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

[feather]

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

[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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What are you saying? I'm lost.

[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!!

[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.

[alexfish333]

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best:

plus their "gothiness" totally ruined my high.

lol

[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!

[Huggie Smiles]

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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.

I was just about to ask the mods to shut down such a crap thread. But THAT made my day! hahha

[groffhibbitz]

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yea I guess I've never been to one either. closest I've come was a warehouse party in san francisco, NYE of this last year. I guess I'm too *young* for raves?? I'm 27 though so wtf... dunno.. I went to college in the middle of nowhere.

[groffhibbitz]

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oh but so on topic of best or worst.

So anyways, the story is, there's my roommate, his girlfriend, and 3 other guys all trying to pack in to her toyota celica which is like the tiniest car ever (in US terms). So this one guy J, who is a bit odd, says "I'll just ride in the trunk." So they start driving and he squeezes into the trunk of the car. This was back in college so not everyone had a car. But my current roommate and 3 friends desparately wanted to go (I was not invited I guess?). So he gets his girlfriend at the time to drive them all there (and party with them.. but even today he is always having his girlfriend drive him around for some reason)... SO they are all pumped as they get closer, and partying in the car. They get there, and all get out, and go into the warehouse and dance for like 2 hours, then one of them goes "Holy shit, we forgot to let J out of the trunk!" They just ran out to the rave and were so excited they forgot he was in there....

So they go back to the car, and I guess he snuck out of the car somehow after a bit.....

[rainman]

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all have been good for the exception of one.

ate WAY too much acid and ended up not understanding where or who i was for many hours. it was so bad that after it hit me all i could see were colors "blending" and geometric shapes/patterns everywhere. peoples voices didn't seem like anything i had ever heard before and had no idea where i was or who i was with due to not being able to focus on ANYTHING!! many hours later when i finally came down i was home alone. i had no idea how i got there or who drove me. dont even remember being in a car for the 3 hour ride home.

come to think of it, may have not even been to a rave that night.

sad thing is that i always made fun of "those guys" who seem to party too hard and make a complete ass of themselves in a public place. my friends said at no point did i "freak out" they did say that i looked like i was scared to death the whole evening and didnt say anything the entire time.

hey who was that asking if they should take acid?

[Huggie Smiles]

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hey who was that asking if they should take acid?

hehehe

[AntonyM]

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[quote=the sun the sea;523104]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.

Wasn't that at snow summit up in Big Bear, it was a pretty sick event.
That was probably one of the first large rave since the early 90's when
LA county put the lid on after hour parties. My first rave was probably
Grape Ape or that dodgy one at raging waters. Weird times indeed.

[lilsensa]

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My first rave probably wasn't even a rave at all, considering that the city of Naples suts everything down at around 2...Anyways, it was seeing Dj Keoki and Jimmy Van M at the Florida Sports Park here in Naples.....My brother took me, he wouldn't allow me to take part in anything illegal at the time..But it was fun...At the time I had no clue who Van M was, I was just excited that something fun came to my town..Looking back on it, pretty cool to have seen Van M back in the day, and it was a good night.

[AndyH]

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My first rave was Evolution at the Sanctuary in Milton Keynes. Djs like Dougal, Sy, Hype, Slipmatt etc. All banging happy hardcore and did one of my first gurners there when was about 15. We were all tops off and glo sticks with luminous builders jackets on. lol. It was hilarious looking back and loved it but when I hear happy hardcore now it literally makes me sick..!