Okay... so my filters are to only show posts for 30 days which means there are only 3 threads showing up on the West Coast Forum. To keep it alive (for my views), I'm posting a random thread to get the ball rolling.

Name the best 3 events you've attended.

1. Sasha & Digweed @ Spundae/1015 Folsom back in 2001
Just turned 21 and was a huge raver. I was very anti-clubbing as the only clubs my friends attended were shit places like Sound Factory or crap like that (top 40s). Having a chance to see that the (plur) vibe could still exist in a club environment for me was huge as I growing tired of the rave scene and all e-puddles that kept on growing every time I walked in to a warehouse. It was my first time seeing Sasha and Digweed and they (musically) change my life. No longer was I listening to this cheesy sound I was hearing at raves. It was something dark and sinister sounding. But yet melodic and joyful... Definitely a life changer for me.

2. Sasha at BPM - 2012 I think. Day time party was off the hook. It was right before he released Involver 3 and the music was just Amazing! I remember walking (drunkenly) back to our hotel down one of the streets and guess who was saw just hanging out??? SASHA!!! We were pretty fucked up but shouted over to him "Awesome set Sasha" and he just gave us a big ole grin and said "Thanks guys!". Pretty fucking amzing yo!

3. Sasha @ Avalon - 2004 - We traveled from the Bay down to LA for only our 2nd time to check out Sasha for his Involver 1 release tour. Amazing set yo!!! You could pretty much say that his set that night pretty much convinced us to move to LA. 4 months later, we moved in to our new little studio apartment in HOllywood.

Kinda weird that all of my favorite moments were with Sasha LOL!

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1. Sasha & John Digweed: Delta Heavy tour 2001? or 2000?.. San Francisco Gift Center Pavilion. Party took place in a tall shopping mall with glass elevators, you could stand on multiple levels, 4 stories high, and see down onto the crowd. They played 4 hours of dark, driving prog bombs. The lights come on, people scream, they continue to play another 20 mins with the lights on to a packed house. Life changing experience(The double stacked blue dolphin helped too)


2. Gesaffelstein: Coachella 2015. Day 3, dead tired, and exhausted. Gesaffelstein playing the last set of the weekend and holy shit what a banger. Packed tent, no flashy lights, pitch black with one single light. An hour of dark french acid techno. He had the kids and the geezers going bananas. I literally jumped up and down like a teenager for an entire hour.


3. Max Graham: How sweet it is 1999/2000 Some Motocross race track in so cal
Max Graham played a sunrise set. Thousands of cracked out kids dancing in the dirt to progressive house and techno. Its day light and security cuts the music, Everyone chants "one more" Max plays-Mauro Pictoto Igauana and everyone looked they were in a mosh pit.



Runner up-Any of the Danny Tenaglia 12 hour sets on Jan 2/3 at Ruby Skye during the early 2000's

Fcuk, this is going to show my age...

Not in any particular order:

1, 1st Creamfields, UK 1998. Went with the GF and two friends. The line up was just fucking ridiculous; Sasha, Digweed, Daft Punk, BT, Paul Oakenfold, Dave Seaman, Carl Cox, Sven Vath, Green Velvet etc....It was actually a struggle trying to figure out who to see as the talent was just everywhere, and a lot of them were at their peak. Started at 2pm in the fucky house tent with Alastrair Whitehead, then an unknown DJ called sonique who absolutely destroyed it, then just went bonkers from there. Sasha was great, but Paul Oakenfold somehow just delivered. I remeber him playing Tilt Rendevous (pVD mix) and a ten with 15k people just going mental. Was so munted in the morning.

2, MoS vs Gatecrasher, 1998 Lotherton hall manor house, Leeds. Similar lineup to creamfields but in the most amazing setting. Went up on the tarin from London, got in a minicab to middle of nowhere and they couln't find it then we caught of glipse of searchlights hitting the sky and just headed towards them. Were in a massive line of cars, packed with ravers, all pumping out schranze and raving hard, limbs flailing out the windows. When we got there, the manor house was fucking huge, with massive tents on the estate grounds. You entered through a long privet arch in to this incredible stately grounds with a giant full on fairground.

We wandered in to the first tent and Eric morillo was playing Music Sound better with you, and that really set the tone for an epic night. Caught 30 mins of him, then Roget Sanchez took to the decks who also killed it then after about an hour went for harder fare, but on the way, stumbled across the bumper cars and whitlizer. I remember just starting to feel it on the dodgems and had an insane game of cat and mouse with the guy that ran the bumper cars, and he made a point of coming over afterwards and shaking my hand for an epic duel. Can't remember what order but think we were dancing to someone like Judge Jules or OakenFold, I bumped in to a camera man I knew from london who happened to be doing a thing for MTV, and said this guy Paul van Dyk is starting to play in the next room. We walked in there only knowing a couple of his remixes at that point, just as he dropped his mix of binary finary. Fucking incredible.

The next few hours are a bit of a blur but as dawn was approaching we headed over to the hard house tent and caught the last festival set that Tony De Vit (RIP) ever played. His last tune I think was Never Lost his hardcore by NRG. So fitting. 6am it finished and me and the GF found ourselves walking alone through these impressive stately grounds in to a giant sprawling hedge maze. Was like something out of a dream sequence in a film, gives me goosebumps to remember it.

Took a bus with a load of wrecked ravers to the train station but the trains didn't run until 9am, we accidentally passed out on the benches and somehow woke up 2mins before the train left and jumped on it back to London.

3, Carl Cox, Drais afterhours, Vegas EDC weekend 2012. This as in the old drais, before it moved. We happened to be in Vegas for business, the same weekend EDC was on, but knew we'd sneak in one night somehow, but didn;t want to go to the speedway.

Me and the GF Met my LA clubbing buddy and GF in Vegas, found out Carl was playing the afterhours at Drais. Tickets were difficult to get as they were only released on the day, but snagged 4. Drai's opened at 12, but we thought we'd go for 1am. Get in about 1:30am as the door guy who had the master list of tix just didn't show up so everyone was waiting outside. Anyway, droid Behavior were warming up pretty damn solidly but wanted to Carl to come on then we found he's not playing until 5am

When he did take to the decks, it was one of the best performances I've ever seen from a DJ period. He was constantly working 3 or 4 decks, and the really intimate stetting at Drais, where the booth is level with the dance floor, and there's plenty of nooks for chilling made the experience that much better. The crowd was fucking fantastic too, I bumped in to a few peeps from LA but because all the ravers were at EDC, you just got the real music lovers and Cox fans. Around 4am we found out EDC got closed down due to the high winds and the ravers started to descend on Vegas. Drias were being strict about who they let in so it didn't ruin the vibe - smart move by the bouncers, and those that did get in were super happy and kept the energy levels going.

It just fucking bumped on, banger after banger until about 9am, I was losing steam; I'd been up for 25+ hours by that point and dancing for at least 9 of those hours. Cox was relentless and it started getting messy, people were still dancing on tables but around 9:30am, me the GF called it quites and left me LA buddy still going. When we walked out, there were still several hundred people in line waiting to get in. He apparently stayed another hour and it was still going strong.

Such a good night and even though I;ve seen cox 20 odd times since the mid 90's it truly solidified why he's such a fucking talent.

These aren't in any particular order, but I will end with Prydz because of the video link.

1. Daft Punk Alive Tour at Los Angeles Sports Arena.

I had missed them at Coachella the year prior in 2006, so I HAD to see them live at the sports arena. It was as EPIC show, I mean dude it's fucking Daft Punk.

My ticket was only for the upper level seating, of course I wasn't just going to sit at a Daft Punk show. Once there, it was a MUST to figure out how to get back down to floor to rock out with my friends and everyone else. A few 20 dollar bill tips to security later and a few quick dashes I was in, on the floor with all my friends. DP rocked it!! The openers on the other hand, I remember were shit and very disappointing.

2. Erick Morillo TAO Las Vegas a show sometime between 2005-2008 either Memorial Day Weekend or Labor Day Weekend.

Man, was this the place to be during those weekends, nothing else was going off as TAO was in the "EDM" realm of things of nightclubs during that weekend. Sure there was Rain, but that mainly catered to the Trance crowd. This was for all the House heads. I remember the line of people wrapping around the block just to get in. I remember Sharam, Dubfire, Chuckie, Steve Angello and a bunch of other DJs and TV Celebrities checking in at TAO to say hello to Erick as he spun all night until the next day. Unfortunately, at times he was inconsistent. But MAN when he was on the spot and in the zone, it was AMAZING!!

On this night, we got there super early (9-10?) to get in and get our hand stamped. We were pre partying prior to getting in, then we drank even more once inside and I was donzo. Security saw this, and they escorted me out and sharpie'd a big X over my hand stamp. I then realized I didn't have my phone on me, the girl I was with was with my best friend and his GF. I had no way of contacting them, and they had no way of contacting me. They also had no idea I had gotten kicked out and were pretty buzzed them selves.

I had to figure out how to get back in, I wasn't going to miss Morillo! Sitting in the casino I order a drink. Then I think alcohol and then I think rubbing the X stamp and the re-entry stamp on my wrist. Boom, one problem solved. Now I needed to figure out how to back in, I needed to at least change my shirt. Problem was, I didn't have the keys to the room (other side of the strip) or my car (I was drunk so wasn't an option). I ended up walking around the strip trying to get a new shirt, I eventually found one that was under $100 dollar put it on and tossed the one I had. I finally made my way back. I get back, the line is a lot smaller by this time (not sure what time) and I go to one of the door men. Explain I had bought pre sales (I wasn't too drunk by this time). They see that I had already "picked up my ticket" but then I say no way thats BS WTF put up a fit, boom he hands me a comp I go in and party with my friends until 11am the next morning. Epic night!!!

3. Eric Prydz EDC Las Vegas 2015. He dropped Opus for the first time, and man was the production EPIC!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Nerologic 2. Erick Morillo TAO Las Vegas a show sometime between 2005-2008 either Memorial Day Weekend or Labor Day Weekend. Man, was this the place to be during those weekends, nothing else was going off as TAO was in the "EDM" realm of things of nightclubs during that weekend. Sure there was Rain, but that mainly catered to the Trance crowd. This was for all the House heads. I remember the line of people wrapping around the block just to get in. I remember Sharam, Dubfire, Chuckie, Steve Angello and a bunch of other DJs and TV Celebrities checking in at TAO to say hello to Erick as he spun all night until the next day. Unfortunately, at times he was inconsistent. But MAN when he was on the spot and in the zone, it was AMAZING!! On this night, we got there super early (9-10?) to get in and get our hand stamped. We were pre partying prior to getting in, then we drank even more once inside and I was donzo. Security saw this, and they escorted me out and sharpie'd a big X over my hand stamp. I then realized I didn't have my phone on me, the girl I was with was with my best friend and his GF. I had no way of contacting them, and they had no way of contacting me. They also had no idea I had gotten kicked out and were pretty buzzed them selves.

Those Labor Day and Memorial Weekends were def epic! I remember leaving the club once at 11 am, another time at 2 pm I believe.

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I was at those last two shows billy, at the Sasha/BPM and Sasha/Avalon, both EPIC.

1. Carl Cox & John Digweed at Space Ibiza 2008. After a 3 hour Digweed mind fuck, Carl got on at 3AM and opened up with Radio Slave - Grindhouse. That was the first time I heard the track, needless to say - Mind=Blown. I even posted a video on youtube almost 9 years ago.



2. Deep Dish at ICE Las Vegas - MMD either 2002-2003. I was never a big deep dish fan, but those guys playing for 4 hours before Tiesto in one of the all time great clubs was really good when you are only 21 years old.

3. Love Parade - Berlin 2001. You just had to be there.