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[maria]

ugh wedding DJs. I HAD to use the DJ the venue had for my reception. I  told him the type of music I wanted... some artists... I wanted 80's. I  said Psychedlic Furs, the Cure, OMD, New Order, etc. I told him "think  80's teen movies... the Brat Pack. Stuff I like and stuff other people  recognize.... and we also made CDs we wanted him to play, songs that  were important to us that noone knew, but we didn't care. I was happy  to hear the night start out with my CDs... some Camoflauge, VNV,  De/Vision, Gary Numan... then all of a sudden.... the ELECTRIC SLIDE,  NEW YORK NEW YORK, and FRIGGIN' ROD FRIGGIN" STEWART! I was pissed as  hell. A friend later told me he was at the bar bitchin' that we didn't  have "wedding music" and how much our music sucked.... so he just did  whatever he wanted. 

Chris Rapier <rapier1 at gmail.com> wrote:  On 6/23/06, Jeremy David  wrote:

> But people do just play the CD really loud and The People love it! In
> our real actual universe, a DJ can get paid $10,000 or more for 4
> hours of work, while the actual musicians who made the music on the
> DJ's disks can't book a gig that pays more than bus fare and half a
> pizza.

I dunno, the only DJs I've heard of that are making that kind of bank
(or even close to that) are performers in their own rights. DJ Desiel
Boy (from Pgh) used to get some really good money for his shows
(especially when you factor in the airfare and hotels) but a big name
DJ at a rave could make a promoters 10 times what the DJ costs.
However, like I said, these people are basically performers in their
own rights.

Now, spending a tenth of that on a wedding DJ is pretty typical but
thats mostly because that is what the market will bear. A live wedding
band generally costs twice what a DJ charges for much the same reason.
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