This is back when I lived in Ohio.

I get asked to play this huge weekend rave event thing... you know, the ones with like 500 local DJs on the flyer.

I'm still a new guy in the scene, so the promoter says, hey mang... you can play while we set up the stage and people show up. I'm like, "hey, thats cool".

So I drive out to the boonfucks to this campground where they're having the event... I'm on time... no one is there. not the promoter, the stage is empty, no sound equipment, nothing. oh wait.. there were a ton of families setting up camp that normally camp on this campground every weekend... wait, do they know there's a 48 hour rave planned 100 feet from their tent?

So eventually the truck with all the sound equip and lighting stuff shows up... i make friends, and help them unload this 20 some foot truck full of heavy cases. I figure, the sooner we can get some sound running, the sooner or more time i might have to play.

Some other DJs show up with their girlfriends... but no attendees. no one paying at the gate, no one.

The sound / lighting guys freak out... they start tearing down all the equipment, saying that they know they're not going to get paid. this is bad. many harsh words are exchanged by the promoter and the sound guys... doesn't matter. they pack up and leave.

[snip to hours later]

back in the woods, a small wal-mart esque tent is set up, and a generator kicked on... ok, now we're rocking. See, originally, there was going to be 3-4 stages for all of these 500 DJs to play on... now only one small tent. there was no table to set anything on... they had found an old rotted out table in some creek where the wood top was gone. they set this metal frame upside down, and smacked some TTs and a shitty numark 2 channel mixer on top. it was warped, and rocked back and forth.

Rank is pulled, and now I don't get to play. The promoter says, stick around, and you can play later on tonight.

It starts raining.

[snip to later on]

5 something AM. I get setup to mix into the previous DJs track... a 4 wheeler drives by.. its the campground people.. they demand we shut off the generator and call it a night.

I sleep in my car soaking wet and drive home in the morning.

good times.

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