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I personally have had my share of good and bad times @ Guv, and quite frankly understand why Jeff has reached his breaking point... mine was in Oct @ Infected Mushroom when I got the stuffing beat out of me in guest-list lineup.
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@ INfected Mushroom @ (SUPRISE) Guv, I was searched going in. I had an over the counter ephedrine in my pocket since I didn't want to drink or do drugs. Upon finding it in my pocket (after the complimentary testicle fondle of course) they put me against the wall to wait for more male bouncers and a more complete search. When they came to my ignition key in my zipper pocket, the girl yelled "weapon" and the Guvernment Gorillias proceeded to pile on and stomp me.
Then there was the attempt @ a forced strip search to find the "weapon" when things calmed down and they realised they (and I) had nothing. Oh, and the threat to plant drugs on me after I mention wanting to talk to the cops.
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Now I was mostly doing friends houses and field parties up to x-mas 98, then started going to Guv, Industry, Exit, Zone, pretty much every party up until 2001 and marriage hit. The turning point for the scene had to definately be the Millenium... everyone was partying like the world was going to end, and the kind of clientele that you'd usually find @ Plastique, Whisky Saigon, Joker, and the Phoenix started flooding the EDM scene, including the BLC massives circa 1999-2000.
Guvernment these days is an intersting cross-section of the Toronto BAR scene, not the club/edm scene, with each room/club in the complex striving to bring in a part of each "scene" in Toronto on the same night. This brain-storm/mentality reminds me of the three-floor clubs on Richmond like Joker and Whiskey (now Joe) and what I hated about the Toronto bars when I was an alternative/punk edm kid when I first moved to Toronto in 96. One part "dance", one part hip-hop/R&B, a bit of vip/elite lounge space, etc. The blender mentality rarely works in creating any kind of specific vibe, and other than Picotto/Vath in KH I simply refuse to go there.
I understand the urge to go, especially when a big DJ is there, but as the saying goes...
Fool me once, shame on you..Fool me twice, shame on me..Fool me three times, and what am I??
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