middle aged djs........

[DJ Becka]

oh god!
sven is just letting the cat out of the bag really
it's just an extremely paranoid statement saying
" this town aint big enough for the both of us"
dustin you did an admirable job defending his corner
but sorry sven you are wrong , you are paranoid , and yeah you'll probably be replaced someday..... by my son????

i'm 35 i live off my djing because i simply do not have time to do anything else
i write fewer tracks these days because of djing commitments
and i play parties with 2/3000 people in south america when i only play to 2/300 people in other countries......

am i a middle class dj??
i really couldn't give a ........

but like any sensible human being i am aware that my djing existence is finite , i have a family to support , and i do have plans for the future that don't involve djing....

but sven , naff off and get old gracefully mate !
there's a whole world of opportunity out there for the taking , switching jobs is not impossible for anyone in their 20-40s , but maybe it is for sven
and maybe that's what he's really saying.

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Sven isnt the only person I've heard comments like this from.....well-similar comments.....and I'm not going to name names on here-but I really am starting to think that some of these so-called 'bigger' artists are paranoid that somelike like me-or anyone else in the industy-is going to steal their bread and butter one day....

Maybe they should be scared though....there are plenty of other artists out there that dont have the $10,000+ pricetag that some of these guys do-that are just as good, if not better than them-and I think some of the promoters out there are starting to realize that......

Aside from that though, I definitely think it's good to have a 'backup' plan-something to fall back on in case things didnt work out or something else came up....no matter what age you are.....

[TechMouse]

and i still get carded for cigarettes at 33, if that means anything... ;)

Ah, what an omen. A clear sign from the heavens that you should keep DJing, if ever there was one.

[djshiva]

and i still get carded for cigarettes at 33, if that means anything... ;)

Ah, what an omen. A clear sign from the heavens that you should keep DJing, if ever there was one.

well, at the very least it means i could probably keep going til 40, and none would be the wiser... ;)

[TechMouse]

he didn't say you should quit dj'n he's saying you should have a back up plan as well. which is a sensible idea

I'd be very interested to know what Sven's back-up plan was, on the off-chance that he hadn't had the luck he did.

I've yet to meet a (professional) DJ or producer who hasn't attributed some amount of their success to at least a little blind luck, (meeting the right people, being in the right place at the right time etc.), and when I do I'll show you a rather arrogant man (or woman).

Possibly he could have replaced Rutger Hauer in the Guiness adverts...