How DJ QBert JACKED Dj Disk's Idea for the QFO Turntable (Why Dj Disk Stopped being Friends with Q)

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3 жыл бұрын

In the following Dj Disk interview, the legendary turntablist from the Bay Area details how he told Dj Qbert about his idea for a wireless turntable with a fader built inside of it and how Q jacked his concept when he took the idea to Vestax to create the rare QFO turntable-mixer. If you have ever wondered why the two skratch heroes are no longer homies...this is why. This interview also delves into the various skratch guitar permutations by Vestax which arose from Dj Disk's original idea as well as the widely popular modern portable turntable movement now called 'portablism'.
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@OGspecd 2 жыл бұрын

Title of video should be “how I messed up and gave away my invention idea”. Kinda weak because he still sat there and did nothing with that idea.

@greatness3928 28 күн бұрын

That's why they hv copy rights

@greatness3928 28 күн бұрын

Should hv got it patented

@smoke1va 3 жыл бұрын

The moral of this story is keep the secret 🤫 ideas 💡 to yourself. It’s the same with your style as a dj with tricks that separate you from the rest of the norm.

@thehunterofdeath2180 4 ай бұрын

Facts

@Thesmartestmanalive81 2 жыл бұрын

Nah man, qbert stole the idea from me back in 2002! We were eating crapès at the crap shack and smokin crack!

@manuelemariani4609 Жыл бұрын

With all due respect of Disk (great dj and pioneer), you don’t have to be a genius to think about a turntable with a fader in it… I guess every dj has dream about it in the 80s/90s. Another thing is to have a tech company willing to fund the “ idea”

@Shmack_ 2 жыл бұрын

Yea im no longer friend with Jeff bezos after he stole my idea to sell items online. Original idea btw

@TTMAcademy 2 жыл бұрын

lol..there may be a guy Jeff used to work next to in a cubicle that may have this gripe

@hammacyde1 3 жыл бұрын

would love to not hear the interviewer doing those "aaha"" Adkins all the damn time. let him finish his story.

@garywinston3044 7 ай бұрын

Your idea but u slept on it. And then u told someone which is a bad move. Then u didn't patent your idea. Too bad.

@Sonnylintag 2 жыл бұрын

Not to be a party pooper, but portable faders seem to solve the issue of adding a fader to your 1200

@djswamptv 3 жыл бұрын

I used that vestax guitar turntable mentioned in my Rock rollin music video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aamPYKt6u767oXU.html

@ObsessedGarbageDotCon 3 жыл бұрын

Moral of the story. He should have kept his mouth shut

@rockhills 3 жыл бұрын

It's so odd how peeps miss the simple point in your lectures. This wasn't about whether or not Vestax would've gone into business with Disk, it's about a lack of respect for creators. So I'm glad peeps like you and Disk can set the record straight. I believe him. I also remember them putting up a post on whatever the ISP forum was called asking for features people would like to see on it. So many different people's contributions are uncredited. Similarly DJ Focus created the contactless fader and is seldomly given credit. Shit was all dirty back then.

@BendApparatus Жыл бұрын

@DJ THINK realdjthink lol I have it still...never used it...picked it up on clearance...but I had a Vestax PMC06... which oddly enough had/has a ground issue on the right channel...🤦🏻‍♂️

@user-bd8iz4lc3c Ай бұрын

Thanks for the mentions, It's like making a documentary on the electric guitar but never mentioning the original inventor and just skipping over to the popular guitars used for hit songs haha....I have to remind peeps, the first contactless didn't have to be super smooth or super sharp...It was that why from the beginning because I did it that way, in the early days not everyone was a fan of the smoothness. It eventually became the norm we have now. It was also 60 dollars retail cause I was always for the children :-). Broke mofos like myself that still wanted to be part of the culture and scratch for ever ever...I dropped the 7inch records in 1999 and 2000...Disk is on #2 and I find this interview kind strange when they talk about the small records...Called Precision Incisions for a reason and it was a system to be used with the precision incisions 12inch which I released...In the late 90s early 2000s while everyone was trying to come up with abstract titles like galactic butt hairs and boogerz, saying Hella and LA all day...I was doing some serious innovation for the culture. Eveyr mixer out now has some type of nfluence from my past work, wether knob placemen,custome knob texture to post fader outputs to headphone mute..on and on...Lots of small things that goes over peeps heads...Still got low key haters throwing shade but there is balance in the universe so peeps are starting to see the light...

@gbrl_cyber Ай бұрын

true

@gokuson3409 2 жыл бұрын

lets bring dj qbert in here to tell his side.

@TTMAcademy 2 жыл бұрын

Qbert has ignored our interview requests!

@sumkid702 Жыл бұрын

Qbert is known for using other people’s ideas

@Aux1Dub 3 жыл бұрын

Is he supposed to pay him for an un-patented idea? Get real. Did he get any investors or any capital or do any design or anything? No he didn’t. The idea isn’t even that original.

@TTMAcademy 3 жыл бұрын

does friendship have rules? what would happen if everyone had a Machiavellian approach to life?

@ObsessedGarbageDotCon 3 жыл бұрын

True but he should have provided credit in someway...if they were really boys. Apparently that wasn’t the case.

@Sonnylintag 2 жыл бұрын

Aint like qfo’s are sellin like hotcakes

@dustyrhodes1655 2 жыл бұрын

Mfs asking up to 5k for them these days haha. The controller Ones going for 10k! I have a QFO but its out of shear luck and Def didn't pay 5k for it.

@gbrl_cyber Ай бұрын

@@dustyrhodes1655 yeah but back then they were nothing to consider uying they were pretty expensive and you could gert a 1200 for 500$ new

@maloghurst2741 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunate they are not friends anymore. I’ve never even heard of DJ Disk and I heard Qbert give credit to him for inventing the orbit scratch and called him a genius on the shade 45 scratch demo just a few years ago.

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

Never heard of Disk but you know of Qbert??? Something is wrong there. Disk is an innovator! He has his own fans! Look him up! He's been on tour with Metallica! He has projects with Buckethead (GiantRobot), Brain (Metallica) and Les Claypool (Primus) I help you jump start your research! Go revisit and listen (not watch) to the Wave Twisters 'Album'. Listen to: "Invasion of The Octopus People"... and also Qbert's Preschool Break Mix: Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Muzik...PhonopsychographDISK "Ancient Termites" + Turbulence Chest + El Stew ! Enjoy ! Your ears and your inner musical genius will thank you! ✊💪 🎚🤓 🎚🎙🤸‍♂️🎨 ☮🔪✂️🎧🎛🎚☯️

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

Also back then, there was Bomb Hip Hop Magazine, and they had an interview with DJ Disk. He even expressed in the interview how cool it would be to see such a thing as a Turntable with a Fader on it, hence, the QFO...

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

Oh.. and also, DJ Disk is one of the founding members of ISP and he is the one that introduced the term "Turntablist" as in a musician. Trust me when I say Q, MMM and figures alike, respect him! Don't diss on Disk just because you don't about him! Because that just makes you look like an udeducated and idiotic imbecile!

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

Oh! And how can I forget. DJ DISK is the one who introduced DJ QBERT to Skratching! Know your history before you speak........

@maloghurst2741 2 жыл бұрын

@@djfunkypete If you read my text I didn’t diss him at all. I said it’s a pity they are not friends anymore because clearly Q respects him. Learn how to read you little snot before in turn disrespecting another.

@BendApparatus 2 жыл бұрын

Never really cared for Disk's style...to me it seemed sloppy. Qbert had the skill, connections and charisma...🤷🏻‍♂️

@TTMAcademy Жыл бұрын

...how do we know it wasnt more than that.....speaking of hiphop zulu nation gatekeeper cronyism

@BendApparatus Жыл бұрын

@@TTMAcademy "damnit Baxter, I told you I don't speak Spanish!" 🤷🏻‍♂️ I'm just giving my personal opinion... I know nothing of "hip hop politics" involved...

@jaydoe647 2 жыл бұрын

Yall didn't see the buckethead in the background? Crazy

@TTMAcademy 2 жыл бұрын

Some ppl think Steve Vai is Buckethead

@jaydoe647 2 жыл бұрын

@@TTMAcademy for real?

@jaydoe647 2 жыл бұрын

I mean i learned from Paul Gilbert in a interview he says he taught buckethead how to play guitar, pre or bucket before he adopted the bucket

@TTMAcademy 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaydoe647 I went to school with guitarist David Torn's son....he was the one who told me the Steve Vai rumor...

@jaydoe647 2 жыл бұрын

Badass bro

@ShimonNetzarym 3 жыл бұрын

Is the Frisk fader the first portable fader?

@TTMAcademy 3 жыл бұрын

The Frisk fader came out in like 2013 I believe ....pretty sure it was the first....earlier in 2008 a guy named Barrificio Piemontese invented a standalone crossfader....but pretty sure it had a power cable....I created a Turntablist Timeline of Major Awards and Events from 1967-2017 that has some landmark turntablist invention dates on it.. facebook.com/TTMacademy/photos/1448542961844095

@smoke1va 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I believe so following after Raiden fader 🎚

@user-bd8iz4lc3c Ай бұрын

No Flesh One and I (Focus) made a Tone Fader with audio input...It used a Focus Fader v1.0. It was going to be distributed by ITF, this was back in 2002ish...The scratch scene got stagnant when it came to mods and designs while I was away ;-). 2012ish things started back up, in the early days we were addicted to scratching and were brainstorming hard to come up wth new designs...Only a few of us had the technical know how, parts weren't as easily available as they are now either...Flesh One also made the first Midi Fader Kit. Any talk of history needs to go back further the 2010s haha :-). I was taking faders from tvs in the 80s and bloting them down to my table on the right side, making it external. That was to protect the fader in my Pyramind PR6700Ech Mixer. As time goes on it is lookig like most old school heads weren't as active as me when it came to actually building and modifying mixers.

@DJPablotv 3 жыл бұрын

People have ideas all the time but if you didn't act and someone else did they didn't steal a damn thing from you. You can still go make yours. The demand is there for the product. Imagine if only one person was making cars in the world or apple was the only computer of choice? Being jealous of a friend for being successful is not a good way to live.

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

Just FYI, out here where I live, Disk was one of the first 5 DJ's to scratch HamsterStyle. Not only that, he has and still owns the first ever Vestax PMC-05 Pro with a Hamster Switch. Know your history!

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

That first 05 Pro with a Hamster switch was made personally for Disk by Toshi, when Vestax had a site here in California... everyone would take their 06's and 05's to Toshi (when he was in SF) to get their mixers modified with the reverse switch...

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

And.. Disk did not express jealousy. He expressed disappointment. You gotta be able to distinguish and tell the difference.

@birddogfreemann 4 ай бұрын

Did Swamp tell you that Qbert jacked his Scratch Beetle image (from his fly logo)

@conradhartgmx Ай бұрын

Might be my memory betrays me but didnt DJ Disk also wanted to call out DJ Q-Bert for stealing the Pumpkin Squeeze Music Mixtape? Like it had been done before or sth. like this? There used to be a video on youtube on that topic about ten years ago but I cant find anything right now.

@TTMAcademy Ай бұрын

wow pls send links if you find them.

@conradhartgmx Ай бұрын

@@TTMAcademy Hey, I couldnt find the video but I remember him teasing a documentary on it. Never saw that one though, if it ever came out. But there is a comment by him on the DPSM master release page on Discogs, including an answer by Q himself.

@youalreadyknow8087 3 жыл бұрын

Look at ttm’s reaction he know you bullshittin just by body language

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

You a fool! If you knew of Disk as well as TTM, them words wouldn't even be coming out of your mouth.

@showmesomelove3353 Жыл бұрын

Mistakes are costly

@mybug31 3 жыл бұрын

🤨

@djloomy 3 жыл бұрын

@djdisk This is probably true! But Vestax would not have manufactured a Qfo for you...the reason is simple, you are not Qbert! You don't have the same media recognition in the scratch scene that Qbert has... I also have ideas for a mixer, but that does not mean that Pioneer, Rane or Denon Dj, is going to carry them out, on the other hand if the "Ideas" are presented by Dj Craze, A-track, Qbert ... it is much more likely that they will come true. I am clear that you have been a musical and technical influence for Qbert, because things that I have seen you do, when nobody sounded such a beast, like you ... and with the passage of time I have seen Qbert do it the same! Qbert.... has a special talent, he learns your tricks and improves them to the maximum level, reaching a level that nobody has! That's why Qbert is the King!!!

@djfunkypete 2 жыл бұрын

Smh... 🙏

@djcyblade209 Ай бұрын

the dude who did the table covers he's talking about, stole that idea from Stockton CALI No lie I know all them dudes Dj Disk, What up homie? We was on a date night with the girls was all cousins. When you was rolling that white 'cuda

@rashodlewis2918 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! 😎🎚🎛💿

@RaedawnPhoenix 3 жыл бұрын

you we put your name down for the conference...whats your insta/twitter?

@djgreenhornet2892 3 жыл бұрын

@@RaedawnPhoenix @djgreenhornet

@RaedawnPhoenix 3 жыл бұрын

@@djgreenhornet2892 word

@user-qn7dw3dl1t 2 жыл бұрын

チーム8ヒップホップDJ

@djk-ozzone5295 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly tone loc it takes 2??? lol bro

@patto2k358 3 жыл бұрын

RZA says he invented Serato

@TTMAcademy 3 жыл бұрын

he may have....I'm actually gonna do a lecture about how I may have given him the idea of selling super expensive art records....I was chillin with him backstage in Greenpoint NYC and Popa Wu was doing lines...and I was like "Yo Rza..Im selling high art records starting from like 500-5000 like paintings....let me know if you'd wanna partner on a company called Wu rave selling high art techno wutang remixes..."....I got Powers number and filmed the whole show on stage with 60secondAssassin n crew...so the day is documented waay before he announced the Million dollar Wu album...Rzas porable production system was very advanced....

@rustyjohnson315 Ай бұрын

The artist who have the best ideas and are the most original in what they do, Are not famous.

@TTMAcademy Ай бұрын

facts....experimental Jazz composer Anthony Braxton once said artists can be divided into 3 categories...1. The Reformists ...the most original ppl who create totally new art..and usually never get paid from it....2. The Stylists ..ppl who take the reformists work and make it more palatable to the masses as their own "style" ...they generally get paid the most....then 3. The Classicists ...the ppl who just copy the past be it educational in a school setting, cover bands...basically when a style be comes classical music ......most Juggle patterns are are at this stage..I havent seen a new pattern since like Kentaro in 2001....so Steve D would be the Reformist....as he never made any real paper from the game.....then dj Premier or even the Xmen could be the stylists who made a bunch of paper from tablism....then the classical ppl would be like KSwizz and and the new school kids who can perfectly execute what ppl in the past were doing

@matoner3242 Жыл бұрын

What a hypocrite. 😂😂😂😂😂 #500

@TTMAcademy Жыл бұрын

who are you calling the hypocrite? ...Q or Disk?

@j_renaissance1 Ай бұрын

Not coo Q-Anon😜

@user-jd9ne5jr8j 3 жыл бұрын

Stopped supporting Q since that BLM incident when he said "all fucking lives matter"

@LP00151987 3 жыл бұрын

it's true all lives matter, tell me what about hate crime on asian people 😂

@TTMAcademy 3 жыл бұрын

@@LP00151987 this clip sums up why statistical Scale is important when tallying hate crimes instagram.com/p/CNWBEvoHnxe/

@TTMAcademy 3 жыл бұрын

xactly...Qbert still never apologized to the black community about going "all lives matter", saying ppl wont get brutalized by cops if they just act respectful, supporting now ultra conservative Candice Owens as well as Denouncing George Floyd publicly..we did a lecture on the subject here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJmmmrqrsr2Vn6s.html

@ObsessedGarbageDotCon 3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure Q hasn’t been the same since losing you.

@smoke1va 3 жыл бұрын

For me it was saying George Floyd faked his death and it was staged when we all seen the same fucking video. Not to mention the other stupid ass rants Q came up with frying balls in his room. His so called apology wasn’t even an apology but more of another conspiracy theory.