----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis DeSantis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:31 PM Subject: (313) Re: (tech-house) Bad music...Good people!
> Phil Williams wrote: > > > > If you're a performer, you are a focus for people, and you have to be at > > least civil to everyone... regardless of how many times you've been > > approached, or how whacked out you are after playing 150 gigs on the hop... > > Anecdote: > > Sometimes, for whatever reason, I get booked to play live sets where I'm > sandwiched in between bone-crushingly brutal techno djs. If you know my > music, you'll realize immediately that this is going to set up some > cognitive dissonance problems - next to 3 hours of 140bpm loop techno, > my music sounds kind of like "West Side Story." > And inevitably, someone always comes up to me during my set and asks me > to play something harder. Last month at SO 36 I had a girl THROW BALLS > OF PAPER at me to get my attention, so she could tell me to play harder. > But I always stay cool - I politely explain that I'm doing a live set, > not a DJ set, and that I only have my own music and this is pretty much > what it sounds like. > I see my role as a performer as one of servant, not as idol. If someone > wants to talk to me, critically or complimentarily, I'm more than > willing to listen. That's part of my job. > > My $.02, > -- > Dennis DeSantis > www.dennisdesantis.com reminds me of a funny story: time before last that hawtin was here in LA i was standing next to him as my buddy notices this guy trying to give richie hand-written notes on 3x5 cards... "where is your 909?", "do a 16-bar breakdown". what? wallet, check. ID, check. car keys, check. 3x5 cards and pencil so I can give the DJ notes, check.
