that video is siiiick !!!

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Originally posted by jonas Bring lots of friends, a preist and a sack lunch. You'll need all three.

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Originally posted by Zild I can understand people wanting to tech up their house since Techno is the shit, but please don't house up my Techno.

instead how about focusing on finding

a) a non-shit venue(s) to host your events
b) actual talent instead of the same worn-out trance and prog headliners we've seen hundreds of time and who stopped mattering years ago when their music stopped evolving.
c) good opening DJ's with names other than Randall Jones and Derek Howell instead of the usual garbage that leaves me wondering how the person got out of the bedroom.

just my $0.02 to the 77002.com crew

I think he's against A&B coming to Houston

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Originally posted by jonas I think he's against A&B coming to Houston

LOL.

+1

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Originally posted by progressiveMOJO instead how about focusing on finding a) a non-shit venue(s) to host your events b) actual talent instead of the same worn-out trance and prog headliners we've seen hundreds of time and who stopped mattering years ago when their music stopped evolving. c) good opening DJ's with names other than Randall Jones and Derek Howell instead of the usual garbage that leaves me wondering how the person got out of the bedroom. just my $0.02 to the 77002.com crew

a) name one
b) and you think a&b is worn-out? obviously you are behind the times
c) good as in....DjCee

well wow.

Carlos hit the first one on the nose. As sad as it is to say i think the Roxy would be a great place to host some shows at. but its been pretty dark in there for about 4 years now so probably wouldnt work to well. but great venue.

abd what opening djs are you wanting to see play. (opening djs we have in houston are usually not just opening djs they make a living as a dj. but when your opening you cant play your best music or throw all your best tricks out there non stop because why oh thats right your not the headliner.)

and there is always the option of you opening your own promotion company and you do things how you want them to be but it wont be long before you relize it doesn't work like that.

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Originally posted by jonas I punched a horse once.

They're about to kick me out of this building for laughing so hard!

I don't give a shit if A&B come to Houston or not because I won't be seeing them either way. It just amazes me that people still like them when their music is the epitome of generic and hasn't changed its sound whatsoever in a decade. So if this is a thread to ask for what we want, that's what I'm doing.

As for venue...Clarks & Deans has been host to some great shows in the past. Rich's just needs a sound system upgrade. Houston does suck in the venue regard, hence it being #1 on my list of complaints you r-tard. But I'm not the person choosing to hold events at the worst places possible, like Meridian and Bar Rio.

How am I the one who's behind the times when you're the ones who still like it best when Markus plays 2 hours straight of his own productions, or think A&B is in any way fresh or relevant? Get a fucking life, trance hasn't done anything interesting or imaginative in about 10 years (which is sad because it used to be a dynamic and evolving genre) and it is time for you to move on to new and creative sounds.

Good as in whoever the fuck can play a decent set that warms the crowd up and not just a bunch of tunes they sort of like that pander to the style of the person they're opening for. Which is apparently something nobody can find in a city of 6 million people.

this deserves its own post

If you think an opener isn't allowed to play a set that completely blows the headliner away there is something fundamentally wrong with your head and your conception of how this scene should work.

If someone who has never been heard of is able to upstage a fucking INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED DJ then THEY HAD BETTER FUCKING DO IT IMMEDIATELY.

Do you realize how giant a retard you are? Talent should rise to the top. If someone makes a name for themselves and then proceeds to blow ass while people around them are doing much better then they deserve to lose their recognition.

Now I say this in full understanding (probably better than you) of what an opening DJ can and should do. An opener can and should blow people away musically, just hopefully in a slightly different way than the headliner, so they are in the groove and ready for the headliner to come out and do even better. The only thing an opening DJ in Houston has ever made me do is wish I had another drink so I wouldn't be this bored while I wait for the headliner.

But that being said, if a HEADLINER, someone FAMOUS and supposedly good, can not rise to the challenge that their lowly unheard-of local opener presents to them: FUCK THEM. They deserve to go home that night knowing that they need to work harder.

the only thing wrong with Randall Jones is he never ever shows up when he's billed. Derek Howell is billed once a year maybe that I notice. And variety is the spice of life, and those 2 don't play every genre.

This is like Stockholm Syndrome. You're all so used to embracing a shitty scene that you refuse to do anything to make it better.