Best Experience at a rave...OR WORST??

[lilsensa]

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best:

my first rave was at Organic 1996 with Orbital, Orb, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Meat Beat Manifest, & Loop Guru.
i've been spoiled ever since.

worst:

rolling, and being lost at Coachella 2002, only to find myself at the main stage dancing to Siouxsie & the Banshees surrounded by a bunch of goths staring at me. fucking embarrassing, plus their "gothiness" totally ruined my high.

lol

Nice!

[alexfish333]

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best:

plus their "gothiness" totally ruined my high.

lol

[the sun the sea]

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best:

my first rave was at Organic 1996 with Orbital, Orb, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Meat Beat Manifest, & Loop Guru.
i've been spoiled ever since.

worst:

rolling, and being lost at Coachella 2002, only to find myself at the main stage dancing to Siouxsie & the Banshees surrounded by a bunch of goths staring at me. fucking embarrassing, plus their "gothiness" totally ruined my high.

[AndyH]

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Here is what Wikipedia had to say

For other uses, see Rave (disambiguation).
A rave (or rave party) is an all-night dance event where DJs and other performers play rave music and other types of electronic dance music for dancers, with the accompaniment of colored lights, projected images, and laser effects. Popular rave dance styles include breakdancing, popping and locking, glowsticking, liquid dancing, and poi. Rave parties are often associatated with the use of "club drugs" such as ecstasy, methamphetamine, and ketamine

Well as far as im concerned that description encompasses the sort of nights we all go to (bar the dancing styles maybe) so..

Best - Bedrock at Heaven April 2006. Digweed did a special party for this one with only 900 tickets available which werent advertised except on the Bedrock board, thereby ensuring that the only people there were true lovers. We were about the 5th people in there and it was by far the best night I have ever had. There was literally not a tune all night that was less than a 9.5/10 and at one point I tried to go to the bar 3 times but had to keep running back to the dancefloor coz the tune coming sounded so good! The bar and seats were totally empty for the majority of the night because everyone was 'raving' so much and it was like a little private party with Digweed on the decks all night and the ridiculous Heaven system. Because the dancefloor was only half full it was nice and cool for a change in there as well. 'Club drugs' (lol) were spot on, gorgeous girls, etc etc, it was literally a perfect night. High point was hearing Hay Consuelo by Pier Bucci which I had been loving already prior to the night and remains one of my favs to this day

Prob worst rave experience. After seeng Digweed at Herbal for Bedrock a few years ago and having a reasonably good night, we went back to a mates house and got talked into going to a warehouse party at 7am while starting to come down. Turned out to be a nasty, proper dodgy do with loads of people doing nasty drugs like crack and crystal meth and rolling arond on the floor fucked out of their faces, all to the lovely soundtrack of gabba techno. Worse still, we had to wait for everyone else coz it was miles away and despite being offered meth, ket, crack and smack, we couldnt even score any herb to try and ease the pain and go and chill somewhere else.. URGH!!

[feather]

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What are you saying? I'm lost.

[floridaorange]

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Just to clarify my question for very our literal international friends on board:

"where" as in CITY

[feather]

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You know what they say: 'lost in the music'

[DIDI]

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^^^ Gee it's amazing the effects music has.

On the description here I have never been to one

[feather]

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I only went to them in 2001 and by then the 'raves' were legal. Still held in warehouses, with lights, soundsystems, DJs, but ticketed events. There were smaller ones that were really illegal, but they were rare.

Then the warehouse locations got superseded by indoor stadiums and those slowly degenerated into a circus for underaged white trash. There used to be this delineation between 'ravers' and 'clubbers.'

Too many good moments, but one that stood out was in the forest early in the morning when the Orb was playing. It began to drizzle very lightly and I was flipping and every raindrop was a sparkling emerald gem in the air.

Not entirely bad but I was pretty fucked: Spending a few hours in a tent staring up at the shadows, stepping out into what I thought was a circus dome (WTF did these cars come from, and why were they in a circus?!) only to realize the night sky had joined with the skyline and I was in a volcanic crater. And then walking around seeing these grasses grow out of the vocalnic rock and thinking I was walking on the seabed. Walking to the edge of the crowd and looking up to see some hugeass topless dude blowing hugeass a horn on a stage and I couldn't decide if I was seeing things until somebody told me Juno Reactor was playing.


Another time I 'woke up' in a club wearing pajamas

[lilsensa]

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^^^The dj had a dressing room?? Did he/she change costumes during the set??

[scifi pi]

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a threesome with 2 super models from Spain and Greece in some deejays dressing room, the 10 capsules of E and a couple cases of whippets were fun too...it ended up back at their hotel for a couple more days. Oh, I miss Miami Beach in the winter during Fashion Model week.

[JK224]

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any time i say i'm going to see some djs people ask me "what is that, a rave?", i say no it's a club night/event.

but hey, i have been to some sketched out events before that i would definetly consider as raves.

i can't really say that i've had a bad time at anything as long as the music was good...i just go with at least two other friends so no matter how sketched out things get you at least have some people you know with you.

[lilsensa]

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^^^Finally, thank you!!

[AntonyM]

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For real. Will someone please tell me rave is???

Illegal warehouse party, a soundsystem, some lights and usually illicit narcotics.
Guess it was and is a UK and US thing, I reckon raves started in the UK, cause
they didn't surfaced on the west coast in cali till about 89 or 90.

Here is what Wikipedia had to say

For other uses, see Rave (disambiguation).
A rave (or rave party) is an all-night dance event where DJs and other performers play rave music and other types of electronic dance music for dancers, with the accompaniment of colored lights, projected images, and laser effects. Popular rave dance styles include breakdancing, popping and locking, glowsticking, liquid dancing, and poi. Rave parties are often associatated with the use of "club drugs" such as ecstasy, methamphetamine, and ketamine

Charming how the drugs refs had to be thrown in at the end. but the link below brings
up the page on wikipedia referring to the history of the parties for those truly interested
and not just attempting to be cheeky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rave

[timchalj]

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Bunny from Rabit in the Moon shooting a flame thrower on stage over the crowd while dressed in a costume of glowsticks