01-17-2018, 02:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2018, 03:00 AM by masterthief.
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That's cool you know Bad Boy Bill. I opened up (former professional DJ here before grad school) for him a LONG time ago. I was always a long, house music mixer like the Frankie Knuckles style you mentioned. I'd spend up to 2 minutes or so keeping two to three tracks going at once. It killed (in a funny way!) me to watch BBB literally drop records on top of the spinning records he already had moving, switch tracks seamlessly in seconds, and then drop a record on top of the other records and mix again like 30 seconds later. He'd have a stack of like 10 records before he finally took them all off the turntables and started over. He had a friend that would put them away for him so he could keep mixing. Crazy style! 
Worst I ever opened for was Crystal Method. They took their former CD's, mostly their first one, and just pushed play on their popular tracks. Other than getting them to sign my turntables, it was borderline embarrassing.
I still have about 10,000 vinyl records from the clubs I used to play at as they would get promos constantly. Plus I bought a bunch! But clubs opened and closed all the time and I always snagged all the records since they were just going to throw them away anyway.
Worst I ever opened for was Crystal Method. They took their former CD's, mostly their first one, and just pushed play on their popular tracks. Other than getting them to sign my turntables, it was borderline embarrassing.
I still have about 10,000 vinyl records from the clubs I used to play at as they would get promos constantly. Plus I bought a bunch! But clubs opened and closed all the time and I always snagged all the records since they were just going to throw them away anyway.