I kept hearing about this huge techno event with amazing DJ's like
Tiesto, Armin Vanburen and more so I looked into it. The event is
called EDC and is held at the Vegas race track about 10 miles out of
town. A friend of mine called me to tell me he had a booth,
tranportation etc... so I grabbed a friend and went to meet them at the
Aria. We took off from Aria with about 14 people in a large SUV with
our driver. I didnt realize that a trip out to the race track would
take at least 1.5 hours!!! And thats if you know the back way! It
turned into quite the adventure to say the least. After arriving in the
parking lot at EDC we walked about a half mile to the booth were we had
to sign in and get our wrist bands. After waiting about 30 minutes we
soon were told the bad news? No more wrist bands??? Hmmm, we paid
$3600 for this fiasco and they didnt have enough wrist bands?? Maybe it
was the large crowd from the night before (friday night) that drew
150,000 people? I dont know but it seems they would be more prepared?
Anyway someone took off and came back with enough bands to accomidate
our party so we were on to the next step. We then were to wait in a
parking lot with other party goers as we waited for a ride into the
complex. A van and another vehicle would drive up and take individual
parties which soon turned into "mob" mentality! We had to give the main
guy $100 to take us in! Ok, so now we are in the vehicle that takes
us into the complex and it drops us at the enterance gate were our VIP
booth was or was it? We were informed that due to the wind our
sections was closed!!! We then walked into the main enterance of the
place and as soon as we stepped in the music stopped and they announced
that people had to move away from the stage due to the wind. It took
us about 10 minutes to realize that they were NOT going to play anymore
music due to the wind which could blow over the set up on stage and hurt
people. Sugarland is a perfect example of what can happen when the wind
kicks up as a few people were killed I believe? Anyway, we then made
it back to our vehicle were we it took at least another hour or so to
get the hell out of there! I would think that to organizers would be
able to watch the weather channel to see that the wind that night was
PREDICTED! But hey, lets not cancel anything! At $200 per ticket and
150,000 people attending thats about ohhhh 30 MILLION dollars!!! I
dont think they could give two shits about knowing that the event would
become unsafe at some point? Hey, as long as they get their money.
Anyhew that was my first and last experience with EDC which was a costly
waste of time and money!! B
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