June 11, 2025 • 25 mins
Would you take a celebrity wedding over your cousin’s…or DJ a full-pay gig at Chuck E. Cheese?
This episode kicks off with real DJ dilemmas that blend humor, horror, and hard truths about reputation, branding, and where we draw the line in our careers.
Then we flip the script and dive into something every DJ needs to master but few talk about:
musical transitions.
Those 30–50 second instrumental tracks can make or break the moments between moments — like corporate walk-ups, wedding toasts, or emotional intros. We share our curated list of go-to tracks and explain:
- Why you don’t want these songs in your dance set
- What makes a great transition song (and when to use it)
- How subtle musical cues elevate the entire event experience
Finally, we tackle the dreaded sentence:
“Just so you know… our guests probably won’t dance.”
We walk through strategies to warm up the room, change the vibe, and create movement — even with the toughest crowds.
Want our full walk-up track guide?
Comment “walk up” on Instagram or YouTube on Joe's Instagram reel and we’ll send you our exclusive PDF.
Sponsored by DJ Event Planner and ESSTART.
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
what's up everybody.
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
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Speaker 1 (00:36):
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yo, yeah, I got some stuff foryou.
I this went well a couple ofepisodes ago.
(01:28):
I was very interested in youranswers, so I've got a part two.
Part two I call it DJ dilemmas,part two.
Okay, and so it's like you gotto think about what you would do
yeah, and then you have tojustify Okay, I repeat justify
your answer.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Justify, okay, I repeat, justify your answer.
Hair is looking premium todayis it?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
yeah, you get a cut friday, and I was.
It's now at the perfect spot.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Friday's too, too skint, yeah, too skint let me
check the fade.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Real the fade, yeah, it's solid, it's solid.
What do you think, sequin's?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
you gotta, you gotta, go with the and then they my
guy does the knife shave or thelove that right out with the hot
towel.
So good, so good.
You gotta go with how often areyou going?
I've scaled it back.
I used to go every week.
I know now I'm going twice amonth.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Still a lot, well for money reasons, or just time
both.
Yeah, I quit went straight.
Just uh, one guard saving thatmoney.
Yeah, dude, it was 60 dollars.
I know that's crazy, I'm bald.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's crazy.
Hey, by the way, did your girl,uh chalene, hit you up?
No, she hit me up, she did likehey, I'm coming back Not to
move, but just to visit andshe's like can you fit me in?
And I'm like, uh, I'll be thereon a Saturday.
I'm like, on a Saturday, youknow what I do, you know I'm
going to be gone.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Like, but also also hold on a yeah, that's cheating,
bro.
Yeah, that's cheating.
You don't cheat on your wife.
You don't cheat on your barber.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, the reason why I was, you considered it, I
considered it, I saw it on yourface.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I did, but the reason why was because my guy I got
sick and he couldn't see me, andso I'm like well, perfect
timing except you.
Okay, I'll add a show openerchalene moves back.
(03:11):
Oh, chalene moves back.
Oh, that's a toughie.
I feel like I like to answer.
This is a part of the game.
Yeah, I really did like her.
She was good, but I think Igotta stick with my new guy.
Wow, okay, he's got it down nowlike we've come they both ear.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Fuck you though, right they do.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I think it's just barber chatter, it is, it's part
of the gig I think it's hard,like if you're in a one-on-one
situation.
How do you not right, like ifyou're in a shop and you got
nine other barbers in there?
Yeah that can kind of like maskthe silence because you hear
other people kind of talking orwhatever yeah but when it's
one-on-one like, what are yougonna do?
Just be quiet for a while.
Great point.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Give me these other ones here.
Okay, I'm ready.
Here we go.
Two weddings Same day One'syour cousin, but like the cousin
you like, like you went to thebeach with and you used to make
sandcastles.
Other is a celebrity.
You can only do one.
Who's getting ghosted?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's going to probably be the cousin.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Jesus bro.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
That's your family, I know, but you know what they
don't have?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
no, money and if this is peak season, he's honest.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
If it's peak season, the celebrity ain't getting it
for free either.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, no, no, no.
This was a paid gig, but I meanthe celebrity's going to go
through like Epilito and it'sgoing to be like a million
dollar wedding and you can makeup like the Brian $25,000
package.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think people know my family knows Like, hey, this
is my Lovely yeah, how you feedyour family Totally.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
All right, I'm going to allow it, your book for a
wedding, but, ready, I'm ready.
It's at Chuck E Cheese.
Hold on, I'm not finished.
Full pay Luxury wedding plannerand know and respect, are you
taking it?
It's at chucky and you could bephotographed and videoed and
back, and I'm talking about backwhen chucky had the
(04:50):
animatronics so I got a guy.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He's amazing you're not entering.
No, I'm telling you he's okay.
This is it subliminally.
Uh, I have an amazing dj.
I'm not available, but I havehave a guy and his name's Joe
Bunn.
He does these.
He's at Chuck E Cheese all thetime.
You'll love him.
He even has the hat.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We might have to pull up.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I'd pull up Am.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I giving Brian B money.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, sure, sure, yeah, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I can't do it.
No, it's all brand for you.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Joe the chuck E Cheese here okay, now take this
one with a grain of salt.
This, this is, bypass all thatstuff that you do where you get
them to sign off.
You're the lead.
Yeah, yeah, just make it morelike you're, more like Joe Bunn
level DJ, right, you're notBrian B.
You show up.
Rod walks up to you, hand you aflash drive.
Only play what's on this.
(05:41):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean I play it, I gotta play it.
I guess if I'm Joe Bunn, I'm Imean I play it, I got to play it
.
I guess If I'm Joe Bunn, I meanI'm doing anything right, if
you're Joe Bunn, you're a yesman.
So yeah, but I mean, I'mtesting these.
This is what I would do,literally, if that happened to
me.
I'm putting them in through theanalyzer on Serato, I'm
plugging my Serato going, ipad,ipad, spotify until I know that
(06:02):
I don't have any corrupt files.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Right, then plug back in.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I guess I'm more saying, I'm more thinking of
this question as like a-.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
The songs suck.
You don't know what the songsare at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You've done no prep.
I feel like I can figure it out.
Okay, last one, your next threegigs.
These are your two choices oftech Vinyl only or ipod with the
jog wheel, from 20 from 2007wow, with cds, you mean no, like
literally an ipod.
(06:33):
So an ipod okay out of, not aphone no internet connection you
remember when they used to goclick, click, click, click, they
had that little jog wheel onyeah, but that wasn't.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, but you had that ipod.
That was ipod, but you did haveto upload your cds to the
computer and then Dump them ontothe iPod.
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
But you've got an iPod, a fully loaded iPod, top
200 wedding songs, got it?
Or vinyl, only Like actualvinyl, not Serato.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, you can do vinyl.
Only I would do that.
Oh Okay, I feel like I'd bemore comfortable than Because
you can't beat, mix that stuff.
You definitely cannot, youdefinitely cannot.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So I, you were, channel paid it yeah, I mean I'd
even give you two of them.
What if I gave you two oldschool?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
no, not still.
Now you're like uh, go vinyl.
Okay, all right, you could youdo it?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
not on vinyl.
No, you couldn't even.
I mean, I'm not gonna scratch,I don't scratch.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, no, no, no either but I can blend two songs
together yes, I can blend twosongs together.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But like I'm just, I guess I'm thinking about it more
from a record standpoint andjust like needles and bumping
the table like we were mobbed onsaturday.
Like I mean, there ain't no wayyou could play a regular record
, right, it was nuts.
Right, we were right on thedance floor right where we
wanted to be, like I couldn'teven see the bride and groom.
Like it was nuts anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, one of the things our podcast seems to do,
especially when it comes to themusic stuff, is people love when
we give them lists of ideas andjust to enhance what they may
already have you're right, youput out the post, you said, hey,
what would you guys like tohave us create a list for?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
and hold on recap for the audience real quick.
My stomach's growling if youhear that on the microphone, I'm
sorry.
Uh, recap that for us, brian B.
What have we put out so far?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I know we've done cocktails, we have, we've done
dinner, we have.
And we've done ballads.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Those are the three, and those were all on Spotify.
This one is a little moreunique.
I think it's going to be PDFbased, maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, we had a couple for instrumental beds for, like
, corporate walk-up music.
I'm also going to say that thiscould work for toasts.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, you're a big, never a moment of no music.
Well, when they're giving thetoast, it's dead air.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah of course, right right, right In between.
I hate when you're like.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So run the scenario real quick.
So John, the best man, isgetting ready to give a toast.
Okay, and then walk me throughthat.
So quick.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So john, the best man's getting ready to give a
toast, okay, and then and thenwalk me through that.
So at that first one, yeah,it's dead air, and I just say
we're gonna go into our toastfor the so let's just say you
fade out the dinner music.
Yeah hope you enjoyed your meal.
We're gonna go into our toastnow.
Our first toaster is john.
He's our best man.
Take it away, john and he, andthen you're hitting a music band
.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
No, no, no then I let him do his thing, okay okay,
gives us toast.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, I have two tracks ready, one that is more
upbeat, one that's more kind ofsentimental oh, you know,
because I don't know how he'sgonna go.
I don't need it till we're inthe midst of it.
Then he finishes and so let'sraise a glass to the thing.
Play as soon as he says, at thevery end of the toast.
It's kind of like a timingthing.
Kind of like when you would sayfor the first time, my husband
(09:31):
and wife, mr and Mrs or whatever.
As soon as he says that, then Ihit the song Me too, right,
you're talking about for theceremony, right, same thing in
the toast, because they'reholding like hugging and you got
nothing playing and you'rewaiting for that moment to get
over with.
Yeah, you know.
So I play a little bit, maybe15, 20 seconds, right right
(09:54):
until the next, until my andthen fade out.
Next up made of honor, kathy,whatever that's what you gotta
have too, because I hope y'alllisten to this podcast.
There's always gold, rightalways gold so anyway, that
could be for the toasters, butfor corporate it would be hey,
we're bringing up the CEO totalk.
What's that walk-up music like?
So do you have like a playlist?
(10:15):
Do you have a folder of these?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
tracks.
I have a giant folder ofbasically instrumentals that I
have either hot cued or cut tothe best part, and let me
preface that by saying there's alot of hip-hop and R&B and EDM,
so it's all tempo-related andout of all of them, I don't
(10:37):
think any of them were ever whatI would consider a hit or
something I'm going to play.
I'm not going to play we FoundLove instrumental, right, but I
might play Turn Up the Music,chris Brown or whoever that was.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Something that I would never play in a dance set
but that has good energy, oreven just sometimes hip hop
things like like a root song,right, it just is instrumental.
And those are either foundRandy makes a lot, I mean now I
guess technically you can makeyour own just drop, take the
stems and drop the vocal out ofit and record it on your Serato,
(11:13):
or even just do it live likefind a beat.
But I think the key is for me.
I don't like to play stuff thatis going to be played during
the dance party and where areyou finding these Like?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
how do you know?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Randy is kind of my curator, if I'm being completely
honest.
I think he does find some incertain music pools.
Um, we use about five differentpools.
I think there's some music on xmix, we have dms, we have club
killers, we have this, that andthe other.
But I'm intentionally searchingfor instrumentals and whenever
I know I've got to do one,especially when I'm doing 30, 40
, 50, 60 names, like at thesehospital award shows or
something I'll usually hit upRandy, and be like you know,
(11:50):
let's refresh the queue, likelet's put some new ones in here.
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All right back to the show.
Before Joe starts yelling inhis extra thick North Carolina
accent about how back in his day, djs used CDs and still had to
walk uphill both ways to a gig.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So that's my benchmark is any tempo from,
let's call it, 95 to 130.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And then any genre, but it's not a hit record.
How about you?
I have some actual examples andI'll give you know when we make
this PDF that we'll deliver tothe people that love and enjoy
and want to know about this andlove the podcast.
What is that key word thatthey're going to say when we
chop this up into a reel?
Walk up, walk up, no hyphen, nohyphen, just one word walk up.
(13:24):
So you're going to comment thatin the comments on the
Instagram reel that I usuallypost and then I collaborate him
in.
So you got at Joe Bunn and thenat DJ Brian the official.
You can find it on either one,but on my reel on the at Joe
Bunn, all you do is comment theword walk up, and I'm sure
people are going to do it onYouTube too, and I have to
manually do it, but we love youguys, so we'll do it for you.
That's right, all right.
(13:44):
So you have some actualexamples yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So to your point, I tend to go either edm vibes,
yeah, or hip-hop.
R&b is usually what it is we'realigned I feel like you have to
be careful on the edm stuffbecause there's a lot of times
where there's like a big dropright, they hit the 808 and
you're like what?
The shit, yeah, and then bam,it hits you all right, right
right so you have to like beintentional about how you cut
(14:07):
them.
Usually it's the instrumental inthe beginning that I tend to
use.
I mean these don't need to belong.
Yeah, these need to be 30seconds.
I have I think the longest oneI do is 50 seconds yeah, yeah,
yeah super short.
This is one that's worked reallywell for me.
This is jackie chan, the tiestoand the zeko.
Here's a little stinger I call.
Call them stingers, I call thembumpers, bumpers, yeah.
(14:27):
But again it's upbeat.
Yeah, they're just walking upto the stage.
I wouldn't use this for a toast, but I would use this for a
walk-up for corporate.
That's kind of where I wasgoing with it.
It's a great one.
It's a great one.
We talked about this one beforeand this is one where you have
to watch out for the break.
But titanium, yeah, I have likea 30-second version.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
See, I'll just be a no on this one, because I'm
probably playing titanium.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, but for, like corporate walk-up music, I'm
usually not doing a dance set,that's right A lot of times.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I'm not either, so I'm just doing the conference.
I'm the vibe setter, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Good point.
So here's what this, but again,this is just walking up.
I'm not getting to the bigbreak.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
This is just the verse.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
There's no verse.
You loop this.
Then here's the oh yeah, justlooped it.
Yeah, that's it.
That's a good one, then I'llfade out at the.
I gave it enough of a turn.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That's actually a great one.
Now, I like this.
The little guitar part a littleexplosion and I'm out 50
seconds.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Sure, if I need to loop it again, I can.
I can just hit the right cueright from the beginning.
And you did this a lot forengage.
I still do them for a lot ofcorporate stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, me too but I know you did a lot of oh yeah,
stuff too, where you go.
Our next speaker is blah blahblah.
She hails, she hails fromPhiladelphia.
Blah, blah, blah.
Susie Smith Right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So here's an example of a hip-hop version.
Okay, if I'm not playing adance set, this is taking a
banger of a track right now.
This is the Nokia track byDrake.
Here we go Again.
It lets people know that you'renot playing just old stuff.
Yeah, like you've got a littlebit of an idea of what you're
going to, yeah I do try andupdate mine.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
yeah, everyone this one, I actually added an
explosion at the very end, Ithink damn, just as they get up
there right, quick shotgun blastto the forehead, yeah so here's
one I've used for a toast inbetween.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, this is a sentimental toast or like
anthemic this is more chill,okay so this is trey songs with
bob.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
A song is called not for long.
I don't remember this song.
It's kind of old.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Uh, ish, okay oh, I know this song, I love this song
, yeah but it's.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It's just kind of R&B-ish right.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
This is a big song, but it wasn't like something I
played Right, it was on theradio.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But if they're giving hugs and stuff, it's got enough
of a beat where it's not goingto be totally.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Debbie Downer, I'm going to start doing that.
Saquon, make a note that we'regoing to start doing that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'll send you a bunch yeah, you will.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, can you?
Can you send me some of thesentimentals too?
Yeah, well, here's another onelike that.
Like bobby, I'll never forgetthose moments, you know on the
beach.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, you know, here's to you guys.
I love you so much, brother.
So this is odeza, who is agreat artist to use.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, I think it's a duo.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Actually, I think it is too uh great artist to use, a
great group to use for thosesentimentals.
This is is For Us is the nameof the track, and he actually
has a whole album ofinstrumentals.
He did an instrumental album ofall these songs.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Speaking of before we hear this, did you see Moby
release 500?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
songs with the stems To do whatever you want with it.
Do whatever you want.
Yeah, I saw that that's crazy.
Did you see that?
What?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Do whatever you want with it.
Do whatever you want.
Yeah, I saw that that's crazy.
Did you see that?
What Dude Moby put out 500songs, stems, sounds, whatever,
and was like have at it On hiswebsite.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I mean this was on a reel or something that was kind
of going around the DJ, butsomebody like you, a producer,
you know there's got to be somegold in there.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Time to go eat.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's what I'm saying.
Time to eat, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Sorry, go ahead, all good.
So that's it for us.
Who is this again?
Odessa, I love that Again.
They just you're the best thingin my life, that kind of vibe.
Yeah, it does have that kind ofvibe to it.
I don't know what I'd dowithout you, the most beautiful
person inside and out.
(18:27):
Why'd you marry her?
We used to go to football gamestogether, right, but I'm not
even really getting into it.
Yeah, it's just kind of liketingly, yeah, tingly.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's very tingly.
It's very tingly, I love it.
All right, I got one more.
Okay, this is Hold on onesecond before you go to that.
Are you in town Friday?
Rufus DeSoul is here, you knowthem.
I do know.
Rufus DeSoul.
Yeah, I think it's going to bea great show, but I'm not going
to be here.
I got to go to that wedding.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh see, I'm leaving Saturday, so yes, I will be here
.
Where is it called Water?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
This is by Snake Hips featuring Bryce Vine.
So not the Tyler Water, okay,no, this is not that one.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Okay Again, instrumental.
Yeah, electronic, a little bitGreat walk-up song.
You're right, I wouldn't usethis for toast, but for
corporates you could put it, Iguess, for toast.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, I'll definitely add some of my actual favorites
, the ones I hear where I'm likethis is perfect.
So, again, you're going tocomment on the Instagram reel.
It's going to be walk up in thecomments.
Or, if you're watching this onYouTube, just comment, walk up.
It might take a little bitlonger because it's not
automated.
I personally have to copy andpaste it and send you the PDF,
but this one's going to be PDFbecause some of these are going
to come from pools, I guess Isthat kind of what you're
(19:48):
thinking?
Well, it's just hard to findthem yeah.
And we'll try.
Should we try and list?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
the pool if we know where it came from yeah, we'll
try and list the pool.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
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Speaker 2 (20:33):
Let's rip through it, all right, this is from.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Eric, yeah, my guy Eric, in Minneapolis, minnesota.
Fan mail.
This came through our websiteFan mail.
Yeah, beyondthedjboothcom, youcan submit questions to get
answered by Brian B or myself,or both of us.
Question Just had a finalconsult with my couple their
wedding's one month out and theytell me for the first time we
don't think most of our guestswant to dance.
(20:56):
It's far too late to get out ofthis, so I'm working on a plan
to avert disaster, but anyadvice is welcome.
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I'm going to let you take it first, because I always
go first.
So you're out, you're on thehot seat.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, it would have definitely been a red flag for
me If I'd known this pre-concert.
I just would have said I don'tthink I'm the right DJ for you.
I would literally have excusedmyself.
Right, you're committed now, myboy Eric, so I think you go in
there and my take is you try andprove them wrong.
I've been told that before.
Again, these were back in theday when we used to take any gig
and didn't really pre-qualifyanybody and we're, you know,
(21:29):
$9.95 for everything and we hadsome of those people I do get
this still at a corporate eventevery once in a while.
Listen, we need, we know weneed a DJ.
People aren't bringing theirspouses.
I don't know if people aregoing to dance.
My goal, my attitude, is to goin there and change that
mentality and to play my ass offand to try and get people to
dance to do what I do.
(21:50):
You know what I mean.
I'm gonna play it just like itwas saturday, absolute rager
dance floor pack song one.
I'm still gonna play it likethat now.
I will finish this statement bysaying I would pivot if I'm an
hour into it and it's just notgoing anywhere.
I would change it to more of avibe set DJ.
Open the doors, let them playcornhole or smoke cigars out on
(22:11):
the patio or whatever they'redoing, and I would change it
more to summertime Joe at thepool playlist.
But, I'm going hard at firstRight and I'm going to try and
change what you think yourguests are going to do.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Thoughts I like to say stack the deck in your favor
, Right?
So a couple of ways that I dothat.
Number one would be if I'm amonth out, I use Vibo for my
songs, requests and things.
I would say, hey, listen, if weknow this, now we have a month
to go let's get as many peopleon Vibo as we can to see what
they would be liking.
Right?
That's number one.
Number two when I get there,I'm going to every table during
(22:46):
cocktail or during, like theseating.
Ever.
It's just hey, I'm the DJ today.
Is there anything that's reallylike a song that you think
would go over really well?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So not what's going to make you get up and shake
your ass.
Like you're.
You're more low key.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yes, okay, not on the microphone, going by table.
Yeah, what's some favoriteartists you guys like?
Just want to make sure I've gotenough.
It's a classic, whatever, right, so it's just easy again
stacking the deck.
And then the third thing Iwould say is, if you know that
it's just a, not a non-dancingcrowd like you could just tell,
slow songs are your friend tostart with so.
I would play a ballad probably,at least to get a couple of
(23:18):
pictures of people dancing Sureand then ease into it, not go
like EDM heavy early.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Maybe a line dance, if you allowed them.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah.
And then the last one becausethis guy's from Minneapolis.
I had a Minnesota crowd thisweekend and you know who's from
Minnesota, right, prince,absolutely.
So I go.
At a pivotal point I was like,hey, I need to switch the energy
a little bit.
Let's go crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Dearly beloved, really.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It starts off like that yeah, I made a quick edit,
so we didn't have because theintro was like mega long, yeah,
yeah, probably a minute of himjust talking right.
So I just said the dearlybeloved and then kick right into
the beat.
Was that on their list at all?
It was not holy shit, that'sbrazen.
It worked I mean either theyeither hate it or they're gonna
write right.
Sure, but I could tell thiscrowd would be game for pretty
much anything I'd kind of workedmy way towards earning their
(24:06):
trust?
Sure, but if you know that, likeyou're in a destination market,
you're dealing with people fromout of town, find out where
they're from.
Is it a song from their college?
You know that they like anotherone that was really big not too
long ago.
It was a Tom Petty song.
If that was where the collegethey play this song a lot.
I'm drawing a blank on thecollege name Massive.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
University of Tennessee.
They love Rocky Top.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yes, exactly An inner .
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Sandman for Virginia.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Tech?
I know what you're saying.
What's North Carolina's, by theway?
Do they have one?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I mean, I'm sure it's Petey Pablo.
I make Petey Pablo.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Or Jump Around, but they play that at the stadium.
Absolutely Okay, yeah, sohopefully that helps.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
That's how they do that right before the ball tips
at the basketball games Jumparound, okay, which is crazy,
man, cause I was playing.
That when that came out waswhen I was in school there and
that was like my go-to at thefrats, wow, like the peak hour.
Crazy Good stuff.
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I this went well a couple ofepisodes ago.
(01:28):
I was very interested in youranswers, so I've got a part two.
Part two I call it DJ dilemmas,part two.
Okay, and so it's like you gotto think about what you would do
yeah, and then you have tojustify Okay, I repeat justify
your answer.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Justify, okay, I repeat, justify your answer.
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Real the fade, yeah, it's solid, it's solid.
What do you think, sequin's?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
you gotta, you gotta, go with the and then they my
guy does the knife shave or thelove that right out with the hot
towel.
So good, so good.
You gotta go with how often areyou going?
I've scaled it back.
I used to go every week.
I know now I'm going twice amonth.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Still a lot, well for money reasons, or just time
both.
Yeah, I quit went straight.
Just uh, one guard saving thatmoney.
Yeah, dude, it was 60 dollars.
I know that's crazy, I'm bald.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That's crazy.
Hey, by the way, did your girl,uh chalene, hit you up?
No, she hit me up, she did likehey, I'm coming back Not to
move, but just to visit andshe's like can you fit me in?
And I'm like, uh, I'll be thereon a Saturday.
I'm like, on a Saturday, youknow what I do, you know I'm
going to be gone.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Like, but also also hold on a yeah, that's cheating,
bro.
Yeah, that's cheating.
You don't cheat on your wife.
You don't cheat on your barber.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, the reason why I was, you considered it, I
considered it, I saw it on yourface.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I did, but the reason why was because my guy I got
sick and he couldn't see me, andso I'm like well, perfect
timing except you.
Okay, I'll add a show openerchalene moves back.
(03:11):
Oh, chalene moves back.
Oh, that's a toughie.
I feel like I like to answer.
This is a part of the game.
Yeah, I really did like her.
She was good, but I think Igotta stick with my new guy.
Wow, okay, he's got it down nowlike we've come they both ear.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Fuck you though, right they do.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I think it's just barber chatter, it is, it's part
of the gig I think it's hard,like if you're in a one-on-one
situation.
How do you not right, like ifyou're in a shop and you got
nine other barbers in there?
Yeah that can kind of like maskthe silence because you hear
other people kind of talking orwhatever yeah but when it's
one-on-one like, what are yougonna do?
Just be quiet for a while.
Great point.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Give me these other ones here.
Okay, I'm ready.
Here we go.
Two weddings Same day One'syour cousin, but like the cousin
you like, like you went to thebeach with and you used to make
sandcastles.
Other is a celebrity.
You can only do one.
Who's getting ghosted?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
It's going to probably be the cousin.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Jesus bro.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
That's your family, I know, but you know what they
don't have?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
no, money and if this is peak season, he's honest.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
If it's peak season, the celebrity ain't getting it
for free either.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
No, no, no, no.
This was a paid gig, but I meanthe celebrity's going to go
through like Epilito and it'sgoing to be like a million
dollar wedding and you can makeup like the Brian $25,000
package.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think people know my family knows Like, hey, this
is my Lovely yeah, how you feedyour family Totally.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
All right, I'm going to allow it, your book for a
wedding, but, ready, I'm ready.
It's at Chuck E Cheese.
Hold on, I'm not finished.
Full pay Luxury wedding plannerand know and respect, are you
taking it?
It's at chucky and you could bephotographed and videoed and
back, and I'm talking about backwhen chucky had the
(04:50):
animatronics so I got a guy.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
He's amazing you're not entering.
No, I'm telling you he's okay.
This is it subliminally.
Uh, I have an amazing dj.
I'm not available, but I havehave a guy and his name's Joe
Bunn.
He does these.
He's at Chuck E Cheese all thetime.
You'll love him.
He even has the hat.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
We might have to pull up.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I'd pull up Am.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I giving Brian B money.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, sure, sure, yeah, I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I can't do it.
No, it's all brand for you.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Joe the chuck E Cheese here okay, now take this
one with a grain of salt.
This, this is, bypass all thatstuff that you do where you get
them to sign off.
You're the lead.
Yeah, yeah, just make it morelike you're, more like Joe Bunn
level DJ, right, you're notBrian B.
You show up.
Rod walks up to you, hand you aflash drive.
Only play what's on this.
(05:41):
What do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I mean I play it, I gotta play it.
I guess if I'm Joe Bunn, I'm Imean I play it, I got to play it
.
I guess If I'm Joe Bunn, I meanI'm doing anything right, if
you're Joe Bunn, you're a yesman.
So yeah, but I mean, I'mtesting these.
This is what I would do,literally, if that happened to
me.
I'm putting them in through theanalyzer on Serato, I'm
plugging my Serato going, ipad,ipad, spotify until I know that
(06:02):
I don't have any corrupt files.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I got you.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Right, then plug back in.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I guess I'm more saying, I'm more thinking of
this question as like a-.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
The songs suck.
You don't know what the songsare at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
You've done no prep.
I feel like I can figure it out.
Okay, last one, your next threegigs.
These are your two choices oftech Vinyl only or ipod with the
jog wheel, from 20 from 2007wow, with cds, you mean no, like
literally an ipod.
(06:33):
So an ipod okay out of, not aphone no internet connection you
remember when they used to goclick, click, click, click, they
had that little jog wheel onyeah, but that wasn't.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, but you had that ipod.
That was ipod, but you did haveto upload your cds to the
computer and then Dump them ontothe iPod.
Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
But you've got an iPod, a fully loaded iPod, top
200 wedding songs, got it?
Or vinyl, only Like actualvinyl, not Serato.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, you can do vinyl.
Only I would do that.
Oh Okay, I feel like I'd bemore comfortable than Because
you can't beat, mix that stuff.
You definitely cannot, youdefinitely cannot.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So I, you were, channel paid it yeah, I mean I'd
even give you two of them.
What if I gave you two oldschool?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
no, not still.
Now you're like uh, go vinyl.
Okay, all right, you could youdo it?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
not on vinyl.
No, you couldn't even.
I mean, I'm not gonna scratch,I don't scratch.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
No, no, no, no either but I can blend two songs
together yes, I can blend twosongs together.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But like I'm just, I guess I'm thinking about it more
from a record standpoint andjust like needles and bumping
the table like we were mobbed onsaturday.
Like I mean, there ain't no wayyou could play a regular record
, right, it was nuts.
Right, we were right on thedance floor right where we
wanted to be, like I couldn'teven see the bride and groom.
Like it was nuts anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, one of the things our podcast seems to do,
especially when it comes to themusic stuff, is people love when
we give them lists of ideas andjust to enhance what they may
already have you're right, youput out the post, you said, hey,
what would you guys like tohave us create a list for?
Speaker 1 (07:59):
and hold on recap for the audience real quick.
My stomach's growling if youhear that on the microphone, I'm
sorry.
Uh, recap that for us, brian B.
What have we put out so far?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I know we've done cocktails, we have, we've done
dinner, we have.
And we've done ballads.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Those are the three, and those were all on Spotify.
This one is a little moreunique.
I think it's going to be PDFbased, maybe.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, we had a couple for instrumental beds for, like
, corporate walk-up music.
I'm also going to say that thiscould work for toasts.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, you're a big, never a moment of no music.
Well, when they're giving thetoast, it's dead air.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah of course, right right, right In between.
I hate when you're like.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
So run the scenario real quick.
So John, the best man, isgetting ready to give a toast.
Okay, and then walk me throughthat.
So quick.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So john, the best man's getting ready to give a
toast, okay, and then and thenwalk me through that.
So at that first one, yeah,it's dead air, and I just say
we're gonna go into our toastfor the so let's just say you
fade out the dinner music.
Yeah hope you enjoyed your meal.
We're gonna go into our toastnow.
Our first toaster is john.
He's our best man.
Take it away, john and he, andthen you're hitting a music band
.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
No, no, no then I let him do his thing, okay okay,
gives us toast.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay, I have two tracks ready, one that is more
upbeat, one that's more kind ofsentimental oh, you know,
because I don't know how he'sgonna go.
I don't need it till we're inthe midst of it.
Then he finishes and so let'sraise a glass to the thing.
Play as soon as he says, at thevery end of the toast.
It's kind of like a timingthing.
Kind of like when you would sayfor the first time, my husband
(09:31):
and wife, mr and Mrs or whatever.
As soon as he says that, then Ihit the song Me too, right,
you're talking about for theceremony, right, same thing in
the toast, because they'reholding like hugging and you got
nothing playing and you'rewaiting for that moment to get
over with.
Yeah, you know.
So I play a little bit, maybe15, 20 seconds, right right
(09:54):
until the next, until my andthen fade out.
Next up made of honor, kathy,whatever that's what you gotta
have too, because I hope y'alllisten to this podcast.
There's always gold, rightalways gold so anyway, that
could be for the toasters, butfor corporate it would be hey,
we're bringing up the CEO totalk.
What's that walk-up music like?
So do you have like a playlist?
(10:15):
Do you have a folder of these?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
tracks.
I have a giant folder ofbasically instrumentals that I
have either hot cued or cut tothe best part, and let me
preface that by saying there's alot of hip-hop and R&B and EDM,
so it's all tempo-related andout of all of them, I don't
(10:37):
think any of them were ever whatI would consider a hit or
something I'm going to play.
I'm not going to play we FoundLove instrumental, right, but I
might play Turn Up the Music,chris Brown or whoever that was.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Something that I would never play in a dance set
but that has good energy, oreven just sometimes hip hop
things like like a root song,right, it just is instrumental.
And those are either foundRandy makes a lot, I mean now I
guess technically you can makeyour own just drop, take the
stems and drop the vocal out ofit and record it on your Serato,
(11:13):
or even just do it live likefind a beat.
But I think the key is for me.
I don't like to play stuff thatis going to be played during
the dance party and where areyou finding these Like?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
how do you know?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Randy is kind of my curator, if I'm being completely
honest.
I think he does find some incertain music pools.
Um, we use about five differentpools.
I think there's some music on xmix, we have dms, we have club
killers, we have this, that andthe other.
But I'm intentionally searchingfor instrumentals and whenever
I know I've got to do one,especially when I'm doing 30, 40
, 50, 60 names, like at thesehospital award shows or
something I'll usually hit upRandy, and be like you know,
(11:50):
let's refresh the queue, likelet's put some new ones in here.
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All right back to the show.
Before Joe starts yelling inhis extra thick North Carolina
accent about how back in his day, djs used CDs and still had to
walk uphill both ways to a gig.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
So that's my benchmark is any tempo from,
let's call it, 95 to 130.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And then any genre, but it's not a hit record.
How about you?
I have some actual examples andI'll give you know when we make
this PDF that we'll deliver tothe people that love and enjoy
and want to know about this andlove the podcast.
What is that key word thatthey're going to say when we
chop this up into a reel?
Walk up, walk up, no hyphen, nohyphen, just one word walk up.
(13:24):
So you're going to comment thatin the comments on the
Instagram reel that I usuallypost and then I collaborate him
in.
So you got at Joe Bunn and thenat DJ Brian the official.
You can find it on either one,but on my reel on the at Joe
Bunn, all you do is comment theword walk up, and I'm sure
people are going to do it onYouTube too, and I have to
manually do it, but we love youguys, so we'll do it for you.
That's right, all right.
(13:44):
So you have some actualexamples yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So to your point, I tend to go either edm vibes,
yeah, or hip-hop.
R&b is usually what it is we'realigned I feel like you have to
be careful on the edm stuffbecause there's a lot of times
where there's like a big dropright, they hit the 808 and
you're like what?
The shit, yeah, and then bam,it hits you all right, right
right so you have to like beintentional about how you cut
(14:07):
them.
Usually it's the instrumental inthe beginning that I tend to
use.
I mean these don't need to belong.
Yeah, these need to be 30seconds.
I have I think the longest oneI do is 50 seconds yeah, yeah,
yeah super short.
This is one that's worked reallywell for me.
This is jackie chan, the tiestoand the zeko.
Here's a little stinger I call.
Call them stingers, I call thembumpers, bumpers, yeah.
(14:27):
But again it's upbeat.
Yeah, they're just walking upto the stage.
I wouldn't use this for a toast, but I would use this for a
walk-up for corporate.
That's kind of where I wasgoing with it.
It's a great one.
It's a great one.
We talked about this one beforeand this is one where you have
to watch out for the break.
But titanium, yeah, I have likea 30-second version.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
See, I'll just be a no on this one, because I'm
probably playing titanium.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, but for, like corporate walk-up music, I'm
usually not doing a dance set,that's right A lot of times.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I'm not either, so I'm just doing the conference.
I'm the vibe setter, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Good point.
So here's what this, but again,this is just walking up.
I'm not getting to the bigbreak.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
This is just the verse.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
There's no verse.
You loop this.
Then here's the oh yeah, justlooped it.
Yeah, that's it.
That's a good one, then I'llfade out at the.
I gave it enough of a turn.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That's actually a great one.
Now, I like this.
The little guitar part a littleexplosion and I'm out 50
seconds.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Sure, if I need to loop it again, I can.
I can just hit the right cueright from the beginning.
And you did this a lot forengage.
I still do them for a lot ofcorporate stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, me too but I know you did a lot of oh yeah,
stuff too, where you go.
Our next speaker is blah blahblah.
She hails, she hails fromPhiladelphia.
Blah, blah, blah.
Susie Smith Right.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
So here's an example of a hip-hop version.
Okay, if I'm not playing adance set, this is taking a
banger of a track right now.
This is the Nokia track byDrake.
Here we go Again.
It lets people know that you'renot playing just old stuff.
Yeah, like you've got a littlebit of an idea of what you're
going to, yeah I do try andupdate mine.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
yeah, everyone this one, I actually added an
explosion at the very end, Ithink damn, just as they get up
there right, quick shotgun blastto the forehead, yeah so here's
one I've used for a toast inbetween.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, this is a sentimental toast or like
anthemic this is more chill,okay so this is trey songs with
bob.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
A song is called not for long.
I don't remember this song.
It's kind of old.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Uh, ish, okay oh, I know this song, I love this song
, yeah but it's.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
It's just kind of R&B-ish right.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
This is a big song, but it wasn't like something I
played Right, it was on theradio.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
But if they're giving hugs and stuff, it's got enough
of a beat where it's not goingto be totally.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Debbie Downer, I'm going to start doing that.
Saquon, make a note that we'regoing to start doing that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I'll send you a bunch yeah, you will.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, can you?
Can you send me some of thesentimentals too?
Yeah, well, here's another onelike that.
Like bobby, I'll never forgetthose moments, you know on the
beach.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, you know, here's to you guys.
I love you so much, brother.
So this is odeza, who is agreat artist to use.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, I think it's a duo.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Actually, I think it is too uh great artist to use, a
great group to use for thosesentimentals.
This is is For Us is the nameof the track, and he actually
has a whole album ofinstrumentals.
He did an instrumental album ofall these songs.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Speaking of before we hear this, did you see Moby
release 500?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
songs with the stems To do whatever you want with it.
Do whatever you want.
Yeah, I saw that that's crazy.
Did you see that?
What?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Do whatever you want with it.
Do whatever you want.
Yeah, I saw that that's crazy.
Did you see that?
What Dude Moby put out 500songs, stems, sounds, whatever,
and was like have at it On hiswebsite.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I mean this was on a reel or something that was kind
of going around the DJ, butsomebody like you, a producer,
you know there's got to be somegold in there.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Time to go eat.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's what I'm saying.
Time to eat, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Sorry, go ahead, all good.
So that's it for us.
Who is this again?
Odessa, I love that Again.
They just you're the best thingin my life, that kind of vibe.
Yeah, it does have that kind ofvibe to it.
I don't know what I'd dowithout you, the most beautiful
person inside and out.
(18:27):
Why'd you marry her?
We used to go to football gamestogether, right, but I'm not
even really getting into it.
Yeah, it's just kind of liketingly, yeah, tingly.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
It's very tingly.
It's very tingly, I love it.
All right, I got one more.
Okay, this is Hold on onesecond before you go to that.
Are you in town Friday?
Rufus DeSoul is here, you knowthem.
I do know.
Rufus DeSoul.
Yeah, I think it's going to bea great show, but I'm not going
to be here.
I got to go to that wedding.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Oh see, I'm leaving Saturday, so yes, I will be here
.
Where is it called Water?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
This is by Snake Hips featuring Bryce Vine.
So not the Tyler Water, okay,no, this is not that one.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Okay Again, instrumental.
Yeah, electronic, a little bitGreat walk-up song.
You're right, I wouldn't usethis for toast, but for
corporates you could put it, Iguess, for toast.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, I'll definitely add some of my actual favorites
, the ones I hear where I'm likethis is perfect.
So, again, you're going tocomment on the Instagram reel.
It's going to be walk up in thecomments.
Or, if you're watching this onYouTube, just comment, walk up.
It might take a little bitlonger because it's not
automated.
I personally have to copy andpaste it and send you the PDF,
but this one's going to be PDFbecause some of these are going
to come from pools, I guess Isthat kind of what you're
(19:48):
thinking?
Well, it's just hard to findthem yeah.
And we'll try.
Should we try and list?
Speaker 2 (19:53):
the pool if we know where it came from yeah, we'll
try and list the pool.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Or, if there's a Spotify link, maybe we can put
the Spotify link.
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We got a quick question here,quick question.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Let's rip through it, all right, this is from.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Eric, yeah, my guy Eric, in Minneapolis, minnesota.
Fan mail.
This came through our websiteFan mail.
Yeah, beyondthedjboothcom, youcan submit questions to get
answered by Brian B or myself,or both of us.
Question Just had a finalconsult with my couple their
wedding's one month out and theytell me for the first time we
don't think most of our guestswant to dance.
(20:56):
It's far too late to get out ofthis, so I'm working on a plan
to avert disaster, but anyadvice is welcome.
What would you do?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I'm going to let you take it first, because I always
go first.
So you're out, you're on thehot seat.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, it would have definitely been a red flag for
me If I'd known this pre-concert.
I just would have said I don'tthink I'm the right DJ for you.
I would literally have excusedmyself.
Right, you're committed now, myboy Eric, so I think you go in
there and my take is you try andprove them wrong.
I've been told that before.
Again, these were back in theday when we used to take any gig
and didn't really pre-qualifyanybody and we're, you know,
(21:29):
$9.95 for everything and we hadsome of those people I do get
this still at a corporate eventevery once in a while.
Listen, we need, we know weneed a DJ.
People aren't bringing theirspouses.
I don't know if people aregoing to dance.
My goal, my attitude, is to goin there and change that
mentality and to play my ass offand to try and get people to
dance to do what I do.
(21:50):
You know what I mean.
I'm gonna play it just like itwas saturday, absolute rager
dance floor pack song one.
I'm still gonna play it likethat now.
I will finish this statement bysaying I would pivot if I'm an
hour into it and it's just notgoing anywhere.
I would change it to more of avibe set DJ.
Open the doors, let them playcornhole or smoke cigars out on
(22:11):
the patio or whatever they'redoing, and I would change it
more to summertime Joe at thepool playlist.
But, I'm going hard at firstRight and I'm going to try and
change what you think yourguests are going to do.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Thoughts I like to say stack the deck in your favor
, Right?
So a couple of ways that I dothat.
Number one would be if I'm amonth out, I use Vibo for my
songs, requests and things.
I would say, hey, listen, if weknow this, now we have a month
to go let's get as many peopleon Vibo as we can to see what
they would be liking.
Right?
That's number one.
Number two when I get there,I'm going to every table during
(22:46):
cocktail or during, like theseating.
Ever.
It's just hey, I'm the DJ today.
Is there anything that's reallylike a song that you think
would go over really well?
Speaker 1 (22:53):
So not what's going to make you get up and shake
your ass.
Like you're.
You're more low key.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yes, okay, not on the microphone, going by table.
Yeah, what's some favoriteartists you guys like?
Just want to make sure I've gotenough.
It's a classic, whatever, right, so it's just easy again
stacking the deck.
And then the third thing Iwould say is, if you know that
it's just a, not a non-dancingcrowd like you could just tell,
slow songs are your friend tostart with so.
I would play a ballad probably,at least to get a couple of
(23:18):
pictures of people dancing Sureand then ease into it, not go
like EDM heavy early.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Maybe a line dance, if you allowed them.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah.
And then the last one becausethis guy's from Minneapolis.
I had a Minnesota crowd thisweekend and you know who's from
Minnesota, right, prince,absolutely.
So I go.
At a pivotal point I was like,hey, I need to switch the energy
a little bit.
Let's go crazy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Dearly beloved, really.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It starts off like that yeah, I made a quick edit,
so we didn't have because theintro was like mega long, yeah,
yeah, probably a minute of himjust talking right.
So I just said the dearlybeloved and then kick right into
the beat.
Was that on their list at all?
It was not holy shit, that'sbrazen.
It worked I mean either theyeither hate it or they're gonna
write right.
Sure, but I could tell thiscrowd would be game for pretty
much anything I'd kind of workedmy way towards earning their
(24:06):
trust?
Sure, but if you know that, likeyou're in a destination market,
you're dealing with people fromout of town, find out where
they're from.
Is it a song from their college?
You know that they like anotherone that was really big not too
long ago.
It was a Tom Petty song.
If that was where the collegethey play this song a lot.
I'm drawing a blank on thecollege name Massive.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
University of Tennessee.
They love Rocky Top.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yes, exactly An inner .
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Sandman for Virginia.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Tech?
I know what you're saying.
What's North Carolina's, by theway?
Do they have one?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I mean, I'm sure it's Petey Pablo.
I make Petey Pablo.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Or Jump Around, but they play that at the stadium.
Absolutely Okay, yeah, sohopefully that helps.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
That's how they do that right before the ball tips
at the basketball games Jumparound, okay, which is crazy,
man, cause I was playing.
That when that came out waswhen I was in school there and
that was like my go-to at thefrats, wow, like the peak hour.
Crazy Good stuff.
Let's put a bow on it and keepon moving with recording.
Every Wednesday, these come out.
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