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[Jeremy David]

I have great respect for turntableism as an legit art form. But I have
honestly seen DJs who are nothing more than jukeboxes with opinions
getting paid 4 or 5 figures.

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