From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #19 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, January 26 2007 Volume 07 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Wedding Music -- Bay Area [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Wedding Music -- Bay Area [Chris Prew ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:12:46 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Wedding Music -- Bay Area In a message dated 1/24/2007 11:56:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, zoom@muppetlabs.com writes: Heck, email Mr. Miller and ask if he'll come over with his guitar. If I ever got married, I've thought before several times I'd like to have Scott play the ceremony. If I were filthy rich I'd hire Jane Scarpantoni to play cello as well. There's a beautiful old church on Edisto Island in the Lowcountry of SC where I'd tie the knot. An ancient whitewashed wooden church with huge live oaks draped with Spanish moss everywhere.... - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:53:00 -0600 From: Chris Prew Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Wedding Music -- Bay Area Do it yourself!!! I got married in 1999 and DJ'd my own wedding -- err, sort of. My brother helped. Basically, using some shareware editing software, I'd take 3-4 of the songs I wanted to hear, and mixed them together so they'd flow nicely. Then I burned 3-4 of these small sets to a CD. And I made up about 25 of these little 15 minute mixes -- way more than I could actually use. In addition, I burned all the individual songs as stand alone tracks, so I could still take requests. Then I got a couple CD players and a PA with a mixer, and had my brother be "DJ" - -- meaning every 15 minutes or so he had to switch to the next CD mix. And if he missed it, no big deal, another mix was coming right after, so he wasn't chained to the booth and could still have fun too. Best thing was that I could gear the music to my friends -- they would have been bored silly with the standard wedding fare, but appreciated the mix of the Bay City Rollers "Saturday Night" with Elvis Costello's "Pump it Up" (try it sometime), or when "Brown Eyed Girl" faded into "Punk Rock Girl". Turned out fabulous, and only cost me about $150 to rent the PA -- although setting up the CDs was a lot of work beforehand. But that was pre Napster/Kazaa/iTunes, and I actually had to get all the songs off of real CDs individually. Nowadays, you could probably do all this in a couple evenings and run it off a laptop. Chris On Jan 24, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Michael Mitton wrote: > I am, quite fortunately, getting married in June. But quite > unfortunately, I need to plan a wedding. If anyone has > advice/recommendations for a band/DJ in the Bay Area (Napa), I'd > appreciate it. And I know, I know, we're all immediately thinking > that I should just get Janet's wedding band. If only..... > > Replies off list welcomed, unless people have general interest stories > of great and horrible wedding music. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #19 ******************************