June 29

Added:

Jul 16 - Dean Coleman (1015 Folsom)
Jul 30 - Miss Kitten (Mezzanine) *announced*

Removed:

Jul 03 - Tom Stephan (Mezzanine) *announced*

I dunno what's up. Mezz's website had him listed at one time. Now he's playing in Miami.

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Dave Toole - [email protected]
Spundae Productions (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas)

What's up with all these club dates? Nothing here for "raves"?

By the way,Zharen, you're a DJ Denise groupie. You suck.

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Originally posted by DaveT Removed: Jul 17 - Daft Punk, Sneaker Pimps, Jesse Saunders, and more @ Utopia / On & On Tour (Avalon Ballroom) *announced* Why? Until things are clarified, I am going to take the Daft Punk gig as being fake due to this message on DP's website... Hello, We would like to warn all the promoters worldwide and all the fans. There is an American based booking agency who claim to have Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo on its Live & DJ roster. It's not true, please do not work with them. We are now in studio in Paris working on the next Daft Punk album.We are not DJing nor playing Live since our last "Daftendirektour" back in 97-98. Our legal representations for bookings are : for the World excluding USA : Primary Talent, Mr Peter Elliott for the USA : Chaotica, Mr Gerry gerrard & Mr Steve Goodgold Thank you for your support, we'll be back soon. Daft Punk

I might be able to shed some light on the mystery: http://www.justsayagency.com/artistpage.php?aid=78

Seems that someone pretending to be Thomas Bengalter of Daft Punk contacted several promoters and had them book a gig. When they realized from Daft Punk's booking agency that the person they were dealing with was an imposter, the imposter fled and is still on the run.

However, there might be another theory to it. It seems that one of the promoters involved in OrganicVibe, the group responsible for throwing Utopica, has had a most shady past in ripping off other D.J.'s in other shows and the like, in which he has become a loathed enemy in the Bay Area scene. Some has accused him of simply making up a lie that Daft Punk was going to play in Utopia just so more people would show up to the venue. But this theory is still unproven. Whatever it might be, it is clear that Daft Punk will not be playing at Utopia, but the venue will still continue with the resident dj's spinning at the Avalon Ballroom.

^^ You don't even know who the supposed shady guy is, so quit your moaning..... and you still suck because you're a DJ Denise groupie.

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Oh so I pose with Denise for one pic in one venue and suddenly I'm a Denise groupie? Whatever pal. That's a pretty pathetic insult to come up with. And what I said in the above post is purely speculation. I didn't say I knew for sure. I was only speculating after I read what several members on Bayraves.com wrote. Anyway, I don't know who you are, but you certainly don't know me. Don't make any half-asses assumptions about me if you never even met me.

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Originally posted by Zharen ^ Oh so I pose with Denise for one pic in one venue and suddenly I'm a Denise groupie? Whatever pal. That's a pretty pathetic insult to come up with. And what I said in the above post is purely speculation. I didn't say I knew for sure. I was only speculating after I read what several members on Bayraves.com wrote. Anyway, I don't know who you are, but you certainly don't know me. Don't make any half-asses assumptions about me if you never even met me.

Oh yes, let's deny the reason we're a groupie. First off, why would you want the pic in the first place? Is it because she's a chic? A chic that's also a DJ? Does her skills speak for herself? Whether or not you took the pic is one thing, but you advertise it. Bad move, pal. You're associating yourself with a dj that uses politics, her female status, and her residencies to push her name forward. She's really not that good of a dj. Only reason she even gets half of a somewhat bearable set to listen to, is because she works at Skills and has the resources of vinyl.

As for the "Bayraves" guy who is supposedly shady. You don't know him, so why even try to bring it over here? You might know his name, but you don't know him personally. Well I do, and I think you need to take a step back and realize you're not involved with what's going on. The weird thing is, I have friends who don't like him, but I talk to him as well and don't hold any grudges that my friends do. So my advice is to just leave the topic regarding my acquaintance out of this. You don't know what's been done or said, so butt out.... I'm trying to be nice. Anyhoo, reply as you will. I'll be here.

I don't really like Denise, but attacking him because he likes her is childish, IMO. Please keep that bullshit out of this thread.

I guess I'm a groupie of about 80 DJs considering all the pics I have with DJs.

Dave

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Spundae Productions (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas)

^^ It's not about being a groupie, my point was about associating yourself with a dj. Some dj's demand more respect than others because of their actions, rather than playing off of our scene.

Also, I noticed that you don't cover events that are "raves", only club nights.

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Originally posted by Lotus ^^ It's not about being a groupie, my point was about associating yourself with a dj. Some dj's demand more respect than others because of their actions, rather than playing off of our scene. Also, I noticed that you don't cover events that are "raves", only club nights.

I will cover raves if it involves acts worth seeing that are't totally local or if it's an event that I personally think is cool.

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Spundae Productions (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, Las Vegas)

Lotus, you're getting your shit twisted. Yes, I don't know him, but to say I can't say anything about him here because I don't personally know him is bullshit. That's like saying that all the people here can't talk about Tiesto, PVD, Armin, Ferry and the like because they don't personally know them. I don't care if you are an acquitance of this person, (Funke Miguel). It's not my fault if people think he's a fucking retard, and I'm certainly not going to feel bad if I bring up the fact that people think he's a fucking retard. I brought that shit up in hopes to clarify what was going on with the Utopia venue. That's considered a party in San Francisco, so...can't you read the topic then? However, attacking people on-line just because you don't like their avatars is stupid. But if you want to continue looking like a dumbass then by all means, keep calling me a Denise groupie then. I don't really mind. I'll just keep laughing at your face for it.

And BTW, I think Dave does a bang up job in promoting the different venues here. Get off his f***ing back.

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Originally posted by Zharen snip

I guess it would be funny for you to be a Denise groupie. Kissing ass always is. The way you are bringing up DJ's is not synonymous with how I'm putting an example. I'm only merely stating on the business side of things, not dj skills or his personality.

That's different than if you were to say he's a particular type of person because of his skills or personality. Saying he's a "fucking retard" from hearsay or even agreeing with people being the sheep you are, is not proving anything on the matters of the venue itself or who was scheduled to be at that event. See, you're misconstruing what I'm saying only because you'll make an assumption of someone before you actually know them. Get your head out of your ass, and try to at least see that he's dealing with situations. Situations that are putting him against other DJ's/Promoters. How he goes about that doesn't really affect the two of us but I'm hoping that you can at least comprehend what is going on, rather than "second guess" it.

Again, I'm hoping that you don't take things the wrong way. Nothing personal, eh?

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And BTW, I think Dave does a bang up job in promoting the different venues here. Get off his f***ing back.

I'm going to assume Dave "works" for Tranceaddicts, and I might be able to offer some advice on this. It's best for Tranceaddicts to get "hits" because of a broader coverage of what is happening within San Francisco. Trippendicular is a prime example of an event that I feel could use some coverage on here, and if so asked/required, I'll be more than glad to give the information for it.

After all, this is the San Francisco parties :2004 edition. That's open for interpretation beyond clubs.

1. I do not work for the EDM scene in any way. I work for http://www.gamespot.com :-p

2. Personally, I'm not hugely interested in local acts. Everyone knows about local acts. I try to let everyone know about DJs outside of this area that are coming to town, especially international DJs. But, as I said, if I think a special event is happening that is very nice and includes just local DJs, I will still list it...just like the 1998/1999 event that happened this past weekend. I thought that idea of that event was very nice and I would have love to be there if I wasn't in Florida.

What is Trippendicular?

So EAT IT BUSTA'!!!

If you think you could do a better job and keep it as up to date as I do, then by all means take over the list. Less work for me. I do it just because I travel a bit and need to know what's up as far in advance as possible to be sure I'm in town whenever I can be when someone I want to see is playing...and I spend a few extra minutes adding the BBCode to make it postable on these here boards (and a couple other places).

Dave

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Last edited by DaveT on Jul-02-2004 at 05:57