james954

SOOOO there! chris is wicked!

why do you use the word guido? this isn't new jersey....

FINALLY!!! somebody on this board representing something from nyc worth mentioning!

lifted this off another board... pretty funny read actually. Board Of It All March 2003 WORDS - Gerald Raas-Weiner Have you ever got into a 'virtual row' with a faceless geek called Cockburger23? Have you been sucked in and riled by smart-arse comments from an anonymous opponent sitting smugly at the other end of your broadband pipe? Worst of all, have you ever subsequently run into him in real life at a party? Did you have to face up to the fact that you'd said something unrepeatable about his mother's penchant for 12" winkies up her pooper as an insult? Or did he take you to task for a comment you made about an obscure Adam Beyer drum loop that you said was shite? Either way, you'd rather rim your own Father than have to talk to him for more than five minutes, right? Well, more fool you for venturing onto an online message board in the first place: especially one that discusses music. Such places can be citadels of covert cockfoolery. I mean, let's face it: music is one of the most subjective topics you could ever wish to talk about. One moment in life you can meet a 'likemind', who may appear to have a freakishly similar photofit of music-taste as you: next minute, they're admitting that they're "digging Justin Timberlake", and the wedding's off (you know who you are, wanker.) In a forum, you'll end up skipping hand-in-hand with in agreement by someone one moment, and getting bully-rammed by them the next. Music forums are made all the worse the further up the 'specialist music' food chain you get. And when I say specialist, I'm not talking dwarf-sex music. You're in real trouble when you move into the realms of 'electronica', 'techno' or, dare I say it 'the avant garde' - (or any music where devotees believe that the God of music has selected them as the chosen few: the higher intelligence receptacle to receive His latest Jeff Mills loop or Squarepusher tonal frequency). Going onto these boards can be like going backstage at London fashion week. The terminally-bored-at work. The socially excluded. The mentally imploded. The sick. The ugly. The talentless. The humourless. The curious, the furious and the downright spurious. Whether it's the virtually retarded, or the actually redundant, boards - like any community - can gradually attain their own type of micro-climate, attract certain germs that can survive the adverse and hostile conditions upon which they are run. Of course - that's not always true. I've made some very good friends from message boards. Often there's also intelligent and stimulating debate. The sense of community and friendships made can be heart-warming - a very post-post-modern social circle, if you can live with the nerdy association. Sometimes you even get laid in real life (hell, I ended up rutting a girl I met on a message board once, much to all my friends' amusement). At their best, boards can inform, entertain and please in a way that spending time with any good bunch of people you know can. But when they are bad, they are very, very bad. Indignation. Cheap insults. In-joking. In-fighting. Back-biting. Caterwailing. Histrionics. If only it were that good. Don't get me wrong: for the casual observer, there's nothing funnier than men earnestly and heatedly arguing about drum loops, and whether Jeff Mills has destroyed techno or not. But get caught in the middle of it and you'll find yourself becoming what you've always despised: sitting red-faced at your computer, seething with rage, drafting and redrafting your furious retort with calculated menace. You get consumed by the dark side. Newbies get shot down in-flames. Old hands groan wryly. Zealots get on their high-horse. People flounce off dramatically - exiting stage left. Voices of reason cry out and then disappear in the virtual ether, consumed by their own rage. People make aliases of themselves to say what they REALLY think (only those who run the boards know who they really are). But the real beauty of it all, as with today's email culture, is how easily people can misconstrue each other. Even with a smiley after every sentence, without seeing or hearing the person you are arguing with it's sometimes impossible to completely know what they're really saying. It's like talking to an American - sarcasm and irony just doesn't translate. So paranoia is rife. And with a climate of intense competition in the air, an innocuous comment becomes a declaration of war. No one quite realises that they're taking it far too seriously. It is however especially entertaining when "the great and good" have got involved - major techno DJs or their representatives have from time to time been exposed with their pants down: squabbling like little girls over the last skipping-rope in the playground. These people deserve your scorn. And maybe I do too. Maybe I'm flattering myself to say that there's probably some thread starting on some message board somewhere slagging this article off. Well, here's my well-thought out and carefully observed 'post' in reply to you: "Kiss my cunt ". (originally published in the Overload section of the Dedbeat 2003 magazine)

i dunno meng, that kid looks an alot like you. same haircut and all!

yeah, i'm all about fortiers mix. he's the man. last year around this time him and steve porter rocked crobar! would love to see that duo again. digweeds bedrock mix is still my fav though

frank needs to be stoppin by to spin soon me thinks

thats actually a kick ass idea! i wish i had the mad GA2 photoshop skillz!

ramon, don't you listen to slim shady???? "nobody listens to techno!"

damn i love wet girls!

where's gacasta2 w/ the photoshop saleeinstein??

i'm there.... just like last week.

britto should do all the new space flyers.

what about dj little monster?

VIP, is this your present to me?? you are my hero!!

yeah, i'm keeping tabs on you boy!

tahnks bro!

not really. you back from nyc?

@ acasta!! dude you always make me laugh!

thanks for the love people! much appreciated! ...sorry it took me so long to reply. i lost my shortcut to this board and everytime i seached for clubdrama on google this site never came up man having a look at all these drama threads has worn me out.

yes bruce did play there... along w/ mr chin. reach days. this should be a great night!

glad the night went well!! nice job carla and marco!!!

nick, here's the rest of the red rocks lineup for the summer. Date Event/Artist Tix Price Jun. 5 - 6 2003 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD TOUR COLD PLAY Opening Acts: Ron Sexsmith and Eisley -BUY- $37.50 RES $32.50 GA Jun. 7 2003 MAYOR WELLINGTON E. WEBB'S MUSIC FESTIVAL AT RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE THE ISLEY BROTHERS Opening Acts: PONCHO SANCHEZ, THE GAP BAND -BUY- $30 AND $25 Jun. 8 2003 KYGO BIRTHDAY SHOW ON THE ROCKS TRAVIS TRITT Opening Acts: PinMonkey, Steve Holy, Jessica Andrews, Jimmy Wayne -BUY- $36 and $47 Jun. 9 2003 FILM ON THE ROCKS 2003 CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Opening Acts: DENVER TAIKO -BUY- $7 ADV $10 DOOR Jun. 10 2003 106.7 KBPI BIRTHDAY BASH GODSMACK Opening Acts: (hed)PE, Double Drive, Breaking Benjamin, Presence -BUY- $39.50 RES $34.50 GA Jun. 14 2003 "SEA OF CHANGE" TOUR BECK Opening Acts: DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, THE BLACK KEYS -BUY- $41 Jun. 16 2003 FILM ON THE ROCKS 2003 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Opening Acts: FABULOUS BOOGIENAUTS -BUY- $7 ADV $10 DOOR Jun. 23 2003 FILM ON THE ROCKS 2003 ET Opening Acts: MATTHEW MOON -BUY- $7 ADV $10 DOOR Jun. 25 2003 CHRIS ISAAK -BUY- $45 Jun. 27 2003 WIDESPREAD PANIC -BUY- $35.50 Jun. 28 2003 WIDESPREAD PANIC -BUY- $35.50 Jun. 29 2003 WIDESPREAD PANIC -BUY- $35.50 Jun. 30 2003 FILM ON THE ROCKS 2003 BRAVEHEART Opening Acts: DENVER BRASS BAGPIPES -BUY- $7 ADV $10 DOOR Jul. 3 - 4 2003 BLUES TRAVELER Opening Acts: 7/3- Leftover Salmon 7/4 Howie Day -BUY- $32.50 Jul. 6 - 8 2003 THE DEAD -BUY- $52.50 Jul. 14 2003 FILM ON THE ROCKS 2003 THE MATRIX Opening Acts: TINKERS PUNISHMENT -BUY- $7 ADV $10 DOOR Jul. 17 2003 MARK KNOPFLER CANCELLED Opening Acts: WILLIAM TOPLEY -BUY- $75, $49.50, $35 RES Jul. 18 2003 JACKSON BROWNE Opening Acts: STEVE EARLE AND KEB' MO' -BUY- n/a Jul. 22 2003 BOSTON -BUY- $36.50 - $55.75 Jul. 28 2003 FILM ON THE ROCKS 2003 LORD OF THE RINGS 2 Opening Acts: THE WITCHING HOUR -BUY- $7 ADV $10 DOOR Jul. 29 - 30 2003 NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE Opening Acts: LUCINDA WILLIAMS -BUY- $87.50, $62.00 AND $37.50 RES Aug. 8 2003 WILLIE NELSON AND FAMILY -BUY- $43.50 RES $38.50 GA Aug. 9 2003 FRESCHETTA ON THE ROCKS FESTIVAL SHERYL CROW -BUY- $45.50 GA $48.40RES Aug. 15 2003 NORAH JONES Opening Acts: RICHARD JULIAN -BUY- $44.50 - $49.50 RES 10 TICKET LIMIT Aug. 17 2003 GIPSY KINGS -BUY- $35.50 - $4100 Aug. 18 2003 BJORK -BUY- $37.50-$55.00 Aug. 20 - 21 2003 AN EVENING WITH JAMES TAYLOR Opening Acts: none -BUY- $58.50 AND $48.50 RES Aug. 23 2003 REGGAE ON THE ROCKS XVII JIMMY CLIFF , BURNING SPEAR Opening Acts: THE WAILERS, ISRAEL VIBRATION -BUY- $41 Aug. 27 - 28 2003 BEN HARPER and The Innocent Criminals Opening Acts: Jack Johnson -BUY- $40 RES $35 GA Aug. 30 2003 COORS LIGHT MOUNTIAN JAM AT RED ROCKS 50 CENT, THE DOORS 21st CENTURY, KORN, EVANESCENCE, P.O.D., THE ROOTS, DMC, AMERICAN HI-FI, GOV'T MULE, GROOVE ARMADA (DJ SET( FEATURING LIVE PERCUSSION WITH PATRICK BONGO JESUS AND TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS -BUY- $50 Sep. 13 - 14 2003 REM Opening Acts: 9/13-Wilco 9/14-Ed Harcourt -BUY- $54.50 also radiohead is playing red rocks sometime in august but it's not announced yet. the date is either the 26th or 28th. i might see about coming back for that one.

show 2 was last night, and i would have said it was impossible for coldplay to top the first night, but it happend last night. driving back up to the mountains, listening to local radio we got the weather forcast for the evening. "rain mixed with snow temperatures on the mid 30's." getting to the venue around 6pm it was unreal to believe that this sunny day would turn so cold by the time the band went on. as the second opening band came on the mountains behind us started to disappear into the clouds. when coldplay finally took the stage the place was packed and it was drizzling rain and very cold and windy. the first thing the band announced was that "it is 20 years to the day of the U2 concert, so whatever that means to you, since you braved the weather, we hope to give you best show of your lives!" well for those of you that mentioned the U2 show above obviously know what the weather was like that night. well last night was identical. as if the gods were revisiting history. coldplay turned in the best show i have personally ever seen at red rocks. i have been going to shows there for most of my life and have seen everyone there from the cure, to new order to sting to tears for fears. this one was the best. the band eventually came on for their second encore (which they announced was the first time they have done 2 encores in "years"!) and closed with a rousing rendition of echo and the bunnymen's 'lips like sugar'. could not have gotten any better! i was soaked and frozen and spent the evening w/ some really great old friends. the weather could not have drove myself or any of the other 9000 people away before the final track. i don't think i'll ever witness anything quite as emotional and magical again.