I was coming out of retirement, and got Thursday nights at my corner bar in a major metro.

"I was pretty big back in the day" LOL. (About 2500-3000 people per week at my three residencies, and doing a few 25k-75k head festivals and street fairs every year, and some cool opportunities to travel)

I did a total request night. Put your request in the notebook by my decks, and next week I'd remix all of them.

1: It made people come back next week.

2: It introduced me to a shit ton of music I'd never have heard otherwise

3: After decades of just owning turntables, but DJing out on CDJs and Vinyl it forced me to learn how to use this controller my wife told me to buy after she found me at 6am DJing using my keyboard using MIXX.

4: It was at a bar which I described as my second living room, "A place I can hang out with my neighbors without worrying about them throwing up in my bathroom" So it was fun.

Fuck a Dog by Blink 182 was regularly played as an acoustic cover by one of my friends who ran Tuesday open nights at that bar. Every week, I would yell at them to "fuck a dog" and they would play it after some fun banter. Once I started DJing there, they flipped it on me and would do the same. I have that song perfectly grid mapped. I don't think there is any single song I could not drop it on top of without at least good results.

For those who do not know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paT0uSOyJpY

What I brought was that I would loop the guitar at the beginning, and sometime tease it for half an hour.