Busy Boy
By Ed. Filed in Business, Holidays, Life, Music |
When I started out as a mobile DJ, I would keep all the planning forms from each job and keep track of all the different dance jobs and venues where I worked. After the first 9-10 months, it was impossible to keep up with all that paperwork and it frankly served no purposed other than vanity. So I don’t really know how many dance jobs I did, but my rough estimate of wedding receptions is about 500. It was not unusual for me to do 3-4 receptions each weekend, often leaving an afternoon reception and driving across town to an evening reception the same day.
Another big chunk of jobs was the Christmas season. I started booking holiday party jobs the weekend after Thanksgiving and I was booked solid, seven days a week until New Years Day. Over Christmas it was mostly corporate events, but there were weddings mixed in, too.
Out of all those events, I only had a technical problem twice and thankfully I could get to a phone and call the business owner to get help. Once I blew out a tape deck and he had to bring me a replacement. That was really tough to cover smoothly, as without the second deck I had no way to cue any of the music. Thankfully I had a handful of tapes already cued and there was very little dead air. The other technical problem was the wrong version of a requested song. The party host was extremely agitated about that, but it was clearly not my fault. I solved that problem by having one of the guests bring in their copy of the song from their car and having the owner talk to the party host to smooth things out.