Cursing On The Microphone

[dan matney]

I dont have kids in the bars that I play at, but their are some pretty good people there, and they are personally offended with this song, maybe they are pinky up people but they bring a lot of money into the bar. I cater to the bar what ever makes them money so if a song is offenive to these people and they tell me if we do this song we will leave guess what, I aint gonna play this song. Everything has money as a bottom line, and me too, not money for me but the bar. If it is going to cause the bar Im in to loose some bucks I get away from it. Im always very opologetic witht he people who want to sing the songs but money is money. bottom line.
Dan

[KaraokeDj38030]

Dan,
I meant no disrespect towards you and I am sorry if you took it as such I was just in shock that people would find that as an offensive song, My apologies. In some venues I understand that it would be tasteless for somebody to sing it, but in other curcimstance I Don't see anything wrong with trying to get a laugh out of the crowd with something off the wall Like the pussycat song. But like I said before I live in Redneckville and they find farting funny if you know what I mean and I have played at places where I wouldn't dare let this or many other songs be played(Country Clubs, VFW'S, Moose Logdes, Eagle's Clubs)

Most of the bars around here would find hip hop offensive if I played it during a break where others would welcome it. In Closing yes it all depends on your venue if you allow certian songs or not.

Bottom line on that is If the bar doesn't make any money because of your chioce of music then you make no money. I have no problem keeping a full venue and the customers coming back for more. It is the customer that makes us not us that make the customer.

[dan matney]

Im so sorry for sounding like you offend me little girl, you did not offend me at all I was just trying to explain how and when I allowed this stuff to go on, to tell you the truth I was not upset for people playing this song at all, but one week I was asked not to allow someone to do this song, I thought about it and the person put it in and I let her sing it and watched as about a dozen or more people left it made me think about it for a week and I decided that it is not worth making one person happy to sing anything they wanted while, making the other people unhappy and the bar loose money. Im trying to correct and rate songs in my book now, what a big job that is I rate them as I get them now but going back is big big work. Then only excption to this is fi you want to come and sing for me, I would let you do what ever you wanted....L

Dan

[muzicman144]

I'm just completely blown away by this discussion. I'm not a prude by no means, been doing this for amost forty years. I have never allowed any off color language, jokes, songs of any kind. Just don't do it. I have never heard anyone question this or complain. What's the problem. Some people just have the urge to put it "in your face". Who really cares if you don't allow someone to "have a little fun", that doesn't care what someone else thinks. I know i'll hear some flack over this, but, think about it, does allowing this make the night anymore special, or contribute to a better night of entertainment !!!!!
I think not.....
muzicman