How did RAVES exist in Van.....?

[g l o w]

Does anybody have the answer to how and when did Dance parties / Raves started here in our city Vancouver?

And how and when did it start to fall? and become wat it is like now?

[jim]

once again, your engrish amazes me.

[Carmen]

Haha
It ain't that bad...as long as we get the point.

But I don't know how/when parties started here. Good q tho.

[stringbeans]

hahah

[Candy-Kid]

people have been raving in Vancouver since 1984... the year i was born

Talk about oldschool eh

[miss.myra]

*waits for jay auto's reply* :P

[Jingles]

Originally posted by miss.myra
*waits for jay auto's reply* :P

I was thinking this one is a question for super rave intellegence man

ISHKUR

[Senior]

Originally posted by Jingles:

I was thinking this one is a question for super rave intellegence man

ISHKUR

lol... People have danced for a long, long time.

[Wood]

Originally posted by Candy-Kid
people have been raving in Vancouver since 1984... the year i was born

Talk about oldschool eh

hm... well the concept of 'raving' as we (sort of) know it didn't exist anywhere until like 88/89

but if you're just talking about people dancing all night on drugs to repetitive music, it goes back a lot further than '84....

i don't know what was the first rave in Van, as i didn't live here at the time... but there was already a thriving electronic music scene here all through the 80s, so i'm sure it would be difficult to pinpoint exactly where it became a 'rave' scene...

[SEAN!]

Originally posted by jim
once again, your engrish amazes me.

picking on someone because they speak english as a second langauge is not cool..you're just lucky that you probably have parents that speak english at home and have been in this country all your life. if thats not the case then i guess you must have forgotten how hard it is coming to a new country and not knowing the language.

[Mr.Dave]

Sean was born. Everything else happened from there.

[automatic]

there's always been late night dance parties, etc....but in 1991 there was a party called Crave....it was the first event to feature straight out "techno/electronica", the first event to really take it's cue from british rave culture and style, from the flyer to the djs to the size of the event, and it more importantly, for the club scene it was the first event that i can remember that was described as a "rave", a new phenomenon at that point...semantics maybe but what the hell....

i'd say that that was it....

[QuanNeur]

what about stargazers?

[e_BoY]

i sure as hell dont know when raves started since i didnt start attending these parties till 1999. If my memory serves me correctly rite now id say sometime after the year 2000. Richmond made a new law baning raves from richmond (riverside, palace). Then it just got worse and worse and the whole trend of raves which was so crazy at the time started dieing out. I miss good ol days when theres a party to look forward to like every week and a massive like everymonth for sure. Hardhouse days rule!

[PokemonMasta]

isnt spooky 1 the beginning of time

[Rhianna]

Originally posted by PokemonMasta
isnt spooky 1 the beginning of time

I think so. And the world will end w/ that last Spooky.

[Ggabe81]

Whenwas the first rave ever made????? Performed by who.

[Vitamin~J]

I used to have this really cool video one of my sister's friends made. She was going to university for some sort of media degree or somethin, and she did a type of documentary on raves in Vancouver and all over the world... Too bad the bloody VCR ate the tape the first time I watched it, and I've never been able to watch it again... :finger:

maybe I'll try and see if I can track another copy down and see if it has the answer...

[PHUNK]

splice the tape, you will only lose a few seconds of footage.

[Vitamin~J]

Unfortunatly once my sister found out that I had "wrecked" the tape, she threw it out... grr...

but who knows, maybe I'll be able to track down another copy...

[ebbomega]

Originally posted by Carmen
Haha
It ain't that bad...as long as we get the point.

Because not getting the point would be doubleplus ungood.

[robyn]

Originally posted by e_BoY
i sure as hell dont know when raves started since i didnt start attending these parties till 1999. If my memory serves me correctly rite now id say sometime after the year 2000. Richmond made a new law baning raves from richmond (riverside, palace). Then it just got worse and worse and the whole trend of raves which was so crazy at the time started dieing out. I miss good ol days when theres a party to look forward to like every week and a massive like everymonth for sure. Hardhouse days rule!

Things got WORSE after the ousting of riverside you say?

[ebbomega]

Originally posted by Ggabe81
Whenwas the first rave ever made????? Performed by who.

Soquel, California, at The Spread, November 1965

Given, I guess, that this was a lot more of a private affair, you could most definately argue that the first one was December 4, 1965 at Big Nig's House in San Jose. Playing were the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead.

If you had to pin it down to one, this would be it. After that it became far too chaotic and on a social evolutionary scale to pin it down to a single event.

[Senior]

Originally posted by ebbomega:


Soquel, California, at The Spread, November 1965

Given, I guess, that this was a lot more of a private affair, you could most definately argue that the first one was December 4, 1965 at Big Nig's House in San Jose. Playing were the Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead.

If you had to pin it down to one, this would be it. After that it became far too chaotic and on a social evolutionary scale to pin it down to a single event.

Good call, have you read "The Haight?"

[Rhianna]

The only thing about Riverside that I miss are the bathrooms. They were always so clean and carried an aroma of wild roses. Mmmmm.........



Riverside was a dirty dirty place.