From: ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu (the future is now.....)
Subject: Prodigy/Moby in Colo & Ob48Hrs (was Re: HEY!)
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 05:30:24 GMT

Somewhere in Cyberspace, jakub.ludwinski@satalink.com said about 'HEY!':
|Does anyone know if the PRODIGY/MOBY etc concert will be on the East
|Coast? I read in one of the previous messages that they will be in
|Colorado [I believe]...

Yeah, it's sposed to be hee in Colorado...Jan 25....I haven't been
able to get through to The Fox theatre, tho, which is where they're
sposed to be....Be ready.....

PS:  Great NewYears here in Denver, apparantly....I was sick, and at
home most of the nite, but both the biggies (Smart-E's w/ NASA Proj. @
McNichols Arena and Poor Boy Prods. thingy at the Denver Colliseum)
supposedly were great, and undoubtedly brought a whole new crowd of
regular ole teenagers into the underground scene....I'm expecting the
next one I go to to have a bunch of young, fresh new faces...

Ob48Hrs:  I could've posted this on alt.drugs or alt.psychoactives or
on my own list or on SFRAves, but I thought I'd just condense it all
here....I'd just like to say I thought it was decent, though I much
rather've seen Brian B. in that first segment than that other guy, who
I thought was kind of an airhead and didn't do anything to dissuade
the 48 Hrs Crew....But, then again, 48 Hrs probably wouldn't put Brian
B. in there since he would provide lots of accurate, insightful
information that would go against the myths they seemed somewhat
determined to spread regarding raves as drug parties....70-80% of all
ravers are on X or E?!?!  I can't believe it....Is it just me, or are
raves just as good with or without drugs, and it should be up to the
individual to decide which is best for them, and it's really noone
else's business...

Oh, BTW!!!  I want to pos this before I forget....Ok, I go to high
school, a high school where acid is pretty prevelant...On thursday,
after the show, I had a bunch of wierd experiences happen to me....
First of all, my futurology teacher was talking about raves, (he called
'em "rah-vees" or something similar..."I hear they're pretty big in
California") and a kid in my class who I've never seen at any local
rave and doesn't even seem to be into it suddenly felt like he was the
expert on it, since he had seen the 48 Hrs show...I spoke up only to
try and be objective about the whole thing, and dispell some myths
("just about everyone's on somethin'"), but, I also didn't want to
encourage everyone to go out and rave....Another experience(s) that
day - I had a bunch of people (5) I don't know *at all* ask me if I had
any acid - I don't know if this is due to the fact that I was wearing
my Dope shirt (in the Dole logo) or if it's because I look a lot like
the guy on the 48 Hrs episode (but a little uglier, less model-ly -
but same haircut and sideburns and similar face and I am often a bit
effiminate like he was a tad), but I'm assuming it's the latter...
People associated me with him and him with acid, thus I should have
acid... It was wierd and I felt uncomfortable, and it seemed to
suggest to me the only thing those kids got out of that show was that
"acid is cool, let's go find some" - I felt a real strong feeling of
being worried, worried that they associated raves with drugs, and
worried that they associated acid with pure fun....Well, anyway, Im
out of high school after next week, so, hopefully I won't have to
encounter that "deprivation of individual purpose" that a lot of high
schoolers looking to acid seem to feel....

PS- On the 48 hrs episode, I've always denied that I personally felt
any sort of "disenfranchised youth"-syndrome, but when one of the
doctors or somebody said it on the show, it really made sense to me,
then.... But I still don't see how they can associate raves with
disenfranchizement, since they seem to me at times to be practically
polar opposites....

Oh well, nuff babbling....

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