Any DJ is eager to get out there and get into it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who, unconciously or not, know how to take advantage of that.
Unless you play out for a living or at least most weekends (in which case abuse from promoters and clubs, indifference from the punters and, of course, crapola equipment are so ordinary you just let it slide by most of the time), MEK's story is all too common. It's bad enough with all that, but the DJ-to-DJ head games make it worse. The disorganization and just outright lameness of how many DJs deal with each other is one of the reasons I basically stopped trying to play out very much. The lack of self-respect in the dance music just feeds on itself. You can have an event where things are organized, the equipment is good, the sets are on time and you *throw down*. I've been in a couple of crews where that has been the norm for a decade and more. But generally, the ego, the randomness and the undercurrent of outright greed that runs through a lot of the DJ world is real stale. -- fh
