[Dynagroove] You end up missing Solid Gold when....

[BadIYE at aol.com]

...you make a left on OLIVE instead of HILL....and then drive around like a  
clown, looking for a random parking lot and a cone.  Usually, you can roll  
your window down and listen for the music...not a peep this time.  
 
To be fair, I had imbibed a couple of dirty martinis at an ancillary party  
to the Democratic Party fundraiser prior to my quest for Gold.(I'm an  
independent, but let's face it, as weak and spineless as the Dems are, they are  the 
only ones with a chance to replace the church nuts)   My law  partner was 
picking up on a couple of nice looking 23 year old girls  (made it clear to them 
from the start that I was married and not  interested) and I mentioned that we 
should all go to Solid Gold.  I  told them it was a "wherehouse" party with 
House music DJs.  That led to a  conversation about how I should just call it a 
"rave" where everyone is doing  pills and be done with it...I tried my best to 
diffuse that image ("no no no,  it's actually POT, not E" hehehehe).  
 
That broke down into how we're "full of shit" when we say that we go there  
"for the music" when in fact we're really going for the drugs, to which I  
replied " That's not true, we do go there for the music and the dancing, but  come 
to think of it: when was it that the Rock scene was drug-free?   ever hear of 
Woodstock?  Zepplin and Pink Floyd concerts, anyone? or how  about the Heroin 
ingesting Jazz scene?  did you not see Ray? Birdie? hell,  Mozart was full of 
drugs all the time and so was his audience".  Utter  silence on the other 
side, while I went on listing all the example of how music  and drugs (including 
alcohol) have always been entertwined: "Blues and 'grass';  Rat Pack?  you 
mean Sinatra and his emphatemine taking, scotch guzzluing  gang?  Quayluudes and 
Disco?  Coke and the Eighties?" etc....
 
Then it was: "well it all sounds the same"....to which I replied: " uh,  
yeah, because there is SUCH a big difference between Maroon 5 and the 200 other  
mid-tempo pop-rock bands out there...ssssuureeee!!!!"  I launched into a  
tirade about how unoriginal modern rock is...I was on a roll:  "You wanna  know 
who's playing the best rock out there, do you?  it's The Chrystal  Method!!  an 
ELECTRONIC band..."
 
Still in the end, it was like talking to the wall.  23 year olds think  they 
know everything already, and that's what youth is all about (it's part of  the 
charm, really).  They've been to a Rave when they were 17 and  experienced 
someone vomiting 'cause they were rollin so hard...and that's all  house music 
means to them...fine.  That's cool with me everyone learns  their own way.
 
It was almost 1:00 and I needed me some Gold after THAT exchange.  I  could 
use me some classic house sounds, good vibes, smilie friendly familiar  faces, 
I thought.
 
and then I made a wrong turn...
 
Moral of the story:  Do Solid Gold TWICE a year!
 
Imad
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