From Brock Suter Sent Thu, Feb 19th 1998, 20:24
Paul Moore wrote: > > Brock seems to be too quiet these days so here's a tip for you LA > scenesters. Ed Rush is DJing at Atmosphere next Tuesday (24th) and > Grooverider the Tuesday following. Atmosfear is at the Viper Room, > probably 21 and up. > > Luckily I got clued in that Jon Carter (Monkey Mafia) was spinning > this past Tuesday and caught a great 3 hour set - moreso considering > his records ended up in a different city than LA and he borrowed > everything he spun. Some overlap with the set from his Heavenly > Social disc but loads of other surprises tossed in. > > LA Celebrity Rating: > 1/3 Love and Rocket + 1/4 KISS Hi again kids. Sorry I've been silent lately, but I've been a bit busy trying sort out a million things going crazy in my life... I was aware of Ed and Groove coming to town, but kind of blocked it from my mind as I had a pretty fucking awful time at the opening week of this club, atmosphere. Here's the review that I posted to the breaks list (on Feb 4th), slightly chopped down for your reading pleasure: > After the experience I just had, this message may tend to ramble a bit, > but hang with me as I'm sure you'll get a chuckle or two out of it! > > Someone's started up a new tuesday night jungle weekly here in LA called > 'Atmosphere', located at the infamous Viper Room on the sunset strip. > > For the opening night, the only dj's on the flyer were 'dj Carbo' from > Grand Royal magazine and Mickey Finn. > > Even though we already knew what a depressing shit hole the viper room > is, I wanted to catch Mickey Finn, since we missed him last time he was > in town. > > Upon arriving at the club, which, IMHO, is seriously lacking in > 'Atmosphere', my girlfriend and I were treated to one of the wackest > displays of lameness ever: Dj Carbo playing tired jump-up cuts, radio > style, with the occasional trainwreck when he had the nutts to try to > mix anywhere except the intro or outro, which was only twice. To > complement his amazingly lame set, we had the displeasure of one of our > local MC's running his mouth nonstop, even over tracks with vocals. > > After more then an hour of this crap, Mickey Finn got on the decks. > Trying to keep a positive attitude, I was looking forward to hearing > some fresh jump-up and some creative mixing. Unfortunately, it didn't > seam like mickey was very into it (I don't blame him!) and he played an > ok set of stuff we've all played out (or heard) a million times over the > last year, with some pretty loose mixing. > > Fast forward to halfway through his set: > > We were relaxing in a booth by the bar and a girl walks up and whispers > something in my ear. I look up and it's non other then Fiona Apple. I > replied 'excuse me?' and she slips into the booth next to me, puts her > arm on my shoulder and inches away from my face asks me if I'm one of > the 'dj's'. I responded, 'not tonight', and she then asks if I have > any pull with the dj who was currently playing. I told her 'that guy up > there is the talent and he gets paid to play what HE wants to play'. > She then asks if 'I could pass him a request.'. > > Right about this time, Mickey dropped 'Warhead'. > > I asked her what kind of request she'd make and she went on to tell me > how 'a very special friend from New York is with me tonight and he'd > really like to hear some house music.' > > I told her if she would like to go up and ask the finn to play some > house, but he'd probably throw a record at her head. She then smiled, > politely thanked me and walked off into the crowd. > > Less then 5 seconds after this exchange, into warhead, mickey finn mixed > some silly track with the vocals from 'love don't live here anymore' by > madonna. The leather jacket and cowboy boot wearing hollywood types ate > it up and it promptly got a rewind. > > At this point we made a b-line for the door and made it home before > midnight. I'm having a hell of a time figuring out what the fucks going on at the viper room. No one, including a few of the biggest promoters in LA, have any idea who's putting on this club. Who ever's been getting the talent has been either calling in some MAJOR favors (which I doubt) or are paying a SHIT load of cash to get people like Mickey Finn, Justice, DJ Wally, Jon Carter, Ed Rush and Grooverider over here. And to play in a shitty rocker bar on a tuesday night?!? Not to mention that the resident dj is NOT a junglist and sucks so bad it's embarrassing! Go figure, brock. np: Basehead 'Not in Kansas Anymore'