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Hello all.

Here's something I recently posted to my city's board Cleveland Nightlife, entitled "Gina, Tina & X". Tell me what you think.

"Hello kids. This little rant comes just in time for the high season.

"No, wait. "High" is a word I probabaly should not use. See, I just realized that Saturday 19 June (the same date that Tiesto performs at Moda in his very first North Coast show, and Nitty Gritty returns at Wish) is an anniversary date. It will be six years to the precise date that an earlier generation of clubkids celebrated the grand dedication of Aqua...For anyone who wasn't around for Aqua, just ask someone who was. Like myself, for instance. I was there among the 2000 revelers (minus the fire marshals) who welcomed the dawn of a new era in North Coast nightlife--only to weep barely two years later when the Feds padlocked the place thanks to the legions of E-tards, G-heads, meth rats & coke whores who brought the City's last best chance to join the First Cities (Manhattan, MiamiDade, DC, ChicagoLand, La-La Land, Toronto, London, Paris) of Nightlife to its knees.

"Fast forward to now. Recently, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings did that awful-yet-surprisingly-objective special "Ecstasy Rising", which traced the path of the pill from its very beginnings to its explosive growth in Dallas TX (!) to its eventual 1985 ban to now. And who can forget that atrocious MTV True Life special "I'm On Crystal Meth", which followed high school kids in the Great Plains states using the stuff between classes?! Of course, it wasn't a "big problem" then because it hadn't hit Manhattan or DC yet.

"Well, kids...I took a read-up at ClubPlanet News and this was the headline:

"TINA TOWN: Is NYC Falling Under The Spell Of Crystal Meth?"

"Looks like someone finally noticed the Manhattanite's new "favor" of choice--one long enjoyed by many an Angeleno, MiamiDader and even a Topekan (yes, "tina" is relished down on the farm). Remember sometime ago when I featured that Sound Factory bust that netted 30 arrests and cost Jonathan Peters his longtime residency? All crystal meth. Read the full article at CP News in http://www.clubplanet.com.

"As most of you know (and I'm about to sound a little preachy here), what drives me mad about this business from which I just retired is partly the current generation of clubkids--if you can call them that. The other part--the major part--is the drugs. They destroy everything and everyone in their path. I couldn't even truly enjoy Rock The Vote featuring PVD at Moda last month--two idiots asked me for "pills" within whispering distance of the Ohio City councilman. You wanna know how :splat: such a thing makes me?

"So here's a question for all as Summer and that now-infamous anniversary approaches. What is it going to take to stop Gina, Tina and X once and for all?"

So NYC, what do you think? What will it take to stop it--if we can, that is?

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Hello all.

Here's something I recently posted to my city's board Cleveland Nightlife, entitled "Gina, Tina & X". Tell me what you think.

"Hello kids. This little rant comes just in time for the high season.

"No, wait. "High" is a word I probabaly should not use. See, I just realized that Saturday 19 June (the same date that Tiesto performs at Moda in his very first North Coast show, and Nitty Gritty returns at Wish) is an anniversary date. It will be six years to the precise date that an earlier generation of clubkids celebrated the grand dedication of Aqua...For anyone who wasn't around for Aqua, just ask someone who was. Like myself, for instance. I was there among the 2000 revelers (minus the fire marshals) who welcomed the dawn of a new era in North Coast nightlife--only to weep barely two years later when the Feds padlocked the place thanks to the legions of E-tards, G-heads, meth rats & coke whores who brought the City's last best chance to join the First Cities (Manhattan, MiamiDade, DC, ChicagoLand, La-La Land, Toronto, London, Paris) of Nightlife to its knees.

"Fast forward to now. Recently, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings did that awful-yet-surprisingly-objective special "Ecstasy Rising", which traced the path of the pill from its very beginnings to its explosive growth in Dallas TX (!) to its eventual 1985 ban to now. And who can forget that atrocious MTV True Life special "I'm On Crystal Meth", which followed high school kids in the Great Plains states using the stuff between classes?! Of course, it wasn't a "big problem" then because it hadn't hit Manhattan or DC yet.

"Well, kids...I took a read-up at ClubPlanet News and this was the headline:

"TINA TOWN: Is NYC Falling Under The Spell Of Crystal Meth?"

"Looks like someone finally noticed the Manhattanite's new "favor" of choice--one long enjoyed by many an Angeleno, MiamiDader and even a Topekan (yes, "tina" is relished down on the farm). Remember sometime ago when I featured that Sound Factory bust that netted 30 arrests and cost Jonathan Peters his longtime residency? All crystal meth. Read the full article at CP News in http://www.clubplanet.com.

"As most of you know (and I'm about to sound a little preachy here), what drives me mad about this business from which I just retired is partly the current generation of clubkids--if you can call them that. The other part--the major part--is the drugs. They destroy everything and everyone in their path. I couldn't even truly enjoy Rock The Vote featuring PVD at Moda last month--two idiots asked me for "pills" within whispering distance of the Ohio City councilman. You wanna know how :splat: such a thing makes me?

"So here's a question for all as Summer and that now-infamous anniversary approaches. What is it going to take to stop Gina, Tina and X once and for all?"

So NYC, what do you think? What will it take to stop it--if we can, that is?

It's not New York, It's everywhere drug's have alway's played a part in the music industry whether it be rock&roll,hip-hop,country,eletronica, etc. etc. I could go on forever but somehow the government has taken a huge interest in dance music because it has become universal so quickly and attract's people at a very young age. Anywhere you go in the world dance music right now hold's the crown and the number of people who listen to it and attend event's is outrageous.

As far as drug use in the dance scene is concerned especially meth, My idea from I have seen and heard is that a little goes a long way. Club's are getting stricter and people are afraid to bring in drug's. This is where Tina,meth, come's in people can do tiny bump's and have energy for 10-12 hour's and stay wired& high without having to go hide somewhere and drop a pill, or do a bump of K for fear of getting into trouble.

I am pretty sure this is one of the reason's it's popularity has spread so quickly it's like being able to drive 100 mile's without stopping for gas from what I have been told.

As the scene get's older and people want to get higher, faster,longer and without getting caught it's only going to cause more powerful and dangerous drug's to be produced.

Is this a result of the government coming down so hard on softer drug's that they haven't completely proven are life threatening???

just my 2 cent's

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Hmm, excellent points.

You are right--it's not just Manhattan, it is everywhere. But it doesn't make it any easier for those who don't need drugs to have a good time to deal with those for whom drugs are their raison d'etre.

Just last Saturday, I was at Moda (www.modanightclub.com) here in Cleveland, enjoying :bounce: the sounds of Tiesto in his very first show in the American Heartland, when some kid asks me "Do you know if it'll be easy to score some pills here tonight?"

Instant buzzkill. :splat:

Mind you, I know chapter & verse of what I get into when I go nightcrawling--I have been a veteran clubkid for the past seven years in my hometown. But come on! I could have been standing next to an undercover DEA agent for all he knew. It is that blatant kind of thing that has cost clubland everywhere too many lives and too many clubs. Look what happened to Twilo and Sound Factory in NYC, or even Aqua here in Cleveland.

(For the record, I told the kid that it was not smart to ask that question of anyone, especially tonight.)

I just don't know sometimes. Is it really so hard to go one night without something other than booze these days?

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I just don't know sometimes. Is it really so hard to go one night without something other than booze these days?

Well, I've seen kids getting drunk and it is worst than those on E, K or what not...

Stupidity is the only bad thing in this scene....

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