Typed from my cellphone while at MM
ok this is from a phone so quick.

huge lines off urge freeway because something is also going on in the stadium. came competition or something.
went a diff way and prob saved 45 minutes.

get in right when markus gets on. i give him a 7 out of 10. first 45 min a ten but the last 45 felt he was a bit over the place. great tracks, just weak on the progresssion.

armin on now and amazing through 45 minutes. reminds me me his sf set in july. more to come.

OK, the rest from my computer...

Anyhow, Armin's set was decent in the end. Much like Markus he started off real strong, but the last half of his set was not as good as his first half. Still great, just lost a bit of momentum.

Judge Jules got on and did a decent job leaving off where Armin started. So much, he played a track at the beginning of his set that Armin played.

The place actually did get pretty darn packed, but I still had a harder time walking around at the LoveFest Afterparty. Interesting thing is that I actually think the main floor area at the Bill Graham is bigger than the arena's. It's wayyyyyyyyyy wider and still has pretty good depth. And it was more packed towards what wall at the LFAP too me, and the hallways were packed too.. Way more seats at the LA Arena, though. And TONS of people on the big ramp outside last night with people taking breaks. If they were all inside the place might have been scary. Had to be a couple thousand people out there, maybe three. It was actually a neate seeing so many people just hanging out up the big ramp.

Again, I was way disappointed with production. My first MM since 2003 and the production seemed like it hadn't gone anywhere. They had 4 or 5 lasers but there were no props to bounce them off of to create any decent effects. Lighting was sparse. With the sound, where the hell was the bass!! At least is was clean, though. Sorry, just that this years LF Afterparty production realllly upped the anti on west coast massives. Still nothing comapred to Europe, though.

After Markus finished his set he came down to the VIP area to say hi, sign autographs, take pics, etc. I was trying to talk to him when he first walked over and this asshole just like rammed up into me and made me spill two drinks. I wanted to kick his ass so bad, but I know better. Markus was like WTF and asked if I was OK and I was just patient and waited for him to finish with them so we could chat a little which we did.

Interesting thing, like 90 minutes later the same guy did something to some other dude and he ended up doing to the guy what I wanted to do. He got his ass kicked and security just like stood there and watched for a good while. He deserved it.

I somehow accidentally ran into Armin while he was on his way in and he tried to stop to say hi before the guy with him just started like making him go...basically because Armin was running late and basically had to go straight to the stage and get ready if he was gonna start on time. oh well.

Anyway, beyond that all the e-tards started to get even more retarded and the non-vibe atmosphere got even worse. The vibe was just wicked bad, IMO. And that just killed the night. We wanted to wait for PvD so bad but just ended up leaving during the middle of Judge Jule's set because we couldn't take it anymore!!

Last edited by DaveT on Oct-29-2006 at 18:43