If you wondered why pennies, dimes, and scotch tape were considered DJ gear. hahahahah

Ahhh…the old 'paper around the power button mod'

The stanton 500 which was the scratch needle of choice in the 80's...

Oh yes it was. I started with that needle...

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the scratch needle of the 80's
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you didn't have a set of these...
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Personalized in the Technics needle guide...

I'm following you. Good pictures btw.

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Nice pictures!

did you ever use this one, it's pretty much the same as the 500AL
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nope Joee in those days if you didn't run Stantons and you was skipping the needle it was all bad everyone would blame your gear.

... if you didn't scope out the back door of restaurants for "the good" milk crates

We used the Pickering joint out here. At least me and all the area DJ's did. The young guns on the come-up got sold the Stantons since they didn't know no better.

.... if this wasn't required equipment in your dj booth
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LoL or the back of producers milk company i think we made them go bankrupt haha.

That's good $#it wow keep em coming good thread!!!

Ahhhh!!!!

Pickerings!

Joee, you kinda got some ole' skool in ya...

Those were the needles of choice for quite a MIN because those damn Stanton tips were the worst...lol.

I always liked these ones:
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With the clip.

i used picerings more than the 500AL, they were cheaper & worked just as good i used to get the hole thing (needle & cart) for $20

You didn't have this for your Samples / Dj Drops
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TELL 'EM AGAIN! They ain't hear you the FIRST time....

However, my scratching took flight because I had the secret weapon...

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ADC QLM 30 MKIII's...

Sold by RADIO SHACK for 12.95 for the CARTRIDGE AND NEEDLE...

The Needle by itself was 10.95.

NOBODY was up on those joints....and I truly thought I was the ONLY DJ in the world who discovered the first needle built for scratch DJ'ing....

Until I looked on the back of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's album...

I'm not saying anymore....

Radio Shack was LIGHT YEARS ahead of it's time....

I had to bribe my Daughter to take it to the club LMAO.

no you didn't i had and used the sk1

I still have one of those somewhere...

see......this thread here is going to show how old we are........lol

You are too young....

If you didn't know this is also a Microphone: www.playderecord.com

If all of these were in their proper jackets BEFORE the end of the night: us.123rf.com

The emergency microphone lol!

There was NO way in hell....

As a matter of fact, I used to bring an extra EMPTY crate at night to still all the freestanding vinyl in that was piled up, that I did not have time to carefully put back in their jackets...

I'd put the stack into the crate, put it in the front seat with me on the way back to the crib, and put back in the jackets later in the week.

Heaven help us if we had a party the next day.

Yeah really... But it's fun Man I'm dying over here.

to young IF you never used this speaker right here, built in wheels 4 built motorola tweeters and all
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who remembers these......these were the rane mixers of the 80's
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link number 3, the original transformer switch

oh yea Joee is on a roll... I had the DM 1800 with the 3rd fader

Got my first experience in repairs soldering in a new switch from Transforming!!!

you know your old when this was your light show
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the worlds worst slip mat
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LMAO!!! I HAD A PAIR OF THOSE SLIP MATS!!!

Heyyy i owned a set of those lights...

Nope - THIS was the Rane mixer of the day: mixdynamix.com



YESSIR... had a red one and a blue one!!!! One to set on top of each speaker.

Same here,
Usually with some tape to stop them falling off since they weighed basically nothing.

How we use to set up our Prepared "play list"

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i didn't dj in any clubs in those days strictly house partys, for us numark was the BEST

Awww man, I thought you needed a million dollars to own one of those....

That was on the Malcolm McLaren album cover too....

I eventually DJ'ed on ALL of those Numarks too....

Back when they meant QUALITY....

I had my share if Numark mixers too....

You couldn't call yourself a DJ back in the day if you didn't own at least ONE Numark....

Man, who the HELL could afford to buy actual "Slipmats"?

Felt ALL day....

I never "owned" a Numark, but cats let me borrow them left and right...lol.

Your too young if this wasn't you Prepare Playlist
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You're too young if... you don't know the proper spelling of "your to young"! lol

Or too old! LoL

Reflex beat me to it.
Not knowing when to use "you're" and "your" or "to" and "too" is like the use of "vinyls." You mofos are too old to be spelling like 5th graders. Typos are one thing, but c'mon b. LOL

Auto correct has gotten me spoiled..... but then again thats no excuse since is grammar related..... lmao.... FORGIVE ME FORGIVE ME!!!!! *cough* vinyls....... DJays..... DeeJays.... Weather or not.......

Good catch I paid no attention too caught up in the content Forgive me as well.

LOL love your sense of humor. No mango juice.

THIS ^^^^

Oh, and I CRINGE with the "hole" your, you're, thing.....

CHURCH JOHNNY!!!!

I thought I was the only one using the QLMs back then. I only switched to the Pickering V-15s because of the (waaaayyy) higher output and bass response

Oh, the Pickerings sounded MUCH better than the QLM's, especially over time...not to mention, they looked like the "New Age" Stantons....and conversely could be used IN a Stanton cartridge...

But those QLM's allowed me to do scratches and tricks FEARLESSLY (at the time), that nobody around here could do with ease...

And that also included NO pennies, nickels, or dimes on the headshell neeva.

I approached it from a scientific standpoint also...

I figured if you needed to stick an additional weight on the headshell, like a penny or something, you might as well get a REAL additional "headshell" weight and do it.

So I had 2 "Headshell" weights on my jawn, and nobody could figure out how what was different about my jawns vs. errybody elses.

Trust, only cats who "KNEW" knew...

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you mean like the ones behind me?

Birthday gift from my girlfriend(now wife) in 87.

She also bought me the Akai AA-A35 receiver on the bottom of the stack that powered them.

Girlfriend that buys you gear = MARRYING MATERIAL! LOL

I have the head shell weights on those cartridges still better pics to follow my sound was a little more advanced as I had the peavey Sp2's with that loud ass horn and a Peavey Cs 800 dj's didn't stand a chance in a battle as my sound was Too loud LOL... I still have a couple battle of the dj's trophys I need to find and post I'm sure you guys will get a kick outta those...

The Workhorse amp of all time. Peavy CS-800's. Built to last.

is that the one were the volume knobs pushed in & out?

Yea Buddy with the DDT Compression...

i do NOT miss this gear
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at all.......

Yeah i played with those Peavey's for a long time then went to Yamaha then when i was really makin money Cerwin Vega!

Dude we used to play the game who got the Amp Cuz that B#tch was heavy.

Yessir. DDT compression....

EARLY.

No.....THIS was the Rane mixer of the day:
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While I owned several other personal mixers; Numark GLI, Bozak & Urei, I was fortunate enough to have the MP24 installed at most of the clubs I was working in the 80's. Still one of the best quality mixers for smooth, classic mixing.

The GLI PMX 9000 was the Poor Man's Rane MP 24 as that was all i could afford and i loved that mixer!!! it had Crazy output over everything else but that Rane! I gave mine away a few years ago.

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Your to Young If..... you come in here posting this

...you don't (or didn't) own Wild Style, Beat Street and Breakin' and a whole stash of DMC vids on VHS.

...you don't get a chubby on when you find a secret stash of records in an unsuspecting shop's basement.

...you've never felt that moment of pure elation when you found one of your biggest wants after you've spent months/years searching for it.

...you've never held an acetate.

Taken the needle off the playing record, by mistake.

LOL - I bought that amp for my school for their sound rig. Had to mount it on wheels so kids could movie around!

I always hated carrying amplifiers, I remember when we'd be loading stuff in...everybody would work around the amplifiers in the hope that somebody else would take it, until they were the last thing left.
Last time I rented some powered speakers, I couldn't believe how little they weighed

80lbs plus.......were was the qsc powerlite & plx in them days......lol

SK-1 - yup first thing I was pressing on figuring out what sampling was about.
(I had to 'acquire' it from someone)

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your to young if...

you never made a pause tape :D

let alone a tascam 424...

You're Too Young If...

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Thank you....

TOO bad you can't edit YOUR own thread subject.

Yeah... I never understood why they don't have such a simple forum feature.

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+1
Went to a record store a few months ago, was in a room with 10,000+ 12" singles, and was like, "Man, I really miss this!". Spent an hour just flipping through bins, reminiscing on all the records I was pulling up. Spent thousands of hours digging in bins, finding that impossible to find gem was the best!

Evidence.

They said they wanted people to be accountable for their words - obviously futile.

I see what you did there. lol

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Any of you remember using ....

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This is what started what we are today

if pulling cords was your hamster switch

If u never heard of bits & pieces.

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Or These
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lol, i liked these better than milk crates... you had to be real cool with the mailman to get 'em though...lol

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you could actually get them free at the post office if you were bringing in lots of mail

Nice avatar AKIEM. I love it. :)

Ummm....

Quick Checks and 7 Elevens are also a good source......















Ummm...That's what I heard.....

^ wawa and 7 eleven all day!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't seen a WaWa in Years!!!!! Damn sometimes I miss my New Jersey days.... When I left Jersey they had just started that build your own Sub or Sandwhich from a touch screen menu.

Wawa = South Jersey
7 Eleven = Everywhere else....

+philly.......honestly i stole crates from so many places ......lol, i can't remember them all.....lol

yes sir!





I pass by, well what looks like the damn crate Meca an a regular basis. Then I start looking for the cameras or some shit they must have on these stacks of gold. Then Im like - hole up, I dont need any damn crates anymore....



































....allegedly

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Anyone else use Nikko Amps? Beautiful sounding amp, never shoulda got rid of it.

You're kidding....right?

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Ashley Fet 500 Amplifier - www.acousticpsychos.com

I use to own this one: img245.imageshack.us

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Me too, the Alpha 220....

That was the first amp I had with no volume knobs...

Was the main amp for the rig when we first started out....

Then became the amp strictly for the "Highs" in our 3-Way System....

It had it's place in time, plus had purty lights....

LoL... I used mine for home audio. Ya'll was bootlegging using a home amp for DJ'ng as we all did in one way or another.

I had one of these: forums.peavey.com Peavey CS800's as my first DJ amp. I didn't know about crossovers and would EQ down stuff over 200Hz for subs and did the opposite for highs. I don't miss lugging around speakers like this: i254.photobucket.com

Come to think of it... I didn't know jack about PA back then; I only appreciated quality sound and equipment. The Internet has helped change all that.

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Not kidding...why? What the deal? That Nikko was a beast of an amp! LOL.

That's the same exact model I've rocked. We are after all talking about "your too young if..." lol...

LOL, gotcha. I pretty much used it the same way Johnny.

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