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[PICS & REVIEW] Donald Glaude & Christopher Lawrence @ Beach Club
i didn't really know much about this event from the flyers at ruby skye plus the venue is a brand new 18+ venue attached to the back of paramount's great america, an amusement park in santa clara. all i knew was 12pm-9pm saturday: cl & dg were gonna be there and so was i. 3 o'clock rolls around and i'm ready to head out but i'm waiting on some people so i don't end up getting there until ~4:30. the cover ended up being 25, which isn't bad for 9 hours of sick beats, plus access to a beach pool, slides, rides and rollercoasters if you wanted. but the important thing was the place was spacious, private--isolated from the kiddie-side of the amusement park, clean, well laid out, plenty of tables, benches, lounge chairs and shade to relax in, a VERY NICE outdoor sound system that slumped even from the private changing rooms on the other side of 'boomerang bay'. my main concern though was the 18+, but when i got there even the people at the security check up front were going on and on about how many girls there were inside and "you're gonna have a good time, you're gonna have a good time!!". ok sounds good...
well it was definitely much higher than my expectation and i did leave impressed and thoroughly satisfied for my money: both for the music and the experience. the crowd was great, a very mixed group of partiers, lots of HOT girls walking around all over the place--even the cops will agree, a strong police, security and emt presence to prevent any incidents from occurring, and with success... i didn't see any fights, arrests, od's or people acting stupid. it was a very positive, mature crowd... after being in the crowd for like 30 sec i was like, damn... this party has a very wmc-ish atmosphere to it! the weather was perfect: still about 80 degrees around 5pm, clear skies with a breeze so you could really just dance there for 9 hours straight and not break a sweat if you wanted to. and dress code was bikinis and board shorts so that was nice. for me the drink and food lines were a 2 person wait max cause they were all around, and drinks weren't outrageous... $5.50 for domestic beer and $3 for water. the music was off the hook when i got there. glaude was playing daft punk as i walked in and spun a good amount of 80s house over the next hour, some sick rhcp remix, then deeper/scratchier stuff towards the end. christopher lawrence gets on at 7 and the crowd is going nuts, half for glaude, half for lawrence. donald glaude being the awesome guy that he is crowd surfs and mingles around the beach club pretty much til the very end. lawrence played a pounding trance set and fed it to a sf house music crowd who was really feeling it. i heard a bunch of 'omg i love this dj' remarks around the crowd into the night. and the best part was how loud and rowdy the crowd got the last 30 min or so as dusk was coming in. so yeah the event seemed like a major success to me, the flyer said this attraction was just built to bring BIG NAME djs to the area so i'm VERY EAGER to see what's in store for this little corner of the park in the near future. anyway, on with the pics...
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short vid of glaude at the decks...
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Last edited by R!CH on May-18-2006 at 01:36
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