Most exciting moment........................

Exciting moments?
Apart for the usual, marriage, etc.....2.02 pm Sunday of each year's Australian Formula One GrandPrix.
First lap, when anything is likely to happen and I have to 'observe' it. The combined noise of 22 [these days] of the world's most sophisticated motor vehicles as they all attempt to get through the same corner ahead of as many of their rivals as they can....at insane speeds and proximity...while I attempt to keep track of exactly who hits what [and why], as pieces of exotic machinery are 'reshaped' by other exotic machinery. Then, I have a minute or two to pen an incident report before whatever's left of them is back again, trying to get ahead of whoever else is still there.
Approx 2 hours later, I relax...

When I was 16, I got my first stereo
When I was 17, I got my first laptop
When I was 19, I enrolled into University of Houston
When I was 19, I met my boyfriend
When I was 20, I built my first PC

Can't say much about 21 cause I've only been that for one day

I've always wanted to see that grand prix live. Now I'm extremely jealous

Happy belated B-day......Elfkura

And here I thought I wouldn't get anymore b-day wishes cause it's over

18: moving back to my home country
19: meeting my present wife (1st gf too actually)
25: first kid, buying my first and till date only house, getting my first pewter
28 getting internet access at home
29: second kid arrived
30: turning 30....
31: getting my trucking license + becoming admin at Skinbase.org
33: becoming admin at Skinz.org

1972: BKB walks out of gold shop in Nong Khai, Thailand. Passing Pathet Lao terrorist swings a 45 auto into his face and pulls trigger. Hollow Click! Thai army shoots PL terrorist, retieves bullet from chamber of the 45, and gives it to BKB for a good luck piece. excitement /= fun sometimes.

I've been jinxed 10 years apart for that...

the first time I looked into each of my childrens eyes and they seemed so interested in life

jinxed as in speaking the same thing at the same moment, but having the same exact feelings, thoughts years apart during exactly similar situations.

needed to clarify that people would think, well heck he hates his kids of something...

thought I came close once, my son got in my Rollaway and worked on his BMX bike with his friends and they took off with a set of Snap-on Line wrenchs intending to bring them back, never did though... grrrrrr

BKB I have a similiar story but it envolved a drug raid and some shooting but really similiar.

I hate it when I raid someone's drugs and they shoot at me....

Well I wasn't the one getting shot at, kinda still under hush hush about all the details but if y`all didn't know drug enforcement along the Mexican border is how a Marine spends his summer sometimes

'drug enforcement'...."Now listen up, kiddies...you WILL take those drugs, or else!"...

No Jafo!!! The other way around!!!! HAHA

Most exciting? that would be hard to judge, and in some cases, dangerous to reveal. but I'll give it a shot...

Right after I was born, must've been less than a couple months, a beautiful woman bathed in blue light came to my crib, smiled, welcomed me to my life, and then gave me a puzzle. It was wrapped in a paper bag. She put it in the crib and said "This is your puzzle, it won't be easy to figure it out but stay with it and you'll get it." I never forgot that and as soon as I could talk I started asking my parents where my puzzle was. They thought I was crazy... I can still see her like it was yesterday.

In the sixties (too many to list so I'll pick one) I went to a Doors concert at the Hollywood Bowl with my girlfriend. I wound up in a stand-off with about a thousand cops right there in the upper section of seats. The aisle filled up with cops and soon the whole arena was solid police everywhere. Jim Morrison stopped the concert and asked everybody to calm down and after a while the police disperssed and the concert continued. It was all over a misunderstanding (and a stupid act by an overzealous policeman). They were going to throw my girlfriend out of the show because somebody behind her passed a sparkler to her which she just threw on the floor and stamped out. I refused to budge and was arguing with the cop and he called for backup. I was shouting at him that he needed to back down and he was insisting that I was going to be ejected. As the odds swelled against me with what seemed like thousands of cops streaming in I turned around to the crowd and yelled "You all saw what happened, who's with me on this?" About 15 guys got up and stood behind me. Then it became a stand-off of bilical proportions. I won, I insisted I get to tell the supervisor my story over the radio, the lead cop agreed, the supervisor told them all to back off and drop it. The concert was incredible...

My son's birth was also a milestone of getting high on life. I could go on for days with stories... better stop here.

"stand-off of bilical proportions" would of course be "biblical"

I guess it was 'exciting' when the size 10 boot fractured my jaw in 2 places, with blood everywhere...
It was also 'exciting' when I looked down and noticed my thumb was on both sides of the tenon saw...
And exciting when I woke up in the ambulance and the guy asked me 'did that car hit you?'...
And when the others asked 'who was that driver you were talking to?' and I replied 'Rowan Atkinson...but his nose is smaller in real life'...

Definelty when I got my first pair of actual turntables at age 11. They weren't great and the dust covers were heavier than the turntables themselves.


Before that, I had turntables on top of like a bookshelf system with a tuner, tapedeck and cd player under them. I had two of those side by side with no pitch controls so I had to change the pitch of songs to match downbeats with my hand (moving the record a little faster with my fingers and slowin it down with my fingers).

Those tought me great techniques though and I'm glad they were my first 'actual' turntables I used for DJing.


When I got the pair I first mentioned it was the best because they had pitch controls, I was also able to use a mixer and the platter wasn't half the size of a 12inch record. They weren't great but it got me started.


Since 12 (19 now), lots of summers I worked 2 jobs to afford new equipment and now I'm on my 5th pair of decks. That's dedication right there and all I can say is it was well worth it.


Definetly other exicting moments but that sticks out because DJing is now something more than a hobby and I always wanted to do it since I was young. I wasn't born with a silver spoon and worked to get to the level I'm at now and all that work definetly paid off.

Very well done Al. My brother was a fairly popular DJ in the Bay Area during his day. He still has all his equipment and too many vinyls for me to count. I remember when he got his first turntables (Technics I think) and he felt the way you did too since he worked long summers to afford them. Definetly know where your coming from

Thanks Green_Armani.

If they were Technics I'm gonna guess they were Technic 1200s. They were the standard for DJs for over 10 years.


The pair I have now are Vestax PDX-2000s and are becoming the new standard. I bought them around the time they first came out. Many still prefer Technics.


He's your brother so I take it you've seen them. Their tone arm is S-shaped and the newer turntables are incoprorating a straight tone arm which really helps preventing skipping. The new Numarks now incorporate an inter-changable S-shaped and straight tone-arm. I would love to see a new pair of Technics but their 1200s are selling just fine.


DJing is a very expensive hobby and I'm sure your brother can tell you that . I've helped alot of people get started and some hear what it takes to get started and immediately turn away.


Record collections are something we DJs hold very dear and are most definetly irreplaceable. It's a shame becasue I know a DJ down here in philly who moved his stuff in a U-Haul truck and they stole everything from him.

That has to be tough...........my brother has easily about 2,000 vinyls from every genre imaginable. He would make his on covers that he put themin so no one could see them while he was DJ`ing. He aslo would put a label over the original label on the record so no one could see what record he was using for scratching and mixing. I doubt he will ever get rid of thos records even though he doesn't do it anymore. He still has his techincs and I do remember them having the S-shape tone arm. Being smaller then I remember going with him to all his "gigs" and I would help all around carrying this and that and I remember how heavy those turntables were. It's funny too because he would make his own speakers!!! No kidding........he would have like two 18in speakers and then make a box for them with the cutouts and he even gave the box that gray cloth to cover it with. He was pretty talented althoug I think he was a better mixer then scrather. His partner was DJ Quest (not sure if you ever heard of him.... maybe before your time and different part of the country too).

Jafo - more ducking and evasive action is highly recommended!

Yes, DJ Quest sounds very familiar. It could be a different DJ with the same name.

I've built speakers before although nothing special. I'm lookin to build a sub soon. Dual 18inchers sounds very nice .

That's cool he scratches. Scratching and beat-juggling or Turntablism is mostly the type of DJing I do. When I first started doin that, I had to buy a new crossfader every week wearing out the old one...it helped me to become ambidextrous which really came in handy for scratchin and beat juggling.


I also have about around the 2,000 range of records. I have alot of older records like: Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Queen, Genesis, Sesame Street, Mary Poppins, Alice Cooper, ect. etc. and lots of odd records that I use to cut up and create beats with.


They go nuts when they hear that

Do you listen to DJ Qbert, DJ Craze or MixMaster Mike to name a few popular DJs from the Underground?

To be honest I was never into the DJ thing but just liked hanging out with my bro. DJ Qbert sounds extremly familiar I'll ask my brother because I swear one of the DJ's he was friends with had that name.

Well if he's friends with Qbert he's friends with one of the top most influential DJs who is also a pioneer in the Turntablism DJ world.


You could say nobody could match his scratchin skills. He pioneered an art through the album Wave Twisters which was also made into a movie that tells a story through scratchin and beat juggling. It's the first movie where the movie has to match the music and not the other way around.


He had to stop competiting in the DMC/Technics World Competition because he won all the time. MixMaster Mike is also in his crew the Invisible Scratch Pickles or was because they broke up at their peak which is a good way to go.


Luck man if he was.


If you haven't seen Wave Twisters you should pick it up. It's available on cd, 12inch and DVD. The DVD is also great if you want to show off your home theater setup.