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