deejaypcp wrote:Ok mate, how about some real advice then from someone who may or may not have been professionally involved in the music industry since 1994?
The Dicko treatment:
This is what people have been sidestepping around in a lame attempt to seem clever while dissing you.
Get a new name, Naked Age sucks. Really. What does it mean?
Don't talk your shit down, people will think you suck. In fact you probably do suck.
I went to a gig in Carlton you put on a couple of years ago and it sucked. The sound system was a basic home stereo.
Small and local generally means shit.
Hype yourself to the fuck, without lying. Everyone else does it. It's called the music industry.
People are usually too drunk or high to notice whether said thing was as good as they thought it would be.
Don't get the shits with people who offer you advice and rebut them, it may be the only advice they ever give you.
Don't use old Victorian slang words like grouse or kiwi ones like choice. People are all over that shit.
Don't get on a forum which is obviously for lovers of broken beats and start going on about prog and tribal house. Lots of people here don't listen to that crap.
Sorry bro, you seem to care and want advice etc yet just disagree with everything.
BTW I actually made you a dnb demo last year. First time I'd ever had to use a demo for a gig. You said I was on and that the gig was for charity. I wouldn't have bothered otherwise.
What happened? Where was my call? I spent way too much time on that demo for the rough result and no gig I got. Never mind about the gig though mate. I just want my time back.
Well, as someone who may or may have not been in the music industry for a little less time than 1994.
The Dicko Treatment:
Naked Age means nothing. It doesn't need to mean anything because Age is an abbreviation of my actual name, and the first time I was required to submit a name my actual birth name was taken and I was naked during the submission of that name. Thus, NakedAge.
I don't need to hype myself to the fuck because you guys do it for me. Todays Wednesday, the gig was over on Saturday and this forum is STILL going on about it. .. Everything I touch beccomes a talking point. So people are talking. Some are saying good, some are saying bad. I'll admit I'm doing this the hard way, and go against alot of advice given, but I feel I'm doing it the right way because I fear if I don't, I'll just end up another forgotten Dj/Promoter.
The forums called "Melbourne beats.com" and says "// Electronic Beats" so where does it say breaks? Ok fine the majority of you might like breaks, and even tho I don't know alot about it I enjoy it to, but whats the harm in trying to get outside communities to listen to something else? They can like it, they can hate it, but they'll be open to something new and different and theres no shame in saying "Look it's just not for me". Someones likes and dislikes shouldn't keep them seperated as people.
The gig at Carlton, I wont lie, they were shit. We simply weren't allowed to fully utalise the venue, we were in a cunt of an area and we had alot of things against us. But I've also been responsible for some very good gigs. Whether you can accept it or not. I don't even like throwing gigs, just playing them. I'm not a bad Dj. I know the value of my talent, and, I also know the value of my character. I simply refuse to kiss someones ass to get gigs. I should be hired based on talent, not connections or how many people I can bring through a door. For too long I was denied gigs for those 2 reasons, and, I saw alot of BAD Dj's GET gigs because of those reasons. Whats the result? We have alot of shit Dj's thinking they're super stars who, again are just another lost name on the ever growing list of forgotten Dj's. So, I throw my own gigs. Who ever wants to come, can come. Who ever doesn't, doesn't.
I screen ALL the Dj's who play because I don't want their friends saying "ok we'll come to support you" then after 3 gigs they leave because the musics so bad they want to go somewhere else. I'll admit, my turn outs aren't big, but they grow. They grow because the music is good because every Dj I book to play and myself understand the value of talent both in Dj skills and in life skills. The Dj's don't get paid, but they smile alot because they know they're part of that by no means will make them big famous international Dj's, but atleast gives them a chance to play their shit out to someone who might be able to take them down that path.
As for your demo, if it was the first time you ever had to make one then whats that tell me about your method of getting gigs? Should I unzip now?
Maybe your demo didn't stand out enough to me? I get alot of demos. ALOT. And for someone whose doing such a shit job of running events and throwing parties and being a shit Dj, the amount of people who want to play at them makes me wonder about how commited they are. We DID throw a charity gig last year, or the year before sorry, with 10 Dj's.
It was our first Housing Commission event. Now, as you said "why come to a forum and announce prog/trance/house what ever events?" well, why submit a breaks demo for a house gig?
Did it suck to have to submit a demo and then not get the gig? Does it shit you that even right now as I type this, I have no idea who you are or what demo you sent me? As someone who may or may have not been professionally involved in the music industry since 1994, I'd of expected a demo so good I'd remember it still now, and even if I couldn't, I'd of expected you to be so good by now, (Especially since you never had to submit a demo before, assuming people have always hired you via word of mouth for being so good.) then I'd of expected a character to stand out to me that I remember.
All the advice people give me, yes I appreciate it, yes I take it on board, but I also take on board who I'm getting it from.
People give advice to get you to where THEY are. To help you attain the same success as THEM. But what if I want a different kind of success? Whose advice do I take then? The advice from those who have achieved it. .. They don't send me demos.
GlidingHigh: hehehe Wrinkly dicks
I was watching jack ass 2 last night with the 90 year old naked chick walking around with the boobs like the lady in Something About Mary.
Personally, I like the name.
