[Dynagroove] Sneak Beats!!!!!!!!!

Mon Nov 10 11:56:05 PST 2008

yes .. it was great to see so many from our community come out and all the new
faces that kept to the beat.
but
were we at the same party? ?
i appreciate your review amy, it goes to show that two people can have a
totally different experience  :)

i just gotta say
that was one of the worst venues i've been to in a long time.

i got their about 1030, waited about 45 minutes in line to enter a somewhat
empty hall..
the sound was terrible, every time you moved it became a different kind of
wrong.. i could not hear myself think let alone enjoy the great music.
i danced a bit but it took effort being that their was 100 security guards
circling the dance floor, on the dance floor, in the restrooms (at your stall
door), everywhere you looked there was a tall serious looking security person
watching us. the drinks were 11-14 dollars. the entrace was decent per the
line up had i'd been able to relax and actually enjoy myself instead of
feeling like i was at a school dance in a bright gymnasium... kept half
especting to hear sneakers squeaking against the smooth floor. no pun
intended. vibeselect was dope, all the djs were dope. around midnight,i
checked out the downstairs where there was a polluted rock lined pool along
the middle of the dancefloor, there were about six of us dancing, sneak was
down there, the sound in this tiny area was good and the music a bit eclectic
and energetic. not sure who the dj was tho.. anyone?? but ya back on the
mainlevel, i think i did find that  "audio sweet spot" up front but it was
about four square feet vs a huge dance floor of struggling house heads. i've
been to the stock exchange a few times before , many years ago .. i recall the
wierdness but never the strong security force. this had a potential to be a
great party , i mean i had fun being silly and making light of the situation.
but seriously... if this is what bust free means then i'd rather take my risks
in the underground. vanguard is bust free, soul folks is bust free, there are
bust free (aka permitted) venues that i would've and could've had a decent
time at this party. sorry to for the negative venue review .. of course the
djs still did their thang :)

i just will never go back here.

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> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:25:48 -0800
> From: amyr at dynagroove.com
> To: dynagroove at dynagroove.com
> Subject: [Dynagroove] Sneak Beats!!!!!!!!!
>
> THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to Brett Ballou for throwing a GREAT fucking
> party this weekend!!!!
>
> I danced harder than I have in a LOOOOOOOONG time. (Okay, I danced pretty
> effing hard on Halloween, too, but in a very different way).
>
> I don't usually go to house events in "fancy" venues (it's just TOO HARD
> to dance to house the way I do in heels) so to be honest, I was a little
> apprehensive about this place. But once I got in and saw how many house
> HEADS had crawled out of the WOODWORK for this one, I actually appreciated
> having a bust-free, clean, and beautiful venue in which to dance, worry
> free. That dancefloor was AWESOME.  Smooth, not too slippery.   My running
> shoes didn't squeak too much.  Perfect for spins. :)
>
> And the sound was pretty effing good too. The audio sweet spot in the
> front was a fantastic place to dance until it got too crowded.
>
> I was bummed that I missed Wally and Easily Influenced, but I guess I
> should have realized that I needed to get there earlier than 11 if I
> wanted to hear them. (I gotta nap on Fridays, yo!) I am sure both were
> great (despite Wally's insistence that he "sucked".  ;)
>
> Vibezelect was on when i came in and I immediately started dancing.  Now
> THAT'S a good sign! Those guys have some serious CHARISMA!!!!! I was
> thoroughly entertained and danced pretty consistently throughout their
> entire set.  (Cade, ya know how you like to book live acts for Dynagroove?
> Well look no further!!!)
>
> Sneak came on and as I had hoped, continued this summer's "retro" house
> kick at the beginning of his set.  I heard some tracks from the mid 90's
> that I had totally forgotten about.  TOO FUN.  He picked up the pace
> toward the end in preparation for DC.
>
> Living in the midwest in the 90's, I heard DC more times than i can count,
> and he was one of my FAVORITE DJs. But to be honest, I've been pretty
> bored by his sets in the last few years. I actually stopped going to see
> him altogether at one point because it was killing me to be standing
> around to a DC set.  He just played TOO HARD for me to get into. And when
> he came on Friday night, bangin away from the get go, I thought to myself,
> "here we go..." (and NOT in a good way.) BUT!  There was something
> different about the way he played Friday night.  No one could deny he was
> seriously BANGING (HARD and FAST) but it still reached into my pants and
> made me dance.  HARD. and FAST.  And LOW to the ground in some instances.
> And he too went "retro".  I can't remember the last time I heard him (or
> anyone else for that matter) play so much great ACID.  Straight up 1995
> Chi-town shit!!!  If I closed my eyes i could have sworn terry mullan was
> on the decks!  FANTASTIC.  It had been so long since I danced to that
> stuff that I forgot how HARD it makes me dance.
>
> I was SO happy to see SO many old dance floor friends that night. Where
> the hell have you all been the last few years?  THANK YOU to the couple of
> you who remembered how to ELEVATE me and make me dance dance dance as hard
> as I possibly can.  It was pretty fucking awesome.  There is a certain way
> that i dance to the harder stuff that I had forgotten all about.  I LOVE
> that shit!
>
> And Sir Ben, Mr. Bodyrock! I don't think I have EVER seen you dance THAT
> hard.  It was fan-fucking-tastic to share dancefloor space with you for a
> few, my man!
>
> I even got to DANCE with CADE for a minute or two.  That was really nice.
:)
>
> I don't know if any of them are on this list but I gotta give MAD PROPS to
> Rudy, Melissa, Vince and my whole Do-Over family for showing up and
> ROCKING IT OUT.  That last hour with you guys was AMAZING. I had almost
> forgotten what amazing dancers you all are, since we never had any room to
> dance to the whopping 4 house records we got each Sunday at the Do.
> Hahahahaha.....
>
> Thanks again to everyone who made this night so special for me.
>
> I needed it.
>
> Amy Ricketts
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