"if you dont want to party.. then you should stay home"

no... really... stay home

i'm cranky i am. if you come out to the club come out to party.. not to get stupid. underage drinking - sure we know its gonna happen we try hard to prevent it. we watch for it. we get them out of the building as fast as we can catch them and send them on their merry way. BUT, if you're not bright enough to know that you might just have to prove who you are when you get caught - thats YOUR fault. when the young lady is asked for her I.D. and she gives false I.D. not just to us.. but to the police officer - SHE WINS AN ALL EXPENSES PAID NIGHT IN THE CITY LOCK UP AND A LOVELY PAIR OF BRACELETS! we love to have a bar full of people having a good time, we dont love these dimwits who only think how cool they are to have a drink in the club, knowing its illegal, and probably not knowing that it could cost someone their job, give them a criminal record, cost them a crapload of money, and pretty much ruin their day. does this mean we come down hard on minors drinking in the club. not always.. usually its enough to just send them home. but if you get stupid with us.. we gonna get stupid with you. and i dont like you in the club enough to go to jail for ya.

okay.. rants over. friday was fun otherwise.. more later

Some days you just cant...period.

Thursday. thursdays used to be a really fun night. unfortunatly, we have a problem called complacency. when you're number one, you have a tendency to relax and just ride the wave. problems is.. every wave has a crest.. and a trough. thursdays are dragging us down and its starting to show in other days of the week. no one is really putting two and two together, but i've noticed it. guess its up to us to try and make it better? maybe

if i sound a bit stressed out it's cause i was. nothing can mess up a dj's mind worse than an empty dance floor. especially if its a song you know they like. you can play a song one night and have the floor full and the same song the next night will kill your dance floor. happens.. happened to me last night. so yeah, i was stressin'. oh well, tonight is friday and its a payday, four day, holiday, weekend. this could be good.

stay tuned

Ahhh.. Wednesday

Just another wednesday night at the club... a decent amount of players in the pool tournament, and for a change, most of the girls in the wet t-shirt contest were good looking. what a job.

the only downside to last night was the start of yet another bout with my allergies. wanna have some real fun kids? try to talk on the mic with both sinus's draining down the back of your throat, and out of your nose. aside from the coughing fits, and the drainage, and the feeling like crap all night - i still managed to have fun.

what?...

testing.

my very un - official work page

this would be what it looks like on a typical week end night...give it a minute.. it takes awhile for the pic to load

Hi Kids!... How are you today?

okay so i dont always post right after work, but lets face it - on a sunday night when you dont have that many customers in the building, you really have to work at it to get people on the dance floor. so there i was, sitting up there watching, when all of a sudden i realized we weren't having the sunday night singing contest, and there were people still in the building and they were having a good time for the most part. time for a dance set, so i play a set on a sunday night that was 40+ minutes long.. and if that wasnt strange enough... they stayed even when we didnt have the contest. we still managed to have the pool tournament, even though there werent that many people in it. so all in all it wasnt a spectacular sunday.. and it wasnt a really terrible sunday.
all we have to do know kids is wait for wednesday - wet t-shirt contest!...

i love my job

Summer time blues...

Have you ever had one of those days where you just couldn't wake up at work? That pretty much described tonight at the club. DJ's feed off the energy of a crowd in a symbiotic relationship, and as I said in an earlier post - when the weather gets warmer, the crowd comes in later. Tonight, the main body of customers came in after 10, and the crowd that was there before that was just not in the mood to dance. It took us forever to wake up and get the crowd where we wanted it: essentially awake and ready to dance their ass's off. By 12 we were almost awake. By 1:30 we were ready to roll. And did we ever!
a lot of people wouldn't think that a remix of "the twist" would go over good in a country bar but we had a couple of hundred people on the dance floor twisting and dancing to the song while we sang along on the mics in the booth. Follow that up with Clay Walker's cover of "La Bamba", and ya got a floor that's really jumping if they're in the mood for it.. And they were. By the time we started the last dance set of the night (hip hop in a country bar?!.. Drum tootin. Them good old boys love to get funky. Especially when they get to watch their women shake their booty) we still had 5-600 customers in the bar. We stay open late on the week ends - Thursday, Friday, and Saturday - after serving hours so that we can get the crowd a little more sober to drive and so that not everyone is leaving at the same time.. It really cuts down on fender benders in the parking lot. And more importantly it actually prevents a lot of fights. So anyway, there we were with 400 people on the dance floor at 2:30 in the morning with more getting on the floor with every song and no sign of them wanting to stop.. And hardly anyone leaving the club. Its kinda strange to have to play a song they just don't get, cause you need them to get off the dance floor... Guess we we're doing something right.
We finished out the night on a really good high note. Now all we have to do is survive Sunday.. wish us luck

Okay so I aint perfect...

Reading this after getting a modicum of sleep today I realized that I should probably start using the spell checker. And format it a bit better. Forgive me in the meantime.. I'm just starting this thing. Progressing right along - its time to get ready for work. Another fun filled night of making everyone feel like I'm there just for them.

just another friday night...

survived another friday night at the club...
not a bad night really, just one of those nights where i just plain didn't feel it. sure we still had a decent sized crowd, but they came out late. happens every year when the weather gets warm and the customers spend a lot of time at the lake or wherever. most people dont really head for the club till the sun goes down. we had the usual mix of people tonight, and a few that are getting to be more noticeable - wounded vets on leave. some of the guys are coming back from iraq or afghanistan with injuries. not totally unexpected
now for the part where i get to rant a little bit
i realize most people listen to the radio and think.. "wow, thats a really cool song" when they come in to the club and ask us to play it, they act surprised that we dont - just because your song is a good song to listen to DOESN'T MEAN ITS A GOOD SONG TO DANCE TO! or to play in a club. and neither myself or the other dj look anything like carson daly... christina aguilara, britany spears, b2k, etc... fine if you're driving down the road and there's nothing else on.. or sitting at home listening to the radio.. but dont ask us to play that teeny bopper crap!
okay.. rant over
stay tuned kids.. tomorrow is saturday!

Professional Redneck Babysitting - chapter wun y'all...

ah yes.. the introduction
oh where does it start? oh, about 5 years ago. I began working in what was the number 1 nightclub in town as a veritable novice, tryin to keep up with the fun loving hectic pace of working two jobs, and staying sane... more on that later. so anyway, this blog is going to be about the life and times of a regular guy working in a nightclub that happens to be a country bar. even better, a country bar in a military town - this leads to all kinds of fun and games, especially these days. and if you've never lived in a military town or an area where the local commerce revolves around uncle sam's payday, then you might not understand the joys of checking the payday calender from the local bank and predicting just how many customers you can expect, and just how bad (or good!)your night is going to be.
the customers...
In the last 5 years i've made a lot of friends who've come and gone, whether it be from deploying to another base, or going back home to stay, or as sometimes happens, losing their life while serving their country. I've seen them at their best and worst, seen them deal with all of life's ups and downs, from marriage to births to even some deaths. they really are mostly a great bunch of people - even when they're sober.
the employees...
5 years of watching people come and go. nightclubs have a high turnover rate, and when many of them are part-timers getting some extra cash while still in the army and students or just regular folks needing a job, you see alot of different faces come thru. some do stick around and they find out that while its not all "party yourself silly while working" you can really have a blast there while making some good money. bartenders of course make the most (if they're really good at it), waitress's make pretty good money on a nightly basis if they have the right attitude, the floormen, well, they dont make as much but they have a different mindset there - most of them like to hang out at the club anyhow and its just a bonus that they get paid to be there (plus the occasional chance to get physical - but thats life in any place that serves alcohol). then there's us - two dj's playin music for a really mixed crowd of every shade of redneck in the area - the wannabe redneck who never listened to a country song willingly then found out that it was kinda nice, the part-time redneck who listens to country on and off again, and the redneck who grew up listening to country from the day he was born. we get 'em all.. and then some. we try to make sure we can keep them all happy and dancing all night, with a minimum of fighting (crowd control -making them all dance and forget for awhile that some guy pissed them off when he scuffed his boots, bumped his drink, looked at him/her, or talked to his girl/her guy.) it works better than you think, especially when they never realize whats happened and end up having a really great night.
thats gonna be about all for tonight... its 4 am. time to cook somethin up for whatever meal this is.