There is a lot of division in the scene right now. What once was  a flourishing scene is now in danger of blowiing up all together because of all the hating backstabbing and bitin ( stealing themes and ideas) .

Hopefully we will be able to eventually get it togeheter and our scene will somehow survive.

Stuck on Salsa slideshow pt1

 

Lets' see so far this year we had the Mad crazy Resolution jam 2009 which was out of control . We presented the Experience with Victor and Burju which was Stupid Mclupid and the ClaveKazi and StuckOnSalsa Spring Fever Jam was off the Salsa Hinges I give S OS the first quareter of the  year a grade  A . 

Oh I forgot Johnny Johnson and StuckON Salsa founded The Mambo Scene , a New Network for Salsa and mambo dancers that is sizzling hot

someone asked me when do you wear all white? Well there is winter white but winter is over. They said the regular rule not to wear all white before Memorial Day is old school you can wear all white whenever you want to. I said you can wear all white before Memorial day weekend if you want to if you are or want to be a bamma or are a good humor man

I never thought that I would like to Bachata. Back in the day when Kelvin and I first started we would play all salsa mambo chachacha and a little Hip Hop because that is what Shaka would play at his house parties and we actually tried to pattern our parties after Shaka's house parties ,

If the dj would play a merengue or Bachata they were banned from ever playing at a StuckOnSalsa party again. We were StuckOnSalsa and we did not wnat to hear anything else..


After going on one of the SOS All Star Salsa cruises and seeing people dance to Bachata for one hour straight and having fun I realized that a lot of people like Bachata . Then We had a Bachata  room at one of our Spring Fever jams and the room was packed .

At the DC Salsa Congress they had a Interntional Room with Bachata and it was great .

Lee "El Gringuito" has a Bachata Meet Up with over 1, 000 members. I had to change with the times . After learning some moves from Lee Tato Paredes Jorge Ataca and Rudy Lopez I no longer cringe when I hear Bachata . I actually like it . I can now hold my own with any one on the Bachata Floor

Wow I thoight I would never like Bachata

A dj that was supposed to play at a StuckOnSalsa party backed out at the last minute with a flimsy excuse and them not knowing who I know proceeded to tell a very good friend of mine that he did not like working for me.

My good friend asked me why the person said that ? I told my friend he had to ask  that person said that.

Here is what I suspect is why that person does not like to work for me.  Though I am a very wild party all the time guy , I am  very conservative  promoter . The majority of my clients  want to dance and that's about it.
They do not  want to be educated while out dancing and they don't want to hear some vinyl record wit scratches in them . They do not want to hear some obscure record that no one has ever heard before unless it is a slamming dance tune, and the don;'t wnt to hear something that is too fast or something that like a funeral.


When you play for me there is no experimenting involved. Just play dance music . I suspect this person feels handcuffed by my conservative standards. Some djs don't want to play for the crowd they want to play what they want to hear..


If I hear someone playing something too fast or too obscure I wlll say something immediately during the song or right after that. Some djs don't want to hear any criticism or want  to hear anything from the promoter even though the promoter is paying the dj and the promoter not the dj 's neck is on the line.

DC has plenty of great djs so the fact that that person or any other dj does not like to play for me is no  big deal