Guerrilla DJing party with Sixteen Synchronized Boomboxes!

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garylachance said:
Wow it's great to hear all of your stories and positive feedback!
To answer a few questions/comments:

-unfortunately, we have no decent radio stations here in Vancouver.. I can't begin to imagine how cool 80's radio in NYC must have been!

-It took about 130 D batteries (mercury free) to power our fleet of boomboxes, but at 50c apiece, it wasn't insanely expensive. And they were actually decent batteries, and should last for another couple of parties we're hoping!

-We have a link on our website http://www.decentralizeddanceparty.com to the transmitter we use (the WW FM Transmitter).
If you scroll down a few clicks you can see the blue banner ad for it on the right hand side.. it's a great, reasonably-priced, battery-powered transmitter and if you click the link on our site before buying we'll get a small commission, which would really help to offset our battery costs!

If any of you guys can recommend a good place to find more boomboxes in the Vancouver, BC area or have any to donate, we're always looking for more and will put them to good use!
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hey man why not do a live electronic music show with boomboxes as the pa along.
i have been kicking this idea around for a while. i dont know i think it could be cool as long as the cops didnt come and shut it down.
nothing to fancy. just some simple groovebox based tracks . the groove box could just have the transmitter hooked up to it and the boomboxes could just brodcast the sound. could be interesting to find some live pa guys into doing it. i think it would be cool.
your right about radio here. what can you do.
you want to find boomboxes cheap here in the city. its getting harder to do that now.
my best advice is to get up really early on a saturday and drive all the thrift stores between here and hope.
the twawassen hospice gets some nice ones sometimes.
i usally try not to pay more than twenty bucks for the ones i get. i get some pretty nice ones too.
 
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Hey Bill thanks for the tips! :-D
Is Saturday when thrift stores receive their new stock?

We actually are planning to do a live show sometime in the near future as Tom (the guy I do these parties with) is in a band and they're having trouble getting their first gig.. so we were just going to build our own outdoor venue- use electronic drums, and rig everything thru the boomboxes! Cool idea for an electronic music show though.. sounds way less complicated so maybe we'll do that too!

If you've ever got any extra boomboxes you'd be interested in selling, please let me know.
Thanks!
 
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I would go to that, by my wheely is too heavy for the shoulder :-/ :yes:

Looks like fun
 
bill

bill

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garylachance said:
Hey Bill thanks for the tips! :-D
Is Saturday when thrift stores receive their new stock?

We actually are planning to do a live show sometime in the near future as Tom (the guy I do these parties with) is in a band and they're having trouble getting their first gig.. so we were just going to build our own outdoor venue- use electronic drums, and rig everything thru the boomboxes! Cool idea for an electronic music show though.. sounds way less complicated so maybe we'll do that too!

If you've ever got any extra boomboxes you'd be interested in selling, please let me know.
Thanks!
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thrift stores get stuff coming in at all different times during the week.
alot of the boomboxes in the thrift stores come from the main distribution offices.
for example the salvation army has a head office in coquitlam and most of the stuff goes there.
the unfortunate truth is tho is alot of these places dump all there older electronics into the recycle bin now for it to be broken down into its raw elements.

some of the best thrift shops are ones you wouldnt think of. the hospice in twawassen is good but really far aways.
sorry man dont have any for sale right now.
if i do tho at some point decide to sell anything i will let you know but i think i have my colllection right about where i want it to be right now.
 
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