From sfraves-request@medisg.Stanford.EDU Wed Nov 4 16:44:38 1992
From: Brian Behlendorf (Vitamin B)
Well, I was SO HAPPY about last night's election that I
simply
_could_not_ stay at home internetting, so I decided to go out to
Come/Unity.
I was slightly tired when I got there, and this being a weeknight
and all
I didn't want to partake in any sacrament. So I figured I'd get
a few
hours of dancing in and leave.
Boy was I wrong.
The crowd was incredibly energetic, number of people was
just perfect,
and, "the music was fantastique". Jeno was laying down an
incredible set,
and I *had* to dance. My first 45 minutes to an hour were spent
on top of
the corner speaker gyrating my life away. (The subject is in
reference to a
fantastic sign brought in by Geoff to last night's Come/Unity
that he hung up
over the crowd). I like the way they had the space laid out -
they had a stage
set up, where at most raves I would imagine they would place the
DJ. Instead they placed the DJ in front of the stage, so that
the DJ was always surrounded by dancing people, and those on the
stage (including myself) could show off to the world how much we
were enjoying the music. At one point before his set, Garth was
up there dancing with us. Sweat dripping down me, I thanked god
for in's and out's.
After coming back in I decided to check out the chill
space, which was
the first of many future chill spaces to be done by Malachi and
Richard Sun.
Very interesting, to say the least. They combined sitar music
with some live
spoken-word pieces, with samples of Terence McKenna, some random
not-
necessarily-ambient-house-ambient music.. and the setup
controlling this was placed inside a wire-frame pyramid. Very
odd. The beanbags were great, the people were great (had a very
cool conversation with Moonpup), and I went back-and-forth
between fast dancing and chilling several times.
The music ended around 6:30 or so, and the sunrise on the
drive back
was GORGEOUS. I even stayed up for a little bit and drove around
location
-hunting...
Brian
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