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................yep, this month it has been 32 years since I started DJing!!! (January 1977) Do I get an MBE or something??? LOL. Although I had been 'helping' my mates on their disco for several years before that, still drink with one of them every week, he retired from DJing in 1992.

30 years since I first played with an Apple IIe microcomputer then went to college evening classes and wrote my first payroll program on a Commodore Pet computer. Never in my wildest dreams did I think years later I would be DJing with a computer!!! :-)

29 years since I bought my first BBC Microcomputer and went to college for Computer Studies full time

23 years since I started DJing with Video tapes mixed into my sets (only for 2 years)

10 1/2 years since starting with mp3s with VTT (Virtual TurnTables) on a tower computer and Windows 98.

9 years since starting with laptops and XP running the old PCDJ RED and BLUE with DMC-01 Controller (and becoming a self-employed DJ).

My residency every Saturday is in the same niteclub on the same stage I started on in 1977, although it's changed hands (and names) a few times and has been revamped many times.

What a journey!!! Enjoy it as much now as when I first started. :-)

http://www.deejayles.com
 
geposted Tue 06 Jan 09 @ 3:21 am
Congratulations DJ Soulman ! =D 1977... I wasn't even born ! =P

Happy new year =)
 
old git.... lol
 
Haha i started 1976--welcome to the club
 
Congratulations! Oldies Goldies time! :D Hope you are still in 70s / 80s ;)
 
Great, when you start for DJING i was 7years old and play trumpet around the xmas tree, lol ;-)
Good to see how long a DJ can have fun!
Take care
Haui
 
Great stuff.

You must have been DJing when Consett was a red and dusty place.

Well done

Andy
 
he gave the town elders the plans... lol (i know i'm a cheeky git)
 
congratulations

i was there when Elvis Presley invented electricity , making it possible for Leslie West to play the first electric guitar ......
 
Hey DJ Soulman,

I too started DJing in 1977 around October or so. Congrats to you and your journey. I started out using a Bogen CHB-100 mono
tube amp, (2) Marsland Projector Column Speakers, (2) BSR ceramic cartridge turntables, a Sony Reel-to Reel and homemade lights. I then bought a used MeteorSonalite 3000 color organ. I purchased a second one of these units, used a year later. I still have all this gear and the amp and controllers work fine. Tossed the tuntables though. I then upgrade to (2) Pioneer belt drive turntables and a small
disco mixer which had two phonos and a line input with crossfader and cue. It was a little wedge shaped thing. Still have it.
My gear has changed alot since then but I still have all my albums, 45s, reels and cassettes. Just can't bear to toss them.
I think one of the first pieces I played was Dr. Love by First Choice. I started doing dances for a Scout group and I charged
$20.00 a night. I got paid in $1.00 bills as that is what it cost to get in. WOW! Those were the days. My all time favorite
song was Instant Replay by Dan Hartman. I'm still going strong at 48 and VDJ is helping.

Best wishes,

DGee
 
Massive congratulations!! What an achievement!
 
Hello @ all,

I'm the Senior ???

My first Gig was Summer '67 ;-)

... and the Beat goes on!

Greetings from Good Old Germany

http://www.oldies2000.de
 
Thats Great...
I'm right there with ya Soul!!!

I started as a freshman in high school doing parties, dances and then Events all started in 76.
When I turned 18 I was working clubs as back then the drinking age was 18 :)) (Hell Yea)
Actually, I remember at that time Marcus Shultz was with us in the Boston record pool at that time.
(only 128 members DJs) Back then
As of now I'm still at it from Clubs world wide & building and tuning club systems
& I Still do Weddings, Events Functions and Studio.

Peace... (Keep in Spinning)

DJ Johnny Mark
 


Using Virtual TurnTables (VTT) 3rd of November, 2001, Freemasons Ballroom (Friday and Saturday residency).

The monitor and tower died years ago (still sitting next to my desk!)

Still using the mixer at home, and even still using the mouse and mouse mat!
 
is that a citronic mixer plate i can see there, brings back loads of memorys if it is...
 
1970..DAMN i was still swimmin in ma daddy's ...you know what and my momma's you know what..ahahahhahahahhahahahahaha..WAITING TO GET PROCESSED ..lmao
 
tayla wrote :
is that a citronic mixer plate i can see there, brings back loads of memorys if it is...


On the left in front of the turntable? Yeh, I think it was. Belonged to the pub along with the two CD players and Karaoke player on the right! .................as well as the two wooden barrels and old door for a bench LOL. Happy times :-)

I believe Stan Laurel, Charlie Chaplin and Vera Lynn performed on that stage way way back...... seriously!!! Wonderful old ballroom with a properly sprung dancefloor.

The cream and red parts in the pic below are still used today, however, the ballroom and old theatre above it on the left of the pic are not.

The upstairs part behind the lampost on the extreme right is another room/disco where I worked for two years from 1986 when playing with Video tapes. It's a huge building still belonging to the same family.
 
bloody hell, beer barrels... reminds me of Peir 69 on the quayside, lol, one of the first double decks that I ever used were citronic before that it was two... not going there, giving to much away on how long the beard could be. So glad I don't have to lump all that black stuff about anymore so would the transit if it were still alive... lol.
 
tayla wrote :
bloody hell, beer barrels... reminds me of Peir 69 on the quayside, lol, one of the first double decks that I ever used were citronic before that it was two... not going there, giving to much away on how long the beard could be. So glad I don't have to lump all that black stuff about anymore so would the transit if it were still alive... lol.


Ha ha ha Tayla, unfortunately, I go back even further than that. Was roadie for a band from late '69 onwards (passed my test in March '70). They had their first gig in that ballroom, you may remember them (......if you dare admit it!!!).

I'm 136 years old BTW LOL

If you want some bedtime reading try this ----->>> http://www.thebullfrogstory.co.uk/
 
na it was the beer barrels that got me thinking of Pier 69, cut my teeth as they say in the old social clubs but most of them have gone nowadays, then i started doing lighting for north east bands like the Steve Brown Band, The Piranhas, Junco's, East Side Torpedo's and a host of others for a couple of years, then got into booking bands for a pub group, wey hey they were great times...
 
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