DJ Pat Moore

Birthday - March 25th

Favorite Drink

Dunkin' Coffee or sometimes Miller Lite

Experience

Dropping the beat since 1974

Bio

The year was 1974 and I had just turned ten years old. 

My father was building manager for a number of dwellings in Manhattan, one of them being the building which housed the night club called The Banana Boat night club which turned into the Banana Boat Disco a few years later. 

My father became friends with the staff there and the D.J. let me get behind the wheels of steel and spin my first of many songs to come! I remember it like it was yesterday.

The month was April, and the song just went number 1, it was Blue Suede's remake of B.J. Thomas's song Hooked on a feeling, and I believe that's where I got hooked, hooked on music and entertaining. 

I have always been surrounded by the music scene, my father was friends with Rick Newman the owner of Catch A Rising Star which was a half a block from our house, where I met a lot of comedians before they were famous, as well as meeting Pat Benatar because Rick was managing her, and saw her first performance over 2 years before she hit the scene, I remember her singing Hit me with your best shot, then years later hearing it on the radio. 

A lot of people don't know this about me, but I am also a drummer, I spent my high school years at Valley View High School and was captain of the Drum line, I loved getting other kids involved including one fifth grader in particular which a lot of people knew, his name was RJ Minichello, we lost a beautiful soul the day he died. 

My high school years through the year 1987 I worked at various skating rinks as well as night clubs in Lackawanna and Luzerne County. 

In 1988, I decided to start my own mobile DJ business I had a full-time job running a warehouse for specialty records so this was supposed to be only a part-time hobby for my enjoyment, but soon it turned into a five or six nights a week gig in 5 counties that started taking a toll on me especially when in 1992 I bought into the Karaoke Scene and according to Pioneer Tokyo, Japan, I bought the first units in Pennsylvania, which at the time cost a whopping $5000 between 2 players and 20 laser disks, which I had backed down to 3 bars because I was facing total exhaustion.

In 1994 I was asked to play one of the bars 2 to 3 times a week and just leave my equipment set up in house, this bar was the old Starlight in Archbald, and I was there till they closed the doors in 2012 18 years later. 

In 2012 after the Starlight closed, I did minor work in a few bars from time to time, but basically semi-retired until 2017, and got back into the business full time in 2018.

Much to my surprise in 2019 I won Readers Choice Club DJ of the year from the Weekender magazine, and also won Best Professional DJ" in the 2019 Abington Suburban Readers Choice award.

It's been a long crazy Road since 1974 but I'm not done yet, and I hope that everyone that reads this will jump on the train with me and enjoy the ride with me!