About Steve Myers
50 Years of Broadcast, Nightclub & Mobile DJ Experience
One of his sidelines was a Mobile DJ Business in the 1980s and 1990s based in the Permian Basin of Odessa-Midland and expanded statewide later in El Paso of the 1990s. He also produced Wedding Documentary Style Videos in the late 1990s to 2010 in DFW. But a music DJ was and is his first love.
DJ Bandstand is an outgrowth of phone calls and zoom meetings with colleagues and friends in 2020. Being a Mobile DJ now is for Steve the most enjoyment and professional service satisfaction from his Radio, TV and Nightclub Career years. It should be no surprise that Steve has chosen to be the DJ once again as a semi-retirement path. Retirement is not the end of ones career path but the fulfillment of it. “Like Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, The Eagles, and George Strait life doesn’t end in ones 60s – it just continues on in the things that we love to perform. DJ Bandstand is that role for Steve Myers.”
“I come to it honestly and on the shoulders of Radio and Television Personalities before me.” Steve started his radio career in grade school so to speak. When other neighborhood children played Cowboys and Indians building forts Steve Myers was building fort Radio Stations out of two by fours and cardboard. “I was imitating the Top 40 Radio Personalities in San Diego like Shotgun Tom Kelly of KCBQ and later KGB AM Radio. Those were the late 1960s.”
“In the 1970s my family relocated to El Paso I was influenced in my teenage years by personalities like Ray Potter and Gary Perkins of KHEY Country AM to FM Radio, Jhani Kaye of Jim Taber’s KINT AM to later FM Top 40 #1 Station and XEROK 800 AM with Chris Michaels and Steve Crosno.”
In addition to Steve Crosno I had many mentors and encouragers to thank on my way the way to this point. My parks and recreation’s coach in Elementary school Jerry Waldron, my parents in grade school to junior and senior high school. Chris Michael’s in El Paso and John Roman as my PD at KQIP.
Let me focus on some Steve Crosno stories: I met Steve through my father being interviewed on a cable talk show in 1974. He invited me to Intern with him at KDBC CBS 4 on Saturdays for a local Dance show. By 1976 I engineered one of his radio shows one summer from XEJPV in Juarez. At 17 I drove from my Eastside home to downtown El Paso via the Santa Fe bridge to Juarez. Just north of Vincent Guerro and Constitution streets in Juarez. Several AM stations owned by the syndicate on the 2nd floor. Open windows no air conditioning hot afternoons and studios with egg cartons stapled to the walls. It was 1940s RCA surplus broadcasting equipment of the USA. Ribbon microphones. I engineered the reel tapes of the Steve Crosno Show. It was my start in the business.
I barely knew Jhani Kaye but I studied his liners as a PD and his presence on the microphone as a focused listener. His pioneering tight formatted KINT 98 was his training ground to become one of the top programmers and air personalities in Los Angeles a few years later. It was a ratings winner sound and philosophy I hoped to replicate. That was his test market before rising to the top as I tried to follow a similar path.
Little did I know then that KINT 98 was made up of mainly teenagers to young professionals: Guy Phillips and Michael Wall the morning show of Phillips and Wall, Sunny Rio, JJ Mitchell, Robert Scott, Kris Kelley, Raymond Mesa, Bob Lee, Tony Pepper so many others. XEROK 800 too. I have an audio tape of Wolfman Jack on XROCK from 1972 titled Naked Radio. Funny bits by DJ’s ad libbing comedy to boost the ratings. Never did Naked Radio but I had my own fun in my time on KQIP FM Odessa as it was literally the real life version of WKRP in Cincinnati on CBS. John Roman was the Jhani Kaye as the PD who never said “Goodby Elevator Music, Hello Rock and Roll,” but his influence on the owner and GM Roy Elsner was spot on to take a flailing station to its highest profits. By 1984 John Roman took the station he came to in 1978 to the #1 spot in the ratings market. Those staffers are the guys I’m still in contact with today: John, Guy, Barry, Dave and myself as The Handyman.
The rest is Rock and Roll!
Why Choose
Steve Myers DJ Bandstand
20+ years of mobile DJ experience
Broadcast and Nightclub Equipment
Electro Voice Evolve 50M stealth speakers
Flexible Music Options
Fully Insured.
$2 Million dollars Performance Insurance.
Excellent Referrals
THE DJ BANDSTAND DIFFERENCE
SMDJB plays music as originally recorded.
SMDJB does not create drum tracks to speed up or slow down the original recordings.
SMDJB believes in rotating the dance floor of various dancers and does not panic when only one or a few dancers actually dance. Rotating crowds is always a better plan. Success for us is not a continuous packed dance floor but music rotated so everyone can reasonably be accommodated in dancing to something they like or treasure. Something for everyone.
SMDJB meets with our clients either in person, by zoom or phone calls to plan in advance what they want to create. Performances are flawless when following pre planned scripts. Its another item that makes our business model unique and dependable.
SMDJB scripts out the event for emcee hosting. Microphone use is best when scripted.
SMDJB uses recorded one liners and classic dialogue Drop-Ins from classic Movies and TV Shows of the past decades under fading music out and in music to the next song. Similar to how XM 80s on 8 and 70s on 7 uses on those channels. Adds life to the mixes in themes and nostalgia. We replicate what many remember from great radio stations over the decades. It’s what makes our DJ Service presentations memorable.
A Professional Foundation
Steve Myers brings more than decades of experience — he brings discipline.
With over 30 years in broadcast radio and television, plus years of nightclub performance and mobile DJ specialization, Steve developed a controlled microphone presence, audience pacing expertise, and the ability to guide large rooms with confidence and clarity.
What Makes Us Different
We play original songs, in original recordings, at full lengths, mixing one back to back simply to another. Either of the same category, genre or of another format in sets. This is commonly known now as Old School or Radio Style.
We rotate the dance floor and do not keep it packed like a rave. We play music with memories of different decades, years, styles and speeds. We build from slow to medium and fast bangers repeating the flow in one format genre or to another. Even switching to multiple genres.
DJB creates all our events the way we did in the early 2000s, 1990s, 1980s and 1970s. We specialize in good music memories to experience again now. That requires extensive music library formats, over 50 in all and over 70,000 titles to choose from.
Plan on 15 songs per hour as the average radio edit or longer extended versions at roughly 8 titles per hour. Most clients prefer a mixture of both.