DJ BAD WEATHER

1950 MY NAME IS MICHAEL WAYNE LACHNEY SR. a/k/a DJ BAD WEATHER, I WAS BORN OCTOBER 7, 1950, IN KINDER, LOUISIANA, WERE I LIVED ALL MY LIFE. WHEN I WAS ABOUT 6 0R 7 YEARS OLD I WANTED TO BE JUST LIKE ELVIS, MY GRANDPARENTS BOUGHT A GUITAR AND THATS WHERE I BEGAN MY MUSICAL DREAM. OH BY THE WAY I CAN BARELY PLAY...THREE CHORDS.

1962 WHEN IN THE FIFTH GRADE, I STARTED PLAYING THE CLARINET. WHILE IN MY TEENS I JOINED TWO HIGH SCOOL BANDS, BUT I WAS NOT THAT GOOD, SO I WAS KICKED OUT OF THE BAND. WHILE IN MY TEENS I WOULD LIKE TO WRITE SONGS, LYRICS AND HAVE THE MELODY IN MY HEAD (I CAN'T WRITE MUSIC, ONLY HUM IT OUT, BUT IT WORKS.

1969 I GRADUATED IN 1969 AND IN THE WINTER OF THAT I YEAR I FOUND GOLDBAND RECORDS OF LAKE CHARLES. I MET MR. EDDIE SHULER, AND TOLD HIM I WANTED TO MAKE A RECORD. SO HE PUT OUT MY VERY FIRST RECORDING. "THIS VALENTINE" b/w "YOU'RE MINE". TODAY THIS A COLLECTORS ITEM. IN 1971, I WENT TO WORK FOR GOLDBAND RECORDS, AS A PROMOTION MAN, AND SALESMAN.  I OWE MY LEARNING OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS TO MR. SHULER. 

1973 I LATER IN 1973, I WENT OUT ON MY OWN, PROMOTING BANDS.

1975 IN 1975 I STARTED MY OWN RECORD LABEL AND MUSIC PUBLISHING COMPANY. I CALLED MY RECORD LABEL ( BAD WEATHER RECORDS) AND MY PUBLISHING COMPANY (MIKE LACHNEY MUSIC BMI).  MY FIRST RECORD WAS WITH  THE MOORE BOYS OF CROWLEY. THE BAND WAS NAMED BAD WEATHER (THATS HOW I GOT THE NAME FOR MY LABEL). THE SONGS WE CUT WERE "I NEVER, NEVER KNEW"  b/w "YOU REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME" (you can hear it on youtube.com. )THIS IS ALSO A COLLECTORS ITEM. PLEASE SEE TAB, RECORD PRODUCER FOR A LIST OF ARTIST  I HAD THE PLEASURE OF PRODUCING THIER RECORDINGS. MANY OF THESE  ARTISTS, WERE THEIR FIRST RECORDING.

!977 THIS IS WHEN I BEGAN MY DJ BUSINESS. MY HIGH SCHOOL FRIEND MICHAEL LEGER AND I STARTED UP BAD WEATHER DISCO. A FEW MONTHS LATER MY COUSIN HAMP COURVILLE STARTED HELPING US. 

1980 IS WHEN I BEGAN WORKING AT THE RED ROSE NIGHT CLUB, IN LAKE ARTHUR.  I PLAYED THERE FOR TWELVE YEARS STRAIGHT, EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT. I OWE ALL THIS TO MR. RED GILES. (THANK YOU, MR. RED). PLAYING THERE, I MET A LOT OF NICE PEOPLE. TODAY WHEN I'M PLAYING, THE YOUNGER FANS COME UP TO ME AND SAY, HEY, MY PARENTS USE TO PARTY WITH YOU OR THEY SOMETIMES SAY YOU PLAYED MY PARENTS WEDDING. 

1982  I GOT MY OWN RADIO SHOW ON K.R.E.H. OAKDALE. MY SHOW WAS ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS  2-6 . I WAS PLAYING SWAMP POP MUSIC AND R&B OLDIES. THIS LASTED ABOUT A YEAR, AND THE STATION CHANGED HANDS, SO BYE - BYE SWAMP POP SHOW. 

1983 I OPENED A NIGHT CLUB WITH A FRIEND OF MINE, CHARLES LABORDE. WE WOULD BOOK A LOT OF SWAMP POP BANDS, TO NAME A FEW, CHARLES MANN, WARREN STORM, WILLIE TEE, THE CUPCAKES, LIL ALFRED. I REALLY LOVE MY SWAMP POP MUSIC.

1984 I MYSELF RECORDED A RECORD, "RAINING IN MY HEART".  THE RECORD WENT ON TO BE A LOUISIANA SWAMP POP  JUKEBOX HIT.THIS WAS ON THE MASTER TRAK LABEL OF CROWLEY. IT IS STILL PLAYED ON K.B.O.N. RADIO AND BY LOCAL DJ'S IN NIGHT CLUBS.

1985 JOHN FOGERTY OF CCR CAME DOWN TO FILM A TV SHOWTIME SPECIAL. SOMEHOW I GOT LUCKY AND GOT A CHANCE TO BE ONE OF THE EXTRAS. I WAS SO EXCITED TO MEET JOHN FOGERTY. 

1994 I WAS INTRODUCED TO ZYDECO ARTIST, ROSIE LEDET. I THEN BECAME HER  RECORD PRODUCER FOR THE FLOYD SOILEAU RECORD LABEL, MASION DE SOUL  OF VILLE PLATTE. ROSIE WENT ON TO BECOME THE WORLD BIGGEST FEMALE NAME IN ZYDECO.

1995 I OPENED MY VERY OWN RECORDING STUDIO.

1998 WAS ANOTHER GREAT YEAR FOR ME IN  ZYDECO MUSIC. I HAD BEEN PRODUCING DONNA ANGELLE, AND FOR HER ALBUM THERE WAS A SONG I HAD WRITTEN "OLD MAN SWEATHEART" WHICH BECAME THE WORLDS NUMBER ONE ZYDECO SONG  THAT YEAR.

2004 MY SON MICHAEL WAYNE LACHNEY JR. (BORN SEPTEMBER 26, 1988) DECIDED IT WAS TIME HE STARTED HIS OWN TRAVELING DJ BUSINESS. HE GOES BY THE NAME OF "DJ HI-ROLLER". I'M SO PROUD OF HIM. ALSO MY SON WAS A VERY BIG HELP IN THE RECORDING STUDIO.

2005 MY WIFE, MARGARET DECIDED TO TRY HER HAND AT THE DJ BUSINESS. SHE CALLS HERSELF "DJ LADY LUCK" .SHE ALSO DOES KARAOKE. I'M SO PROUD OF HER.

2008 I OPENED UP FOR "PERCY SLEDGE" AT THE LAKE CHARLES CIVIC CENTER. WE GOT TO MEET HIM AND HIS WIFE. 

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