquets guy comes back and he goes, What's the worst case? Can we do? Can we put them in a semicircle? Can we like, and I go, No, we need the stage. Like, you have to figure this out. He's like, Well, we don't have it in an inventory. And I'm like, Okay, well, let's get with your events guy and talk to him and work it out. This dude's phone is off. I can't reach him. It's five o'clock when I got there. And I'm like, I bet you he's hourly. I bet you he couldn't stick around and he bounced. This thing starts at seven in the morning. What am I gonna do here?

SPEAKER_04 23:35

What am I gonna do? Right.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

So I go to the front desk and I'm just like, hey, we gotta get a hold of this guy. I understand you if you don't want to give me a cell number, but you gotta reach out to him. Well, it turns out he was downstairs having some other meetings, and I sent him the screenshot of the order that the client sent me showing the direct size. I'm like, they're gonna be here tonight to check this out. So we got to get this right.

SPEAKER_11 23:55

Right.

SPEAKER_02 23:55

So I think he had an uh an oh sh moment, and basically he worked it out. This one guy, the banquet sky was terrible, but the events guy, I found out that he had to rent a U-Haul, call a bunch of other properties that they're friends with, which is kind of funny because like we would do this in the DJ world too. When we get stuck, we call people in our industry. That's what they did. But they had to go get this stage because that's what they promised us. And I was like, dude, this guy is an all-star. Even though he's a little MIA, at least he made it happen. But of course, this backs everything up for me because now the guys have left who were gonna set up the TVs, they're gone. So I'm like having to do this all myself, just make it work. But it was just like a reminder of how much professionals in the room matter, and especially even as like an outside DJ guy to like figure this stuff out. They need people who are problem solvers, right? Like so, if you're one of those, you will succeed in the corporate world because I'm telling you, they couldn't say enough good things about me trying to like say on this because they weren't flying in until like later in the evening, and they would have definitely been gone and been like, What is this? You know?

unknown 24:50

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 24:51

You saved that one. That is scary. I don't even know what I would have done. I guess I would have probably started trying to call people down in Atlanta, you know, that we know and be like, yo, who can who can bring this stage in? Totally.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

So that was one, and then I had a women's event that was in Austin, Texas, for about I mean, they grew from like a hundred people to 200 people. I gotta give shout outs to our guy, Nate Acosta. He crushed the production, brought him in. Again, I just go back to how awesome these relationships that we have with other DJs are because this client, again, the A B people at the hotel are charging in an arm and a leg, just literally ripping these clients off by tens of thousands of dollars. And Nate's crew came in, they crushed it. He had never seen me DJ, so it was fun for him to see me do my thing.

SPEAKER_12 25:34

And yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

You really can't lose when there's about you know 195 women and five guys. You know what I mean? Good point. So no one left the dance floor. I literally could have played anything and it would have worked. It's my second year with them, and now they want me every time.

SPEAKER_04 25:46

So absolutely, man. These companies, you know, and and I'll I'll just speak about it from the standpoint about we're we're getting ready to turn the corner right from weddings in the holiday season. These companies, they don't want to be tasked with the trouble of finding somebody new every year. So if you do well, year one, that you're hired and are a good person and treat people well and take requests and respond to people, you're gonna get that gig forever unless they completely change it up and go, hey, you know what, Joe, we finally caved and you know, a bunch of people wanted a band this year or whatever, a magician. Uh we just are doing a dinner party, whatever it is. But I mean, we are on year five, six, ten of doing some of these things. Like to where we know the these employees at these companies now. You know what I mean? Like, we see them every year. We might only see them once a year, but we've got those shows every single year, and that's the beauty of it. They're yours to lose. They are yours to lose. Well, let's hit some music.

New Music Picks For Working DJs

SPEAKER_02 27:08

So I got five tracks. Five tracks I wanted to share with you that are songs that my kiddo is loving. I'm loving too. I've been prepping for some of these gigs. This is a a cover of You Can't Hurry Love. Was it by the Supremes? Supremes, yeah. Who also did it? Uh what's his name? Uh a bunch of people. But the main guy in the 80s, what was his name? Phil Collins did it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the only version I play. If I play that song, I don't like the Supremes version. I like that one. It's got more of a somewhat modern beat. Right. But Girl of the Season, Olivia Dean did a cover of it. I've been playing it to great reaction.

SPEAKER_04 27:39

Let me Did you know Olivia Dean is 19 years old? I did not know that. Wow. Let me double check that.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

When she started when she was like 15? Five?

SPEAKER_04 27:47

Yeah. Oh man, Siri lied to me, and I've been telling people she's 19. My bad. She's gotta be like 25. She's 27. Okay, that's close. I swear I asked Siri the other day, and she l straight lied to me. Anyway.

SPEAKER_07 28:05

I need love to ease my mind. I need someone to call my sick. It's a little cool. It's a game of give and take. You got the twelve. How long it's I love.

SPEAKER_02 28:36

I think you can use it in gigs and it it would it would pop off. During dancing? No, no, no. During dinner. Or cocktail. Cocktail too. Could work.

SPEAKER_04 28:43

Same, same. I was over here just seeing the production on it. I think it was on that Jules Ho, you know, Jules Holland. It's a big show over in the UK, I think. Anyway, it sounded like it might have been um Ronson. It has that very Mark Ronson kind of Amy Winehouse instrumentation to it. You know, it sounds old because it's supposed to sound old. Anyway, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

New artist alert. Uh-oh. Emerson Flora. Heard the name? Super catchy. Okay. Song is called Die Next to You. Okay. I've been playing this at weddings too. My kiddo loves it as well. So let me uh give you a little taste here.

SPEAKER_13 29:28

Yep. She's cute.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

What do you think? Dude. Good, good. Song is so good. It's so catchy. Yeah. She's out of the UK as well. I mean, the UK is just producing so many great singers right now. It's insane. I don't know if this guy, I should have done some more research ahead of time, but are you familiar with a guy by the name of Stephen Day? No. Okay. So this is the song called You Wouldn't Know. He just played at the Opry recently. I just happened to catch it on socials, and I was like, dude, this song is so good. I know you're gonna like this, so here it is. You wouldn't know.

SPEAKER_10 30:13

It's been cold enough this way.

SPEAKER_04 30:46

Yeah. I love that. I even like his look. Yeah, he's fresh. Right? Mustache with the long sidekins. Kind of in that um the little uh old school tie or whatever those are called.

SPEAKER_02 30:57

Totally. All right, two more. These are for the dance floor. Came out this year, but this is a Bobby Caldwell sample, uh, which you won't do for love. Yes. So here we go. I guess you wonder where I've been doors open.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

I came back to let you know. Just to let you know by go.

SPEAKER_07 31:37

My friends want to know what is wrong with me.

SPEAKER_04 31:49

Bro, you'd be very proud of me, man. I've been ever since I went out with you, I've been doing much better on Doors Open. Love it.

SPEAKER_02 31:54

That song has been crushing for me. People have been coming up asking me what it is. Like what it is. Yeah, it's got like a disco-y kind of feel to it, but it's also very modern. Um now, another one that's kind of in the same realm. It's in the same realm. There we go. This is Billy Jean, which I would never touch. This is like almost a crossover, I wouldn't do. But for corporates, I think this could work. So this is a walk in for a corporate. The song's called Beauty Queen. Here it is. Got a good reaction at the two corporates I've played it at so far. I mean, I'm not trying to fill a dance for with it. I would never play that song for a dance thing. I would want to use your OG if I can. But for corporates, you know, I think it's a good good.

SPEAKER_04 33:00

Do you ever pull Billy Jeans still?

SPEAKER_02 33:01

Oh, all the time. That is the Michael Jackson song I use. I don't use Don't Stop Do You Get Enough.

SPEAKER_04 33:06

Um I mean I use secondary Don't Stop Do You Get Enough.

unknown 33:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:10

Jackson 5 you pull want you back, right?

SPEAKER_02 33:12

I want you back. Although I've been playing the Disco Dom ABC during Doors Open a lot.

SPEAKER_04 33:18

I think you debuted that on here at one point.

SPEAKER_02 33:21

So some tracks will have them in the Patreon. Ooh. So there we go. That'll be there. Just want to make sure.

SPEAKER_04 33:27

Now let me clarify this. Yeah, go ahead. Not just on a list, not just a piece of paper that you print out and put in your pocket and wish you had the song. But the songs are in the Patreon. Patreon.com slash beyond the DJ Booth Podcast. And Brian B is probably and I'll say this with 100% confidence. Not just because we do a podcast together, but he is one of the best music curators and spends more time on this than you can possibly imagine to find the gold in the in the pot at the end of the rainbow. Like this dude is unbelievably committed to finding the gold. I appreciate you, bro. Let's hit the gear corner.

Paid Requests With Crowdset

SPEAKER_04 34:11

Let's go. The gear's here. The gear is here. He is here. He is here. He is here. He is here.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

Alright, so I had a live musician in my Florida market hit me up with this new app. He's like, hey man, you think this would be usable for DJs? We're using it for live musicians. It's crushing for us. Want to get your take. So I said, send it over. Do you know this guy or just was this caller? Yeah, he knew he knows me. I've used we've worked together. So I'm curious on your take. Now, this wouldn't be for private events, it would be for a public event potentially, or the guy who works at the bar.

SPEAKER_03 34:45

This is what one set made him, and here's the whole process. Last night I filmed a buddy of mine signing up for crowdset. Not a rehearsal, he'd never seen it. Okay, the first step is he claims his name. That's his page now. And it only takes 30 seconds. Now watch this. He copies his set list straight out of his notes app and pastes it in. There's a lot of different ways to import your set list, but he didn't have to type a thing. Then he typed in where he was playing that night and where. Connects to Stripe so the money goes to his bank. That's it. That's the whole setup. And start to finish, it took him about eight minutes. Now, even though he didn't have to have a screen, I put one up behind him. Just to see if there was a difference, we didn't use it on the first set. We turned it on before a second set. He's got three songs in his queue before he even starts. And this part matters, nobody's card gets charged until he actually plays the song. It's a hold, like a hotel does. Anything left in the queue at the end of the night, just release it and nobody pays for a song they didn't hear. His price was 17. Look at the top number. That's other people adding money to a song to move it up the list. The room decides what he plays next, and it pays him to decide. End of the night, $368, one set, songs he was gonna play anyway. Set it up tonight. Use it tonight. Crowdset.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Dude, that's pretty sick, man. Isn't it? The way he explained to me is like, imagine having a screen that has your request, but you can determine how much the request is and put it in the header. That it might just be a verse and a chorus before moving on to the next thing.

SPEAKER_04 36:20

Dude, you get some group of drunk bachelorettes in there that want to hear Pink Pony Club or something. They'll put a fucking hundred dollars on that thing. Right. And I'd be like, hundred dollars? Pink Pony Club. I mean I just won it a second ago. I'm playing it again. I'd go for it. 100 bucks, I'd run, I'll put on a pink cowboy hat and get out there and ride around on a damn broomstick for $100. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:46

I just think it's an interesting thing. It could be another way. Like if you're if you're doing something, let's just say like for exposure, which I hate that word. Right, right. I just thought that was a cool finding.

SPEAKER_04 36:56

So I mean, here's the thing, Brian. And that guy's no developer. He's got clo he's learned how to claw vibe code. He's got clawed. He's got credits. We are gonna see. I I got one yesterday, two days ago. It was called like, in fact, I'll shout him out on here. I haven't tried it yet, so y'all can be the guinea pig. It was called Truffle. I think it was something to do with deleting duplicates or cleaning up your library or something like that. So shout out Truffle. I haven't tried it yet, but I am gonna try it. But I think we are gonna see more and more people hitting us up and putting out these little apps and things like that over the next probably infinity. Like I mean, it's it's a different world now. It doesn't take two years to develop a piece of software anymore.

SPEAKER_02 37:34

Totally agree. Anyway, anyway. Let's look at the question of the day and get out of here.

Cocktail Bangers Then Remix Later

SPEAKER_02 37:37

Question of the day. So I had a crazy idea for cocktail hour. Throw some dance floor bangers in there in their original recording. I'm kind of setting the bar for the night. I will play different remixes on the dance floor, and there will be at least one to two hours before they hear them again. Am I onto something or am I on something? Lauren Miller from Columbus, Ohio. I mean, what do you think? My honest take is not a good idea. There is no need to play songs twice in a night unless it's the hottest song out there. There's so much music.

SPEAKER_04 38:11

I'm on the I don't love this idea either. I'm just gonna say that right off the top. I love Lauren. In fact, we just saw Lauren in Miami. Yeah. I don't love this idea. I don't, I still don't understand the rationale behind it.

SPEAKER_02 38:25

Well, he's trying to say that, hey, we're hitting him early with bangers, as he calls them. And I'm like, there's other ways to do that. Yeah, you need a hip though.

SPEAKER_04 38:34

It it it go back to any episode where we talk about doors open, go back to any any video we've talked about. That go back to the beginning of this podcast for 15 minutes ago where I praised Brian for putting me onto these songs. Go to the Patreon and and download stuff. I I promise you there's a better way to do this other than burning bangers twice.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

Right. And I don't know. I I've never found well, there's not true, that's not true. I would say there might be one or two remixes where it's better than the original, but it's really rare. Like I just feel like and it pisses people off. You have to be careful with that stuff.

SPEAKER_04 39:09

Yeah, you know? I I don't I don't love it.

SPEAKER_02 39:11

That's what I call like the sacred cows, right? Like there's certain songs you just can't touch. Now you can shorten them, you can do other things, but like no one wants to hear the original and then be pissed off on the dance floor to hear it again, let's just say. Right. And now they're hearing some remix that you think is cool that like the crowd just isn't like right going with you.

SPEAKER_04 39:29

I I I'm with you, man. I I don't know. Love you, Lauren. Don't like the idea. I don't I mean, listen. Do you? It's your show, man. It's your show.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

I was just gonna say, send us a video of it. I'd love to see this in action.

SPEAKER_04 39:40

I I'd be proven wrong. I'd love to see reactions. Listen, man, there's one thing I can tell you, it is that nobody, and I mean nobody, uh including me at 40 years, Brian at damn near 30 years knows everything about this business. No. It is not possible. There's no manual. There never has been. There are people like me and like Brian that will help you. And I wish I had had people like this and this podcast when I was coming up, because it would have saved me a lot of experimentation and heartache and and money loss, but there is no end-all be-all way to do things. I mean, I never got into the you know reading up a paragraph for each person that walked in, but there are people that have made careers off that. There's no perfect way to be a perfect DJ. Put it that

Sponsors Thanks And Sign Off

SPEAKER_04 40:27

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SPEAKER_04 40:43

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SPEAKER_02 40:57

That wraps it. Thank you so much for listening, guys. Thanks for uh putting up with our online situation. But next week episode, we'll be back.

SPEAKER_04 41:05

Yeah, we we'll be back. We won't make it a habit. We'll have a new studio and uh we'll be live together as well. I like it a lot better, honestly, Brian, when we're together. Yeah. This is how Mike and I did it for five years, and it was fine. It was great, but it's it's a whole different vibe when me and you and Saquon are in the same room.

SPEAKER_02 41:21

Yeah. Shout out Saquon, by the way. Shout out Saquon.

SPEAKER_04 41:23

All right, guys, we'll see you next week. All right, guys. Thank y'all.