Would you rather tip out a DJ or dance to a jukebox? Any experiences you like to share?


Would you rather tip out a DJ or dance to a jukebox? Any experiences you like to share?





DJ. At least mine anyway, I love him.
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whichever comes out cheaper for me at the end of the night. as long as i'm not dancing to rap/hip hop or country all night, i dont really care what is playing.





I've dealt with both. It depends on the circumstances. For instance, if he can play my music, a DJ adds to it. If he's told what to play, a jukebox works.





The club I presently work in was expanded from a jukebox club and tripled in size. When I first started there was a big problem with certain dancers who wanted the same horrible songs played 40 times a night, because that's what they were able to do before.
Slow whiny depressing songs, cheesy top40 pop shit you already hear 40 times a day if you play your radio, hardcore rap when not one customer in the club wants to hear it--that's what I used to hear when I went there on my nights off before I worked there. Sometimes the music drove me right out the fucking door.
We all know there are bad DJs, just as there are of course bad bouncers, bad managers, bad customers, bad dancers, and bad members of internet forums.
But if they are doing their job, the DJ will ensure there isn't too much repetition, and that both the dancers and the customers are happy with the music--without pissing off the managers and owners. Sometimes it's a tough balancing act.
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I work in alot of small venues with jukebox , they are so annoyin dancin to the best of a bad selection and I have to pay, also alot girls like the same songs!, drives me mad.
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DJ!!!! All the way. I'd rather give my money to a real person that can make suggestions on what to play and work the crowd while I'm on stage.
When I worked at a jukebox club, no one knew the dancers names bc they weren't announced, and I would miss stage call bc I'd be fooling with putting my hard earned tips in some broke ass juke from the 70s just to hear some warbled music skipping out of dust covered speakers from the 70s. And guess what? By the end of the night it ended up costing about the same as most DJ's minimum tipout.
And this one girl played I'm on Fire EVERY stage set, which was like 6 or 7 times a night.
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Haha, I worked in one place that had a lame drunk DJ, who had the shittiest song collection. So we would all just give him out Ipods, which he would plug in between sets. On occasion, he would actually get it right and play our song choice. Then, one day, he dropped my Ipod, totaling it, and I had to use his CD collection. Horrible. Of course I still had to tip him, even though he broke my $300 ipod, and didn't even offer to let me not tip him out that night. He wasn't even a jerk about it, just the son of the owner and UBER incompetent. He was so spoiled.
In that case, jukebox would have been much preferable.
DJ for sure.. my club has a DJ 5 nights out of the week and the 2 nights he isn't there are awful.... Once I had to give a lapdance to "In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonighttttt... AH-OHHHHHHHHHH...." You can't make that sexy.![]()





Club was dead last night. I did a 15 minute room ending with the Ghostbusters theme cause everyone wanted to act goofy last night.
Shows what happens when strip club staff get bored. That and putting funny things on the TV screens instead of girls names.
Nobody made that much money last night, but at least everyone was laughing lol.
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In one of the clubs I work in, we have a digital juke-box. It's hidden from the custies so they can't put in their picks. We don't have to pay anything to use it. But if we download something that is not already bought by the club, we pay a $1 per song. (Although a lot of dancers don't follow that rule, so it ends up costing the club more $$).
In my other club they have DJ.s. I like all of them (ok, one of them gets on my nerves. Always coming into the dressing room unannounced.). They will play anything and I've learned about new stuff from them. But this club is predominantly latin,so I try to stick to hip/hop, some latin music, but I've found I can get away w/ Australian drum & bass there! (Love my Pendulum).
And that's funny because all the DJ's are middle aged rockers (one is the lead singer of the 80's hair band Pretty Boy Floyd, and yeah they still tour) and a younger goth guy.
But i like the juke box club because the custies there like all kinds of music. My regs seem to like very classic rock,so I'll play one song I like and one that caters to them.
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I have built a system that's a jukebox with professional announces for all the girls on stage, and promos for club events, drink specials, etc. I'd love to find a club to test drive it in...



I've danced in clubs where the dancer programed her own music on the computer(I swear I know my way around most DJ computer programs then most DJs out there I have mastered PCDJ) I have danced in jukebox bars and I have danced at bars with DJs. Honestly I made the same amount of money at them all. I would rather a bar without a DJ because it saved me more money in the end. I LOVED programming my own music. And before Djoser jumps in, no I did not dance to the same 4 songs show after show![]()


Technology is continually changing jobs in many industries. Automation and internet is replacing real estate salespeople as people list online and avoid MLS, tax professionals as people use online or software programs, and even some attorneys when people can research their solution online or set up their own corporations without an attorney. I think DJs in strip clubs will be harder to automate with a jukebox, and he should be in a safer position than the bouncer. The DJ can double as a bouncer and triple as a manager if the club needs to save money.





Typically speaking, I prefer a DJ becuse
1.) I don't like having to find music... it wastes time that I could be on the floor talking to customers.
2.) I don't have to worry about if the girl ahead of me programmed in her music.
3.) Really, other than hardcore anything (rap, rock, etc), I don't care what I dance to.
4.) The jukebox can't read the crowd and won't remind them to tip.
With that said, I recently worked somewhere that had both a DJ and a Jukebox system. The DJ only picked music.. and then would go hang out at the bar. To me, that's worthless and I'd rather just pick my own music and not have to pay him. If there's a DJ in the club part of their job is to keep the dancers rotation list organized, program the music, and hype up the crowd. If they are doing their job then they are worth paying for... if not then give me the jukebox!
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^exactly.
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If you dance in a club that makes you pay to use the jukebox, as most of them I have heard of do, you wouldn't save money--usually it works out the same or even more for jukebox. But apparently you have danced in clubs where the jukebox is free, or really cheap--more power to you.
I am very impressed that you mastered PCDJ, I used to use that and found it balky, now I use Traktor and love it. If I were a dancer I would sure as shit want to program my own music, and would not play the same 4 songs constantly either. (You do four song sets, all four songs yours?) But there are plenty of women out there who will, every fucking night, lol! It's sure not women like you that are the problem. It only takes a few to mess it up, as in other aspects of the business. It only takes one bad DJ, getting drunk and trying to fuck all the dancers instead of doing his job, to mess it up...
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
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In the UK most venues I go to are strip pubs or smallish clubs. Most have gradually cut the DJ out as it's an overhead they're increasingly unable to support.
I'd say it's been a short term gain, but a long term loss. One or two of the places had DJ's that significantly contributed to the amtmosphere. With the DJ gone, the venues are far less entertaining to be in. So they've lost customers - and essentially also lost any financial benefit they gained from getting rid of the DJ.
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Exactly! At the club I worked at, it was just the owners way of making herself more money, both by the dollars we put in there and the fines for missing stage because you would get wrapped up in dancing for someone and forget your turn.
Would much rather tip a good DJ than give money to that wrinkled old tightwad.
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the DJ is not just music
I mean yeah I play music but I am also responsible for MCing the contests my club has each week (when I work the nights they are on anyway) and I act as an unobtrusive observer in the PD area
I also hate jukeboxes cause I know theres gotta be good music in there but no ones ever gonna press the right buttons
Jukebox for this reason. I've NEVER had a DJ that didn't act like a tard though, so I'm biased. All of them got drunk, harassed the dancers, tried to fuck me, if you didn't tip about $50 a night and/or refused to suck their dicks, they'd play stuff like chickenhead while you were on stage. Yep, had this Jamaican DJ do that to me when I refused to give him a BJ or sell his weed. Oh, and I've never had one that would play what you ask for and who didn't play the same songs over and over. It's usually a lot worse than when the dancers pick their stuff...and don't even get me started on the mic whores. Can't stand it when they blab for like a full minute at the start of every song.
In theory, a DJ would be great, but I've just never ran across a good one. Well, I have, but the uber douches who ran the clubs always fired anyone who didn't act like a jackass in about a week. Dunno wtf they are thinking there?
Oh, and jukebox clubs have always been cheaper for me. I might pay $20 a night at most, and I've never had a DJ that would accept that as a tip out.
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Wow you really have had to deal with some serious assholes. 20$ is a great tip.
You hit the nail on the head with the bold part, though. If the owners and managers would quit hiring these morons whose only talent is yammering endlessly in cheesy voices so that no one ever listens to a word they say, I think there would be a lot less trouble with this. The really dumb guys think that's the way a professional DJ is supposed to sound.
I have always been the Anti-Cheese DJ, but in a lot of clubs they would wonder what the hell I was up to and it would never last.
We had a guy that used to come into my club and I would let him use the mike sometimes because he was a great guy and he really enjoyed it. But no one could understand what the fuck he was saying, including me standing right next to him. The foreign girls would beg me to take the mike back, they had no clue if they were onstage or what the hell was going on. But I know this guy would get hired well before I ever would in a lot of clubs, because that's what the managers and owners expect.
Anyway sorry you have had so much trouble.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
George Clinton
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