djgordyp
30-09-2006, 11:54 AM
Hi all.
Just signed up here yesterday and thought for my first post I would bore you all with some background info about myself.
I got into disco's by accident. It was back about 1980-81 when my and a mate of mine were members of our local cb club. A few members of the club had a band and would sometimes play for us. occassionally they wouldn't turn up, so the venue we had our meetings in had a twin turntable & speakers (orange colour) and a few records that we could use. Eventually my mate decided he would buy a twin turntable and some lights and then bought some 45's from someone who was selling up (everything was second hand and very cheap). He then talked me into operating it for him, and not having an outgoing personality, it took some persuading. After a while we were asked to do a birthday party, and from that day on we never looked back. Some people have stated that about 60% of their work comes from word of mouth/recommendations but I am proud to say that 100% of our work came from word of mouth, and there were very few weekend that we weren't out at least one night.
Unfortunatly my mate passed away a couple of years ago and all the gear including the cd's and records were sold off. I would love to have bought it at the time but didn't for 3 reasons. Firstly, I didn't have the space as there was a lot of stuff built up over the years. Secondly, I couldn't afford it. And thirdly, I thought the time had come to call it a day. Now after a short break I would love to go back to it again and have been pricing round on the internet and reckon I could have a reasonable set up for about £1.5 - 1.6K. I'm probably only dreaming here and at 44 may be considered too old to be running disco but hopefully one day things will work out.
I could have went on and on but I think that's enough for now.
Hope to be able to join in some of the discussions at some point.
Bye for now :beer:
Just signed up here yesterday and thought for my first post I would bore you all with some background info about myself.
I got into disco's by accident. It was back about 1980-81 when my and a mate of mine were members of our local cb club. A few members of the club had a band and would sometimes play for us. occassionally they wouldn't turn up, so the venue we had our meetings in had a twin turntable & speakers (orange colour) and a few records that we could use. Eventually my mate decided he would buy a twin turntable and some lights and then bought some 45's from someone who was selling up (everything was second hand and very cheap). He then talked me into operating it for him, and not having an outgoing personality, it took some persuading. After a while we were asked to do a birthday party, and from that day on we never looked back. Some people have stated that about 60% of their work comes from word of mouth/recommendations but I am proud to say that 100% of our work came from word of mouth, and there were very few weekend that we weren't out at least one night.
Unfortunatly my mate passed away a couple of years ago and all the gear including the cd's and records were sold off. I would love to have bought it at the time but didn't for 3 reasons. Firstly, I didn't have the space as there was a lot of stuff built up over the years. Secondly, I couldn't afford it. And thirdly, I thought the time had come to call it a day. Now after a short break I would love to go back to it again and have been pricing round on the internet and reckon I could have a reasonable set up for about £1.5 - 1.6K. I'm probably only dreaming here and at 44 may be considered too old to be running disco but hopefully one day things will work out.
I could have went on and on but I think that's enough for now.
Hope to be able to join in some of the discussions at some point.
Bye for now :beer: