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...TR: They have no idea what it's all about. They think that I'm playing weddings and bar mitzvahs and things like that...it's a far cry from that...
...TR: This is it. The DJing is a small part of what makes the night happen. The rest of the time I'm setting up promotions. I try to keep different things happening every week--a different promotion, promoting a new album or a new artist, or different DJs coming in to showcase what they have. That keeps me busy during the day. One or two days a week I'm at FNX taking phone calls from record labels and doing that side of the business. I also do a little bit of studio work where I produce...
...TR: It has always been in music. Right out of college I was the singles buyer for Tower Records. I left Tower and was the rock buyer for HMV for four or five years, and then I had gigs as a record buyer for Boston Beat and Beat Nonstop--small record shops--but no office job or anything like that. It's always been in music...
...TR: It was more difficult to find the equipment, like turntables, things like needles and slipmats that you need. I had to make my own slipmats and things like that; now there are specialty shops all over the city. As far as getting work, it was pretty much me schlepping around town giving any manager who would give me a minute tapes of me spinning. I happened to get lucky and get the gig at Axis right off the bat in 1990, which makes it about nine years that I have been here, which is pretty lucky...
...TR: Sort of yeah, sort of no. I would never say that I compromise my music to the point where I am playing things that I don't like. I think that is where I would draw the line with my career; if I ever started doing that, then it would become a job. But at the same time you want people in the club; you want people coming through the door, and for your radio broadcast you certainly want people listening, so you have to keep that in mind without compromising your own integrity. You definitely want to play...