Drop Bass Network email news and update
August 13, 2002
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The saying goes that "no news is good news". So when you finally get
news there's the chance it could be bad. Well, we have some news to
announce. And unfortunately it is bad news...
After eight annual years of going Even Furthur with all of our
friends from the Midwest and beyond it is with a great amount of
disappointment that we are announcing this years techno campout -
electric festival - family re*union will not be happening.
Long story short...we couldn't get it together. During the planning
process the negatives kept outweighing the positives and in the end
it just wasn't meant to be.
Understandably we realize that many of you, most of you, or maybe
even all of you are going to be let down and for that we apologize.
No one is more bummed out about this than us. We know how you feel.
We also apologize for taking so long to make this un-announcement.
We kept giving ourselves more time to make things happen, but
nothing was really working out. At this point there just isn't
enough time to organize a quality event. We have no choice other
than to not do the festival this year.
We know you've already asked off from work over Labor Day weekend
and made plans to be with your friends in a field somewhere in
Wisconsin, but we've left you high and dry. What do we recommend?
One of the most important aspects of Even Furthur is that everyone
gets to go camping with their current and future friends. We hope
people still keep that part of the weekend tradition alive. Maybe
even add a sound system to your campout.
The absence of Even Furthur this year doesn't mean that the festival
is dead. Far from it! Our plan and our promise is to put our heads
down and concentrate on this and only this event for 2003. We may or
may not have an occasional one off event here and there, but our
main focus will be on this festival. Even Furthur is the most
important thing we do and it's what we want to be known for. Well,
that and evil. ;) It's strange the two don't necessarily go together
so well?
We never imagined a year without Even Furthur. We didn't want to!
But now we have to. Life will probably go on just fine without it
for a year. Hopefully it means we will celebrate and let our freak
flags fly even more at next years festival. You better be ready!
In the words of Jerry Garcia, "It ain't over until the fat lady gets high!"
We'll see you all back on the bus again next year.
Drop Bass Network
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The fact that Even Furthur is not happening deserves a good
explanation. Warning: it's long winded. If you don't want to read a
lot you should stop here.
Top ten reasons why there won't be an Even Furthur this year...
1. Motivation : Lets face it, the rave scene has taken a huge hit in
attendance over the past year. Even the club scene has slowed down.
We could go on and on with numerous reasons and speculations for
this. No one thing is to blame.
There have been slow times before, but nothing like this year. We
were as convinced as most fellow promoters that things were dead.
Not completely, but close. We went as far as trying monthly events
for Chirst's sake to see if things would wake up. They didn't. Even
though we were extremely excited about our ten year anniversary
event, we also believed it was going to be another one in the long
line of failed events promoters were experiencing in 2002. We're
glad to say that wasn't the case. But because we thought it was
going to be the straw that broke the camels back (our back), at the
time we didn't put a lot of effort into planning anything for the
future. Including Even Furthur. We figured there wasn't a point.
While we were trying to figure everything else out though we missed
the boat. Something like Furthur does matter and it transcends the
normal rave scene. There was a point to this event and it needed to
happen. Once we were out of gloom and doom mode there wasn't a lot
of time to make the festival a reality. We've done it in short
amounts of time in the past, so who was to say that we couldn't do
it that way again? Things just didn't fall into place though (see
other explanations below).
The strong will survive. The promoters and the music lovers who are
left standing after everything is said and done are the ones who
were truly into it from the get go. Which was the case back in the
old days. The music was first, the party second. We've always
yearned for that feeling or vibe from those days and it looks like
it could be just around the corner again. At least we hope so.
2. The RAVE Act S.2633 : Once we got over the lack of motivation
problem this damn thing came along. We've faced numerous attacks on
our culture over the years, but this one seems very very serious. It
expands the crack house statute to allow the federal government to
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