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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: Disc jockeys and NYC (nsc)
Date: Sunday, July 15, 2018
Time: 5:52:29 AM
Remote Address: 97.107.69.29
Message ID: 316701
Parent ID: 316695
Thread ID: 316679

RE: Disc jockeys and NYC (nsc)

First, parts of REELRADIO is still online, as I just took a look at it. It's not a site I ever visited before and looks very interesting indeed, so when I got more time I will. (it's here at this URL: http://ww2.reelradio.com/).

I think that the reason why DJs move around a lot is that it takes a special person to be one, and usually a crazy one at that! I mean crazy in a good way, but most deejays are on the crazy side of life indeed, and many of them hold several different jobs at once, since most deejing jobs don't pay well at all - unless you are one of the best in the business and then everybody wants you. It's funny that where being a deejay means holding a job where everybody looks up to you and loves you, one of the other jobs that many deejays do on the side for extra money, is a job most people hate and look down at people who work them - and that is being a telemarketer (an outbound telemarketer anyway, inbound telemarketers [answering 800 lines] don't have that problem at all)! But manny disc jockeys were telemarketers once!

But really, while having a great voice helps in this field, it takes more than that. You got to know how to operate a soundboard while cluing in records correctly (maybe not today anymore); if you work at freeform stations, then you gotta know how to put a show together (sadly, most stations today are not freeform anymore), conduct interesting interviews that people like to hear, etc. Really, there's a lot to the job then just spinning records and talking over the air while being witty... But yes, deejays do move around a lot.

While I miss my deejay days and I had to give the job up being one when my tinnitus got so bad and I was told to not ever wear headphones again (even today you can't deejay without wearing headphones all day long, a very important part of the job that I guess will never change). But for me it was the low pay even more than the hearing issue, that put an end to being on the air, as you can't raise a family on that low pay while being one unless you got a second job.

But I would have to say that of all the many different jobs I had in my life, while deejaying was among the most fun and enjoyable, it seemed to be connected to being the most druggy of jobs around, and involved the kinds of drugs I never cared to use, like a lot of amphetamine users in this business! I guess it went with the business, you had to be 100% up when you did this job and many people aren't in that mood everyday unless they use artificial ways to get there. While that wasn't ever a problem for myself, I would see a lot of it around me. I mean, while I'm sure some deejays can be this way, you usually don't see deejays smoking a joint before they go on the air (it's something they may do after their show is over). Weed and talking over the air doesn't mix well since it robs you of any momention you have before your show, you want to go to sleep after smoking a joint, not get all excited and talk to people. While I for the most part have always been a pothead, I never once did a show while high, nor would I smoke within 4 hours or so before a show, either.

But anyway, yes indeed, many deejays are drifters who roam around the country in search for their next radio gig. Accents do work in the business, too, at least out here in the west they do. My old NYC accent, while not strong at all anymore after 40 plus years away from the Big Apple, was strong when I first moved out here and was in demand over the radio, people just loved to hear that kind of voice out here on the radio coming from a deejay. So moving around with an accent plays out well for traveling deejays when they come to new cities, too.

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