I Fell In Love With The DJ ...

This may sound a little embarrassing but when I was in my teens and in college I had this desire to be a disc jockey! Yes, really I did. That was on top of a few other ambitions I had like being a Policeman, a break dancer, a spy and of course, supreme ruler of the world ... LOL!

But seriously, there was a time in the late eighties when I was in college with my buddies, I had this cravings to be a hip DJ. This was during the time of those house party trends where it was the in thing to throw a dance party in your house with all the disco lights, a mobile DJ unit, loads of beers, women and all that ... hehehe ...

I used to attend quite a bit of these house parties, even gate crashed a few cos it was even more cool to attend when you were not invited. And the first thing I'd check out at these parties wouldn't be the girls (and no, not the boys either!), it would be who manned the mobile DJ consoles and who was DJ for the night. I've always wanted to be a DJ at one of these parties.

So one day, me, a cousin of mine and two other friends (one of them was my other best buddy Sean) decided to form our own mobile Disc Jockey unit and rent out our services for anyone wanting to organize house parties. We didn't have much money to buy any equipment so we had to rent our equipment. We even had a nice name, courtesy of Sean which was 'Echo Chamber - Acoustics, Sound & Lights'.

We were so excited about it at that time and we even had some 'gigs'. I can't remember how many, it wasn't much though and I can't even remember who they were for. I think one was for a wedding reception and two others that were for house parties. We didn't last very long though cos we were really not that good ... hahaha ... but I did get to achieve my dream of being a super cool Disc Jockey though :D

It was great fun those days with the house party thingy's and having our own mobile DJ setup for rent. Even though we didn't make much money, the satisfaction was there. I can still remember setting up the equipment before the party started, then heading home to dress up and get the hair done ... yes, we guys did fuss about our hairs back in those days ... hehehe ... I mean, they were girls there and we had to be looking our best, besides I heard women had a thing for DJ's. LOL!

Well, the house party trend has died off here and these days it's more the clubbing scene where you got much more professional DJ's spinning records. I suppose it's easier to just go to a club than organize a house party with all the sound, music and lights. I would love to attend one or maybe even organize one for old times sake. I wonder if anyone would attend? In fact I wonder if I can still find someone offering mobile DJ services these days.

I know if I was in San Diego, I'd be able to find some san diego djs that could probably do the job for me. In fact, out of curiosity, I checked out the Precise DJs website and they do offer such services for all type of events. And they've got over a decade of experience in the music business so you can be confident that they'll do a good job for you. And their music genre list ranges from oldies to hip-hop and even right down to Spanish music, so I'm sure they'll have some pretty good song selections for 'oldies' like me ... hehehe ...

Unfortunately they're based in San Diego and I don't think they'd be willing to come all the way here just to help me organize a house party from the 80's. And even if I did organize one, we'd all look pretty silly, imagine a bunch of old fogeys from the eighties trying to dance and shake to the tunes of Shakin' Stevens, Wham, Culture Club and all that. I think my neighbours would call the Police ... LOL!
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