This is a universal problem for musicians especially in the performance
area. It's just as hard to find a really workable guitarist or bassist.
Even though there are a ton of them out there the same problems still
arise...great technical skills, but lacking in heart or too much ego, to
little confidence.
on the other side of it, in a way it's like mixing apples and oranges. At
heart the DJ and the performance musician want to make the people and
him/her self happy, but in practice the DJ has the luxery of running a one
person show. it's harder for the flutist to get out there alone and make a
room full of people dance.
j
>
>To be honest, I've always had a problem trying to work with a turntablist
>musically. Not much in the
>way of attitude, but musical input/roles...
>
>Battle DJs appeal to me since they have the technical skillz, but, I dunno,
>when I try to discuss musical vision
>they don't seem to get it. Some of them just wanna battle. Some are real
>gifted musically but they don't wanna play out, they just wanna stay in the
>studio. Some are down for performing but totally lack the skills. The only
>time I've worked with DJs live, I'd just tell them, okay, scratch
>during this section, for the next song, don't scratch so much, then the
>next song go nuts during the breaks, etc.
>
>Ideally I'd like a DJ to not just be a turntablist but a soundfreak as
>well, working effects, filters, maybe even playing samples. But I'm still
>hard-pressed to find one.
>
>Elson
>
>
>- 30 -
>: . elson trinidad, los angeles, california, usa
>: . elson@westworld.com : www.westworld.com/~elson
>: . groove to the futurethnic beats of e:trinity at www.e-trinity.org and
>www.mp3.com.etrinity
>
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at
http://profiles.msn.com.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Nov 14 2000 - 19:34:18 MET