Picotto-ish PvD night...
I HEARD "BBE - 7 DAYS AND 1 NIGHT", ON A CLUB SYSTEM SPUN BY PVD!!! FINALY!!!! AFTER 7 YEARS OF PRAYING!!!!!!!!! 
OMG, this killed me!!!
But I'm jumping ahead...
First, the highs:
1. Virtually no line to get in. Comparing to 2 hour lines and strong chance of being turned away at other venues - this was a great relief. I was in the door, through coat check and out on the dancefloor in about 5 mins flat.
2. Found a secret passage from the basement to the VIP area (set of stairs to the unguarded and unlocked doors in VIP section). Once in VIP area I enjoyed the following benefits:
3. No lines at the bar (downstairs bar was mostly staffed by slow and geriatric bartenders who moved slower than mollases in January)
4. Clean(er) and line-free bathroom (at one point bathroom in the basement was not only packed with guys but with girls too - which lead me to search for another bathroom and landed me in VIP section)
5. Seat smack in the middle of the balcony with a full view of the dancefloor and obviously PvD.
6. Laser show view to die for (I'll post pics later)
Now the lows:
SOUND SYSTEM SUCKED! IT WAS TOO LOUD, TOO CRUDE, TOO PAINFUL! EVEN UPSTAIRS, AWAY FROM THE SPEAKERS MY EARS WERE BLEEDING. I woke up this morning with ringing in my ears - something that didn't happen on Phason system. That JBL setup was shit (oh and it crapped out around 2am for like 5-10 mins).
I don't know - maybe I am in a small minority but did anyone notice that his set wasn't up to par last night? I honestly thought it sucked and I am as big of a PvD fan as it gets, but I just can't disregard the fact that he finds it necessary to make his NYC sets 70% techy. He was mostly techno/house with very little Trance. I'd even venture to say his set was very... dark.
PvD used to have some kind of flow to his track. This time around, he was all over the place. Went from Crush in to some crazy Tech House track. Then from Tell me Why into a land of more Techno. I don't know, but I just don't dig the "harder, NYC-ish PvD". Last night was probably one of the worst set flows/track selections that I ever heard him spin.
Also, that sound outage for 5 mins I think has taken the air out of the crowd and totally killed the build up.
At 4 am I expected him to start banging more melodic sounds but he was in a quite dark territory by then with no hope of getting out. As I was leaving at 4:30, quite a few people were sitting out his Techno section, not many dancing.
Overall, if judged by set alone, this night was 3/10.
If judged by overall experience, venue, sound, crowd - it was 7/10.
So, overall average for my experience is 5/10 night.
Shame but I don't think I'll be going to see PvD anytime soon.... and probably not in NYC anymore - I hate the TechHouse side of PvD that tends to get out in NY.
Hope some of you had a better time.
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