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Speaker 1: the show. Hey, everybody, welcome to Hold Up. It's the
Speaker 1: Show with Josh Johnson. That that's me. I'm a writer
Speaker 1: for The Daily Show and I'm joined by a correspondent
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Speaker 1: about the hard hitting, important issues that are going on
Speaker 1: in all of our lives. Okay, today we're coming in hot.
Speaker 1: We're coming in he because we're both very passionate about
Speaker 1: today's topic. Has to do with matrimony, has to do
Speaker 1: with lifelong commitment, has to do with a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of stuff that ideally is
Speaker 1: only ever gonna happen one time. But depending on who
Speaker 1: you are, sometimes it happens five. You know, some people
Speaker 1: are hard to get along with with others. Today we're
Speaker 1: talking about wedding DJs versus wedding bands, all right, and uh,
Speaker 1: don't say just let the people know. I'm not even
Speaker 1: asking for your arguments. I'm just saying, let people know
Speaker 1: where you stand. I don't want to give the people
Speaker 1: a second to think where I stand play the fake
Speaker 1: in music. Y'all know where I stand. You know where
Speaker 1: I stand. You know I'm behind no damn fan. You
Speaker 1: know I'm DJ all the way. What did you even
Speaker 1: talk about? What did you even tome abat? Okay, of
Speaker 1: course I'm tem D because I like having a good tied. You,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, want to listen to acoustic guitar
Speaker 1: all night? The fuck? No acoustic guitar? Yeah that sounds right.
Speaker 1: That's in a band, right, So let's get started. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Because you're coming at wedding bands like it's
Speaker 1: just one guy that you didn't invite to a party
Speaker 1: with a guitar. That's not what's happening, all right. These
Speaker 1: bands have brass, they have percussion, they have lead singers. Okay,
Speaker 1: we've all been in a shopping mall right, we've all
Speaker 1: been in a business where you were listening to what's
Speaker 1: the correct term for it, where it's like someone has
Speaker 1: remade a song, but you don't know why they did it. Okay,
Speaker 1: Like it's the wrong girl singing Britney spears because not
Speaker 1: Brittney Critney sang the song. It's a cover. Right. I
Speaker 1: don't want to pay a group of adults to not
Speaker 1: do their own music, you see what I'm saying. Like
Speaker 1: y'all became like I have a hard time believing in
Speaker 1: a group of people who learned the skill. Right. Playing
Speaker 1: an instrument is difficult. That's why all of us can't
Speaker 1: do it. Everybody can talk, but not everyone can learn
Speaker 1: an instrument. I was supposed to learning a saxosphone in
Speaker 1: the fourth grade when we moved back to Miami, so
Speaker 1: I couldn't, right, But I can play with a recorder
Speaker 1: just as good as everybody else. I can read music
Speaker 1: because I sang you know, the train singer, and I
Speaker 1: know enough about a piano or I can. I can't
Speaker 1: play the accompaniment, but I can play the vocal part
Speaker 1: of my other song. Right, Playing a piano is difficult.
Speaker 1: You need both hands. Playing the drums is very hard.
Speaker 1: Guitar all that, and they got two hands on something
Speaker 1: that ain't easy. So you sat up and learned this
Speaker 1: skill to be paid to play someone else's music professionally,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to hear your rendition of Survivor, I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to hear a wedding band rendition of Beyonce. Why would
Speaker 1: I want that? Why would I spend my hard earned money.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to celebrate hon trap this man. It took
Speaker 1: me so long to meet this bastard. He's late. If
Speaker 1: you're listen, if the man who I'm going to marry
Speaker 1: is listening to this, you're late, bro, You're fucking late.
Speaker 1: Where have you been? Okay? I'm very annoyed. But if
Speaker 1: I suppent the time I found a venue, how to
Speaker 1: put out a dress out of, fed a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: Now I'm supposed to spend the rest of my evening
Speaker 1: listen to a budget of middle aged people do their
Speaker 1: own rendition of Rundy. I'm out here. Okay. So you
Speaker 1: brought up some interesting points, brought up some things that
Speaker 1: are better. Maybe maybe atlet but I don't think so. Okay, because,
Speaker 1: first of all, you brought up singing other people's songs.
Speaker 1: That's not always the case. Oh they're they're oh oh oh,
Speaker 1: they don't want to get original music. For some people
Speaker 1: I've never even heard of, Well, why would you hire
Speaker 1: them for your wedding if you never even heard them?
Speaker 1: There are bands that people like that they get to
Speaker 1: play their wedding. You're still a wedding band even if
Speaker 1: you're a famous band. What's a band that plays at
Speaker 1: a wedding? What's a well known band. Who's a well
Speaker 1: known band that plays at a wedding? Any band that's
Speaker 1: hired by Saudi prince. Okay, okay, first of all, they
Speaker 1: take care of you. Back up, back up, Yeah, only
Speaker 1: a Saudi princess, Saudi prince money, Not just a Saudi prince.
Speaker 1: You're a regular money if you're a regular person, huh,
Speaker 1: with a regular budget. Okay, Not somebody who's living your
Speaker 1: life based off of fossil fuels okay, ground up dinosaurs
Speaker 1: and a gas tank. Okay, if you a regular human
Speaker 1: being on a regular wedding budget. What is a band
Speaker 1: that people would know that you can hire for your wedding?
Speaker 1: Any local band they enjoy, who enjoys a local No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. People enjoy local things, I'm sure they do.
Speaker 1: That does not mean that everybody at my wedding is
Speaker 1: gonna know who they are or even care. But why
Speaker 1: is it important to know they are if they're good?
Speaker 1: But if they're it doesn't matter. There was didn't know
Speaker 1: who making the stallion was, but she was good. Now
Speaker 1: everybody knows who she is, but everyone. But my question is,
Speaker 1: but stay before people knew who she was, then you're
Speaker 1: hiring a local rapper for your wedding. Everybody was local,
Speaker 1: Like I was a local comic before I got in
Speaker 1: this here television. You were a local comic before you
Speaker 1: got them at their television, you know. So I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that people don't hire local band. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is that their repertoire. The reason I'm not a fan,
Speaker 1: mainly of the wedding band is that they don't know
Speaker 1: all the songs. They know their songs. And now, if
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of this band, but the people at
Speaker 1: my wedding are a fan of this band, that means
Speaker 1: if my wedding, the guests of my wedding are subjected
Speaker 1: to the song of this band, that they have never
Speaker 1: heard of, right subjected to because because it's fine, they're
Speaker 1: able to enjoy whatever. A band only knows the songs
Speaker 1: are had plenty of friends and bands because I have
Speaker 1: a lot of white friends. They know their songs and
Speaker 1: then the songs they learned how to play. After that,
Speaker 1: there's no more songs. So depending on how long your
Speaker 1: reception is. So say they got ten songs, billy probably
Speaker 1: know about thirty songs. Right, They couldn't know more. They
Speaker 1: need to know more. If their a wedding band, they
Speaker 1: should no more. But there's certain things that they can't play.
Speaker 1: You go than the demographics, right, I can't. But I
Speaker 1: want to hear No Hands by Wacker Flocker. I don't
Speaker 1: know a band is gonna play that, And I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear a band play that. Well, you don't
Speaker 1: know that. You don't want to hear a band play
Speaker 1: no no, no no, no. There was that one white boy
Speaker 1: that was playing that was doing it in the acoustic
Speaker 1: version of it, to the point that Wacker Flocking took
Speaker 1: I'm on the road. I'm not saying that I don't.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is is that the music that they
Speaker 1: imagine their catalog of music is limited because they can
Speaker 1: only play a certain amount of songs. But if you
Speaker 1: have a DJ, you have all of the music. So
Speaker 1: this is the thing. This is where I think DJs
Speaker 1: can fall short. There's two ways in which I think
Speaker 1: DJs really can hit rock bottom as far as the
Speaker 1: reception goes. Not one of them, yeah, absolutely rock bott
Speaker 1: One of them is a DJ. Just like you're talking
Speaker 1: about wedding bands. A DJ has to have the right
Speaker 1: rhythm and they have to feel out the mood of
Speaker 1: the reception. Okay, that's a talent that not everybody has.
Speaker 1: A lot of people can make sure the songs don't skip.
Speaker 1: A lot can A lot of people can make sure
Speaker 1: the songs don't skip, but some people don't know. It's like,
Speaker 1: all right, we just played this song. Maybe not this
Speaker 1: song next, you know, No, that's because that goes out. Listen.
Speaker 1: As someone who has dated a lot of DJs, dated
Speaker 1: slapt with Tomato Tomato, I've done both. Right. A good DJ, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be paying attention to the flow of the party.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be paying attention to beasts per minute. They're
Speaker 1: gonna know how to ample party up, going bring a
Speaker 1: party down and it's an end of the night. You
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. Like I was at an event
Speaker 1: last night and the DJ and this is what the
Speaker 1: number of DJs I have food in my life? Like,
Speaker 1: DJs to me are almost like journalists, right, there's no listen.
Speaker 1: Think about the number of times that you've been interviewed
Speaker 1: by somebody and been like, you didn't go to school,
Speaker 1: you're not trained in this. Like like when we were
Speaker 1: only dealing in newspaper and periodicals, you had to have
Speaker 1: just you know, schooling training and gunction all right, just
Speaker 1: being a real fucking nosy to become a journalist. Now
Speaker 1: anybody would internet connection in Google docs can call themselves
Speaker 1: a journalist. The number of times I have been in
Speaker 1: an interview and been like, ah, did you do any research?
Speaker 1: Did you any research? Like, it's the number of times
Speaker 1: I've been an interview and I could tell someone does
Speaker 1: not know what they're doing. You want to be called
Speaker 1: a journalist more than you're trying to be a journalist.
Speaker 1: It's like when those comics that first started out that
Speaker 1: only want to hang out in the green room, like
Speaker 1: you've been doing stand up for three months, Get the
Speaker 1: hell out of the green room. You're not a comic.
Speaker 1: You're someone who's performed on Here's someone who's gotten on
Speaker 1: stage and said words, you're not a comic. So what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, we've all seen shitty people try to
Speaker 1: do a thing. And this DJ last night they called
Speaker 1: I call them the anti crowd DJ, or they will
Speaker 1: play you've had We've all experienced the anti crowd DJ.
Speaker 1: And this is someone who takes a popular song from whenever,
Speaker 1: from whatever. They'll play it long enough for you to
Speaker 1: get excited about it, like, Okay, that's my soult and
Speaker 1: they I think they wait for somebody to go that's
Speaker 1: my soul, and they never get them. Let them get
Speaker 1: to the part where they say saw somebody like oh
Speaker 1: in between songs, yeah no, no, no, no. If you're
Speaker 1: the person who's enjoying the song and you get ready
Speaker 1: to say, oh that's my song, this DJ is watching
Speaker 1: you and they're watching you go that's my and then
Speaker 1: they change it m and then they'll do it again
Speaker 1: with it this ang and then change it and then
Speaker 1: they do it again another and then and then the
Speaker 1: song they let the play all the way out is
Speaker 1: a song that nobody is enjoying. I will tell you this.
Speaker 1: That thing that you're describing right there, I think that
Speaker 1: comes from people who used to do radio and then
Speaker 1: they started DJ because if you remember back in the
Speaker 1: day when we were kids and there wasn't this like
Speaker 1: um ultimate access to music, right, actually you can have
Speaker 1: was on the radio. Radio DJs would tease out the
Speaker 1: upcoming song like whatever new thing was about to drop,
Speaker 1: they play like fifteen seconds of it, and and it
Speaker 1: would be how they keep you listening to their show.
Speaker 1: They'd be like, oh, and stay tuned for the new
Speaker 1: drake and you know whatever, right, So that would just
Speaker 1: happen over and over and over again. Then finally they
Speaker 1: play no, no, I'm with you. But that's just where
Speaker 1: the person like learned that skill and so they're just
Speaker 1: carrying it over. But it's a it's a very weird thing.
Speaker 1: It's not conducive with parties. But that's also why I'm
Speaker 1: not defending radio DJs or wedding DJs. Well, but I
Speaker 1: feel like for that to come from that, eventually the
Speaker 1: radio DJ played the song m like allegally there was
Speaker 1: a payoff for them doing this. This is just hey,
Speaker 1: you know you know this, this you know this song,
Speaker 1: you know this mego song? Did you really like? Mhmm?
Speaker 1: Here's fifteen seconds of you know why do you know?
Speaker 1: Mama told me? And then it's gone. I'm like, but
Speaker 1: I love seventeen five. I want to do your some
Speaker 1: colored T shirt like it's I'm with you surely rude.
Speaker 1: So it's like those DJs are annoying. Um I called
Speaker 1: the antichrid. DJ is also the number of DJs that
Speaker 1: I have booed. Oh. I feel like you should show
Speaker 1: some wedding band because you're coming at DJs way harder
Speaker 1: than I am. What I'm saying is that DJ's have
Speaker 1: their ups and there their pros and their cons, but
Speaker 1: there's more prose to having a DJ because, like say,
Speaker 1: you have like my wedding, because we're speaking into existence
Speaker 1: that I'm going to have a wedding. Okay, okay, this
Speaker 1: is what we're trying to do. I'm trying to talk better.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be less pessimistic but sometimes being you know,
Speaker 1: trying to because I always think the worst of a situation.
Speaker 1: So instead of being disappointed when it goes bad, I
Speaker 1: get to be surprised when it goes well. Now I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like that's not probably the best way
Speaker 1: to think. No, No, it's it's it's not conducive with
Speaker 1: getting and what you want and feeling how you want
Speaker 1: to feel, right, because usually I've just been a lot
Speaker 1: of time being disappointed and hoping that something will change it, right,
Speaker 1: as opposed to being optimistic and then being disappointed. But like,
Speaker 1: don't realize that. I hope it's hard. So I hope
Speaker 1: it's very hard. And I also think that you know,
Speaker 1: like this, I completely agree with what you're saying. Hope
Speaker 1: it's difficult, which is why I feel like you either
Speaker 1: take the hopeful route, or if you're really trying to
Speaker 1: get there, you're trying to manifest it, you go the
Speaker 1: grind route. Okay, you go ahead. No, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's a possibility. I'm just saying. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you find a man this out here, doing
Speaker 1: this thing, getting it, just getting the grind drilled into
Speaker 1: his lifestyle, you know what I'm saying. So then when
Speaker 1: you meet him, he's like dout say, I want to
Speaker 1: I want to sit and chat with you, I want
Speaker 1: to be around you and everything, but I can't even
Speaker 1: I gotta go right now, because the grind is out there.
Speaker 1: All right. Here is home, but you can't stay home.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to grind it out, you know. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta leave that person that you're with go grind.
Speaker 1: But I just got him, And why is he leaving
Speaker 1: me to grind? A no, no, no, no no. The
Speaker 1: one of the reasons you like him, it's because he
Speaker 1: put the grind in. Okay, So then you're what is
Speaker 1: he gonna be done grinding? What is he gonna be ground?
Speaker 1: He'll be ground when he is completely and forever no
Speaker 1: longer broke, all right, But until he's there, don't you
Speaker 1: want to grinder? Or do you just want do you
Speaker 1: just want somebody who you have to spot for dinner? Okay,
Speaker 1: so let that grind. I'm also grinding, but we are
Speaker 1: grinding needs to stink up. Hey, Hey, I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you the way it is out there. I hope for
Speaker 1: you that the grinding sinks up. I hope you where
Speaker 1: you should go. He has to go, all right, but
Speaker 1: more than likely when you have to go, that may
Speaker 1: be his only time to rest. And he really shouldn't
Speaker 1: be resting. He should be out there grinding, all right.
Speaker 1: If you see him sleep and you wake him up,
Speaker 1: you tell him sleep is for the week. Listen. You
Speaker 1: know the scariest thing I've ever heard is I'll sleep
Speaker 1: what I'm dead. M hmm. I feel like that's one
Speaker 1: of the most toxic things that we have been taught
Speaker 1: as a society. That and um, he's only being mean
Speaker 1: to you because he likes you. Uh. There's so many
Speaker 1: girls that have been been very, very awful situations because
Speaker 1: of that phrase. Um. Yeah, because he might just be mean.
Speaker 1: He might just be mad. He might just be mad.
Speaker 1: And look, let me tell you right now, if he's
Speaker 1: being mean, he's not grinding. If he's out here grinding,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have time to be mean. Okay, when you grinded,
Speaker 1: you just have time to grind and to sleep and
Speaker 1: to be a good man. I'm gonna sleep because I
Speaker 1: understand that being sleep he can make you cranky. And
Speaker 1: I don't want some sleep deprived man, because you know
Speaker 1: what happens with the man's grinding and sleep deprived, he
Speaker 1: dropping off that d like he should be okay, And
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that's part of the
Speaker 1: grind too. Though part of the part of the grind,
Speaker 1: it is how can it not be all right, it's one.
Speaker 1: It's one of the main things. All we really need
Speaker 1: as humans is water, shelter, food, and the smash that's
Speaker 1: true is a synonym for what grinding. I cannot waste
Speaker 1: that this book comes out here. You're you are a terrist.
Speaker 1: So one day I'm gonna get married, and this is
Speaker 1: the thing with the good DJ. Right. So I have
Speaker 1: friends and family of various ethnic backgrounds. Right, my wedding
Speaker 1: is going to have a very large amount my best friend,
Speaker 1: one of my good friends, like their families my family,
Speaker 1: and their mom is my mom, like and it's all
Speaker 1: like my family is gonna consist of like a very
Speaker 1: small group of black people. Yeah, and then I don't
Speaker 1: know out fifty of my Mexican family, right, m So
Speaker 1: the music at my wedding it's going to be very different,
Speaker 1: you see what I'm saying. So it's like I have
Speaker 1: down South stuff and then pop stuff and then wrap stuff,
Speaker 1: and then Latin music is going to be played. So
Speaker 1: I need a DJ because I'm want to be playing
Speaker 1: various genres of music from various errors, right, Like you
Speaker 1: might be playing that La Vaka song and then there's
Speaker 1: comma La Floor. You know what I'm saying, because I
Speaker 1: enjoyed both of those songs, but also there might be
Speaker 1: a bad thug time any song. And then gloriala Pimp.
Speaker 1: I love her, by the way, have you heard of her?
Speaker 1: She's great, she has a very she's from Memphis. She
Speaker 1: has a very deep voice. She's a tiny little thing.
Speaker 1: She's so adorable, but her voice is deep. But she
Speaker 1: has this song and a lot of the song was
Speaker 1: like he got ninety nine problems in the biggest wins
Speaker 1: knee and like you can just hear her small smiling
Speaker 1: and it makes me so happen because also it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the biggest problem, right, I
Speaker 1: want to be thirty seven of these problems. That's not true.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be any of his problems. I
Speaker 1: want to be in solutions. But if you can choose,
Speaker 1: because listen, I don't know, have you ever heard it
Speaker 1: song by Prince the Beautiful Ones? No, listen. Princes has
Speaker 1: a song called Beautiful Ones and the chorus is that
Speaker 1: the beautiful Ones will hurt you every time and just
Speaker 1: the thing I want. And I just hope that if
Speaker 1: my future husband is listening, then he finds the humor
Speaker 1: what I'm about to say. But for everyone listening, listen
Speaker 1: to the song, the beautiful ones and the thing about
Speaker 1: somebody who broke your heart. Don't you want them? Sitting
Speaker 1: in the dark listening to that song thinking about you.
Speaker 1: You don't want that for your life. You don't want
Speaker 1: that for yourself. You know what's abody? Just sit in
Speaker 1: the dark crying, going babite baby baby, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: so happy. I think I'm all right. The thing about
Speaker 1: a wedding band that bad because I feel like we've
Speaker 1: we've we've gone awry as usual. The thing with a
Speaker 1: wedding band that I will say, there is an energy
Speaker 1: in the room, but that can't be matched by just
Speaker 1: playing a song out in what energy. Every time I've
Speaker 1: been at a wedding with a band, I've been annoyed.
Speaker 1: And also any time I'm at a wedding with a band,
Speaker 1: it seems like that the band either didn't there. I've
Speaker 1: been to some nice white weddings with bands. There's never
Speaker 1: been the black wet with a band, but it's always
Speaker 1: first of all, once the swing music starts, I gotta go.
Speaker 1: Also a band start playing genres the music that I
Speaker 1: don't listen to I don't enjoy I don't know how
Speaker 1: to dance too so and they're always gonna play a
Speaker 1: chicken dance, which is fine, but like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what energy you're talking about. Any time I've ever been
Speaker 1: at a wedding with a band, so they start playing,
Speaker 1: how the people leave? So my band heads know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about? Band heads? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: The band heads hired a band for their wedding and
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about the people who play in bands
Speaker 1: for weddings that I'm talking about the people who have
Speaker 1: been to a wedding with a band that the band
Speaker 1: went off, No, exactly what I'm talking about. Gim an
Speaker 1: example of a band going off at a wedding. I
Speaker 1: have never enjoyed a band at a wedding ever. Just
Speaker 1: because you hate bands at weddings they're the worst, They're
Speaker 1: not the worst they are. DJs be the worst. I've
Speaker 1: had DJs be absolutely insane. We've all had off, We've
Speaker 1: all seen awful dj They've been a clubs a deep
Speaker 1: with bad DJs. I have booed DJs. I have recruited
Speaker 1: people to boo a DJ. Just okay, as all the
Speaker 1: bood of bad people don't realize booing is actually very
Speaker 1: cathartic and it's informative. You've never booed before. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say I've never booed. Actually, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: make sure that you booed, because someone who's booed knows
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Would you rather boo one person
Speaker 1: playing bad music or boo a bunch of people who
Speaker 1: are trying to live their dream booing one motherfucker who
Speaker 1: didn't play the song you wanted. Fine, but booing a
Speaker 1: wedding band? What what? What? So? Look, I'm saying DJ
Speaker 1: is too accessible, all right, just like you said it is,
Speaker 1: iPod whatever. It's so accessible that some people that are
Speaker 1: both bad at checking the vibe of the room and
Speaker 1: being a DJ get to be DJ sometimes hired for
Speaker 1: a wedding bands. Though, since bands have to include people
Speaker 1: who understand and play instruments and know how to play
Speaker 1: different songs, you're already starting at a level that's a
Speaker 1: bit higher than these terrible DJs. No, because just because
Speaker 1: you and a band have decided you can play a
Speaker 1: song doesn't mean you can play it well. You're playing it,
Speaker 1: not not. I would rather hear play. There's nothing worse
Speaker 1: than the bad cover of a song. Also, you all
Speaker 1: of the wrong tempo, you're all the wrong key. The
Speaker 1: singer is the wrong singer for this song is either
Speaker 1: too low or too high for them. So they're not
Speaker 1: good at singing. This band is not good at playing.
Speaker 1: Because when you have a bad DJ, you can get
Speaker 1: to the point where, because this is the other thing
Speaker 1: about wedding DJs, you can give them a playlist right.
Speaker 1: Also you can get sample of their sets. You can
Speaker 1: see them DJ somewhere else in the same way. Did
Speaker 1: you listen before anything? All wedding entertainment should be vetted.
Speaker 1: See a set from this DJ. Listen to this band
Speaker 1: before you hire them. Because it's home. I'm at a
Speaker 1: wedding and there's a bad DJ or a bad band,
Speaker 1: my first thing is they must have been affordable. I
Speaker 1: didn't say what I was gonna say, is it affordable?
Speaker 1: Don't shake your head. I was being nice. Whenever I'm
Speaker 1: at a wedding and the DJ or the band is bad,
Speaker 1: I know that you did not go see this person.
Speaker 1: You didn't get a video of them performing. You didn't
Speaker 1: get it. You did not you had no idea what
Speaker 1: their skills set was before you hired them, and that
Speaker 1: is unforgivable. Period. It's not unforgivable such an intense thing,
Speaker 1: but that's how I feel. Also, like bad food at
Speaker 1: a wedding. You should have tasted this food. You should
Speaker 1: have tried this cake. I know you tried the cake.
Speaker 1: I should have had a cold by the way, because
Speaker 1: it's gonna come out cold. It's gonna be cold. So
Speaker 1: the best wedding food I've had is wedding food that
Speaker 1: I knew was going to be good even if it
Speaker 1: got cold. Because no matter how many if you have
Speaker 1: a big wedding, no matter how prepared you are, serving
Speaker 1: the plates means it's gonna be lukewarm, which means it
Speaker 1: might be cold by the time I get to it.
Speaker 1: And see, I know people think that a buffet is tacky,
Speaker 1: but when you're serving that many people, that's the only
Speaker 1: way to ensure that person has hot food. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you don't care about hot food, then like, don't do
Speaker 1: the buffet. It's fine. But if you care about it
Speaker 1: tasting the way it would taste for you when you
Speaker 1: were having the sample, Hey, you gotta you gotta just
Speaker 1: I mean, but that's a that's a totally different thing.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just saying that when I have watched bands,
Speaker 1: there's been it's been fun, and there's been um, what
Speaker 1: do you say? How do you say it? There's been
Speaker 1: something about the band being there that was you know,
Speaker 1: it's for you, it's special because it's unique. You know, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's the same song as they played for everybody at
Speaker 1: every wedding they performance. No, they're feeding off of the
Speaker 1: crowd and they're not. It's a band. They can only
Speaker 1: play so many songs. They have to learn songs. They
Speaker 1: don't know all the songs. It's not special court, it's
Speaker 1: here's the here's the song we're gonna play. Almost bands, listen.
Speaker 1: I've dated dudes and bands. I've known people in bands.
Speaker 1: Bands have the same way that comics have set lists.
Speaker 1: Bands have set lists, and if you're hiring a band,
Speaker 1: you usually have to go, these are the songs that
Speaker 1: we we want you. These are the songs you know
Speaker 1: how to play. These the songs we want you to play.
Speaker 1: It's not a special curated thing them Fucker's no thirty
Speaker 1: songs and then and we're gonna play the them in
Speaker 1: whatever order did you pay for fifteen? Because think about it,
Speaker 1: Say a band knows thirty songs, a wedding reception lasts
Speaker 1: how long? Four hours? Yeah, if you got a wedding
Speaker 1: reception the last four hours, say a song is about
Speaker 1: five minutes, that's forty eight songs. H Most bands don't
Speaker 1: know that many songs. But the bands also take breaks,
Speaker 1: just like DJ's take breaks. Right, But a DJ, listen
Speaker 1: to DJ takes a break, they put on music. When
Speaker 1: a band takes a break. There's no one playing an instrument.
Speaker 1: That's all your music. No, no, no, no no. There's
Speaker 1: a different vibe in place with a band then with
Speaker 1: a DJ. If only that depends on the people in
Speaker 1: the band. That's what I'm saying. If your band isn't
Speaker 1: vibing with the people, because some bands treat that ship
Speaker 1: just like doing a shift at McDonald's. All right, we're
Speaker 1: in here, let's play these songs. Get this thousand dollars
Speaker 1: that we're gonna split up among the six of us
Speaker 1: and get that all out of here. So, if it's
Speaker 1: you have to find the band that wants to connect
Speaker 1: with the audience, that wants to create an experience. You
Speaker 1: have to get the right band, because a lot of
Speaker 1: it falls on if you're creating this experience or whatever.
Speaker 1: Because I'm telling you, most wedding bands i've seen, they're
Speaker 1: not even really talking to people. They don't take requests
Speaker 1: because they can't take requests because they only know thirties
Speaker 1: songs and you probably only paid for fifteen. This is
Speaker 1: where I'm coming from. I think you would be surprised
Speaker 1: at the whether you're talking about bands or DJ's, I
Speaker 1: think you'd be surprised at how similar the set list
Speaker 1: is for both those people. I understand DJs have access
Speaker 1: to more songs, but when you actually look at a
Speaker 1: four to three hour wedding reception, I think you'd be
Speaker 1: surprised at how basic and how popular the songs that
Speaker 1: DJ plays are because there are songs that a band
Speaker 1: would probably know, but a band has to know the
Speaker 1: popular songs, So a band doesn't have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: play these off cuts that they can only play the
Speaker 1: hits because they're a cover band anyway, and then and
Speaker 1: they're doing the like aren't most wedding bands cover bands? No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: some of them. Some of them are straight up like
Speaker 1: um jazz bands. Some of them are like rock bands
Speaker 1: as far as the genre. They're playing new jazz. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'll play new jazz. If you if you hire a
Speaker 1: jazz band for your wedding, they're coming at you with
Speaker 1: stuff you've never heard before because you like jazz, do you?
Speaker 1: I mean like they I understand they have to hit
Speaker 1: you with jazz classics because that's the genre that you
Speaker 1: want within, stuff that people will be able to dance to.
Speaker 1: But you'd be surprised at how like some of them
Speaker 1: just instrumental wise, take the singer out of it for
Speaker 1: a second. Some of them are just playing mood music.
Speaker 1: That's sure a DJ could do and everybody could talk
Speaker 1: over whatever, but sometimes it's just nice to watch somebody
Speaker 1: play an instrument is good at it, it is. But
Speaker 1: also wedding DJ just DJ more affordable overall because it's
Speaker 1: one dude. It's one human being, or it's one woman.
Speaker 1: How identified it's one human being. And then ain't back
Speaker 1: in the day where you gotta bring in the crates
Speaker 1: and crates of music. Okay, a nobody walking in with
Speaker 1: crate and nobody really scratching records like they used to.
Speaker 1: I would love for somebody to just bring a crate
Speaker 1: and you're like, what's in that? As like the eighties exactly?
Speaker 1: Wasn't that crate the nineties? But yeah, like more crates?
Speaker 1: I got six more crates. What's so? What do you
Speaker 1: need us to bring out a dolly or something? Na, no, no,
Speaker 1: I got my dolly with me. Oh okay, um, I
Speaker 1: brought a wagon. Uh now this he's a will a
Speaker 1: barrel full of vinyls, full of loose vinyl not even
Speaker 1: in a container. It's like, what is this? This whole
Speaker 1: thing looks scratched off. Let's play it in five out god,
Speaker 1: because that's when I found it about the history like scratching.
Speaker 1: It's like you had to buy two or the same album,
Speaker 1: and if it was really popular, he said he bought
Speaker 1: one of them. You just scratched. That's why I like
Speaker 1: with scratching, it like a record at least it was
Speaker 1: like somewhat salvageable. Can you scratch the CD? There's a
Speaker 1: Bone a Harmony CD that I used to fall asleep
Speaker 1: with somebody, but I used to fall asleep just to
Speaker 1: think about that just hurt my heart. I used to
Speaker 1: fall asleep listening to and there was a scratch at
Speaker 1: one particular part in the song, and whenever I heard
Speaker 1: that song without the scratch, I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not supposed to Yeah, you get a feeling, you
Speaker 1: get like, what's that. I find that when I make
Speaker 1: a playlist and then I playlist something out of order
Speaker 1: that's on the same album. When I actually listened to
Speaker 1: the album and the song I'm expecting doesn't come next,
Speaker 1: it's genuinely jarring. Yes, Like, even if I love almost
Speaker 1: all of an album, when I actually grabbed the album
Speaker 1: and I'm like, let me put some of this on playlist.
Speaker 1: Usually my two favorite songs are never next to each other.
Speaker 1: So then you place something you love it, and then
Speaker 1: you get used to the other thing that you love
Speaker 1: coming behind it. But then someone you're just at somebody's
Speaker 1: house and they're letting an album play in the background.
Speaker 1: They're just chilling, and then you're like, this is completely
Speaker 1: out of order. Who did this? Who did this? The
Speaker 1: artist did it? My bad. The first album I got
Speaker 1: that wasn't a rap album was justin Timberlake's first album, Justified,
Speaker 1: And that's when I found out that rappers love sketch comedy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because it was just thirteen songs. And then I was like,
Speaker 1: where are the sketches? Because the only thing I ever
Speaker 1: had was like Bone Thugs and Harmony CDs or like
Speaker 1: you know, Crazy Bone solo album or More Thugs album,
Speaker 1: More t I s. You know, it's like the first
Speaker 1: time I got a non wrapped you know, or sucking busy,
Speaker 1: But like I had a lot of Bone Thugs and
Speaker 1: Harmony albums, which you can obviously hear from this, but
Speaker 1: I heard. I was like, where are the skits? Just
Speaker 1: a term like I do his job? Like I was
Speaker 1: very concerned, and I found out that if it's not
Speaker 1: a rap album, they probably won't be. Britney Scars don't
Speaker 1: have any sketches either, Like it's not like at leash
Speaker 1: Keys didn't have any sketches either. And I'm just like
Speaker 1: when did rappers do these? Think you just love comedy,
Speaker 1: like that's what I'm just like, very good. But for me,
Speaker 1: it's just I can go. I want to be able
Speaker 1: if I'm paying you to play music at these hair nuptials. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm up here feeding all of these people. I I'm
Speaker 1: brought in shoes, but you know, it's like I got
Speaker 1: all kind of snacks. Is a party in this bitch.
Speaker 1: I just changed it to a different outfit because I'm
Speaker 1: about the party in these beach Okay hmm. I want
Speaker 1: to be able to walk up to you and go
Speaker 1: I want to hear anything, you know how the last
Speaker 1: song you played, so listen. I wanna be able to
Speaker 1: walk up to a human being that I'm gonna paid
Speaker 1: money because they gotta eat right, sit there and eat,
Speaker 1: do you. I did not know that sometimes at weddings
Speaker 1: people don't look like the photographer and the DJ eat. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's wild. I have heard about that, but yeah, who
Speaker 1: are these people? All I'm saying is that I should
Speaker 1: be able to walk up to a DJ and being like, listen,
Speaker 1: I want to hear Reba's fancy and then walk up
Speaker 1: to you later and be like, listen, I want to
Speaker 1: hear big old freak from Megan the Stallion. And I
Speaker 1: needed to be able to come from the same person,
Speaker 1: So I don't want to hear a band do Megan
Speaker 1: the Stallion. That's the thing. You wouldn't be impressed if
Speaker 1: about no, no, no no. If a band had the
Speaker 1: musicality to perfectly capture the instrumental and if a singer
Speaker 1: had the pipes to pull off a well known song
Speaker 1: that isn't usually played at weddings. I'm not interested in
Speaker 1: hearing a cover. I don't enjoy covers mostly it's like
Speaker 1: I want to like it reminds me of that music
Speaker 1: kind of. Hey. Also, I've always been confused by like
Speaker 1: the covers you would actually hear like the music music
Speaker 1: m I'm like, I'm gonna start by and I'm like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is who's sang this song? And
Speaker 1: it really is it really? Less money? I guess I'm
Speaker 1: always confused them, like how is it legal? I think
Speaker 1: it's what I'm always confused about. You have to pay
Speaker 1: a royalty for the recording, but then just for the performance.
Speaker 1: I don't think that you have to pay anything because
Speaker 1: it just it would be like you having to pay
Speaker 1: to sing the song you like in the shower, because
Speaker 1: if it's a recording, you can get mechanical royalties off
Speaker 1: of it. You can make money off of your version
Speaker 1: of this song. But you didn't write it and you
Speaker 1: didn't do the original recording, so you have to pay
Speaker 1: the people who basically to the original work. But I
Speaker 1: think that for then, why does not let the original
Speaker 1: work be the work? Why are you paying for I
Speaker 1: think I think that some people, there are some people
Speaker 1: who have really great covers there are, and it's part
Speaker 1: of their catalog because maybe how they made a name
Speaker 1: for themselves is that they proved that they were as
Speaker 1: good of a singer as this person, and then they
Speaker 1: broke like broke off into their own original stuff. So
Speaker 1: I could see how if if one of those really
Speaker 1: hit how you would want to You're like, hey, it's
Speaker 1: worth paying this person who originally created the royalties so
Speaker 1: that I can get my shine off of the fact
Speaker 1: that I sing this thing very well. Or I mean,
Speaker 1: we all know the best cover of any song of
Speaker 1: all time is Whitney Houston doing We'll Always Love You,
Speaker 1: because like they interviewed Dolly Parton, and Dolly part was like,
Speaker 1: She's like, I wrote it, but that's Whitney Houston song
Speaker 1: because she said she said the first time she heard
Speaker 1: it on the radio, I think in the interview said
Speaker 1: she almost ran off the road she was driving in
Speaker 1: her car. It was like, not like it was very bad.
Speaker 1: So I feel like this is a good place to,
Speaker 1: you know, kick it off to you the listener. I
Speaker 1: feel like, maybe, look, admittedly, this time I don't know
Speaker 1: if I made enough wedding band points, but I said
Speaker 1: in my piece, I think that wedding bands are great,
Speaker 1: and I think that for the length of your reception,
Speaker 1: hopefully you find one. Just like it's your responsibility to
Speaker 1: find a DJ that knows vibes, it's your responsibility to
Speaker 1: find a wedding band that actually, no, was a lot
Speaker 1: of songs and it's done weddings before and just can
Speaker 1: bring that energy. I think there is an energy in
Speaker 1: the room. I'll say it again. I really do believe it.
Speaker 1: I've witnessed it. I'm not saying there is an energy
Speaker 1: in a room like someone who is playing music in
Speaker 1: a room has to be able to capture that. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that I haven't been in a situation where
Speaker 1: a band has caught the vibe because a lot of
Speaker 1: times that I've seen bands perform at a wedding, I've
Speaker 1: seen people go and then there's never anybody on the
Speaker 1: dance floor that it's like it's no one you're here,
Speaker 1: because there's but also there's people that really because I've
Speaker 1: been a waiting like, oh my god, don't say there's
Speaker 1: a band you gotta dance. No, I don't know how
Speaker 1: to swing dance, Emily. We want know what you think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is it? Is it wedding DJ for you? Is it
Speaker 1: wedding band for you? Have you been to a great
Speaker 1: wedding that had one or the other. Please let us
Speaker 1: know if you have been to a wedding with a
Speaker 1: good band, send me the name of this band. Call
Speaker 1: your friend and be like, hey, branded what was that band?
Speaker 1: You edit your wedding twenty five years ago? There's some
Speaker 1: loud black lady that wants to know if your your
Speaker 1: band was trashed. Just I just want to say, I
Speaker 1: just want to see it. I just want to see
Speaker 1: I want to see it. If you are a good
Speaker 1: wedding band, don't send me really because what I've got
Speaker 1: you but that I feel like that's a that's a
Speaker 1: mixed message, because no, no, no no, no no. Because this
Speaker 1: is the thing is, if you're a good wedding band
Speaker 1: and you send me your link, you're like, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: a good wedding band. If I don't think you're a
Speaker 1: good wedding band, you're not gonna get the response that
Speaker 1: you want. You're opening yourself up to criticism that you
Speaker 1: don't need. So if you think you're a good wedding band,
Speaker 1: don't come to me, Go to Josh. We're like, hey, Josh,
Speaker 1: I'm a good wedding band. Tell don't say we're a
Speaker 1: good wedding band, and then Josh can listen to you.
Speaker 1: And then then Josh can be like, hey, I proved
Speaker 1: my point, and if you are a good wedding band,
Speaker 1: I will come back on this show, back on this platform. Okay.
Speaker 1: When people talk about having a podcast in their platform,
Speaker 1: it annoys me. Also when people talk about their brand
Speaker 1: on a punch people in the face. But if you're
Speaker 1: a good wedding band, you send you send your demo
Speaker 1: to Josh. Josh fox with it, he considered to me.
Speaker 1: And if I funk with it, the next episode that
Speaker 1: we're doing after, I will listen to your band and
Speaker 1: be like, you know what, Bobby and the Sun chokes
Speaker 1: pretty great band. Okay, So I will I will advertise
Speaker 1: for your band. If you're a good wedding band, we
Speaker 1: want you to know that we appreciate you. If you're
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