People often ask me: Why EAST SIDE DJ’S?
What makes you different from the rest?
There are a lot of DJ's out there, why should we go with you? Well let me give you a little background on us. I started out as a DJ at a local college, and got my first taste of entertaining people. I must say, I fell in love with it. It was fun. The response from the people was overwhelming. I thought to myself, I am never going to get sick of this.

17 years ago I did my first live entertaining. I would sing to recorded music for drinks and tips at a friend's bar in Utica NY. Time passed and I grew older. I started a country music show with my sister Anne. We called ourselves Southern Haze. We did shows in local bars and lodges for a while, never really expecting too much from it. After a few years we put Southern Haze into retirement. But the entertainment bug never left me. I started a DJ business under another name just to see if it was something I wanted to put my life into, and guess what? The more I did it the more of myself I put into it. I realized that if I wanted to be something that everybody would talk to about, I needed to put every drop of energy I had into every show. I don’t look at DJing a party or a wedding as something I have to do on Saturday night. I look at it as if I were the Rolling Stones pulling into town to wow the crowd. I plan for days, sometimes for weeks, what I am going to do at a certain show. I plan what songs to play, what lights to use for what song, and MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC! Let's get some more music. I buy new music all the time, and I mean ALL THE TIME. There is nothing I hate more than doing a show and having someone request a song and not have it. OK lets be realistic there will always be songs that someone will request that I will not have. But I can honestly say that I do my best to keep that from happening.

So as you can see I love to entertain. It’s a part of me. It’s what I live. It’s what I do.

You might be thinking that we are too crazy to have at your wedding or party. NOT TRUE! We show up to your event professionally dressed. We don’t take the spot light away from the people being honored, whether it be a bride and groom, an anniversary couple, or a birthday boy/girl. All we simply do is add to the excitement. Anybody can just stand there and play music. We help you feel it, live it, and be a part of it.

Feel free to browse through some of our pictures of past parties. And keep us in mind for you next one.

DJ Joe Lazer