As is so frequently the case, you make excellent points.
But if no one is paying attention to the DJ, it will then be impossible for him/her to call attention to the stage or impart information. Everyone will just ignore him except the dancers (who are trained to listen for their names to avoid fines for not showing up onstage), and possibly the managers who think cheese is a valuable asset in a DJ.
And it is very true that some clubs have such horrible acoustics that even the best DJ will have great difficulty being understood. By far the biggest club in Daytona is like this--the head DJ there has a good voice, but I'm damned if I can understand him unless I really strain to figure out what he is saying. The last club I worked in down here was like that as well. For the first time in my career I had a manager tell me he couldn't understand what I was saying (though others told me it wasn't really a problem).
Considering the fact that one of his 'boys', the bouncer trying to be a DJ there, had an extremely weak voice that was very difficult to understand under any circumstances, I was and am skeptical as to the severity of the problem. However on one of my nights off I heard the third DJ, who had an excellent powerful voice of great clarity, better in the fucking bathroom of the secondary bar/stage part of the club than I could out on the main floor. Considering they spent over a million dollars on the new club/expansion, somebody really fucked up acoustics-wise.
I think also that PDJ is reacting not so much to any specific comments in this thread, but to the absurd assertions we have seen elsewhere in SW, i.e. no DJ anywhere is worth more than a 5$ tip, no DJ anywhere actually employs brain cells, no DJ anywhere should ever make more than any dancer, etc. I myself have irritated him in the past, I suspect, with my liberal DJ bashing.
It's the same sort of reaction we so often see in SG when there is the slightest hint of stereotyping going on in a post, even when it comes from other dancers. What we see here in his case is actually far less defensive than so many of the replies I have seen from dancer members in SG, in reaction to real or imagined slights to the profession/stereotyping.
That's my impression, anyway.




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all very lame in my opinion.

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