The Downtown Sound Disc Jockey Service

I deleted two of his reviews on my web page because Mike T. rather inappropriately called me a "crook". I understand he was unhappy and wants a refund. But I don't think he deserves a refund. That hardly makes me a "crook". Mike and I have a difference of opinion on what transpired during the night of his wife's birthday party. He claims I didn't do what he asked. A critical element in this saga centers around his music list of 2hr 12min (33 songs). He stressed that was what he wanted played. Some of his music choices were danceable , some were not, but I tried to work with what he gave me. I played his music on the list, though he claims I did not. I have a check-off list to show that I did indeed play the songs on his music list. Prior to the party I had purchased at least 7 songs that were not in my music library so that I'd have them for his party. Why would I buy the songs and not play them ? About 1/3 way through the party, he somewhat hindered any dj creative license by criticizing me when I varied from his music list even though it was necessary to change it up since only a few were dancing. I was told, "Keep to the list". However in later post-party conversations, Mike said that I should have done my job as dj and played a better variety of music and get people to dance. Yet on the other hand he advised me "keep to the list". Nevertheless, I did my best to implore people via the microphone to dance a few times, but when a dj overdoes that, people can become annoyed thinking the dj is obnoxious or pushy. When I explained to Mike that I remember at least 3-4 times specifically trying to urge people to dance, he stated "that's not enough, you should have done it more". At the beginning of the party, I almost had to beg them to sing happy birthday when the guest of honor arrived. All in all, the majority of guests were a passive group. But sometimes, that's the audience that you have. Everybody isn't wild and crazy at every event. Sometimes folks are happy to simply engage in conversation with friends and don't care to dance, and that's ok. However, Mike has strong opinions otherwise about that, and certainly he's entitled to his opinion. There actually were a few spurts of dance energy at various points in the night, but both Mike and I expected more....we agree on that at least. When I actually was able to get a few older folks to participate in a dance or two with a couple of classic slow songs, that was when Mike admonished me about playing songs not on the list. So again I went back to his list, becoming very cautious about varying from it for fear that he'd complain a second time. Basically, my hands were tied. A couple days after the party in a conversation attempting to "clear the air", I asked him "What do you expect from me ? What do you want me to do ?" Bottom line is he wants a refund or at least a partial one. I don't feel that a refund is justified. Mike has a laundry list of points that he feels took away from the success of the party, most of which is not completely accurate, and is exaggerated or twisted in a way to make me look bad, Example : Mike was upset that I refused to take a request from his daughter. That's not the way it went down. The facts are that his daughter (I didn't know she was his daughter, but that's not the issue) and another woman approached me mid-way through the night and asked if I had a book of music they could browse through to pick out some songs. I told them politely that I didn't have a book they could browse through and further explained that I was trying to keep to the list Mike provided (since he had already cautioned me about varying from it). I then asked his daughter if she had something specific in mind for some requests and she said no, I don't know what I want to hear. I told his daughter if she thinks of a song or two to request to come back and she walked away. Mike shades this as : I refused to take a request from his daughter. This is typical of his other complaints, which are slanted in order to ply a refund, or "make it right" as he likes to say.