So I got booked to play what I thought was a small house party with another DJ. The guy said he'd bring his TTs and mixer if I brought the PA system, so I agreed, and we showed up to set up around 9:30. He went first and got going around 10:30. He mixed a lot of hip-hop to get the crowd warmed up, and we got a decent number of people there. We were in a rather small basement, and it was packed with about 50+ people. He came coked up (if you saw my other gig post, you're probably shaking your head. I dunno what it is about DJs and cocaine around here ) and began doing shots after that, so by 11:30, he was pretty tore up.
Anywho, I went on at around 11:30 and began playing my electro. The place got nuts, apparently too nuts for the taste of local law enforcement. Someone came up to me and told me the cops were here, so I shut it off momentarily and went to go outside to see whether they were just pissed about the volume or whether we were getting shut down.
I get outside and it looked like downtown. Over 500 people showed up that were upstairs throwing down (we had speakers upstairs connected as well), and it had spilled out onto the patios and doorstep to the yard. and the cops had closed off the street to get people out. The road was backed up from end to end. I was not expecting anywhere near this magnitude, but the DJ in me is very pleased about the results of tonight.
I guess I did it right...?
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