From socal-raves-relay@UCSD.EDU Thu Dec 3 09:35:37 1992 Received: from ucsd.edu by soda.berkeley.edu (5.65/KAOS-1) id AA05338; Thu, 3 Dec 92 09:35:31 -0800 Received: by ucsd.edu; id AA11412 sendmail 5.67/UCSD-2.2-sun Wed, 2 Dec 92 23:27:59 -0800 Received: from nkosi.well.sf.ca.us by ucsd.edu; id AA11406 sendmail 5.67/UCSD-2.2-sun via SMTP Wed, 2 Dec 92 23:27:55 -0800 for /usr/lib/sendmail -oc -odq -oQ/var/spool/lqueue -oi -fsocal-raves-relay socal-raves-list Received: from well.sf.ca.us by nkosi.well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/nkosi-921112-1) id AA10412; Wed, 2 Dec 1992 23:27:05 -0800 Received: by well.sf.ca.us (5.65c/SMI-4.1/well-921112-2) id AA00914; Wed, 2 Dec 1992 23:26:40 -0800 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 23:26:40 -0800 From: Bryce Ryan Message-Id: <199212030726.AA00914@well.sf.ca.us> To: sfraves@soda.berkeley.edu, socal-raves@ucsd.edu Subject: Party Crews on KCOP (LA) Status: R Greetings, ravers! Here's the long ago (and you thought i forgot about it) retelling of the KCOP story. . . *************************************************************************** About one month ago, I was visiting Orange County on business for a week. It was quite boring to be away from home, music, and raves for 5 whole days, so in the early evenings I would turn on the tube and zone out for a couple of hours until the fun hour came and then go out and scope out the scene. On a Tuesday evening, I was channel surfing until I caught this teaser on KCOP, the Fox owned station in the basin. The teaser said something like, "On the news at X, we'll visit L.A.'s growing party crew movement". That sounded very intriguing, so I stuck around to watch the festivities (hmm, parties, i thought!). It turned out I had stumbled onto a 3 or 4 day series in which the reporters trailed around behind some local underground promoters as they visited ad hoc "ravettes" put on by high school folks from the basin. Episode 1 (that I saw) was pretty positive, showing lots of folks dancing late at night, even some sounds from a Moby remix. Very promising stuff. Scenes of folks handing out cards to other parties. People talking. Lasers, light shows, DJs spinning, speaker stacks, lots of people dancing. Cool stuff. This went on for a good 5-7 minutes. Very promising. Then, the reporter dude comes on live and says "stay with us tomorrow when we'll take you to a break-in party." Hmmm. . . Next day, on schedule, they follow some of the same folks as they break in to a beer distributor's warehouse, redecorate, and throw down what looked to be a bitchin party. Cut to the reporter live, very concerned look on his face, "Yes, [generic female reporter name goes here], we did see some evidence of illegal activities, like that break-in. Tomorrow, we'll show you a ditch party." Hmmmmm . . . Third night, they show us a throw down ravelet during the day. This is when KCOP pulled out all the stops and showed beer-chugging, school truant, joint smoking, paper eating day time partiers, stern neighbors, and pulled off the the gee, look at the nice kids attitude and launched into a nasty rant about the decline of youth, illegal activities of minors, corruption of morals thang. Muy disgusting. **************************************************************************** Overall, I was happy to see that some folx in the basin are having fun. I was very unhappy to see the reporter pull off the gloves and cast the whole scene as nasty. The first epsisode I saw had lots of folx saying "Hey, man, we just like to dance. We ain't into no gangs or nothing; we just like to party." Right 'tude. The later epsisodes seemed to focus unnecssarily on all the bad things that happen at ravelets. This all put me to thinking that we were spot on to not let the media into one of our events. This could have been us, only on _national_ TV. Acccck! BryceR TAZ 314159.34510110111 Improve the Groove