How to be A Disc jockey, By David See 1980

[zeusdeejay]

I have this book! Is very very good!

[djDavidSee]

hey I wrote this, and I am doing an update - any ideas!

[DJTru2]

A booking for a funeral.. lol maybe a divorce...

[SpektralMusic]

hospital radio 70

[muzvit]

Epic book!

[RobGatAber]

Ahhhh, the good ol' days. My first dex experience was using the Citronic Hawaii - belt driven twin deck heaven! No crossfader back then.. Following that I tried to build my own "twin deck" monster with two Garrard belt drive turntables which I bought in an auction for GBP2 each! After nearly killing myself by introducing 240volts to my makeshift rotary "crossfader", I decided the electrics were dodgy! Now I use Pioneer DJM800/CDJ1000 :D

[owlwink]

great vid

[StaffRecordPlayer]

The second car you pointet at is a Golf 2 I think ... I DRIVE A GOLF II !!!!!!!!!!!!!

ITS A SUPER DUPER ULTRA COOL VAN !

haha, I love my little box with wheels ;)

Now im dumpish lol

[djY2Kev]

The SL1200mk2 was first introduced in 1981, the SL1200 had a pitch fader as well but did not utilize the quartz lock technology and had a lower torq motor... The actual 1200MK2 is still the same model as it was in 81 so that's 27 years of being the industry standard... Thought I would share the knowledge....

[djkevinjb]

Addition to your information: an SL1200 MK1 had two pitch dials (for 33 and 45RPM) instead of a slider (I think, not really detailed photo's on google). It also had an other pattern of dots on the platter as most (affordable) turntables have today (ex. JB Systems High Q30D).

Tell me if I'm wrong.

-Kevin JB

[davehikah]

Nice one.

[DJMGM88]

Very interesting...

[BlizzardOfTheCoast]

"There he is taking a booking for a wedding. Maybe a funeral"

Hehe. Thanks for sharing, Jonathan! Very interesting.

[DjTRex08]

My GOD how far we've come ha ha ha.....

[Maxsdiscos]

ALREADY GOT IT!!!

[PUDDICOMBE1992]

Cool stuff man (:

[lowertheboom]

gold !!

[bob3006]

I thought that smoke machine was a furnace to heat the building, I guess it did that too.

[jearley2424]

Citronic, Fal, Pulsar and the one not mentioned Roger Squires or Squires the first Citronic deck you showed i had it at the standard belt turntable but was fine for years! those par effects were a pain as the bulbs always blew....and carrying 1000s of 45s, 33s and 12in singles knightmare. BUT IT WAS GREAT. noticed no mixing tips we didnt have to worry about it too much fade in fade out and a bit of banter... BIT LIKE WHAT I DO NOW HA HA. thanks jay check my vid rgds jearley

[Dj1MORETIME]

W O W VERY GOOD J MAN

[EJ8civic]

wow, thats a good find!! nothing like the classics! thanks Jon!

[DJDarkuJ]

"taking a booking for a wedding,.....maybe a funeral"

[VarietyShop]

lol, nothing like the classics.

[jakeboi]

"What on earth is that" haha Johnathan you're brilliant!

[fmbighair]

kitchy!

[twrea]

WOW, thats a nice find. It's great too see things looking back, I wonder what folks will say when they see back in time to our time.. Thank-you for showing us your book!

[fefa321]

scan it please

[Blayros]

thats so wicked mate! I would like to get that from somewhere :)

[abdallah3]

i was just a dream in my father's head at that time... ;)

[manunited2012]

or floatin around in somewhere lol

[DjRavine]

DUDE ULTRA RETRO!!!

I want to have that and flick through it

[plur505]

Haha, thats awesome...

[RockTheHouse4]

this is extremely hilarious!

[djsoulhouse]

Ha ha, i remember greg edwards (at 2.39) he had a weekend funk & soul show on london capital radio, he played some dam good music in those days, in fact i have some tapes of some of his shows from 1986, i must make a vid of those tapes and post them on here, those were the days, nice one j.

[djmarkcotter]

awesome!!!

[technicsinhouse]

Good stuff.

[wickedsounz]

Hell that takes me back. I remember my old Citronics dual turntable combo. Mixer on front and a cassette deck in between the decks!!!

I use to use FAL kit, it was the Mutts Nuts back then and those old helicopter pars were so bloody expensive. You knew you had made it big time when you had a blue AND a red fuzz light!!!

Paul.

[FunkyRob]

it be pretty cool to have one of those portable double turntable thingys.

[directsound]

Been there and boy I come a long way !!!! I think that was my 1200 LOL !!!! DJ Mikey Mike

[mrclarkedj]

another 25 years or so and we'll be looking at your vids jon and saying "oh, mp3s! Remember them! They were still using CDs as well!"

How times change!

Keep up the good work mate!

[StaffRecordPlayer]

I think so too ... imagine what has happened in between only 25 years ! What will be in 50 years with DJing ?

[mmaustralia]

OH god, could only imagine. 9 in 10 DJs just pressing auto-sync buttons.

[digerydooboi]

Hey can i buy this off you john?

[adonist7]

hah thats funny

[MisterMikey011]

Ohhh hahahahaha This is SOOOOOOOOO Cool,

man I'm in Holland and lasuginh my ass off.

GREAT STUFF...

uhhh can I have a copy plz..:)

[Grenozh]

I think the MK1 had a pitch control, but it was a knob not a slider

[robpaprox]

i have a technics sl-d202 (circa 1970?) and thats basically it, just a little knob for pitch control

haha i hate that bloody thing, would not recommend it to ANYONE unless you don't want to use it to mix so much

[GROOVECLUBER]

old but good

[19Calin]

exactly a fal turntable man nice HISTORY

[19Calin]

y have one of that turntable

[ambergambler]

class :0)

[BrianJunglist]

nice man