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Speaker 2: very passionate about Today's topic. Has to do with matrimony,
Speaker 2: has to do with lifelong commitment, has to do with
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of a lot of stuff
Speaker 2: that ideally is only ever going to happen one time,
Speaker 2: but depending on who you are, sometimes it happens five.
Speaker 2: You know, some people are hard to get along with
Speaker 2: with others. Today we're talking about wedding DJs versus wedding bands.
Speaker 2: All right, and don't say just let the people know.
Speaker 2: I'm not even to asking for your arguments. I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: let people know where you stand.
Speaker 1: I don't want to give to people a second to
Speaker 1: think where I stand. Play the faking music. Y'all know
Speaker 1: where I stand. You know where I stand. You know
Speaker 1: I ain't behind no damn band. You know, I'm DJ
Speaker 1: all the way? What did you even talking about? What
Speaker 1: did you even talking about? Okay, of course I'm teen
Speaker 1: DJ because I like having a good time. You, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, want to listen to acoustic guitar all night?
Speaker 2: The fuck no acoustic guitar?
Speaker 1: Yeah that sounds right, that's in a band, right.
Speaker 2: So let's get started out. Okay, all right, because you're
Speaker 2: coming at wedding bands like it's just one guy that
Speaker 2: you didn't invite to a party with a guitar. That's
Speaker 2: not what's happening, all right. These bands have brass, they
Speaker 2: have percussion, they have lead singers.
Speaker 1: Okay, we've all been in a shopping mall right. We've
Speaker 1: all been in a business where you were listening to
Speaker 1: what's the correct term for it, where it's like someone
Speaker 1: has remade a song, but you don't know why.
Speaker 2: They did it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Like it's the wrong girl singing Britney spears like
Speaker 1: it's not Britney. Britney sang the song. It's a cover. Right.
Speaker 1: I don't want to pay a group of adults to
Speaker 1: not do their own music, you see what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like y'all became like I have a hard time believing
Speaker 1: in a group of people who learned the skill right.
Speaker 1: Playing an instrument is difficult. That's why all of us
Speaker 1: can't do it. Everybody can talk, but not everyone can
Speaker 1: learn an instrument. I was supposed to learn the saxophone
Speaker 1: in the fourth grade when we moved back to Miami,
Speaker 1: so I couldn't, right, okay, But I can play with
Speaker 1: a recorder just as good as everybody else. I can
Speaker 1: read music because I sang you know, the trained cigaree,
Speaker 1: and I know enough about a piano or I can.
Speaker 1: I can't play the accompaniment, but I can play the
Speaker 1: vocal part of my other song. Right. Playing a piano
Speaker 1: is difficult. You need both hands. Playing the drums is
Speaker 1: very hard. Guitar all that if they got two hands
Speaker 1: on something that ain't easy. So you sat up and
Speaker 1: learned this skill to be paid to play someone else's
Speaker 1: music professionally, I'm supposed to hear your rendition a survivor.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to hear a wedding band rendition of Beyonce.
Speaker 1: Why would I want that? Why would I spend my
Speaker 1: hard earned money? I'm trying to celebrate. I done trapped
Speaker 1: this man. It took me so long to meet this bastard.
Speaker 1: He's late. If you're listen, if the man who I'm
Speaker 1: going to marry is listening to this, you're late. Bro,
Speaker 1: You're fucking late. Where have you been? Okay, I'm very annoyed.
Speaker 1: But if I spent the time I found a venue,
Speaker 1: I have put out a dress. I don't fed a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. Now I'm supposed to spend the rest
Speaker 1: of my evening listen to a bunch of middle aged
Speaker 1: people do their own rendition of run Damn, I'm out here.
Speaker 2: Okay. So you brought up some interesting points, brought up
Speaker 2: some things that are that are maybe maybe valid, but
Speaker 2: I don't think so, okay, because first of all, you
Speaker 2: brought up singing other people's songs. That's not always the case.
Speaker 1: Oh they have, they're oh oh oh. Then I want
Speaker 1: to get original music for some people I've never even
Speaker 1: heard of.
Speaker 2: Well, why would you hire them for your wedding if
Speaker 2: you never even heard of them? There are bands that
Speaker 2: people like that they get to play their wedding. You're
Speaker 2: still a wedding band, even if you're a famous band.
Speaker 1: What's a band that plays at a wedding. What's a
Speaker 1: well known band, well known band that plays at a wedding?
Speaker 2: Any band that's hired by a Saudi prince?
Speaker 1: Any? Okay, okay, First of all, they take care of you.
Speaker 1: Back up, back up, Yeah, only a Saudi prince is Saudi.
Speaker 2: Prince money, not just a Saudi prince.
Speaker 1: Listen, if you're regular money. If you're a regular person,
Speaker 1: uh huh, with a.
Speaker 2: Regular budget, okay.
Speaker 1: Not somebody who's living your life based off.
Speaker 2: Of fossil fuels okay, ground.
Speaker 1: Up dinosaurs and a gas tank. Okay, if you're a
Speaker 1: regular human being on a regular wedding budget. What is
Speaker 1: a band that people would know that you could hire
Speaker 1: for your wedding?
Speaker 2: Any local band they enjoy?
Speaker 1: Who enjoys a local No no, no, no.
Speaker 2: No, no, no no no. People enjoy local things. I'm
Speaker 2: sure that they do.
Speaker 1: That does not mean that everybody at my wedding is
Speaker 1: gonna know who they are or even care.
Speaker 2: But why is it important to know they are? If
Speaker 2: they're good?
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: You know who making the Stallion was? But she was good?
Speaker 2: Now everybody knows who she is, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: But my question is, but say before people knew who
Speaker 1: she was. Then you're hiring a local rapper for your wedding.
Speaker 1: Everybody was local, Like I was a local comic before
Speaker 1: I got on this their television. You were a local
Speaker 1: comic before you got on at their television, you know.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying that people don't hire a local band.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is that their repertoire. The reason I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan mainly of the wedding band is that
Speaker 1: they don't know all the songs. They know their songs,
Speaker 1: and now if I'm a fan of this band, but
Speaker 1: the people at my wedding aren't a fan of this band,
Speaker 1: that means that my wedding, the guests of my wedding
Speaker 1: are subjected to the songs of this band that they
Speaker 1: have never heard of.
Speaker 2: Right, subjected to, I said, because because.
Speaker 1: It's fine, they're able to joy whatever. So a band
Speaker 1: only knows the songs. Are plenty of friends in bands,
Speaker 1: because I have a lot of white friends. They know
Speaker 1: their songs, and then the songs they learned how to play.
Speaker 1: After that, there's no more songs. So depending on how
Speaker 1: long your reception is, So say they got ten songs,
Speaker 1: billy probably know about twenty thirty songs, right, they could
Speaker 1: no more.
Speaker 2: They need to know more. If they're a wedding band.
Speaker 1: They should know more. But there's certain things that they
Speaker 1: can't play. It go the the demographics, right, I can't.
Speaker 1: But I want to hear No Hands by Waka Floka.
Speaker 1: I don't know a band that's gonna play that. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear a band play that.
Speaker 2: You don't know that. You don't want to hear a
Speaker 2: band play no no, no no.
Speaker 1: There was that one white boy that was playing that
Speaker 1: was doing it in an acoustic version of it, to
Speaker 1: the point that Waka Flocka took him on the road.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, I don't. What I'm saying is
Speaker 1: is that the music that they their catalog of music
Speaker 1: is limited because they can only play a certain amount
Speaker 1: of songs. But if you have a DJ, you have
Speaker 1: all of the music.
Speaker 2: So this is the thing, This is where I think
Speaker 2: DJs can fall short. There's two ways in which I
Speaker 2: think DJs really can hit rock bottom as far as
Speaker 2: the reception goes. One of them, yeah, absolutely, rock Bob.
Speaker 2: One of them is a DJ. Just like you're talking
Speaker 2: about wedding bands. A DJ has to have the right
Speaker 2: rhythm and they have to feel out the mood of
Speaker 2: the reception. Okay, that's a talent that everybody has. A
Speaker 2: lot of people can make sure the songs don't skip.
Speaker 2: A lot of people can make sure the songs don't skip,
Speaker 2: but some people don't know. It's like, all right, we
Speaker 2: just played this song. Maybe not this song next, you know, No.
Speaker 1: That's because that goes out. Listen, as someone who has
Speaker 1: dated a lot of DJs, dated slept with Tomato, Tomato,
Speaker 1: I've done both. Right, A good DJ, Yeah, Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be paying attention to the flow of the party.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be paying attention to beats per minute. They're
Speaker 1: gonna know how to ample party up. He going bring
Speaker 1: a party down if it's at the end of the night.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. Like I was at an
Speaker 1: event last night and the DJ and this is what
Speaker 1: the number of DJs I have duode 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 when we were only
Speaker 1: dealing in newspaper and periodicals. You had to have just
Speaker 1: you know, schooling training and gump shit, all right, just
Speaker 1: being a real fucking no to become a journalist. Now,
Speaker 1: anybody with an Internet connection in Google Docs can call
Speaker 1: themselves a journalist. The number of times I have been
Speaker 1: in an interview and been like, did you do any research?
Speaker 1: Do any research? Like? It's the number of times I've
Speaker 1: been in an interview and I could tell someone does not
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. You want to be called a
Speaker 1: journalist more than you're trying to be a journalist. It's
Speaker 1: like when those comics at first start out, they only
Speaker 1: want to hang out in the green room, and like,
Speaker 1: you've been doing a stand up for three months, get
Speaker 1: the hell out of the green room. You're not a comic.
Speaker 1: You're someone who's performed on You're someone who's gotten on
Speaker 1: stage and said words. You're not a comic. So I'm
Speaker 1: saying is we've all seen shitty people try to do
Speaker 1: a thing and this DJ last night I called them
Speaker 1: the anti crowd DJ, where they will play you've had
Speaker 1: we've all experienced the anti crowd DJ. And this is
Speaker 1: someone who takes a popular song from whenever, from whenever.
Speaker 1: They'll play it long enough for you to get excited
Speaker 1: about it, like, Okay, that's my song, and they I
Speaker 1: think they wait for somebody to go, that's my song,
Speaker 1: and they never get them let them get to the
Speaker 1: part where they say song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anybody like oh the in between songs, yeah, no.
Speaker 1: No, no no. If you're the person who's enjoying the
Speaker 1: song and you get ready to say, oh, that's my song,
Speaker 1: this DJ is watching you, and they're watching you go
Speaker 1: that's my and then they change it m M. And
Speaker 1: then they'll do it again with another song and then
Speaker 1: change it, and then they do it again another thing,
Speaker 1: and then and then the song they let them play
Speaker 1: all the way out is a song that nobody is enjoying.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this. That thing that you're describing
Speaker 2: right there, I think that comes from people who used
Speaker 2: to do radio and then they started DJing because if
Speaker 2: you remember back in the day when we were kids
Speaker 2: and there wasn't this like ultimate access to music, right,
Speaker 2: you can only have what was on the radio. Radio
Speaker 2: DJs would tease out the upcoming song like whatever new
Speaker 2: thing was about to drop, they play like fifteen seconds
Speaker 2: of it. And and it would be how they keep
Speaker 2: you listening to their show. They'd be like, all and
Speaker 2: stay tuned for the new drake and you know whatever, right,
Speaker 2: So that would just happen over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: Then finally they play no, no, I'm with you. But
Speaker 2: that's just where the person like learned that skill, and
Speaker 2: so they're just carrying it over. But it's a it's
Speaker 2: a very weird thing. It's not conducive with parties. But
Speaker 2: that's also why I'm not defending radio DJs or wedding DJs.
Speaker 1: Well, but I feel like for that to come from that.
Speaker 1: Eventually the radio DJ played the song mm hmm, like
Speaker 1: allgally there was a payoff for them doing this. This
Speaker 1: is just has you know, you know this this, you
Speaker 1: know this song, you know this Migo song that you
Speaker 1: really like.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Here's fifteen seconds of you know white you know T
Speaker 1: shirt Mama told me at and then it's gone, I'm like,
Speaker 1: but I love seventeen to five. I wonder yo, some
Speaker 1: colored T shirt Like I don't know, it's evil, I'm
Speaker 1: with you surely rude. So it's like those DJs are annoying.
Speaker 1: I call them anti CRD DJs. Also the number of
Speaker 1: DJs that I have booded.
Speaker 2: I feel like you should have chosen a wedding band
Speaker 2: because you're coming that DJs way harder than what.
Speaker 1: I'm saying is that DJs have their ups and their
Speaker 1: their pros and their cons. But there's more pros to
Speaker 1: having a DJ because like, say, you have like my wedding,
Speaker 1: because we're speaking into existence that I'm going to have
Speaker 1: a wedding. Okay, Okay, this is what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to talk better. I'm trying to be less
Speaker 1: pessimistic because sometimes being you know, trying to because I
Speaker 1: always think the worst of a situation. So instead of
Speaker 1: being disappointed when it goes bad, I get to be
Speaker 1: surprised when it goes well. Not I kind of feel
Speaker 1: like that's not probably the best way to think.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's it's it's not conducive with getting and
Speaker 2: what you want and feeling how you want to feel.
Speaker 1: Right, because usually I have just spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: being disappointed and hoping that something will change it, right,
Speaker 1: as opposed to being optimistic and then being disappointed. But
Speaker 1: like people don't realize that hope is hard so.
Speaker 2: Hope is very hard. And I also think that you know,
Speaker 2: like this, I completely agriogle what you're saying. Hope is difficult,
Speaker 2: which is why I feel like you either take the
Speaker 2: hopeful route, or if you're really trying to get there,
Speaker 2: you trying to manifest it, you go the grind route. Okay,
Speaker 2: you go ahead. No, I'm just saying, I'll just say
Speaker 2: it's a possibility. I'm just saying, just say, you find
Speaker 2: a man that's out here doing his thing, getting it,
Speaker 2: just getting the grind drilled into his lifestyle, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. So then when you meet him, he's
Speaker 2: like duels, say, I want to I want to sit
Speaker 2: in and chat with you. I want to be around you
Speaker 2: and everything, but I can't even I gotta go right
Speaker 2: now because the grind is out there all right. Here
Speaker 2: is home, but you can't stay home. Sometimes you got
Speaker 2: to grind it out, you know. Sometimes you gotta leave
Speaker 2: that person that you're with go grind.
Speaker 1: But I just got him. Why is he leaving me
Speaker 1: to grind?
Speaker 2: A no, no, no, no no. But one of the
Speaker 2: reasons you like him is because he put the grind in. Okay,
Speaker 2: So then you're.
Speaker 1: Sitting but what is he gonna be done grinding? When
Speaker 1: is he gonna be ground?
Speaker 2: Hey, he'll be ground when he is completely and forever
Speaker 2: no longer broke, all right, But until he's there, don't
Speaker 2: you want to grind her? Or do you just want
Speaker 2: Do you just want somebody who you gotta have to
Speaker 2: spot for dinner? Okay, so let that man grind.
Speaker 1: I'm also grinding, but we are grinding needs to sync up.
Speaker 2: Ay Ay, I'm just telling you the way it is
Speaker 2: out there, You, Josh, I hope for you that the
Speaker 2: grinding sinks up. I hope that when you have to go,
Speaker 2: he has to go. All right, but more than likely
Speaker 2: when you have to go, that may be his only
Speaker 2: time to rest. And he really shouldn't even be resting.
Speaker 2: He should be out there grinding. All right. If you
Speaker 2: see him sleep and you wake him up, you tell
Speaker 2: him sleep is for the week.
Speaker 1: Listen. You know the scariest thing I've ever heard is
Speaker 1: I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's one of the most toxic things
Speaker 1: that we have been taught as of society. That and
Speaker 1: he's only being mean to you because he likes you. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's so many girls that have been very, very awful
Speaker 1: situations because of that phrase.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he might just be mean.
Speaker 1: He might just be mean.
Speaker 2: He might just be mean. And look, let me tell.
Speaker 1: You right now, if he's being mean, he's not grinding.
Speaker 2: If he's out here grinded, he had enough time to
Speaker 2: be mean. Okay, when you grind it, you just have
Speaker 2: time to grind and to sleep and to be a
Speaker 2: good man.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lie to sleep because I understand it. Being
Speaker 1: asleep he can make you cranky. And I don't want
Speaker 1: some sleep deprived man, because you know what happens with
Speaker 1: the man's grinding and sleep deprived. He ain't dropping off
Speaker 1: that d like he should be, okay, And at the
Speaker 1: end of the day.
Speaker 2: That's part of the grind too, though, is part of
Speaker 2: the grind. It is how can it not be?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: It's one, It's one of the main things. All we
Speaker 2: really need is humans, is water, shelter, food, and the smash.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: You gotta smash is a synonym for what grinding.
Speaker 1: I cannot wasting. This book comes out here. You are
Speaker 1: a terrorist. So one day I'm gonna get married. And
Speaker 1: this is the thing with the good DJ right, So
Speaker 1: I have friends and family of various ethnic backgrounds, right,
Speaker 1: my wedding is going to have a very large amount
Speaker 1: my best friend, one of my good friends, like their families,
Speaker 1: my family, their mom is my mom, like and it's
Speaker 1: all like, my family's going to consist of like a
Speaker 1: very small group of black people. Yeah, and then I
Speaker 1: don't know about fifty of my Mexican family, right, So
Speaker 1: the music at my wedding is 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 rap stuff,
Speaker 1: and then Latin music is going to be played. So
Speaker 1: I need a DJ because I'm wanting to be playing
Speaker 1: various genres of music from various eras, right, Like you
Speaker 1: might be playing that love Vodka song and then there's
Speaker 1: coma lafloor. You see what I'm saying, because I enjoy
Speaker 1: both of those songs. But also there might be a
Speaker 1: bone Thug arm any song and then gloriala Pimp. I
Speaker 1: love her, by the way, have you heard of her?
Speaker 1: But she's great. She's from Memphis. She has a very
Speaker 1: deep voice. She's a tiny little thing. She's so adorable,
Speaker 1: but her voice is deep. But she has the song
Speaker 1: and a line of the song was like you got
Speaker 1: ninety nine problems in the biggest woe is me, and
Speaker 1: like you can just hear her smile and smiling, and
Speaker 1: it makes me so happy because also it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be the biggest problem, right, I want
Speaker 1: 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 his solutions. But if you can choose,
Speaker 1: because listen, I don't know, have you ever heard that
Speaker 1: song by Prince, the Beautiful Ones? No, listen. Prince has
Speaker 1: a song called the Beautiful Ones and the chorus is
Speaker 1: that the Beautiful Ones will hurt you every time and
Speaker 1: just the thing I want. And I just hope that
Speaker 1: if my future husband is listening, then he finds the
Speaker 1: humor that I'm about to say. But for everyone listening,
Speaker 1: listen to the song the Beautiful Ones, and then think
Speaker 1: about somebody who broke your heart. Don't you want them
Speaker 1: sitting in the dark listening to that 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? Somebody just sitting in
Speaker 1: the dark cry going baby, Oh my God, to make
Speaker 1: you so happy.
Speaker 2: I think I'm all right.
Speaker 3: The thing about a wedding bad, bad, because I feel
Speaker 3: like we we've gone a right as usual.
Speaker 2: The thing with a wedding band that I will say,
Speaker 2: there is an energy in the room. What that can't
Speaker 2: be matched by just playing a song out in the dance?
Speaker 1: What energy? Every time I've been at a wedding with
Speaker 1: a band, I've been annoyed. And also anytime I'm at
Speaker 1: a wedding with a band, it seems like that the
Speaker 1: band either didn't there's not been in some nice white
Speaker 1: weddings with bands. There's never been a black wedding with
Speaker 1: a band. But it's always first of all, once the
Speaker 1: swing music starts, I gotta go. Also, a band start
Speaker 1: playing genres of music that I don't listen to, I
Speaker 1: don't enjoy, I don't know how to dance to so
Speaker 1: and they're always gonna play a chicken dance, which is fine,
Speaker 1: But like, I don't know what energy you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Anytime I've ever been in a wedding with a band,
Speaker 1: soon they start playing, half the people leave.
Speaker 2: So my band heads know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Bandheads, what are you talking about the band heads.
Speaker 2: Who hired a band for their wedding. Know what I'm
Speaker 2: talking about, the people who play in bands for weddings.
Speaker 2: I've talking about other people who have been to a
Speaker 2: wedding with a band that the band went off. Know
Speaker 2: exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Give me an example of a band going off at
Speaker 1: a wedding. I have never enjoyed a band at a
Speaker 1: wedding ever.
Speaker 2: Just because you hate bands at weddings they're the worst,
Speaker 2: They're not the worst they are. DJs be the worst.
Speaker 2: I've had DJs be absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: We've all had off, We've all seen awful DJs. Have
Speaker 1: been in clubs with bad DJs. I have booed DJs.
Speaker 1: I have recruited people to boo a DJ, just okay,
Speaker 1: as I've all got booed a band. People don't realize
Speaker 1: booing is actually very cathartic and it's informative. You've never
Speaker 1: booed before.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say I've never booed. Actually, I'm just.
Speaker 1: Trying to make sure that you booed, because someone who
Speaker 1: booed knows what I'm talking about. Would you rather boo
Speaker 1: one person playing bad music or boo a bunch of
Speaker 1: people who are trying to live their dream booing one
Speaker 1: motherfucker who didn't play the song you wanted. Fine, but
Speaker 1: booing a wedding band?
Speaker 2: What what?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: So look, I'm saying DJ is too accessible, all right,
Speaker 2: just like you said it is ipop whatever. It's so
Speaker 2: accessible that some people that are both bad at checking
Speaker 2: the vibe of the room and being a DJ get
Speaker 2: to be DJ, sometimes hired for a wedding bands. Though,
Speaker 2: since bands have to include people who understand and play
Speaker 2: instruments and know how to play different songs, you're already
Speaker 2: starting at a level that's a bit higher than these
Speaker 2: terrible DJs.
Speaker 1: Well, because just because you and a band have decided
Speaker 1: you can play a song doesn't mean you can play
Speaker 1: it well. You're playing it not not I would rather hear.
Speaker 1: There's nothing worse than the bad cover of a song. Also,
Speaker 1: you all of the wrong tempo, you all the wrong key.
Speaker 1: The singer is the wrong singer for this song. It's
Speaker 1: either too low or too high for them, So they're
Speaker 1: not 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. Also,
Speaker 1: you can get sample of their sets. You can see
Speaker 1: them DJ somewhere else in the same way, did you
Speaker 1: listen before anything? All wedding entertainment should be vetted. See
Speaker 1: a set from this DJ, listen to this band before
Speaker 1: you hire them. Because anytime I'm at a wedding and
Speaker 1: there's a bad DJ or a bad band, my first
Speaker 1: thing is they must have been a FOD. I didn't
Speaker 1: say what I was gonna say, is it affordable? Don't
Speaker 1: shake your head. I was really nice. Whenever I'm at
Speaker 1: 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 a take, you did not you had no idea
Speaker 1: what their skill set was before you hired them. And
Speaker 1: that is unforgivable. Period. It's not unforgivable. It's such an
Speaker 1: intense thing, but that's how I feel. Also, like bad
Speaker 1: food at a wedding, you should have tasted this food.
Speaker 1: You should have tried this cake. I know you tried
Speaker 1: the cake.
Speaker 2: I should have had it cold. By the way, because
Speaker 2: it's gonna come out cold, it's gonna be cold. So
Speaker 2: the best wedding food I've had is wedding food that
Speaker 2: I knew was going to be good even if it
Speaker 2: got cold, because no matter how many if you have
Speaker 2: a big wedding, no matter how prepared you are, serving
Speaker 2: the plates means it's going to be lukewarm, which means
Speaker 2: it might be cold by the time I get to it.
Speaker 1: And see, I know people thing 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 that person has hot food.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you don't care about hot food, then like,
Speaker 2: don't do the buffet. It's fine. But if you care
Speaker 2: about it tasting the way it would taste for you
Speaker 2: when you were having the sample, Hey you gotta you
Speaker 2: gotta just I mean, but that's a that's a totally
Speaker 2: different thing. I'm I'm just saying that when I have
Speaker 2: watched bands, there's been it's been fun, and there's been
Speaker 2: what do you say? How do you say it? There's
Speaker 2: been something about the band being there that was you know,
Speaker 2: it's for you, it's special because it's unique. You know, Wow, that's.
Speaker 1: The same songs they play for everybody at every wedding
Speaker 1: they perform it.
Speaker 2: No, they're feeding off of the crowd in a different
Speaker 2: they're not.
Speaker 1: It's a band. They can only play so many songs.
Speaker 1: They have to learn songs. They don't know all all
Speaker 1: the songs. It's not special, it's not court. It's here's
Speaker 1: the here's the song, we're gonna play all. Most 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 want you. These are the songs you know how
Speaker 1: to play. These are the songs we want you to play.
Speaker 1: It's not a special curated thing. The fuckers know thirty
Speaker 1: songs and then and we're gonna play them in whatever
Speaker 1: 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?
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you.
Speaker 1: Got a wedding reception that last four hours, say a
Speaker 1: song is about five minutes, that's forty eight songs. Most
Speaker 1: bands don't know that many songs.
Speaker 2: But the bands also take breaks, just like DJs take breaks, right.
Speaker 1: But a DJ listen to a DJ takes a break,
Speaker 1: they put on on music. When a band takes a break,
Speaker 1: there's no one playing an instrument. That's all your music.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no. There's a different vibe in
Speaker 2: place with a band than with a DJ.
Speaker 1: If only that depends on the people in the band.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. If your band isn't vibing with
Speaker 1: the people, because some bands treat that shit just like
Speaker 1: doing it shift at McDonald's. All right, we're in here,
Speaker 1: let's play these songs, get this thousand dollars that we're
Speaker 1: gonna split up among the six of us and get
Speaker 1: the hell out of here. So, if it's you have
Speaker 1: to find the band that wants to connect with the audience,
Speaker 1: that wants to create an experience, You have to get
Speaker 1: the right band because a lot of it falls on
Speaker 1: if you're creating this experience or whatever. Because I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: most wedding bands I've seen, they're not even really talking
Speaker 1: to people. They don't take requests because they can't take
Speaker 1: requests because they only know thirty songs and you probably
Speaker 1: only paid fifteen.
Speaker 2: This is where I'm coming from. I think you would
Speaker 2: be surprised at the whether you're talking about bands or DJs,
Speaker 2: I think you'd be surprised at how similar the set
Speaker 2: list is for both those people. I understand DJs have
Speaker 2: access to more songs, but when you actually look at
Speaker 2: a four to three hour wedding reception, I think you'd
Speaker 2: be surprised at how basic and how popular the songs
Speaker 2: that DJ plays are because there're songs that a band
Speaker 2: would probably.
Speaker 1: Know, but a band has to know the popular songs,
Speaker 1: So a band doesn't have the opportunity to play these
Speaker 1: offcuts that they can only play the hits because they're
Speaker 1: a cover band anyway. And then and they're doing their
Speaker 1: like aren't most wedding bands cover bands?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, some of them. Some of them
Speaker 2: are straight up like jazz bands. Some of them are
Speaker 2: like rock bands. As far as the genre.
Speaker 1: They're playing new jazz, Yeah, they'll.
Speaker 2: Play new jazz. If you if you hire a jazz
Speaker 2: band for your wedding, they're coming at you with stuff
Speaker 2: you've never heard before because you like jazz, do you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like they I understand they have
Speaker 2: to hit you with jazz classics because that's the genre
Speaker 2: that you want within stuff that people will be able
Speaker 2: to dance to, But you'd be surprised at how like
Speaker 2: some of them just instrumental. Wise, take the singer out
Speaker 2: of it for a second. Some of them are just
Speaker 2: playing mood music. That's sure a DJ could do and
Speaker 2: everybody could talk over whatever. But sometimes it's just nice
Speaker 2: to watch somebody play an instrument that's good at it.
Speaker 1: You know it is. But also, wedding DJ just DJ
Speaker 1: mort affordable overall because it's one dude, it's one human
Speaker 1: being or it's one woman. How do you identify it's
Speaker 1: one human being? And it ain't back in the day
Speaker 1: where you got to bring in the crates and crates
Speaker 1: and music. Okay, ain't nobody walking in with crazy, anybody
Speaker 1: really scratching records like they needed to.
Speaker 2: I would love for somebody to just bring a crate
Speaker 2: and you're like, what's in that? And it's like the eighties.
Speaker 1: Exactly, wasn't that crate the nineties? What do you yeah?
Speaker 2: Like the Fat six?
Speaker 1: I got six more crates?
Speaker 2: What so?
Speaker 1: What do you need us to bring out a dolly
Speaker 1: or something? No, no, no, I got my dolly with me.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I brought a wagon.
Speaker 2: Nah, this he's a wheelbarrow full of vinyls, full of.
Speaker 1: Loose vinyl not even in a container.
Speaker 2: It's like, what is this? This whole thing looks scratched off.
Speaker 2: Let's play it in five out god.
Speaker 1: Because that's what I found it about the history you're
Speaker 1: like scratching. It's like you had to buy two of
Speaker 1: the same album, and if it was really popular, you
Speaker 1: said he one of them you just scratched. That's why,
Speaker 1: like with scratching, it out like a rec at least
Speaker 1: it was like somewhat salagable. If you scratch a CD.
Speaker 1: There's a bone iue in Harmony CD that I used
Speaker 1: to fall asleep with somebody, So I used to fall
Speaker 1: asleep just to think about that.
Speaker 2: Just hurt my heart.
Speaker 1: I used to fall asleep listening to and there was
Speaker 1: a scratch at one particular part in the song. And
Speaker 1: whenever I heard that song without the scratch, it was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not.
Speaker 2: Supposed to Yeah, you get a feeling, you get the
Speaker 2: actual like, ooh, what's that. I find that when I
Speaker 2: make a playlist and then I play with something out
Speaker 2: of order that's on the same album. When I actually
Speaker 2: listen to the album and the song I'm expecting doesn't
Speaker 2: come next. It's genuinely jarring. Yes, Like even if I
Speaker 2: love almost all of an album, when I actually grab
Speaker 2: the album and and I'm like, let me put some
Speaker 2: of this on playlist. Usually my two favorite songs are
Speaker 2: never next to each other hate, So then you place
Speaker 2: something you love it, and then you get used to
Speaker 2: the other thing that you love coming behind it. But
Speaker 2: then someone you're just at somebody's house and then letting
Speaker 2: an album play in the background, they're just chilling, and
Speaker 2: then you're like, this is completely out of order?
Speaker 1: Who did this? Did this? Oh?
Speaker 2: The artist? Did it? My bad?
Speaker 1: The first album I got that wasn't a rap album
Speaker 1: was justin Timberlake's first album, Justified Okay, And that's when
Speaker 1: I found out that rappers love sketch comedy. Yeah 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'd ever
Speaker 1: had was like Bone, Thugs and Harmony CDs or like
Speaker 1: you know, Crazy Bone solo album or both Thugs album
Speaker 1: were t i's. You know, it's like the first time
Speaker 1: I got a non rap you know, or fucking busy,
Speaker 1: like I had a lot of bone Thugs and Harmony
Speaker 1: albums is which you can obviously hear from this, but
Speaker 1: I heard. I was like, where a skin just to
Speaker 1: tipulate they do his job? Like I was very concerned,
Speaker 1: and I found out that if it's not a rap.
Speaker 2: Album, there probably won't be.
Speaker 1: Brittain scares and heavy sketches either. Like it's not like
Speaker 1: Alicia keys in heavy sketches either. And I'm just like
Speaker 1: when did rappers? These niggas just love comedy, like that's
Speaker 1: what I'm just like, very good. But for me, it's
Speaker 1: just I can go. I want to be able if
Speaker 1: I'm paying you to play music at these here nuptials. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm up here feeding all of these people, and I'm
Speaker 1: brought in shoes. You know, It's like I got all
Speaker 1: kind of snacks. It's a party in this bitch. I
Speaker 1: just changed it to a different outfit because I'm about
Speaker 1: to party in these beach okay, mm 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 won't be able to
Speaker 1: walk up to the human being that I'm gonna paid
Speaker 1: money because they got to eat right, sit down, 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.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, 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 be 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: need to just be able to come from the same person.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to hear a band do Megan
Speaker 1: thee Stallion. That's the thing.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't be impressed if a valion no no, no, no no,
Speaker 4: if a band had the musicality to perfectly capture the
Speaker 4: instrumental and if a singer had the pipes to pull off.
Speaker 2: A well known song that isn't usually played at weddings.
Speaker 1: I'm not interested in hearing a cover. I don't enjoy
Speaker 1: covers mostly it's like I want it like it reminds
Speaker 1: me that musa kind of Hey. Also, I've always been
Speaker 1: confused by like the covers you would actually hear like
Speaker 1: the music music. I'm like, I'm gonna start bucks, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, this is who sang this
Speaker 1: song and it really is it really less money? I
Speaker 1: guess I'm always confused them, like how is it legal?
Speaker 1: I think it's what I'm always confused about.
Speaker 2: You have to pay a royalty for the recording, but
Speaker 2: then just for the performance. I don't think that you
Speaker 2: have to pay anything because it just it would be
Speaker 2: like you having to pay to sing the song you
Speaker 2: like in the shower, because if it's a recording, you
Speaker 2: can get mechanical royalties off of it. You can make
Speaker 2: money off of your version of this song. But you
Speaker 2: didn't write it and you didn't do the original recording,
Speaker 2: so you have to pay the people who basically do
Speaker 2: the original work. But I think that for a while.
Speaker 1: Then why why does not let the original work be
Speaker 1: the work? Why are you paying for.
Speaker 2: I think I think that some people, there are some
Speaker 2: people who have really great covers there are and it's
Speaker 2: part of their catalog because maybe how they made a
Speaker 2: name for themselves is that they proved that they were
Speaker 2: as good of a singer as this person, and then
Speaker 2: they broke like broke off into their own original stuff,
Speaker 2: so I could see how if one of those really hit,
Speaker 2: how you would want to You're like, hey, it's worth
Speaker 2: paying this person who originally created the royalties so that
Speaker 2: I can get my shine off of the fact that
Speaker 2: I sing this thing very well or you.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all know the best cover of any
Speaker 1: song of all time is Whitney Houston doing We'll Always
Speaker 1: Love You, Because like they interviewed Dolly Parton, and Dolly
Speaker 1: part was like, She's like, I wrote it, but that's
Speaker 1: Whitney Houston's song mcause, she said. She said the first
Speaker 1: time she heard it on the radio, I think in
Speaker 1: the interview's detentionals ran off the road she was driving
Speaker 1: in her car. It was like, I'm not like it
Speaker 1: was very.
Speaker 2: So I feel like this is a good place, yeah,
Speaker 2: to kick it off to you the listener. I feel like, maybe, look,
Speaker 2: Admittedly this time, I don't know if I made enough
Speaker 2: wedding band points, but I said my piece. I think
Speaker 2: that wedding bands are great, and I think that for
Speaker 2: the length of your reception, hopefully you find one. Just
Speaker 2: like it's your responsibility to find a DJ that knows vibes,
Speaker 2: it's your responsibility to find a wedding band that actually
Speaker 2: knows a lot of songs and has done weddings before
Speaker 2: and just can bring that energy. I think there is
Speaker 2: an energy in the room. I'll say it again. I
Speaker 2: really do believe it. I've witnessed it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying there is an energy in a room
Speaker 1: like someone who is playing music in a room has
Speaker 1: to be able to capture that. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: I haven't been in a situation where a band has
Speaker 1: caught the vibe because a lot of times that I've
Speaker 1: seen bands perform at a wedding, I've seen people go.
Speaker 2: And then let.
Speaker 1: There's never anybody on the dance floor that it's like
Speaker 1: it's no one you're here because there's but also there's
Speaker 1: people that really because I've been a wedding like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, dn't say there's a band you gotta dance. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to swing dance. Emily.
Speaker 2: We want to know what you think. Yeah, is it?
Speaker 2: Is it wedding DJ for you? Is it wedding band
Speaker 2: for you? Have you been to a great wedding that
Speaker 2: had one or the other. Please let us know.
Speaker 1: If you have been to a wedding with a good band,
Speaker 1: Send me the name of this band. Call your friend
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, branded, what was that band you
Speaker 1: added your wedding twenty five years ago? There's some loud
Speaker 1: black lady that wants to know if your your band
Speaker 1: was trashed. Just I just want to say, I just
Speaker 1: want to see it. I just want to see I
Speaker 1: want to see it. If you are a good wedding band,
Speaker 1: don't send me really because what I'm going you.
Speaker 2: But that I feel like that's a that's a mixed message.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no, Because this is the thing is if
Speaker 1: you're a good wedding band and you send me your link,
Speaker 1: you're like, hey, I'm a good wedding band. If I
Speaker 1: don't think you're a good wedding band, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get the response that you want. You're opening yourself up
Speaker 1: to criticism that you don't need. So if you think
Speaker 1: you're a good wedding band, don't come to me. Go
Speaker 1: to Josh. Be like, hey Josh, I'm a good wedding band.
Speaker 1: Tell don't say we're a good wedding band, and then
Speaker 1: Josh can listen to you, and then then Josh can
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I prove my point. And if you
Speaker 1: are a good wedding band, I will come back on
Speaker 1: this show, back on this platform. Okay. When people talk
Speaker 1: about having a podcast in their platform, it annoys me.
Speaker 1: Also when people talk about their brand on a punch
Speaker 1: people in the face. But if you're a good wedding band,
Speaker 1: you send you send your demo to Josh. Josh, fuck's
Speaker 1: with it. He consid it to me. I fuck with
Speaker 1: it the next episode that we're doing after, I will
Speaker 1: listen to your band and be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: Bobby and the Sun Chokes pretty great band. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I will I will advertise for your band. If you're
Speaker 1: a good wedding band.
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