Goa Gil, Goa Geoff, Armin Van Buren, Geoffs fight at 1015, Geoff has a CellPhone!
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Well I guess the first happening to report was Goa Gils 52nd Birthday Party. We gathered a decent sized crew for it, including the Cap’n, Colin, Anisa, and crazy Paul M who at the last moment decided to just drive up from LA leaving at 11pm Friday night, Arriving around 8am on Saturday morning, where upon we grabbed breakfast and met the group and took off!
It was up in Angels Camp, and the drive was awesome because Paul’s Jeep has dual 10s in the back, and is about a million watts. We started listening to some new Talamasca stuff, and that’s basically when, unawares, the EvilGoa™ started taking hold of us. We drove up a hella bumpy road which previously nearly ate my Honda alive a few years ago, and hung out because there was a van that got a flat tire on the route.
Paul basically turned on his sound system and the party began there. Reminded me of the mini rave we had in Yosemite Valley Curry Village back at Stargaze I. We eventually had to pass the people cause they brought the WRONG sized spare (doh!) and made it to the event after dark. Not too bad on the raver lag time scale.
Set up the MegaMaidTent, and settled in-went to go check out the altar and dancing area-and I was happily surprised by the Mackie sound system. 20k watts, brand new Mackies it seemed. There were like 8 18” mackie bassbins, and 4 tops which were amazing, and of course Gil had 4 mackie monitors (two facing him, two facing out) Crisp, Clear, Crazy stuff.
His first two hours was spun by his padwan, some female DJ that spun mostly tribal chanting and forest noises… the energy was definitely building. Finally around 1030 he went on and the beats started. He started off only SlightlyEvil™ but I knew I was going to be in for a scare….
It was a very nice time with a smaller group-for the first time in a long time I actually felt like I got a chance to talk with and connect decently with everyone I came with. That was really nice. We read the Desiderata as a group, talked about all kinds of things-from people, music, Stargaze… full circles (after all it was at Wellspring that Colin and I actually met face to face a year+ ago)..
The music really started getting EVILLLL around 2-3… Colin rescued me and played me his Deep Water Walking Stick track in Paul’s Jeep whose happiness and lightness definitely helped balance out the stuff outside. Eventually it sucked me in, and I danced to evil stuff.
I think if I were subscribing to my old fundamentalist dogma, at a certain point around 3am, Goa Gil stepped aside, and something entered him. He spun like a man possessed. Pounding driving galloping music-not necessarily evil in and of itself, but it definitely spoke about the dark wanderings and thoughts and parts of humanity which we carry around with us. To recognize both our good and our bad, to be honest and real with ourselves.. to let go the walls of the perception that blinds us sometimes… I think that’s what I was hearing him spun. At times he had a wild look on his face… not even aware that we were out there. People were all entranced around.. it was powerful voodoo. It seemed that he was playing many tracks at once a few times--- and the galloping darkness drove on through the night. I had visions of a Balrog stomping about the campsite (but not hurting people) . Lots of alien like epiphanies--- I definitely was connecting to something much larger than myself.
I eventually had to go lie down and rest for a while, hoping it would be lighter after sunrise. I woke up after sunrise and it hadn’t gotten too much lighter-but I did my best to get back into it. Changed into my Hawaiian shirt, donned my camelback, and danced for several more hours. In the morning I think his spirit was back, cause Gil was smiling and dancing with us once again.
We made GoaToast for people like we did at Caladan5, and people were really receptive to it. It was yummy indeed! The weather was marvelously cool (upper 70s) so we were able to stay throughout more of the day, whereas we’d normally had to have left by like 9am if it were a desert party!
I was definitely possessed by this time by the music. It really swirled and floated all around me and inside my head. We thought that maybe we’d had enough, so on the ride back we tried to play some nicer Psydub, but that didn’t work. Paul finally put in more Dark Evil Goa stuff and we rocked out to it all the way home. In fact after we got home, after resting for a half hour or so, I made the mistake of asking Paul to get his CD and bring it in for me to play on my decks. He did, and it was very scary-the goa just started flowing naturally from me, very much like trance does, and it just lept forth. People even started dancing in the living room after all that physical exhaustion! I had to pull myself away from it and stop it. And that didn’t help.
I borrowed the CD and played it on the way over to a friends house. Even in Andronicos I was dancing to the goa in my head. I actually couldn’t hear geoff music in my head! It was scary! I hoped that after I slept my brain and soul would “reset” somehow?
Headed over to a friends and that time was heavy. I so wish I could take a chunk of my heart, my optimism, my energy or whatever ya call it and do a kinda bone marrow transplant for my friend. It breaks me to see them cry. Sigh. But the mood eventually improved with hearing some really encouraging thoughts and realizations they’ve had…
(And after some sleep that night luckily my brain DID reset and I woke up to hearing chicane once again in my head)
Armin Van Buren!
So the work week went well, bossman didn’t freak out too much. He also gave me his old cell phone, so I have a cell now! Check my.stargaze.org under my info for the number. Yay!
Friday we got a group together to go see Armin Van Buren. That mans written and spun some of the most special tracks… and I was looking forward to it greatly. Lila Addy Colin and Skye and I drove down, Parked at Mr S and walked over. It wasn’t open yet, so we grabbed awful drinks at the Irish pub on 5th street near the metreon.
Awful drinks-never ever order a Lemon Drop from that place. Over many months, several visits, I’ve only gotten awful Lemondrops from the place. And they are always different! Oh well what can you expect from the Irish.
We went back to the line after the “drinks” and ran in to Anisa and her sister. They let us cut in line-yay! I guess we got there early enough so it was free-that helped a lot. They also opened up the main room pretty early so that was nice.
The first DJ was a house DJ from Wicket but actually played more progressive stuff. The 2nd DJ, DJ Lemonade was pretty cool! He was smiling and loved being up there-I love it when they do that.
The energy was really really building. A few times I heard this really cool kinda half yell half scream and it was Anisa hopping all over the place with a huge smile plastered over her face. Its so rare to see (and hear) that kind of pure happiness! Her sister was dancing all over the place too. What nut. Lila was getting her groove on, and I basically was doing my geoff-hop-hop-hop thing. Armin got on, and really started playing some nice stuff. It was slower, had tons of vocals in it, and I was diggin it. Crowd pushing was bad, but not the worse I’ve experienced.
Then around 330 mr Drunk asshole pushed his way up to the front and started pushing all over skye. I was kinda “defending” skye to my right and Lila to my left with my arms-I had my right hand on Addison’s shoulder and my left on the Plexiglas to brace myself and hold fast. Well big drunk guy got all in my face, I tried to say chill, calm down, that we’ve been there all night long… he started cussin at me and pushing more… the crowd around us was like chill dude… and then he tried to punch me! He missed me and hit skye in the ribs, which nearly knocked her breath out of her…. I was super mad and the next thing I know Lila has run around behind the guy jumped on him grabbed his collar and was screaming at him. Skye was still trying to keep the guy off me by staying in between him and me, the crowd was pissed. I looked up at Armin and made the “call security” hand sign to him but he didn’t. I then basically yelled at the asshole guy and said I’m coming back with the cops and immediately jetted off to go get them. By the time I got back with security he was gone-he fled. But it SUCKED that skye got hit, bah! We found some breathing room to chill and recover ourselves… then decided that we needed to leave. There was no way we could get back into the music after that, and skye needed to be out of the place.
So we drove her to the butterzone, and went back and crashed at the Chalet. Great evening, horrible ending. During the altercation Colin was like 20’ behind us and didn’t even see it happen. And I’m not sure why Addison didn’t throw down and help me/us with the guy. Argh. I hope the mezzanine and ruby skye are better. I don’t need to freakin wear body armor to a club do I?
The next day after sleeping in and napping a bit it was off to Jennys Bday thing at Bucca di Beppos. Lila and I were the first ones there and started off with a few drinks. It went much better than Ray Cs going away party did for me this time alcohol wise-I was totally ok to drive and not hung over at all! Its cause I stayed away from the wine! Muwhahahaha. It was a loud, obnoxious, fun, cool evening. Adam W drove from Mammoth and that made it even more crazy. From Fish Bacon, to Pirate Toasts, to Spanking Jenny with the BuccaDeBeppo Paddle™ it was fun. Too pooped to hit the :am party afterwards, we went home and crashed.
Sunday went pretty well too, except it got really sad near the end. I don’t know really what to do except keep hoping and praying that things will change for the better for my friend that’s been struggling with so many things of late. Again I wish I could just fix things, heal things, plug them directly into the beauty and strength and majik that’s inside them.
I did get some Stargaze stuff done-got the latest round of sleeping arrangements done, and we did add the 2nd condo. I’m SO excited about this one. Its gonna be soooo incredible. I can and cant wait-so much to get done before then, but I want it soo badly!
I’m excited about the weeks ahead… so much stuff. Castro Halloween party with Tantra afterwards at the SomaArts Gallery…. To the BZ Halloween party, to my raving anniversary on the 2nd (7 years! Yarrrr) and PVD, Lego Land, GnB X giving, Tiesto…
They are all coming up so soon!
Yay for super cool things and good friends to experience these things with!
Well I guess the first happening to report was Goa Gils 52nd Birthday Party. We gathered a decent sized crew for it, including the Cap’n, Colin, Anisa, and crazy Paul M who at the last moment decided to just drive up from LA leaving at 11pm Friday night, Arriving around 8am on Saturday morning, where upon we grabbed breakfast and met the group and took off!
It was up in Angels Camp, and the drive was awesome because Paul’s Jeep has dual 10s in the back, and is about a million watts. We started listening to some new Talamasca stuff, and that’s basically when, unawares, the EvilGoa™ started taking hold of us. We drove up a hella bumpy road which previously nearly ate my Honda alive a few years ago, and hung out because there was a van that got a flat tire on the route.
Paul basically turned on his sound system and the party began there. Reminded me of the mini rave we had in Yosemite Valley Curry Village back at Stargaze I. We eventually had to pass the people cause they brought the WRONG sized spare (doh!) and made it to the event after dark. Not too bad on the raver lag time scale.
Set up the MegaMaidTent, and settled in-went to go check out the altar and dancing area-and I was happily surprised by the Mackie sound system. 20k watts, brand new Mackies it seemed. There were like 8 18” mackie bassbins, and 4 tops which were amazing, and of course Gil had 4 mackie monitors (two facing him, two facing out) Crisp, Clear, Crazy stuff.
His first two hours was spun by his padwan, some female DJ that spun mostly tribal chanting and forest noises… the energy was definitely building. Finally around 1030 he went on and the beats started. He started off only SlightlyEvil™ but I knew I was going to be in for a scare….
It was a very nice time with a smaller group-for the first time in a long time I actually felt like I got a chance to talk with and connect decently with everyone I came with. That was really nice. We read the Desiderata as a group, talked about all kinds of things-from people, music, Stargaze… full circles (after all it was at Wellspring that Colin and I actually met face to face a year+ ago)..
The music really started getting EVILLLL around 2-3… Colin rescued me and played me his Deep Water Walking Stick track in Paul’s Jeep whose happiness and lightness definitely helped balance out the stuff outside. Eventually it sucked me in, and I danced to evil stuff.
I think if I were subscribing to my old fundamentalist dogma, at a certain point around 3am, Goa Gil stepped aside, and something entered him. He spun like a man possessed. Pounding driving galloping music-not necessarily evil in and of itself, but it definitely spoke about the dark wanderings and thoughts and parts of humanity which we carry around with us. To recognize both our good and our bad, to be honest and real with ourselves.. to let go the walls of the perception that blinds us sometimes… I think that’s what I was hearing him spun. At times he had a wild look on his face… not even aware that we were out there. People were all entranced around.. it was powerful voodoo. It seemed that he was playing many tracks at once a few times--- and the galloping darkness drove on through the night. I had visions of a Balrog stomping about the campsite (but not hurting people) . Lots of alien like epiphanies--- I definitely was connecting to something much larger than myself.
I eventually had to go lie down and rest for a while, hoping it would be lighter after sunrise. I woke up after sunrise and it hadn’t gotten too much lighter-but I did my best to get back into it. Changed into my Hawaiian shirt, donned my camelback, and danced for several more hours. In the morning I think his spirit was back, cause Gil was smiling and dancing with us once again.
We made GoaToast for people like we did at Caladan5, and people were really receptive to it. It was yummy indeed! The weather was marvelously cool (upper 70s) so we were able to stay throughout more of the day, whereas we’d normally had to have left by like 9am if it were a desert party!
I was definitely possessed by this time by the music. It really swirled and floated all around me and inside my head. We thought that maybe we’d had enough, so on the ride back we tried to play some nicer Psydub, but that didn’t work. Paul finally put in more Dark Evil Goa stuff and we rocked out to it all the way home. In fact after we got home, after resting for a half hour or so, I made the mistake of asking Paul to get his CD and bring it in for me to play on my decks. He did, and it was very scary-the goa just started flowing naturally from me, very much like trance does, and it just lept forth. People even started dancing in the living room after all that physical exhaustion! I had to pull myself away from it and stop it. And that didn’t help.
I borrowed the CD and played it on the way over to a friends house. Even in Andronicos I was dancing to the goa in my head. I actually couldn’t hear geoff music in my head! It was scary! I hoped that after I slept my brain and soul would “reset” somehow?
Headed over to a friends and that time was heavy. I so wish I could take a chunk of my heart, my optimism, my energy or whatever ya call it and do a kinda bone marrow transplant for my friend. It breaks me to see them cry. Sigh. But the mood eventually improved with hearing some really encouraging thoughts and realizations they’ve had…
(And after some sleep that night luckily my brain DID reset and I woke up to hearing chicane once again in my head)
Armin Van Buren!
So the work week went well, bossman didn’t freak out too much. He also gave me his old cell phone, so I have a cell now! Check my.stargaze.org under my info for the number. Yay!
Friday we got a group together to go see Armin Van Buren. That mans written and spun some of the most special tracks… and I was looking forward to it greatly. Lila Addy Colin and Skye and I drove down, Parked at Mr S and walked over. It wasn’t open yet, so we grabbed awful drinks at the Irish pub on 5th street near the metreon.
Awful drinks-never ever order a Lemon Drop from that place. Over many months, several visits, I’ve only gotten awful Lemondrops from the place. And they are always different! Oh well what can you expect from the Irish.
We went back to the line after the “drinks” and ran in to Anisa and her sister. They let us cut in line-yay! I guess we got there early enough so it was free-that helped a lot. They also opened up the main room pretty early so that was nice.
The first DJ was a house DJ from Wicket but actually played more progressive stuff. The 2nd DJ, DJ Lemonade was pretty cool! He was smiling and loved being up there-I love it when they do that.
The energy was really really building. A few times I heard this really cool kinda half yell half scream and it was Anisa hopping all over the place with a huge smile plastered over her face. Its so rare to see (and hear) that kind of pure happiness! Her sister was dancing all over the place too. What nut. Lila was getting her groove on, and I basically was doing my geoff-hop-hop-hop thing. Armin got on, and really started playing some nice stuff. It was slower, had tons of vocals in it, and I was diggin it. Crowd pushing was bad, but not the worse I’ve experienced.
Then around 330 mr Drunk asshole pushed his way up to the front and started pushing all over skye. I was kinda “defending” skye to my right and Lila to my left with my arms-I had my right hand on Addison’s shoulder and my left on the Plexiglas to brace myself and hold fast. Well big drunk guy got all in my face, I tried to say chill, calm down, that we’ve been there all night long… he started cussin at me and pushing more… the crowd around us was like chill dude… and then he tried to punch me! He missed me and hit skye in the ribs, which nearly knocked her breath out of her…. I was super mad and the next thing I know Lila has run around behind the guy jumped on him grabbed his collar and was screaming at him. Skye was still trying to keep the guy off me by staying in between him and me, the crowd was pissed. I looked up at Armin and made the “call security” hand sign to him but he didn’t. I then basically yelled at the asshole guy and said I’m coming back with the cops and immediately jetted off to go get them. By the time I got back with security he was gone-he fled. But it SUCKED that skye got hit, bah! We found some breathing room to chill and recover ourselves… then decided that we needed to leave. There was no way we could get back into the music after that, and skye needed to be out of the place.
So we drove her to the butterzone, and went back and crashed at the Chalet. Great evening, horrible ending. During the altercation Colin was like 20’ behind us and didn’t even see it happen. And I’m not sure why Addison didn’t throw down and help me/us with the guy. Argh. I hope the mezzanine and ruby skye are better. I don’t need to freakin wear body armor to a club do I?
The next day after sleeping in and napping a bit it was off to Jennys Bday thing at Bucca di Beppos. Lila and I were the first ones there and started off with a few drinks. It went much better than Ray Cs going away party did for me this time alcohol wise-I was totally ok to drive and not hung over at all! Its cause I stayed away from the wine! Muwhahahaha. It was a loud, obnoxious, fun, cool evening. Adam W drove from Mammoth and that made it even more crazy. From Fish Bacon, to Pirate Toasts, to Spanking Jenny with the BuccaDeBeppo Paddle™ it was fun. Too pooped to hit the :am party afterwards, we went home and crashed.
Sunday went pretty well too, except it got really sad near the end. I don’t know really what to do except keep hoping and praying that things will change for the better for my friend that’s been struggling with so many things of late. Again I wish I could just fix things, heal things, plug them directly into the beauty and strength and majik that’s inside them.
I did get some Stargaze stuff done-got the latest round of sleeping arrangements done, and we did add the 2nd condo. I’m SO excited about this one. Its gonna be soooo incredible. I can and cant wait-so much to get done before then, but I want it soo badly!
I’m excited about the weeks ahead… so much stuff. Castro Halloween party with Tantra afterwards at the SomaArts Gallery…. To the BZ Halloween party, to my raving anniversary on the 2nd (7 years! Yarrrr) and PVD, Lego Land, GnB X giving, Tiesto…
They are all coming up so soon!
Yay for super cool things and good friends to experience these things with!