Hey friends,

Our church has been sending people down to New Orleans to help out with the rebuilding pretty much ever since Katrina. Some of you might have seen I had a prayer request for my wife and I to be able to go, but things didn't work out. Anyway, there's a team of people down there, many of whom are young people I'm good friends with.

And... DJ Tiesto is down there! Helping out, bunking in with them, reportedly "leading worship in the morning, on the decks"!

What the crazy?! I mean, these people are not lieing to me. And too many of them on the team have contacted me, for there to be a mistake. So... I'm kindof blown away. I don't even know what to think... except that I wish even more that I had been able to go, hehe.

WHAT!!! You have got to be kidding me. Hmmm...


Dave R

I'm TOTALY serious.

Where in N.O., pudd?

I just sent this over to his management team for confirmation. If it's true, I'll run an interview with him about his experience there.

From Tiesto.com's official schedule:

Sat, 11 Mar    Big One  Buenos Aires    Argentina    

Sat, 18 Mar    Renault Kuala Lumpur    Malaysia


That's a pretty big gap. I guess it's possible.

well... pudd didn't say when this was so... that doesn't mean it's this week ;)

I do mean this week. My friends arrived on Sunday, and leave tomorrow, so if he was there for the same (or similar) time window, it's possible.

I was wondering why nothing was mentioned on his site, but I figured if you were as famous as he, and you just wanted to go somewhere and help people, NOT telling the world is probably the best idea.

As to where in New Orleans, they're actually at Victory Christian Fellowship (http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/COW/victory_fellowship021306.asp) in Matairie

Interesting... Hope I hear back from his management soon.

wow, cool, that would be cool if it was true, it would make sense since every mix so far Ive heard from him were clean and he makes kickin good music.

it ain't him:

Ok so how in the world could you make a mistake like this? hahahahah

it IS possible that his management doesn't know about this side trip.

OR...

It could be a different Tiesto.

I demand photos!!!

Yeah... well I'll call my friends tomorrow and see what the deal is.

Wierd.

Hahaha, if it turns out my friends were mistaken or misinformed, I demand that this thread me removed completely, as it paints me quite the fool.

well... go talk them about it and find out. Heh... go post on the tiesto boards about this too and see what type of response you get.

Negative.  It will be locked and then stickied.  You will be forced to change your screen name.

- - Dan

that's ACTUALLY not a bad idea ;)

So uh... What ended up being the word?!?!??!

Not... according to his agent. His agent could be wrong, but I doubt it.

Thank you Redsavior for your little joke... and allowing me to post in my thread again. At this stage I'm sure my credibility has been torn to tatters. Tatters as in threads... not potatoes. And threads as in pieces of torn garment, not discussions in a forum.

Here is the rest of the info I've learnt:

The guy in New Orleans in most definetly European, and is wealthy. I say wealthy because he is funding a lot of the relief effort at this particular church (I don't know if his money is going elsewhere also).

He gave a DVD to a friend of mine, for me. It has a Euro price tag on the back, so was obviously purchased in Europe (and maybe then sold on eBay to this guy? Who knows...). It started in Europe.

The guy signed the DVD for me. The autograph looks similar to ones I've found online, but there's only a few online I've found, so I can't really tell. I'll try to scan it later and post it here.

According to Tiesto's website, he's living in LA right now. To me, that's not a major stretch from New Orleans, especially if he wanted to give an excuse to why he was in the USA, but without revealing his actual location.

He didn't want anyone to take a photo of him... which I can understand for an imposter, as well as the real guy wanting some privacy. However, as far as I know Tiesto's normally pretty obliging. However... from what else I know Tiesto's really down to earth, so I could certainly see someone like him being in New Orleans helping out.

What else... Um... the principle. Why would someone come all the way from Europe to help out in New Orleans, and tell a handful of people (literally, there's not that many people) who haven't heard of him that he's a world-famous DJ. Why bother, if you're not getting anything out of, and you're actually signing and giving away a DVD.

I say there's as much evidence for as against. Maybe more for. I can understand why he might keep his agent and management in the dark, or even ask them to cover for him, if he was wanting to stay low key for a while.

Also... supposedly his girlfriend/wife died, some years ago. Does anyone know if this is true? I've found no mention of any family attachment to him, not even girlfriends/boyfriends.

so... if he doesn't want to be seen doing this... why are we not respecting that?

Cause we're nosy jerk-Christians.

And it's just plain

I give anyone props for helping out, just the fact that you could get some funkie illness from going their in the first place.

Props to Pudd for using my words against me :)

Maurer, I here you, but what got me was not that he's helping, but that he's LEADING worship. ;)

You know what, I'm going to check again about that leading worship bidniss. Just to make sure :)

Please do. I just remember too that he did do a remix for avalon I think.

Yup! http://www.discogs.com/release/267998

yeah I remember that because Andy hunter had a mix on it that he signed @ Cstone 02.

This is interesting, though I'm forced to think that if he wants to keep it private, let's let him keep it private, unless the man himself would be willing to talk to someone like Reds about it.

I'm sorry, I just have to say this stuck me as a funny thing to say. We live 40 minutes from New

 Orleans and have been back and forth to help out several times and haven't caught anything funky

 yet...I think even funkier yet is how this has affected everyones lives that have been caught up in

 the hurricaine disaster. Didn't mean to get off topic but I did have a good laugh at this. But yes!

 Props to anyone helping and God Bless! Hurricaine season is not far off and there is still alot of work

 to do. Please keep us all in your prayers!

yeah... pretty much EVERYTHING including the death toll in NO was hyped and outright WRONG as reported by the media. EVERYTHING.

Good old media. Especially the fact that they've largely forgotten about New Orleans now... though there's still loads to be done as luv says. And I concur about the sillyness of "the illness," as far as I know of the 50 or more people who've been down from up here, so one has gotten sick.

They haven't forgotten them when it comes down to stories about their racist mayor and how "unfair" the upcoming mayorial elections are coming or when they want to attack bush and fema while ignoring everything the local and state gov'ts did wrong. *Sigh*

I'd love to have an unbiased media, but I'd settle for a fair one ;)

"Bush doesnt care about black people"...
oi...
people dont understand how long it takes for things to get into motion. my dad was in the navy for 22 years. he was at sea for 5 of those years. he said that the carrier that was dispatched to NO was probably right on schedule/early. think of it this way, you have to recall every sailor that is assigned to that ship.... which could mean people flying across the states.. several 1000 sailors i think. then load the ship which usually takes days and sail, at flanking, 1/4 way around the US almost..
that takes time. local governments should have been taking care of things until the federal government could get the supplies there.
people always yell about not being there but never think about what it takes to be there.

Hey guys, I'm do actually not know if it was Tiesto, but 1 thing is know and public... his girlfriend left him 2 weeks ago. So he didn't have a wife or girlfriend who died... Just to make that clear.

Hey I just thought I would stir up the fire again here hahaha.. so I was reading BT's webpage..  check out about 3/4 down where BT talks about how he is helping produce Tiestos album.. check out his shirt ;)

http://www.btmusic.com/home.php

- - Dan

yeah I love that remix, the song was good, now its great.

Hahaha, nice!

lol @ this thread

Speaking of Tiesto.. He will be in Houston TX May 24th!!! I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!  ;D
for more information  www.77002.com

Sweet! Possibly time for a road trip...  ;D

ive read BTs blog... honestly... wow... go read it.

yikes... tiesto! not a big fan of him at all... but at the end of the day, his large crowd photo is bigger than my large crowd photo.

djing for flipping 3 billion people @ the olympic ceremonies (including radio and tv of course). if the guy wasn't loaded before, he sure is now!

far as i know its not about the money for him. i heard an interview with him once and he said he would DJ even if he wasnt paid.

Yeah. I mean it's obviously hard to tell, but in his videos and stuff he really looks like a little kid who never really grew up. Now he's rich and DJs everywhere, but he seems really down-to-earth. As far as the videos go :)

he wouldn't dj if he didn't get paid... he'd work construction or something. hehehehe  :P

Hate to burst the bubble...but those shirts are just really trendy right now. You can walk into any Guess, etc and find shirts that say "Faith" "Passion" etc. Has more to do with the new age deal than people embracing Christ.

hey man Im not for or against either side here, I merely pointed it out to stoke the convo :)

Why do you know so much about clothes anyways??!?!? ;)

Interesting to know though.  Even though they are trendy, he DID choose the faith on! :O

I only know because I have been seeing it a lot and thought the same thing as you did at first...then talked to my wife who knows way too much about clothes. You will see a lot of new-ageish people wearing the faith shirts. This is also what deterred me from buying one such shirt from the Guess outlet the other day.

I reread my post...I hope I didn't come off as cocky....read it with more of a "I thought the same thing too, and was disapointed to hear otherwise" tone. ;]
-Brian

:)

That's just something that rich people say.  :smiley23:

//djlight

I had this idea to wear a different iron-on T-shirt every month with a different provocative saying,
like "pornography rapes the mind" or "abortion kills future politicians"

Hehe, sweet. Only trouble with the second one is that people might be happy to kill future politicians. What about, "Abortion kills future nobel peace prize winners."

*** my lips are sealed now ***

are we really 4 pages into this?   and is it becoming political? don't make me give you an expired moderator ban. :)

hey... that was a one time comment. I'll go delete it. It was a good rib though ;)

I can still flex when I need to...LOL

how many people here are djs that are not living off of djing...?
ive never been paid to dj, i have a job, i go to school and i dj inspite of them. its not about the money. its about the music. people arent musicians and artists for money, its for the music and the art.

I'd say 99.9% of us qualify as day job holders ;)

Hey Saryn...I've been paid to dj. a bunch of times. It,especially, feels good to walk away with $100 for a one hour set...twice. :)

I was actually planning on starting a thread on that exact topic.

I like Tiesto's music.. Whether he was or wasn't in N.O. ... not sure, but It sounds cool!  ;D

interesting.

I'd say that he is in New Orleans based on the fact that his site DID say he'd be secretly traveling the US, playing at private events. There's a major possibility that it IS tiesto.

Now as far as the fiancee thing, that sounds like an urban legend. His fiancee was here in Miami a few years ago and was generally being a pain at one of his gigs, so I've heard. There was some tension between them causing Tiesto's set not to go so smoothly.

If she did die, may she rest in peace, but Tiesto would have most likely publicized it (like PvD and his grandfather).

The worship leading sounds like another urban myth, but he might be a Christian. (Avalon remix is a clue). Most likely he was spinning a private party a lot of church members had attended.

btw, I really like this forum title... sounds like something out of a tabloid.

Tiesto CAUGHT red-handed.... helping in New Orleans... Is he a believer? or is this a publicity stunt to pull him back to number 1 DJ? (page 5)

Bush Doesn't Care About Black People.... but Tiesto Does (page 26)

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www.ishkur.com (http://www.ishkur.com)

Haha, I LOVE that haedline! That is sooooo me.

Gerry, you made me wet myself.

Telling if someone famous is christian or not is really difficult. In a lot of cd cases, you can usually find the part where the artist thanks people, and they usually thank God, even if they're a demonic heavy metal band or something. Maybe they do it for publicity?

Then again, if I became famous, and I showed acts of christianity, I wouldn't want doubts about if I was really christian or not, just because I was a famous musician

eh... just look at all the rap cds out there where they do just that and then since about how it's all about getting the girl in bed, drinking and getting money. They may thank God, but does that thank really mean anything? I dunno. If the fruit isn't there...

I myself feel Tiesto is a Christian or at least a believer in Christ and I only feel this because as a Christian myself I tend to get a bit of a sixth sense about people whether they are believers or not and I tend to be right on most of the time.  Why do I feel he is Christian you may ask, why does my gut tell me his may be a Christian/Believer?  The answer is, I can see it in his eyes, hear it in his music, in the lyrics, in the pure sound that he delivers to the whole world, I can feel the love pulsing from his music.  I ask all of you why it would be so hard to believe that the once #1 dj in the world could be a Christian, who better of a person than Tiesto to lead the Christian movement?  I say we should ask him what his beliefs are and to do that we all send him email after email, letter after letter, forum posts, messages on myspace etc....  Whatever we can to catch his attention, I feel if we can get his attention and show him that there is a huge movement of Christians in the dance music scene then maybe if he truly is Christian, then maybe he'll take the wheel and steer the Christian dance movement right into the spotlight and lead the way to ultimate glory for all of us.

This may sound over zealous or way to poetic, but this is what I feel about Tiesto and I really, really hope that this turns out to be true.  Wouldn't it be victorious for all of us as Christians if this man turns out to be follower of Christ our Lord and Savior?

If there is one thing Clover Fest is teaching me, it's that we have been living in a very VERY small world and have no idea about the number of Xians out there. Beyond that... "ultimate glory for all of us"? I hope that's just poorly typed ;)

It would be a great thing if Tiesto is a Christian, but I don't think it would change a thing other than our perspective given how may Christians are already working hard in the secular scene and how many currently bridging that gap. I'm seriously starting to think that we have simply been holding ourselves back in some cases (not all).

OH... BTW, Tiesto is #2 now. PvD is #1 ;)

That's Why I said!

What did you mean by this comment, not understanding it.

As for your comment that Christian dj's are holding themselves back, I totally agree with that statement.  I've been in the Secular dance scene for years and if it weren't for the fact that I pay attention to the underground Christian dance scene I would've probably never known that there were Christian dj's in the secular scene or even that a Christian scene even existed.  I really think it's high time that Christians in the Dance scene whether it be secular or Christian or both should make their presence known because honestly, we can never hope to influence others in the dance music community especially in the secular scene if we are seen but never heard and by that I mean, people see Christian dj's play all the time but never know that they are Christian even if it is in the lyrics of their sets, we need to make our presence as Christians known and yet continue to play killer sets and produce superb tracks of our own, we need to market our product which is our faith and bring it to the masses not make it subliminal messaging.

He means that we are not to get any ultimate glory, or any glory for that matter. Christ is to recieve the glory. All honor, all glory, all praise to Him.

I understand the sentiment behind what you said, however the semantics were off.

I will say this, if Tiesto is a Christian, that's awesome. But it will not be a victory for us. Getting people saved should never be considered a victory for us. They are not trophies for us to display. They are precious souls that God longs to commune with. The victory is for the person who gave thier heart to Christ and for Christ who won another for His Kingdom.

For us to want them to be a Christian because of thier status (any celebrity) is almost selfish on our part. It's an ulterior motive. We want them to be a Christian so we can show the world who we have "on our side". When we realize what celebrity is a Christian, it's almost as if we put an extra layer of pressure on them to be the Christian Posterchild and win the world for Christ when we in our small towns do nothing to reach our own communities.

I'm not saying you are wrong in your zeal. I am right there with you. I am just saying, let's just keep things simple and in perspective. Let's continue to hope and pray for Tiesto, BT, PVD, Oakenfold, etc...our "heroes" in this dance thing...and let's reach out to them via thier message boards and email. Our motive? That they will not be found in the firey pit, lost without hope in the end. That one day, they will hear the words from Jehovah's mouth, "Well done, my good and faithful servant. Enter into the Kingdom". And, if by some chance that God puts the calling on them to use thier gifts as a ministry (as does Andy Hunter), then all praise goes to God. It will then be our job to pray for thier safety and ministry success.

/soap box

I understand what you guys are saying and you're right, I worded that comment totally wrong, was not meant in the way it was taken.  What I meant was that in this world as Christians their is a constant battle between good and evil and as Christians, to have a person of Tiesto's stature on our side of the fence is a great victory, it means that despite his beliefs he still overcame those odds to become what he is today which is a great testement to those who may feel Chrisitanity holds them back from becoming great themselves, in that, it's a battle won for our team and yes, the Ultimate Glory goes to our Lord and Savior.  Tiesto in my mind, if he really is a Christian, represents a great general leading his troops in battle.  I have no other goal in mind than to simply witness to others.

Honestly... I was just messing with you about it  ;D

I'm glad this thread actually developed into something almost worthwhile.

Good thoughts 404.

For the rumour mongers, when I was in Street Beat in Helsinki they had a poster signed by Tiesto, with the same signature that's on the DVD that was signed and passed on to me.

so... the sigs match?

a little more for the rumor mongers...when I was at CloveR, I was talking to somebody (for the sake of anonymity, I will not mention a name) who knows Tiesto, actually refers to him by his real name. This person says that Tiesto very well may be, and is convinced that Tiesto is, a Christian, based on conversations and a few subtle things. Again, until we can hear from Tiesto himself, this is all just speculation.

Somebody should REALLY MAIL him,and ask him is it true! :)
And post answer here,so we would know! :)

If I had his direct email... I would. I DID email his management and they said there was no way it was him. Check back a few pages ;)

Yeah. So... one of my friends who actually hung out with him and got me the DVD said he gave her his personal e-mail for me... which I never got round to getting off her. Maybe I should action that.

maybe you should.

I friend of mine told me that he read somewhere that Tiesto and Andy Hunter were doing some projects together, and that Andy blew the lid off of Tiesto being a Christian, and that he really was one. How true this is, i know not... but i belive him!

I love Rumors...no not the gossip and questing people do. I mean the song from Timex Social Club.




Look at all these rumors surroundin’ me every day
I just need some time, some time to get away from
From all these rumors, I can’t take it no more
My best friend said there’s one out now about me and the girl next door

They did tour together a while back but i dont think they have done anything since then.


you should definatly  :)

If this is the case... a quick email to Andy would resolve this.

r u emailing him?

you'd think I'd have his email... but I don't.

really? i have it but i promised him i wouldent give it to anyone.

then YOU should e-mail him and ask...  8)

yeah... I'd love to have some rumor control. ;)

Not talking about it would be a good start!  :laugh:

(Actually, I'm curious too. Someone e-mail somebody, for crying out loud!)

Ok i will email him. just to get it straight befor i do what exactly am i asking him?

I would honestly point him to this thread and ask him if he knew Tiesto well enough to shed some light on this. ;) Just see what he has to say about it.

ok i will send him an email tommorow

...and the verdict is....... ?????

(Three weeks later...)

Verdict? Anybody? Not to be an accessory to rumors, but this has really piqued my interest. :-P

guys im so sorry i total forgot to email him, i just got the topic reply notification email and remembered.

Im not on my home computer right now so i dont have his email here with me but when i get home tommorow i will send it out straight away


once again im sorry i forgot guys

Ok the email has been sent   8)

should that be a  8)?

Changed 8)


and

At this point, a sane person would give it up... But this one little part of my brain keeps protesting, "Maybe he's become Xian since then!" :P

So while most of the really credible evidence suggests otherwise, I still refuse to believe that it's not possible!  ;D

acctually i agree with you there. Andy toured with him 3 yrs ago so a lot could have changed since then and andy said they didnt really talk about it so he might have been then and he just didnt find out.

Chris, ever get a reply on that e-mail?

read 5 posts back

i dont think it really matters if he is or not.
but, hers an idea maybe to think about.
look at the audience that a man like tiesto has, 1) its huge, 2) its not necesarily Christian friendly. is it more effective from both a ministry and business standpoint to annouce hes a Christian and possibly lose some opportunities and money that can be used for ministry or just to not say and still have them. i would say that relational witnessing is FAR more effective these days and in these areas then getting on stage and witnessing. at 1 point in time, and still abit today, standing on stage and talking abotu God is effective, but not so mucn anymore i think.
honestly, i think its better if he just didnt say, but that is really up to the Holy Spirit.
also, think this way. how many people (in particular Americans) claim to be Christians but only attend sunday mornings or even less then that. i know alot of people who only goes to church for Christmas and Easter.

I have no argument against that Alex. All good and true.

I'm just intrigued.

And Chris... I read 5 posts back... tells me nothing...

I think this is the one he was referring to. (Didn't count how many posts back it was/is. ;))

Ooh... so you have Andy Hunter's personal e-mail? I thought you had said you had Tiesto's personal e-mail and were going to ask him yourself.

I understand now.

Interesting :)