QotD: DJ Me

    What is (or would be) your DJ name?

Actually, the correct tense would be 'What WAS your DJ name?'  And in my case, I'm ashamed to admit I didn't have one.  I'd just introduce myself as Ross when I was backannouncing.  A couple of the other folks at the station had kickass DJ names - like one gal called herself NJ Gauthier (pronounced NJ Go-tee-ay), and of course we had our resident electronic music spinner, DJ Audiorapture.  I was just Ross though.

That didn't prevent me from acting like a true DJ though, picking my own music and filling some requests when I could.  We used to get collect calls from the nearby prison inmates requesting songs.  The call would go something like this:

"You are receiving a collect call from:" "Anything by Tool except Schism" "would you like to accept the call?

(At which time you were supposed to hang up and decide whether you were feeling generous and could fit in something for the poor inmates, who probably were listening to the radio while lifting weights or some other boring activity.)

Unfortunately, at the time, Tool's "Schism" was on the heavy rotation list, so it got played a couple times a day.  Since local station guidelines prohibited us from playing anything by the same artist within a certain timeframe, I don't think I was able to help out with this request.  Not that I would have minded - most of the Tool songs off of the Lateralus album are over 5 minutes in length...which means an extra long break for the DJ.

I feel a little bit guilty about not being able to play some Tool that day...so here's some for all you inmates with computers out there...and I've made sure it isn't Schism.  Enjoy!

07_-_Tool_-_Parabola

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