Good Luck, Babe: DJ Tips and Halloween Tricks

0:21 what's up everybody. Welcome back to Beyond the DJ Booth Beyond the DJ Booth. I'm Brian B Joseph Bunn. Halloween is actually in the middle of the week next week. Are we lying to people and acting like what? Lying to people. I mean because it's September 26th, but when this drops, Right. But I'm saying, are we going with the lie? Are you going lying style or are you just going to say, when this drops, Okay, we can start over? No, don't start over. Leave this. Whoever's editing this. I like this. It's a good intro. Okay, but I thought we were going to agree that like. Well, you said it once I know, but like we've been wearing the same thing for four weeks, okay so when it drops, when it drops, this will be the week before halloween okay fantastic, go ahead.

1:17 So where will you be playing on that saturday? Do you have an idea? no, I'll no, I'm playing in my house watching fr Friday the 13th and going to bed at 930. You're talking about Halloween night. Okay, I was talking about the gig. Oh. So, is that when people celebrate the weekend before the 26th, Saturday, october 26th yeah, it's when the club Saquon and I have a huge fundraiser downtown that we do every year, called One one of us for breast cancer. Okay, lots of fun. Lots of fun. You're doing a wedding. Yeah, okay, have you done a lot of halloween parties not, really no okay, what's your go-to like dj costume? That you the joker. The joker heath ledger drew pierce told me that his for like 15 years he's a referee. He just wears the referee jersey it's the worst, easiest, shittiest costume.

2:03 But now he says I don't fit into it. So he's like I can't. Oh wow, he's got to get another one, yeah. Okay. But my daughter is like totally into costumes right now. She should be, she's like into it. So we went to the spirit shop, scared the shit out of her, didn't it? It did. Yeah, my kids were exaggeration like davis would not walk into spirit until he was about 14 crazy but yeah, but the costumes are hilarious they're great, they're great. So what do you think is the costume of the year? I'm just trying to think of all the things that have happened in pop culture. A lot of people said hot two was going to be that was the one massive they're not selling that as like a full-on costume wow, I mean, it was like go in there and check it out. I think there there's going to be a lot of hot tour girls.

2:44 Is she going to get paid off that? I have no idea. She should, but I found you a costume. You found me a costume. Yeah, I think it's a work well Okay. For the 26th. I think you should go with it. This is a Saquon put this one right, but I saw this. I was like I can totally see you doing this. That was not in there, dude, just say you swear say where that was that spirit? Look, it's a spirit on it why is it a wreck, right? oh it, it's a skelly bone. It gets hard with a, with an air pump, it does you liar you totally. You said you promised you took that at the store. I totally swear. Say on my daughter, say on my daughter on my daughter.

3:26 I totally bro, but I think you get that. I think that would be good what are you wearing? what are you wearing? doing a wedding. I can't do it. I can't do it I can't do it, but I think it's good look. Good for you, man the skeleboner. You promise, you say one more time I promise it was there. I thought that place was family friendly you're talking about hoctua and skele boner, they had a full risque section like that was just kind of like adult but anyone in there oh? no, I just thought over that, but was it sanctioned off? I mean was? it walled off. No, it's just like a part of like. You know, they got the I don't know the princess stuff over on one side. Then they got Skeleboner sitting over somewhere else.

4:07 I'm like, wow, they've gone a little risque. I don't like it. I don't like it, I think you can pull that though, bro. I think that would be a good look for you. You know what I mean. It says functioning air pump motion. One size fits most most wow, that's so good. Well anyway, welcome to the show everybody. Wow happy halloween. Happy halloween. So well, let's talk music, maybe. Okay, chapel rone I have to say it yeah, this girl out of nowhere, out of nowhere, like three or four top 10 singles off of one record. I can't think of an artist who who's a Carpenter's right up there with her, but she's like come back Like she was out there. This is like a brand new artist right.

4:47 That's facts. I mean, I'm not seeing it a ton on all of my private event requests, but whenever I drop it, if whether or not all of them go on every song like all four or five. Obviously good luck babe was the one that kind of kicked it off yeah right pink pony club right yeah, on a club yeah hot to go and I'll just get a new, another new one out. That's, that's that. Good luck, babe. Yeah, oh, that's what you said. You said that okay so I found a version of good luck, babe that I've been using peak hour. Okay, this song is kind of yeah, you have to do it early, and I just I wake up to a radio like an actual fm radio and it's on there every morning and I don't see how it goes in. But I'm curious to see what you've dug up. So this one's got just a great big drum beat, yeah.

5:29 So going into like late night after your Rihanna, you might be able to bring this in. Yeah, yeah, so this kind of brings it back, is it? 120-something. Yeah, okay. Yeah. So you on this is a cool version, this, I love it.

6:19 A good version, yeah, that's a great version also. Who made that? I'll put who it was on when we lay it out on the screen, but I think this was on. Digital music pool was the service that I got off of, but just a solid late night version that you could use in peak hour remind me again how many music pools you dig through. You don't want to know. That's a lot. Eight ish, probably more like nine or ten. Wow because, every one of them has their uniqueness to them. I know, I agree, man, there's a bunch of circle ones. We'll talk about that on a different episode. I'm good for like two or three, but like nine or ten is crazy. You're legendary. Did you bring a little stack to the? I did, I did, you added to the stack. You want to speak on this? Yeah. I mean, I didn't know this was going to be part club.

6:59 Are we book? Are we doing you? don't read bro you barely, like, barely barely color man. You know, I mean it doesn't have like big words, but this is a really cool the way it's laid out. Yeah isn't like your typical that's joe bunn caliber reading right there big font. Yeah, so this book's called exactly what to say? The magic words for influence and impact by phil m jones. It's a great read. It's short if you're struggling or wanting to change up your sales game. It's just like phrases and things that are scientifically moving psychologically? Yeah, there's more to it than just like the latest buzzword yeah, like one of the phrases that I've been using in my stuff is like are you open-minded? Is? What I'll ask a client because my approach to the events is a little bit different than a standard dj, sure, and if're not open-minded then I'm probably not the right fit.

7:45 I'll sell one of my other DJs. But, they're non-threatening, non-salesy kind of things. Another phrase that he talks a lot about is imagine if, if you're trying to sell them on some creative direction that you want to go or whatever, it puts them there with that kind of thing, again, it's non-threatening, it's not like my way is the only way but if you want to, open them up to an idea. Different phrases like this, and he goes into detail on it. It's a great read. Highly highly recommend this book. We'll put the link under the YouTube video for y'all. You can grab that Amazon baby. Amazon baby. I like that, Do we have a question this week Did you say the same? thing I did? yeah, I think we do. I think we do Say Quizzy, what do we got? What are the very first steps when it comes to bringing on another DJ and starting a multi-op?

8:31 It's really a two-part question right there in itself. What should I have in place beforehand? What should I look for in a DJ? I mean, this is definitely a multi-part question, definitely a multi-part question. I guess we'll just kind of I'll tackle it, just a comprehensive answer here. You know, I think that the very first thing that you should do and I did this kind of late in my career is have like an actual onboarding process and I won't just leave that open-ended. I'll tell you some of the things that you need to have in process. And again, this is assuming you've already kind of interviewed people, hired them, trained them, let them go out in shadow I'm kind of fast forwarding to where you're actually bringing them on as a subcontractor, an employee.

9:12 But I mean everything from they need to be photographed. They need to have a one minute to two minute bio video on the website. They need to be added to the website. They need to have any training manuals or propaganda that they give out to couples. They need to have the PowerPoint presentation customized to their, you know, photographs and everything else for when they meet with couples. Like I have an entire sheet and I'll just plug the DJ's Vault. Now it's in the DJ's Vault. If you're not a member, it's the DJsvaultcom. You like the way I kind of slid that in there. There's probably 25 things that we honestly do when we're bringing on a DJ and I don't know that I'll really am the person or I think it's going to matter from state to state or city to city, like I'm not sure if they're looking for it says what should I have in place beforehand?

9:56 Like in terms of, you know, should you be an S-Corp or an LLC or do you need a business license? I'm going to leave that to, like CPAs and professionals we're not professionals, obviously. But then, going back to I guess the question was kind of out of order what should I look for in a DJ? I mean, this is probably one of the hardest things I've definitely failed before, where I thought somebody was going to be an absolute rock star and Randy was like I don't know about this guy, and then you know, before he even gets to his first gig. I fired him for whatever reason. And Randy's like. I told you that guy was an idiot. You know what I mean and I'm like dude. I thought I nailed it, so I don't know that. There's a formula that I use. I think conversations, face-to-face interviews get off the Zoom, get people to come in to I don't care if it's your house, starbucks, wherever get back face to face with people, really try to feel them out, try and figure out why they're doing it.

10:45 If their first thing out of their mouth is money, it's probably not going to be a good fit for me at least. I want people that actually enjoy doing this job. They're passionate about it, they love music, they love people. And then you have to always decide the Joe Bunn route. You know you are hiring people that have already been doing this and you're going to train them up to be more like you or your guys. Or the Mike Walter route, where you literally can meet somebody in a restaurant and say hey, you'd make a good DJ, and you show them everything from what an XLR cable is to finally emceeing and DJing a wedding. So I don't know. I hope that helps a little bit. I mean, brian, you got anything to add to this? It's a deep question really I would suggest. You know going very slow yeah you know, to your point having all those things in place yeah, the move yeah and sometimes you just want to get the right, right, I gotta add people.

11:32 Yeah, I'm leaving money on the table, or whatever the case may be, right and I've always, when I've rushed it, yep, just to get somebody on the team you missed never as you told that story a couple shows ago about you, know you needed to rush that fill that space. Totally not a good call. And I also just will say that culture within your team is so important. Yeah, they say it all the time, you get one bad apple I've had that too it just infiltrates. And it's hard. Even if you fire the guy, it's already out yeah, he's already infiltrated your or contaminated, yeah, totally I agree. So this seems kind of deep, but more or less just try to figure out like, what is your culture, what are you looking for? That like DNA of your team? For us we have three key areas. We want somebody who's hungry, somebody who's people smart and somebody who's humble, those three things like.

12:17 If they're not any of that, then they're not a fit for us. If they want to be the next you know, tiesto out there or whatever, probably not our- guy. You know what I mean. Same for me so like, really hunker down on those three things and try to, when we do the interview, try to press on those in some way. You know, obviously we want them to be lovers of music. I mean that is definitely a plus, but some of that stuff can almost be taught. Sure, those three things, those are like core to who you are. I just had this call right before we started shooting today with a, a dj that you and I know, um from up in new england area, and he was talking about having to let somebody go that had kind of stepped in and filled a bunch of shows for him and he had to let them go because they just their ego and their they, they didn't play well with others there was no collaboration yeah no collaborative spirit, just kind of nasty.

13:03 When they showed up to other wedding pros not the couple seemed to like him. You know that was the hard thing for this guy. He was like man, I'm so torn because I'll get a five-star review but then a text, you know, two days after the wedding, from the photographer being like he's got yeah, you know what I mean and like I told him it's like you can train somebody to be a good DJ, you can train somebody to be a good MC, but you can't change like personality flaws, right, not in an adult. There's no way. Yeah, you know, if this guy's got a huge ego or he's just a d***, he's probably going to be a d*** forever. You know All back. Right back to the top. Very Letterman of you, very. Letterman of you. Anyway, I hope that helps, Captain Anonymous, and happy Halloween everybody, I guess.

13:46 Yeah. Yeah, pre-early Halloween. There you go. That's not really the week before. That's right, because we're pre-recording Right. In a black t-shirt Same one we wore the last three episodes. All good for watching man New episodes every week. Please leave us a review. We'd appreciate y'all. See ya, See ya.