Heh, I once got flamed really bad for saying something like that inadvertently...

I was at a big LAN party once (a PlanetQuake "Beatdown" held in San Francisco... 200 attendees), and they had a DJ booth where some folks were spinning records and doing a little mixing.

Afterwards, one of the news reports about the event used the phrase "Live Music", and I asked on the mailing list if I'd missed a band because I was asleep at the hotel. Hoo boy did I ever catch hell for that one.

Somehow, when I wasn't paying attention during the 90's, the formerly-opposite terms of "DJ" and "Live" became blurred with a gray area in between them. When did this happen?

Now, I will say that a good DJ doing mixing and beat-matching etc. is an individual with talent. However, to call that "live music" I think is going a little too far. To me, live music still requires musical instruments with things like strings and keys and sticks and mouthpieces.