MBLV11 Will go from strength to strength

0:00 He's ready, so am I

Alright, he's ready, so am I. Alright folks, Jonathan here and behind me is a guy by the name of Lee Mills. Lee, say hi. Hey everybody, how you doing? Alright, we're doing a bit of a Skype call here and on the Ellaskins channel at the moment I've got Halloween Dance Middle School 09 Copyright Fix. And that's there now, and Lee is all the way in the US of A, and we're doing a bit of a Skype call. The reason for this particular video is, you know, I wanted to ask someone out there what they thought of the Mobile Beat Show. So, what did you think of the Mobile Beat Show, Lee? Well, the Mobile Beat Show was, first of all, it was my first show that I've ever gone to as far as with Mobile Beat. So when I got down there, it was, for me...

The experience, first of all, I know a lot of YouTube DJs and I've been doing this since 2006 so it was very important to me to go down there and meet everybody. But not only that, there were so many people that told me there's all kinds of brand new products and things like that. As a lot of people say, you know, I'm kind of a gearhead. So I got to go and see all these brand new products and figure out how I'm going to really fancy up my shows. If you watch my videos, you'll see that I like a lot of lights and I do a lot of big shows. Yeah, you like a lot of lights. Now, the lights and the gear was really great. When we got to get into the exhibitors hall, it was really fun to go and see and test out the equipment and check off all the different gear. But the networking was fantastic. Never even could I have imagined how much networking could have been done. Fantastic. It was a ton.

2:17 A really big experience for me and I'm hooked

Brilliant. It lasted well into the morning. Yeah. And then of course there was the seminars. The seminars were fantastic. You know, you think seminars can be boring and I suppose to a certain extent, you know, if you know the information it might be boring to you, but a lot of these guys that got up there and spoke about the subjects, really a tremendous amount of great information and it was, I think it was perfect for everybody to go to those things. Okay. A really big experience for me and I'm hooked. I'll be down there every year. Alright, two questions. What is, let's say, your most memorable experience from the show? My most memorable experience? Yeah. Lock 17 on the roulette wheel. Easy! Yeah. Alright, listen. This is so classic.

Tell everyone what happened. Tell them. So I invited Jonathan out for dinner. It's beautiful. This is beautiful. So we went to dinner and said, okay, we're going to go to this place called the Fremont Experience. If you go to Vegas and check it out, you'll see it online and stuff like that. But if you ever go to Vegas, check out the Fremont Experience. So we went down there and we're just kind of walking around, catching up with some other YouTube DJs. And I said, hey, have you ever gambled before? And he said, well, you know, not really. And I said, I'm not a big gambler myself. So, the first thing we did was we went and sat down and did a little blackjack. You know, we said, okay, we'll put 20 down, no problem. And we won. We won some money. So, we kind of cashed out and we kind of walked down. So, you want to try it again? What are we going to lose? You know, it's only $20, okay? We won. We made our money back in some. So, we went down to the roulette table just down the way of that casino. Classic!

And we started playing, kind of losing our money and I said, look, you know what, Black 17 is coming in. It's going to come in, it's going to be a winner. I said, just put all the chips on Black 17. And we're sitting there and I'm still talking to them. Black 17 is going to come in, you know, I'm just sitting over here talking to everybody who watches the wheel, you know. And then everyone on the table looks at us and we look at them and I look at the wheels and oh my god, Black 17 came in! I know! That was classic. It was just wonderful, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. It was great. It's just one of those memorable experiences where you... The irony is you go to the Mobile Beat Show, it's DJ kind of thing, but then it's also, like you said, it's the networking and it's everything else. It's a wonderful experience. I'm going to remember that to the day I die. Amazing. It was awesome.

4:39 You've got the parties upstairs

Well, you've got the parties upstairs. I forgot about the parties. Every night there was a big party in the top of the rib. It was a great thing. Everyone should attend Mobile Beat. It's just something you need to put in for, put in some savings for and be a part of because you'll never forget it. Yeah, I mean, alright, you know, there's probably not one DJ out there that isn't a gearhead. We all like to mess with knobbly bits. Yeah, but we do, don't we? You know what I mean? I mean, the irony is a club DJ quite often will go into a club and they'll have the players in front of them. They don't really have to buy stuff, but a mobile DJ, I mean, you know, I mean me personally, you know, we like to have the new kit and we like to mess around and it's fun. So, from the actual show, what is the most memorable sort of piece of kit that you can remember? Something that caught your eye that you would, you know, from this year you'll always remember that item?

Well, I'll tell you what I saw right on the top, and gosh, I didn't have a chance to talk to him a little bit more about. When you went into the main exhibitors area, you had Pioneer to the right and you had American DJ to the left. Yeah. And I walked around, we checked out everybody in there, but on the very top of the American DJ rigging, they had a, it looked like a large par 64 can. Right. Your typical par 64, but what it was, it was moving on a yoke. You can get a chance to talk to them about that particular light, but you'll see it in the mobile beat videos. You can go to YouTube and check it out. It is an actual moving tar can. It almost looks like something you'd see if someone put a big old spotlight out in front of an event only on a smaller scale. So I was very impressed with that because everybody's into uplighting nowadays, so imagine using these types of yoke-moving tar cans in an uplifting fashion.

7:02 There is a parking on the top that is moving like a yoke

You will see, just as they pan through the entire exhibit hall. There is a parking on the top that is moving like a yoke. It just moves back and forth. Alright, now before we finish this video, there's something that Lee and I... You're over there because I'm looking at the camera around here because this is really bizarre. I've got you there, I've got me, small box there, I've got a camera up there and I've got the video camera there. We're spread all over the world. Exactly, we're spread all over the world! And don't forget, listen, like I've said so many times, you can do this too. Just open your mind, please. But there is something that Lee and I, but mainly Lee, is organising for Mobile Beat Show 2011, 2011. Now we've got to, you know, logically ask people that it's going to be okay, but if it does work out, it could involve any DJ, it could involve...

Any DJ who wants to participate is starting to keep fit and getting strong arms. What do you think? I think it's great. It's a great idea. You guys have probably seen him out there. He calls himself DJ Rude. You can find him on YouTube as well. He's a real buff guy and he believes in being physically fit. He's got a lot of stories about why he does that. I happen to agree with them. If you've ever taken down a lot of gear, by the end of the night, you're pretty... You're pretty whacked, yeah. So it just kind of is a really good thing for everyone to be physically fit and in shape. And I'm going to call this practice and enjoy body and mind, okay? The mind is what Jonathan's bringing, and the body is what DJ Roode and myself are going to bring to an arm wrestling contest. So everybody get in shape. There are going to be prizes.

And we're going to get in there and we're going to arm wrestle and have a good time right next to Jonathan's booth at MobileBeat 2011. Yeah. Alright, listen, Lee, thank you very much. Finish off with... Practice and enjoy! Take it easy, thank you.

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