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    At my club there is one dj that works far too often and on the evening shift... he's AWFUL.

    For instance, we have many tv screens in the club -- they all show weird cgi techno images on them, with maybe two of them at the bar showing sports. When this guy first started working, he would play a song and PUT THE MUSIC VIDEO TO THE SONG UP ON EVERY SINGLE SCREEN IN THE CLUB. What the fuck? Personally, as a woman trying to make a buck getting naked, I don't understand why he would want to put bootybootybooty everywhere.

    Also, he doesn't know anything about music. He thinks SexyBack is NOT good stripclub music and oh, about one week ago he claimed it was the very first time he'd ever heard Lady Marmalade. Grrrrrrrrrr. He prefers hard-rocking punk songs -- not our demographic at all. Sorry but Korn and new Green Day are NOT sexy. Especially when the girl on stage tells you repeatedly she prefers r&b or somesuch.

    He's also incredibly unreceptive to requests and actually sighs and rolls his eyes when girls request songs... often he won't even play them at all.

    At my club tipping isn't mandatory (I will if the dj plays a great song, if he pushes me back on the rotation -- that is, if he actually does something for me). I've experimented with tipping him and not tipping him and either way I get the same level of non-service and many girls I've talked to have said the same. It's not even possible for the girls to vote with their tips (something done at other clubs to deal with these djs) to try and improve his dj performance... he's just kind of there at the booth with his freaking laptop.

    Oh, did I mention that on occasion he'll just play THE SAME SONG TWICE IN A ROW FOR ONE GIRL and be completely oblivious about it? I'm sorry but even if you think that Feel Good Inc and DARE sound the same... they are not the same and you sure as hell should not be trying to make a living playing mp3s (you know, b/c this guy has no cd collection whatsoever) if you have no perception of modern club music today or how clubs run. Raaaarrrrrggggh.

    Come on ladies share your crappy dj stories!

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    We dont have a DJ at our club, we have a jukebox and an emcee...but when I worked at a club with a DJ it can get wierd sometimes. At the other club, the owner would DJ a couple shifts a week and he was HORRIBLE! He was a black guy and I dont mean to stereotype, but he only knew about rap, r&b and hip hop...he would ask us what we liked but for us rock girls, it didnt matter because he thought my definition of "hard rock" was like 80's hair bands! He would play freaking def leppard and shit like that for me, and it totally clashed with my style! I tried to write down a couple songs and bands that I liked but he just told me that "he could do his own job"....NO YOU CANT and thats the problem...then apparently someone told him what hard rock was and he started playing KORN!!! AAHHHH!!! I hate KORN! I just couldnt win. After months of bad music he finally listened to me and played good stuff! I couldnt even stiff him in protest though because he was the OWNER! boo.

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    I have to agree with him on a couple of things... Sexy Back is NOT a good strip club song, its over played and annoying as hell...

    Also Korn and Green Day are fucking great bands to dance to....

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    my club has two djs, one works most the week, the other one is a woman, and she works sat and sun. they guy who works most the week plays the same sad depressing music over and over and over, rarely interacts with the audience and will break the rules for his ATF all the time. his ATF hoever, is married to a soldier who is in iraq, pregnant with her bf's child (her boyfriends ex girlfriend JUST had his first child three weeks ago!) and she strings along the DJ, too. yeah THAT's classy! we're not allowed to skip stages, play music with a lot of swearing, and if you come in first, you go last on the stage rotation (more money), if you come in last you go first on rotation (no money). yet without fail his ATF will come in last and still be last in rotation, he'll play anything she wants, and he'll "accidentally" skip her if she doesn't want to go on stage. however, when any other girl asks to play a song (we bring in our own music a lot of times) he won't play it, or he'll play it for his ATF instead!

    this DJ is also a vocalist in a band, and isn't that great, imo. but he'll sing over the mic to the songs so that you can't hear the actual song, and he'll play his bands crappy demos in the club.

    we do on stage dances and sacrifices that the customers pay the dj for, and part of that money goes to the dancers, well instead of giving us the money for the dance that WE did, he'll keep it as his tip out without asking us. it kinds of defeats the purpose of a tip, which is something that WE shoudl decide on how much he gets based on what he does for us.

    tip out in my club isn't mandatory, but expected. a lot of girls don't tip him out full all the time, because he sucks as a DJ, so he'll bitch and say if we don't like the music he plays then too bad. so not tipping him out doesn't help us either!

    the other DJ is effing awesome, she knows her music well, and has been Djing for like 15 years or something. she knows ALL kinds of music from country, to r & b, to classic rock, to hip hop, to punk and rap. she works hard, and it shows in how much the dancers make. i ALWAYS make at least 3 times more with her than i do with the male DJ. plus our Female DJ iteracts with the crowd, gets them going, and reads the crowd to know what music to play, whereas the guy dj i think has a play list and plays the same songs in the same order every night, all of music that he wants to hear-sad depressing i want to kill myself music.
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    Awwe, sorry that ya'll dj's aren't great. Its an important part of the club. One of my dj's is a little crankier than I would prefer, but they are both prettty good and one of them is wayyy awesome.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blayze View Post

    this DJ is also a vocalist in a band, and isn't that great, imo. but he'll sing over the mic to the songs so that you can't hear the actual song, and he'll play his bands crappy demos in the club.
    Oh man, that sounds super unfortunate. So lame! Oh well, I hope it's a talking point for you & custies ("Oh, this dj is so bad! Don't you agree? Maybe we should go to the vip where we can just relax and talk, don't you think so?" ) It's a change for me because the last club I was in actively tried to reduce the amount of rap & r&b in the club... meanwhile at this club the majority of girls prefer that music but this guy has absolutely no idea what is big in the genre. Sigh! I just miss the days when I actually discovered new music with my dj.

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    the sad thing is, in the VIP, you can hear him louder than you can in the club! a lot of times, i end up tearing out onto the floor up into the DJ booth, and turning his mic off! it's so irritating, and no one likes him to do it, very very few girls like him as a DJ, except his ATF, but she'll only be there for a nother 2 weeks, and i dont think anyone is sad to see her go.

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    What a douche, and this is one of the few towns where a good DJ can really help you out. Bitch about him and, more importantly, get customers to bitch about him. He doesn't sound like he understands the idea of working with the dancers to increase income for you and him -- I mean, I've worked with shitty DJs who at least tried, but this dude, with the eyerolls and all, clearly doesn't understand the gig. Fuck him, stiff him, and bitch about him all you want because it sure doesn't sound like he could fuck up your sets any more.

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    I work with 2 dj's, and they're both pretty good. My only complaint is when they play a song of emotional significance to me (it just feels wrong to dance to anything pearl jam, stp or audioslave). I just tell them, they usually remember. It just puts me in a remenicient or melancholy mood. Too much history. OTC I love it, but work isn't me, it's lola Lola needs no baggage! They also let me request which girls to go up with (I'm short, so when I'm with someone tall it's freaky....or w/ev reason). I tip fairly, depending on how well they promote me, did they play songs they know I love/ or that flatter me, and do they keep the songs a decent length? (espically for features!!!)

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    Ok, this thread just reminded me of this DJ at my new club. I've only worked w/ him twice but man does he suck! I can dance to anything but my preference is older R&B stuff. Kinda like Prince, BBD, Janet Jackson etc. Well I go and tell dude that I wanna hear some Janet. He's like, "uhh I think we only got a limited selection of her stuff" and I'm thinking, "dude I've been working here 2 weeks. I dance to Janet EVERY time I work" So when it's my turn to get on stage, you know what he plays me....guess...

    Sexy Back by Justin T. WTF don't get me wrong. I love the song..but tha'ts not my "stripper persona" at work ya know. Then later on in the night dude plays (get this) Everytime I close my eyes by Babyface. Now that song was just totally unappropriate. That's like a wedding song or something. I was just like OMG.







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    I hate hate hate overly lovey songs! There's got to be a line drawn! No! BAD DJ!

    But then I hate the raunchy somge too.... smack dat ass or w/ev. wtf? is that an invitation?

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    Bad DJs suck. My husband is a DJ, but I can't work with him cos he drives me nuts! Last night, our regular DJ couldn't make it; he's in jail! So, the fill in guy came in... Oh... My... God... This guy sucks so bad, has no DJ voice and ended up skipping me and another girl for two rotations. Grrr... I hope the regular DJ gets out of jail by tomorrow.

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    Yeah... uhg I was just going to post my DJ rant to.

    Our club manager has decided on a certain format of music--Mostly 70's and 80's top 40. We are not allowed to pick our own music or music genre, every girls' intro announcement must be the same. I love my DJ's, it isn't their fault at all but... What the hell am I supposed to tip them or, then? I mean, I know it isn't their choice, but if I didn't tip at all, they couldn't give me worse service if they even wanted to!

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    Usually when a club gets stuck with a "bad" dj its either the club itself dosent care enough to spend money to hire a good one (or at least one that has a basic knowledge of the job) or they just dont care about that position. Many clubs fall into the "monkey in the booth" philosiphy (sp?) and dont spend more that it takes to get a guy in who is just happy to be working with naked girls so he can brag to his friends. There are thousands of bad dj's. I dont want to start the (anti dj rants about if we are important or not...theres enough of those threads) but my main point here is that the club owners/managers get what they pay for. Clubs will not be able to attract a good dj or a competent one with low house pay or especially with no req' tipouts or fees. So unfortunatly you ladies get stuck with the repocussions and the headaches of "bad" dj's.
    Sorry to hear so many of you are stuck with it, also someone mentioned a good point above: Now with the Mp3 revolution any idiot with a basic cpu knowledge can download and play songs and "claim" to be a dj. Just reminds you of how much more there is to it than the music and pressing play

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    Whats ATF mean?? thats a new one...

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    I'm so glad that I get to pick my own music here..."Please play numbers 1-4" is hard to fuck up (though it has happened).

    In the States I've had some special moments with DJs...mostly ego boys who could not admit that they don't know every song there is. I requested 'Flesh for Fantasy' by Billy Idol once for a stage set, and got a crazy 8 minute techno remix. I was like "next time can I have the original", and DJ is like "that was the original. Yours must be a remix". Yeah, ok. I dance to Billy Idol specifically because how can you fuck that up??. Oh, but they do.

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    Whats ATF mean?? thats a new one...
    All Time Favorite - refers to a custy's favorite dancer, usually favorite dancer du jour, not actually "all time"

    And anomar, I've only worked with that DJ for a minute, I was giving a string of lap dances and he somehow managed to play bumper songs that were like 2 minutes long, the girls were onstage and ready to go, it was just his own issue to not be able to pick and start the songs, so I was stuck basically giving my customer a ton of free time, which isn't really a big deal, but mildly annoying cause I was busy.
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    I understand about having to pay required tip outs for a good dj, but lots of plaaces have high minimums for a shit dj

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    Then later on in the night dude plays (get this) Everytime I close my eyes by Babyface. Now that song was just totally unappropriate. That's like a wedding song or something. I was just like OMG.
    that shit makes me NOT want to tip.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scarlett_vancouver View Post
    I was like "next time can I have the original", and DJ is like "that was the original. Yours must be a remix". Yeah, ok.
    one of the dj's (my least favorite) does that shit, i'm NOT a remix kind of girl.

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    the dj at my club trued to blame ME for not being able to DJ properly last night! I had picked out a song on one of my CDs, and was dancing to it, then suddenly...SILENCE. and so he says over the mic, "not my fault! its your CD!" so i get off stage, push a button, and VIOLA! mucis starts playing again. he had pushed the pause button on that player trying to eject a CD out of the other player. so i continue dancing, and he never corrects it.

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