The TRUTH about the STATE OF NYC NIGHTLIFE

[njdionysus]

Someone emailed this to me, they found it posted online somewhere. Some of her observations and opinions are good stuff.

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The TRUTH about the STATE OF NYC NIGHTLIFE... read on..

I don't often post, but I felt it was necesary after whats been

going on in the past week. I also don't want to force my ideas and opinions on anyone but please read this with an open mind. and try to understand my points here.

I used to go to sf every saturday for four years, (from 98-01) at

that time i witnessed a slow process of degenration that has only now become completely obscene. Let me take you back to 1997, 1998 - When ecstacy was the number one club drug, the dancefloor was always packed, and jonathan was playing upbeat dancing music. (found a cure, let the sunshine, fright train,

etc..) if anyone there was on drugs, it was most likely exstacy,

e was everywhere, k was minimal... very minimal. everyone was wide awake, ready to go, non stop dancing, happy, talkative, the whole 'family' vibe was everywhere. like most of us know, E makes you happy, keeps you awake, makes everyone friends... this was the scene at SF during that time.

Now lets fast forward to 1999,2000 - K becomes overwhelmingly the majority. G is very minimal. Jonathan starts playing less dance music and more beats, starts dissecting hte music adn then putting it back togtether. this musical experience lended itself to people doing k. you could just sit and experience the music and all the fuct up sounds jp was creating. ecstacy use slowed because you couldnt dance to this new sound, so we started to sit and do bumps instead...

in 2000 i saw a girl die in SF from a g overdose. i believe this

is the death (Victim 1) mentioned in the court papers of the latest case against Richard Grant.

Like, I said, I stopped going regularly after 2001, but I would

still make an appearance for special parties, the anniversaries, haloween, etc... each time i went i would see more adn more drug use, but as the crowd changed and i saw the older faces less and less adn the younger generation infiltrating, there were new drugs that were introduced along with this scene. suddenly G was everywhere, and now Tina (crystal meth). the amount of K that i was doing back in 99, maybe 2 or 3 jars at most a night - these kids were blowing in a matter of minutes. now jars arent even enough, they carry full licks in their contact lens bottles and blow thru 800$ worth of k in a weekend....

the scene has gone to complete excess. I dont know wheter its the younger kids who are getting into the scene now adn just taking no control over thier own drug use, or wheter im too old now and somehow it became "cool" to overdose or go into a coma... but things have gotten way out of hand.

nightclubs have always had drug use, since back in the days of

studio 54, and disco, etc... i am not ocmming down on drug use, dont get me wrong, im not anybodys mother - but people should know their limit and be able to control themselves... maybe they just need to be educated, but i was always one to do a little research on something before ingesting it into my body. G

is meant to be taken in small capfulls, mixed with full bottles

of water, not to drank pure and straight. not to be mixed with alchohol or other substances. people are dying, and although its sad, its their own fault in a way. no one is forcing them to do these gastly amounts of drugs, they are choosing this for themselves because it is accepted in the scene today and

the more you do the cooler you are. ( i suppose)

in a way i can also see jonathan peters as being somewhat

responsible for this mess we are in today. he has to know that every saaturday nite at sf was a drug haven, and that all his fans who he supposedly 'loves adn cares about so much' are 'dropping like flies' from excess drug abuse. wheter you

move these people to exit or to south beach, its clearly not the

venue, but wherever you put jonathan peters, there will be rampant drug use. it is HIS fans who are dying, it is HIS fans who are the ones who cannot control their drug use, and it is HIS fans who are ruining the nyc nightclub industry.

If JP loves adn cares about us all so much, as he often says when

he does come on the mic - then why doesnt he tell his fans to stop destroying themselves? stop killing yourself? stop overdosing? stop doing so much drugs that you pass out into convulsins on a dirty floor? He obvioulsy doesnt care, and thats a sad state of affairs. when the man who is i dare to say at

least somewhat responsible for these kids - doesnt give a f*ck

whtere or not they drop dead, so long as they pay their 50$ to get in. although it would be ironic if he 'killed' off all his fans, so there would be no one left to pay to hear him!

all im asking is that everyone who reads this, stops for a

minute. and just really think about what it is thats ruining nyc nightlife. because we really dont have very many 'mega' clubs left to go to... and it would be very sad to see it all end like this, because a few hundred people who have no control over their own lives... please look into getting some help, or at least research proper drug use so you dont end up the next overdose victim in a court indictment.

[starla]

hi guys,

I wrote that post a few weeks ago after SF was raided and there were four OD's at Black on opening night. It was originally posted here on the Club Planet Message Boards but under the New York category so thats why you may have missed it.

Im glad though that it is being passed around in email format. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to read it.

[drmoxx]

nice article

i remember the change over (a couple of years ago) when....

a k-hole went from something you don't want to experience (if you had one, you'd know why)

to something peeps wanted to fall into.

i could never figure that out. who would want to be sweating purfusely, laid out on the floor/couch, not knowing what the hell is going on, feeling like your about to die, being helpless about it all.

[3rdflfactoria]

...hence the crackdown taking place NOW....and crackdowns to come.

Afterhours is dead.

[silverbull]

the after hrs for people who do drugs and full of a/x shirts shades and spiky hair fellas and their female followers are done. Not the afterhrs for dancers only.

[floodlab]

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