How long have you been going to Buzz

[empath]

just curious

[Stryda!]

since the ballroom baby!

[DeAtHmOnGeR bEaR]

Since I turned 18, I've been here :yes:

[Stryda!]

did buzz have a short run before the ballroom at the abyss?

[Someoneonthenet]

Buzz started at The Eastside Club. Which is now known as The Abyss. But I think they shut down the abyss last year.

[Atari]

97 STYLE

[Synthetikid]

since i was 18... 3 years ago... the door guys thought i was 19 for some reason.

[Stryda!]

last party I heard about at the abyss was called cinco de mayo. That party turned out to be a REALLY big mess.

[madeofwires]

12/2000 was my first time @ buzz

[DeAtHmOnGeR bEaR]

Originally posted by Atari
97 STYLE

Well aren't you a special star, Ari :smooch:

[Stryda!]

Originally posted by madeofwires
12/2000 was my first time @ buzz

:wave: haven't seen you in awhile.

[Atari]

*cue Kenny Ken set*:raveon:

[madeofwires]

haven't seen you in awhile.

yea. i missed last week. you goin out tonite or friday?

[Stryda!]

Maybe friday. I think I have a house party to go to on saturday.

[n-root]

Originally posted by dj stryder
since the ballroom baby!

:cheers:

[Stryda!]

wonder why Im starting to meet people that went during the ballroom days now?!? Why didnt I know these people back then.

[n-root]

Originally posted by dj stryder
wonder why Im starting to meet people that went during the ballroom days now?!? Why didnt I know these people back then.


back then the only people I knew or even thought about while I was there were the people I would go there with. At the time I was soooo overwhelmed by the audio and visual display that took place that I was oblivious to damn near anything or anyone.... Like a kid in a candy store.

[discoball]

Started going to Buzz 2 years before it got shut down the first time and proudly protested in front of the Fox Five building! What an amazing vibe that was! Good times!

[badkitty3804]

I started going out the fall of 2k. Nation was probably one of my first 5 parties.

[maynard]

Ummm, I don't exactly remember :FUBAR:

[Buddafly]

I was going when the age was 19... and I was only 18. didn't realize the age was that high :shrug: guess the door guy didn't care.

don't know when the tiesto@nation thing was... but that was the first we met dan... before *gasp* you were on the board!

[A.J.]

March of 2001

[brkbt junglegrl]

short term memory = gone

[housecat]

Originally posted by dj stryder
since the ballroom baby!
:stupid:

[Sunflowergrl]

since Trust, I'm so not old school

[BrianArsenault]

1997 new years eve party.

97 into 98 i mean.

[badkitty3804]

jeez...I'm such a baby.

3 year veteran. woo.
*twirls finger in air*

[iminxtc]

ummmm.... this year.

[Matt Sanborn]

newbie

[BrianArsenault]

but the point is you're there now :grouphug:

the only interesting claim i can make about that place is that i went to the second concert the venue had when it first opened. some benefit RATM was doing with Chuck D for that guy Mumia who killed a cop in Philly. good show it was..

[iminxtc]

:specialed: im a newbie!

[Mandaba]

uhm....i wanna say spring 2002...yeah that sounds about right, since spring 2002. :yes:

[Matt Sanborn]

:bananarider:

[iminxtc]

im still not sure what to think about that guy.

[Mandaba]

don't think, jus smile and nod.

[Matt Sanborn]

He is ravin the fuck out. Or he is boning a seal.

sheep are cooler

:mattsanborn:

[iminxtc]

hes goin backwards or something. the sheep rocks.........

[badkitty3804]

Matt loooooves the sheep :tarvis:

[Matt Sanborn]

the sheep- they named that smilie after me cuz there was this awful rumour I had intercourse with a sheep.

[Matt Sanborn]

totally unfounded BTW

[iminxtc]

well i knew it was yours.....glad i never heard that rumor.

[agentorange]

December 2001 - Hybrid :raveon:

[Matt Sanborn]

Originally posted by badkitty3804
Matt loooooves the sheep :tarvis:


If you dont love sheep as well you are missing out.

sheep are so fuckin sexy.

*boner*

[iminxtc]

:haha:

[Matt Sanborn]

:D

[badkitty3804]

:badkitty:

[iminxtc]

no no....speechless.

[Matt Sanborn]

the Asian in action!

[Article One]

from ballroom to nation to now. basically since 1998.

[Matt Sanborn]

doug is your avatar a vagina?

[Article One]

yes. a big bright flaming vagina, that sees all and knows all...because we all know gentleman, that its PUSSY that makes the fucking world go round.

[Matt Sanborn]

schweet

[tranKwilized]

'from then until it shut down and re-opened as Sting'

'99 and stuff.

[Jungleluv09]

Since the later part of my 11th grade year that was da beginning of '97. How times have changed. I used to be like whoa! Everybody in that club can dance. You can probably guess that I was a wallflower back then. Not anymore, now I know how to get down! :kapluto: Just call me "Old School"

[The Logic Theorist]

I'm one of the two Cubik only people.. but then I didn't live here before :shrug:

[iminxtc]

:specialed: phil....we gotta chill again soon!

[The Logic Theorist]

duh.

[cleophite]

since trust .. yeah, yeah, i know, but i wasn't old enough to get in until then :sadblue:

[koolaidluva]

99 baby, my cousins id and CHARLES FEELGOOD!!!!!!!!!! ahhhh:raveon:

[housecat]

Originally posted by BrianArsenault
1997 new years eve party.

97 into 98 i mean.
memories like WHOA!!!

[tranKwilized]

Originally posted by housecat

memories like WHOA!!!

What in the hell are you doing on?

[housecat]

The vast majority of my best memories are from '98. Words cannot exress and I won't even try :)

[The Drifter]

I stared goin to buzz at trust when I got back in the the scene again, but I always used to go to FEVER.

[cee]

Originally posted by dj stryder
since the ballroom baby!

:woot:

[Stryda!]

Originally posted by BrianArsenault
1997 new years eve party.

97 into 98 i mean.

I still have a flyer from new years 95. Dont know how I kept it so long. Just found it in a drawer.

[housecat]

I used to put up the flyer for March '98 everywhere. I've passed it on now but did coincidentally meet the guy that was photographed for the flyer. That was absolutely crazy.. he had the flyer in his bathroom I believe and I asked about it. Cool as hell guy too.

[Mokey]

I think Ive been going for 3 happy wonderful fun years. I cant believe time has gone by that quickly. In a couple of years I'll have to claim this area as home.

[housecat]

The past 3 years have totally been a blur I can't believe how fast time has gone by!

[LadyJ]

Fall 99 :raveon:
I can't say I wished I would have gone sooner (even if I do) because I just wasn't around then. I also tried to go to Fever but the times I went would have required standing in the snow for at least 1.5 hrs before I could get in and I just wasn't that hardcore. :sadblue:

[L)(G]

when exactly did they change the name to Nation? around 97-98?

[housecat]

No I think it was more like 99

[SCHLiTZ]

Started coming in 99 in the STING days when I turned 19.

[badkitty3804]

<~~Wishes she wasn't so young.

*sigh*

3 years in it is still decent though :D

[evey]

I've been around since the beginning. God i'm old.

[Happy Child]

98 was the good year

[Moebius]

Shit, I still call it the capitol ball room.

I used to go and see punk shows there.

[badkitty3804]

:wheelchair: :wheelchair:

[Moebius]

Yeah yeah, You know there were buzz events before they started at the capitol ball room.

The real question, is do you remember TONKA?

How about Mr. Clean Parties?

[housecat]

Awsome and yes.

Those flyers were dope wish I went to them.


Tonka flyers rocked I don't think the other was called Mr. Clean though was it? Flyer was like a Tide ad.


One word.... Unity. If you went you know. If you didn't you missed out :)

[badkitty3804]

I was calling Evey :wheelchair:

And no, I'm a baby..the only meaning that Tonka has to me is 'toy trucks'.

[tranKwilized]

Hot Rod Hookers!

:missy: :flash:

[badkitty3804]

I love that flyer!

[tranKwilized]

I know that's not very old school. I just like saying it :)

I mean, who doesn't like a flyer with nekkid chicks all over it?

[Moebius]

Tonka was the shit. Their parties were unbelievable.

[badkitty3804]

I have that in my 'rave box'. Best....Flyer....Ever.....

[tranKwilized]

The kitty knows whats up :hifive:

[Moebius]

There used to be a guy on the scene named Mr. Clean, that threw parties. He actually threw alot of the detergent parties.

Strictly underground stit. No permits.

One of his parties was in an unfinished Parking garage.

4 or 5 stories underground free party. Generators in the middle of Bethesda. The police never showed, you could not even here the music from the surface.



Hell, I was at the first big Fox news rave bust on Kenelworth ave. As frankie bonez went on. The fire department shut down the power to the building. The vibe was so intense that lights out, music stopped. Poeple started a beat by stomping their feet, and the party continued until we were forced out of the building.

[Moebius]

You just don't see that kind of passion for the music anymore.

[ravetildawn]

i started going to buzz when i moved here in 2000 - prolly that summer.

[badkitty3804]

:sadblue:

Like I said, I wisht that I had been old enough to experience that stuff.

*sigh*

[Moebius]

Iz cool em. You got alot of heart, and that is what matters.

[ravetildawn]

Originally posted by evey
I've been around since the beginning. God i'm old.

If you've been around since the beginning, then you ARE god.
:yes:

[badkitty3804]

So far, it looks like 'from the beginning' and post first shut down are in the lead.

[housecat]

Originally posted by Moebius
There used to be a guy on the scene named Mr. Clean, that threw parties. He actually threw alot of the detergent parties.

Strictly underground stit. No permits.

One of his parties was in an unfinished Parking garage.

4 or 5 stories underground free party. Generators in the middle of Bethesda. The police never showed, you could not even here the music from the surface.



Hell, I was at the first big Fox news rave bust on Kenelworth ave. As frankie bonez went on. The fire department shut down the power to the building. The vibe was so intense that lights out, music stopped. Poeple started a beat by stomping their feet, and the party continued until we were forced out of the building.
That's fucking awsome. I had the best time's partying in '98... I think it's a combination of the time and the fact it was all new to me. Wish I started in '92 or so though.

My fave and most underground(ish) parties were in Towson/Baltimore. Crazy crazy times.

[ggfab]

Capitol Ballroom...those were the dayz!

I wish I could rewind back to those days and stay for awhile- I miss it!

[Biodigit]

From '95 and counting.

[MaryAnarchy]

first party at nation - oakenfold - november 2000. hooray!

[evey]

Originally posted by ravetildawn


If you've been around since the beginning, then you ARE god.
:yes:

Hmm. You have a point there.

[bkidz]

I've been going since 96-97 way-way back but even before then, I was in the scene in the SE (GA, Carolinas, FL). Back then the scene was crazy small and everybody in the SE was a tight knit group of peeps. In anycase, the stories of Fever and Buzz were famous and when I moved up here permanently in 97 I knew I had found my home :breakdance:

[Moebius]

I started clubbing when I was 14, Started going to raves real early. I actually think I went to the first big raves that ever happened in DC. It was at 9th and v, where the 9:30 club is now.

[badkitty3804]

The area that I grew up in just didn't have anyone to pull me into the scene. I was hardcore about house parties and alternative/rock type music was getting old and redundent to me, if someone had pulled me...I would have started partying way younger.

[Xodus]

sometime in 96 for me.

That was when the Capital Ballroom was a dirty nasty place with shitty sound and turntables on cinderblocks!

[Mokey]

Originally posted by Xodus
sometime in 96 for me.

That was when the Capital Ballroom was a dirty nasty place with shitty sound and turntables on cinderblocks!

You're so old school :lessthanthree: :drool:

[Article One]

Originally posted by cleophite
since trust .. yeah, yeah, i know, but i wasn't old enough to get in until then :sadblue:

:smooch:

[bkidz]

Originally posted by Xodus
sometime in 96 for me.

That was when the Capital Ballroom was a dirty nasty place with shitty sound and turntables on cinderblocks!

Back when it was a real warehouse. . . no frills just concrete floors & walls and djs. *tears up* the good old days. . .

[DeiJunglist]

Since Feb '99 :thumbsup:

I remember walking in and saying, "WTF, This is weird." And have been coming back ever since.

[Article One]

Originally posted by bkidz


Back when it was a real warehouse. . . no frills just concrete floors &amp; walls and djs. *tears up* the good old days. . .


i kinda liked it like that to be honest.

[bkidz]

Oh I forgot to mention the lack of ventilation. . . . *breathes in sweaty hot stale air* AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!! *sigh*

[Article One]

no, the best was the places to sit...you know, fork lift palettes on the left side of the main room :thumbsup: :afterbuzz:

[tigermomma]

Originally posted by Article One
yes. a big bright flaming vagina, that sees all and knows all...because we all know gentleman, that its PUSSY that makes the fucking world go round.

&nbsp;

You just got me in trouble.&nbsp; I read this with a whole mouthful of tea...which is now dripping from my monitor.&nbsp; I had to pretend I sneezed.

&nbsp;

:afterbuzz:

[Moebius]

That is why I am diggin syncopation. It is very much cheap warehouse style party. Just alot smaller warehouse.

[LaZyCrZy]

2 years ago this monrth

[KTlovesbuzz]

i;ve been going for 4 years.
my first party was in Feb of some year. boy george and aphrodite

[KTlovesbuzz]

damn, you would think that since i;ve been on the scene this long, i would have more posts, right??

[pluryou]

I have been going since Dec 01. So, almost 2 yrs now. :)

[binger]

Originally posted by empath
just curious

about two and half years ago i wana say. but thats was when i started going for the party ya na mean

[tinybutterfli]

since 3/2001. I was a geriatric raver going in :D

[orangeglow]

Since Honeydew 3.... Carl Cox :lessthanthree:
I think that was March of '02....

[iminxtc]

im feelin very newbish as a result of this thread!

[badkitty3804]

Everyone is a newbie sometime :shrug:

[iminxtc]

most definetly!

[Moebius]

Yeppers!

[MaryAnarchy]

yes sarah that was march 1, 2002.

:) first time i met aubrey :)

[orangeglow]

awwww plur!

[Yakko Red]

the first time i went was about 2 years ago now (and i joined the board for the discount.)

No really.

[ggfab]

:haha: *whispers* newbie


:D

[Mandaba]

ive been going jus as long as quite a few of you ;)

[lb0236]

The second to last party at nation before it got shut down..Dj Icey....Rennie Pilgrem.. that was my first nation party:) AND IT WAS SOOO GOOD:)
Then i went to trust a lot.

[MaryAnarchy]

i went htere. that was after the roar protest, right?

(the first roar protest)

[Lourdes]

oopsies

[Lourdes]

since 10th grade for fatboy slim in 98 :) but id been going to shows there since 96. the ballroom was cozy and ghetto. i miss the ghettoness

[alwaysdancin]

I started when they moved it the first time to the caapital ballroom

[Jim]

1996

[korbendallas]

since I moved up here in 2001...been loving it since that first night.

[keokikim02]

Originally posted by Funshine
Since I turned 18, I've been here :yes:



:hifive: me too~
well technically i had to wait for my friend to turn 18...
the first night at Buzz was 4/19/2002

:yes: it was rockin'... i had so much fun.. i don't think nothing can ever beat the first time...

[the sex molesters]

i'm glad to see nobody here picked the last option.... hehe

[darkenetiks]

Originally posted by Article One
no, the best was the places to sit...you know, fork lift palettes on the left side of the main room :thumbsup: :afterbuzz:

u can't forget the bleachers !!!

i honestly can't even remember who spun the 1st night i went...but it was late '98

[Article One]

hahaha...:werd:....and the dnb room was bigger when the dj booth was in that corner and there was no oversized, pointless structures in the middle of the room (ie, the booth nowadays). the dj booth really needs only to accomodate one person: the dj.

[Anti-DieselKitty]

But then where would the DJ hos stand Doug? :delirious:

[MaryAnarchy]

no, that boxing ring thing was in the middle of the room.

[MaryAnarchy]

so it was still a pointless structure. .....so how can you say it was bigger?

i miss teh boxing ring

[starlight]

My first time at Buzz was back in July of 2001.

I would have started going before that but, back in 2000/most of 2001 Buzz was 19+ and I didn't turn 19 til June of 2001. I think they changed the age down to 18 LESS THAN A MONTH before I turned 19 anyway. Cause that is just how things go :lame:

But yeah, and my first night there was amazing. Remains to be one of my best nights at Buzz and I used to go on a weekly basis for a long time. I was fortunate enough to be at the last buzz last year in September before it got shut down. At least the last memory of that last night of Buzz (before getting shut down) was Scott Henry bit-o-honey on the patio. I can't imagine a better last moment before saying goodbye (and luckily goodbye only lasted 1 year ;) )

But thank goodness it's back :raveon:

[Transmattic]

THe first time I went I was 16, it was the capital Ballroom and I got in with a check cashing card.....it was sweet, I couldn't go again until my senior year when I turned 18 because I was too scared to use it again

[Gizmo]

August 2001.

You guys who were there since 95 are so lucky. I would have killed to go to a rave when I was 12 years old.

[MaryAnarchy]

i don't think i was mentally ready to rave when i was 12.
i might have gotten into really bad things.

[Gizmo]

I wish I still had that picture of me in the Funkdoobiest hat. :sadblue:

[MaryAnarchy]

nude opera sound sfun.
there must be one. somewher.e

[darkenetiks]

my friend's cousin invited us to go w/him to sunday mass when we were like...13, THAT woulda been interesting.

[MaryAnarchy]

i just don't think @ 13 you have the mental maturity to make smart decisions about certain things

who knows though....i know someone who started raving at like 13, that never did "bad thingS"

[housecat]

I def don't think raving it up at 13 is a good thing.

I really really wish I went to Sunday Mass and Wilmers back then... I was in school and trying to be all *good* n stuff so I never went :(

[cleophite]

i don't think so either .. although when i was 13, all the good stuff was happening, so i'd bend the rules for myself :D


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