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Originally posted by DaveT stomach is a powerful enemy when going out. I coulda had the flu and prob would have still gone...but alas, stomach is wicked so I am forced to stay in.

yeah, stomach is nothing to fuck with, monday morning i thought i was going to die! we pre-partied last weekend on friday at Tashia's, my old room mate, then partied some more and drank wayyyy too much at The Park on saturday in Sac, then Sunday was Markus + Armin from 10pm - 5am with more substance abuse than i care to mention!

THEN 2 nights later eric prydz at spundae/ruby + slide party o_O

both our bodies are fux0red!

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Alright - just got home, and it's only 4am. Dyloot was on first upstairs, followed by Robert - both had great sets, but the club closed at 2am?!? There were no other floors going on but upstairs - I've never seen the club so empty.

Did Datt play?

Feared this might happen (read first couple pages of thread)

SF scene sucks on Fridays.

It's unfortunate. They deserve a successful night.

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datt didn't get to play, nickson's set was cut short. at the high point there was probably 100-150 people, but the people who showed up had a great time. i enjoyed nickson's set, he would have done well in a different setting. i think a lot of us are still recovering from halloween. i know a couple people including myself who showed up sick. tommy had a fever and he was still partying hard a bunch of them went to endup afterwards. i saw ismael dancing!!!!

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If had a cold, flu, fever, etc would have been there. But not with stomach issues, lol.

I've actually sweated out fevers before, back when I used to play sports (two torn achiles and blowing out your throwing arm will ruin ya lol), if I was sick as hell and had a high fever (101-103) I'd usually still play. When I'd play football and had a high fever a few times, my fever would be gone by the end of the game.

Alcohol works too. Drink it out of ya!

Sucks it got stopped at 2am. I've been at Ten15 with fewer people than that in a room and it still lasted to 4 (I remember years back there literally being about 5-10 people in the main room for I believe Oliver Lieb and he still played till 4am, lol.) At the end of Release's days when it was the same house locals (Kramer/Arrival Crew) pretty much every week there's be maybe [the same] 30 people and it'd go to 5am or 6am still, lol. Even Behrouz would play ALL NIGHT till 6am on Sat nights with barely anyone in the room. I don't get the buzz about him. He's only impressed me once. Seems like some huge DJs love him and he does tour a ton in Europe these days. His sets just sound like one ass track w/o much to it to me, lol.

Earlier promotion might have helped this event, but I'm not sure. I've seen some events promoted to all hell before. Couldn't do it any better. I can think of a particular event held on faitful Sunday in 2005. Taj prob knows what I'm talking about. A case of you simply couldn't do it any better, supporting rooms with lineups of local DJs whose names are known. But, seemed like no one wanted to show up this night. I felt terrible for all involved, but the first headliner who came played an awesome set to all...maybe ten of us standing there? Bad nights just happen sometimes.

I remember when M.I.K.E. played at Mezz his first time in SF. Not many people there, at all. Just hard to promote the Mezz, even though it was a Spundae event. Mezz had little to no reputation as a go-to club for the casual clubbers. But it was still an amazing night...and Mike himself loved it because he knew everyone was there to see HIM. Believe Taj opened that night.

Remember Markus Schulz (and Matthew Dekay) last year at Mezz. He had the special privilege to be lined up against PvD at Ten15. His weakest crowd in SF bigtime...but I think it went OK. I dunno, I left after his second song because I literally had just gotten back from LA about an hour before heading to Mezz and had done like 36-48 work shifts that week for E3. Body gave up and I was falling asleep upstairs, lol.

The ultimate example has to be Saeed & Palash at Mezzanine in 2002 or 2003, soon after it opened (I forget which year). The old Ten15 board gang (miss those days - we represented everwhere!) started partying at one of the board member's places in the Mission and then at midnight we all went to Mezz (and were planning to go to Ten15 after). We get to Mezz around 12:15am. And guess what, WE WERE THE FIRST ONES THERE. Seriously, place opened at 10pm and not one single paying person until we got there. Saeed & Palash were spinning music to a dance floor of exactly ZERO people as they had started at like 11 or 11:30pm. We actually hung around there for awhile and then the night becomes a huge blur....remember stumbling to Ten15 at some point, lol. I drank wayyyyyyyyy too much back then, hehe.

Anyhow, heading into this night there was one idea that I thought might be a good idea to attempt to assure at least some form of a crowd and good party vibe. Dunno if it would have made sense business wise or if whoever had to agree to it would, but just an idea...of which I will not post here, bwahahahahah.....

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good set by dyloot and nickson. sucks that datt didnt get to play ..but it allowed me to head over to the gingerbread house and catch M.A.N.D.Y. and Damian Lazarus!!!

Yeah, last night definitely didn't go according to plan. I went to see Datt, so that was a letdown. Nickson was great as always, and seeing some TAs supporting the DJs in a pretty small crowd was nice to see. At least I got to see some great people again and catch up a bit. Hopefully Datt gets an opportunity to spin before he leaves the bay area.

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Originally posted by theory datt didn't get to play, nickson's set was cut short. at the high point there was probably 100-150 people, but the people who showed up had a great time. i enjoyed nickson's set, he would have done well in a different setting. i think a lot of us are still recovering from halloween. i know a couple people including myself who showed up sick. tommy had a fever and he was still partying hard a bunch of them went to endup afterwards. i saw ismael dancing!!!!

That was my twin brother Ishmael that you saw dancing. Not Ismael.

I had a good time last night but i was bummed that they ended early. Fridays is a struggle to throw an event. I knew we had some simliar struggles when we were throwing ALIBI.

Dave, I miss those days you were talking about.

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I was really disappointed last night...Enjoyed Robert's set, but really wish he could have continued. Can't believe I didnt get to hear Datt! I dont understand why they shut down @ 2 AM when the place was going off and there was still a decent crowd on the floor (maybe 30 - 40 people)... I saw a group of ladies join the party a few mins before it shutdown, and my friends were also on their way from Sanchez @ rubyskye.

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You guys are awesome and extremely nice. Things didn't turn out so well but it didn't stop everyone from having a great time.

Rich - I lover u. You are my #1 west coaster fo lyf. hehe. If you ever hit up Miami or NY .. I got you

Rizo - POST UR PICS

Sheffy - super sweet and ncie and glad we got to talk n hang once again.

Popsicle 9 and 1015 friday are one of the best party nights in my long party list.

THANKS TO EVERYONE. I hope to make SF a once a year event *more if I become a big money baller, shot caller.*

I will post my pics [few] when I re-fuking-lax. Just got home

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well i was pretty disappointed not getting to play...

it was a great vibe, and a pretty decent attendance too (even though the club didnt agree)

It sucks that so many of you came out to see me and couldnt wait until I went on, but sadly that fell through. There was a strong and huge possibility that I was going to play the following night, and even though I doubted it very much (for good reason) a lot of you were told that its happening before it was even confirmed.

So just like I suspected it didnt happen because of a certain person. But no big deal, I will be back since SF is the place I play the most, and have the best following

Thanks again for showing up

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Originally posted by Thomas Datt well i was pretty disappointed not getting to play... it was a great vibe, and a pretty decent attendance too (even though the club didnt agree) It sucks that so many of you came out to see me and couldnt wait until I went on, but sadly that fell through. There was a strong and huge possibility that I was going to play the following night, and even though I doubted it very much (for good reason) a lot of you were told that its happening before it was even confirmed. So just like I suspected it didnt happen because of a certain person. But no big deal, I will be back since SF is the place I play the most, and have the best following Thanks again for showing up

Yeah

tear at the fact that I didn't get to see u spin when SF was the first city i EVER saw u spin! haha.


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