Event Review : Reid Speed : Recent Bad Luck

[gary]

THIS UPCOMING MONDAY 5/20 @ THE LUCKY DRAGON!!!!
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REID SPEED (Breakbeat Science, NYC)
WWW.REIDSPEED.COM (http://WWW.REIDSPEED.COM)

ALSO FEATURING!!!!
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The Lucky Dragon is located on the southwest corner of Southern & McClintock inside the same shopping center as Gold Bar & Wallgreen's

[alx]

http://www.reidspeed.com/pictures/other/other_images/other_pictures/op_rs015_475x356.jpg


go check her she is the shit

[gary]

We have a little suprise in store for all of you at the Dragon this monday!!:ninja

[gary]

TONIGHT!!!!!

[Mesh]

Fuck yeah, man, I cant wait! Junst one question? How much is it? I'm runnin low on da scrilla and wanna make sure i have enough. Peeez

[Geneyus]

Still 5 bucks riiiight?:D :up

[gary]

anyone that comes to the LD regularly knows that you dont have to worry about not having enough $$ to get in, just come down!!

[Mesh]

Well, what if you Havent ever been to the lucky d? Me and my girl were planning on checking it out, and this is a perfect night since were both off. 10 buck's? 15? Also, when dose this shin dig start? Peace.
"Run it by SELEKTAH":slayer

[kid kryptic]

I'm there...:slayer

[Cleansweep]

http://www.reidspeed.com/pictures/reeespect/reeespect_images/reeespect_pictures/rs019_jp_350x550.jpg :monkey
How much is it gonna be?!?! Still 5 bux or 10?!?!!?

[Preecha]

Bring some bud like that and ill pay ya extra 5 to get in lol ):domokun

[abacus]

somebody post more pics :)

[Mesh]

Info,someone gimme some info! Time? How MUCH? Are CRS and Reid speed both confirmed? Thanks, see everyone there....:monkey

[Preecha]

Thoughts about this night?

I didnt hear Curious cause i heard he cant spin that well. So i literally slept on that. Ohh well. Reid Speed was good. Very good! As good if not better then Empress. But she played madd top 40. More so then Ray Keith eheh. The sound was fuked and not that loud tonight which sorta hurt my groove. But it was kewl and Gary's hype on this chick was deserved.

Big up!

Good vibe also. With tons of ppl there.

[gary]

its crazy when we talk about DnB and use the words top 40, dont get me wrong I agree its just it sounds funny to me :laughing Also Reid wanted me to relay the message of "she has never seen a monday night crowd as live as AZ, and she wants to return soon" All I have to say is thank's to all of you we could never do it without you guys. and as long as you keep supporting us the way you are now we will continue to bring the best talent in the world to PHX AZ. Dont ever let anyone tell you that the PHX DnB scene is whack
:rinse Haters :reload

Respect :lighter

[Preecha]

Yeah but when you play Shake It rmx then the next toon or 2 has LK vocal mix and then Up all Night rmx followed by a ton of others, I would say those are top 40. But i enjoy those cuts.

[Consumer]

Reid Speed was good. She can mix, she can cut, she had people moving for a long ass time. Yup, the track selection was a bit top-40 dnb, but then again it was the week before as well: Warhead, Dubplate Pressure, Man of Steel, Dictation, Blind :laughing

[Preecha]

Thats called classics not top 40. Get it straight MAN :fu

We also forwarned about the classic pressah! When was the last time man of steel or dictaction or dubplate pressure was played in the clubs here? A while......... Cant say the same about LK and Shake it among others :)

[Wes]

Originally posted by abacus
somebody post more pics :)


http://www.soulkool.com/projects/reidspeed/ecard/splash.jpg


:love

[Mesh]

All I can say is holy fucking shit, that was fucking amazing guys. Seriously, me and my girlfriend have been going to parties for years and we both aggreed that Reid Speed and Curious @ lucky dragon was one of the best parties we have EVER been to. Even tho the venue was tiny:crackhead , the crowd was fucking awesome.

Props to jae van and dunn ( i think) for bringing in the extra sound. The place was fuckin falling apart. Me and my girl were sitting eating potstickaz and we watched our drinks slowly dance their way off of the table every time the bassline hit.:menacing Curious tore it up even more than his new years set I last saw. He dropped the god old bangin ragga jungle and some dope remixes too. But when Reid Speed came on, the shit hit the fan. She fucking tore the place down. I can honestly say that she is going to be running with the big U.S. dnb/jungle dogs soon (dieselboy,dara,ak1200,db,Hive). I can honestly say, her set was fucking amazing. :lighter But anyway, ill shut up now.:fu peeez

P.S: What did everyone else think? Reply in this thread:laughing

[Pureform]

shes dope!:slayer

[Geneyus]

So, Gary, what was the surprise you had for everyone????
I was surprised I had to pay 10 bucks. :raging

[Flagrant]

Reidspeed definitely exceeded my expectations... and she's better than DB! :rinse


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[kid kryptic]

Originally posted by Geneyus
So, Gary, what was the surprise you had for everyone????
I was surprised I had to pay 10 bucks. :raging

I'm sure if it cost peanuts to bring in the big names, then it wouldn't cost $10. I have paid everytime i go to LD...and I don't mind because I'm supporting USCC and their event. Can't pay talent without $$$$.

[gary]

www.reidspeed.blogspot.com (http://www.reidspeed.blogspot.com )

Saturday, April 27, 2002

Atlanta started off well. Adam picked me up & told me a funny story about how everyone thought he was Bailey last week when he played…he said he had been going along with it, faking his best unintelligible British accent! After a second to shower, we met up with a few people for dinner: Adam’s roommate (who happens to be a dope DJ as well) , Sterling from Lunar Magazine.com, Brian the 12” Gangster… We went to a cool place that usually goes real slow & we made them hurry so I could make it to play at 11:30. On the way to the venue we received a last minute guest list request from Isis & Bambazi who I met in NYC when they visited last year. I was more than happy to oblige & it was really nice to see them again. The show, however, was a pretty sad affair. The sound was woefully inadequate and when we arrived around 11:30 there were maybe 200 kids milling about, looking bored. I went on, tried to start off with some 2 step & breaks… tumbleweeds rolling through the Globe. After 20 minutes with no luck, I switched over to drum &bass. All I can say is I was lucky that I love jump up, because they weren’t having anything else. And boy did I try. By 12:30 there were maybe 400 people in attendance. I finished up at 1 & Storm got ready to go on. I felt bad because I knew her box of fresh dubplates would go unappreciated. At one point, I tried to rile up some dancers, but to no avail. I gave up & when Storm was done, we puffed down with this sweet old skool raver named Brooke, who, in this small world, happened to know a lot of my friends from NYC. We left as Shrazz was getting started and the party was getting live.
On the way home my experience in the Atlanta airport became a scene out of a really bad movie. I was super tired, unaccustomed to traveling so much in a few short days. I was flying on Delta, got to the airport in plenty of time, checked in, no problems. Then the flight was delayed. OK. It happens. Finally, we were allowed to board. As I’m about to step onto the plane, a flight attendant stops me. “You can’t bring that on here,” he barks, gesturing to my rolling suitcase. I had the one suitcase and a small purse. It fit in the sizer box. I was confused. “Why?” I questioned, stepping aside. “Because there’s no more room on the plane.” As he is telling me this, other passengers with just as much & more luggage are boarding the plane. I was dumbfounded. “What are you talking about? Look at all these people. Why are you telling me there’s no room? There is definitely room.” I stepped on the plane, looked, and sure enough there was plenty of room. This enraged him. “I said there’s no room and I’m telling you you can’t bring this on the plane. Either you gate check it or you don’t go. If it doesn’t fit under the seat then it doesn’t come on the plane.” I was like.. ok whatever, this guy’s a dick. I’m not going to deal with this, because I’m already upset. I was. I was unable to comprehend why I had been picked out of this line of people to be discriminated against and given such ridiculous options- especially given that my records were inside the suitcase. I will not check my records unless I pack them safely to be transported that way. I want them to get there with me, safely. I tried to reason with him but he shut me down, telling me “I don’t care if your life is in that suitcase, you & it are not coming on this plane.” Quickly I realized I would get nowhere with that, so I took my backpack full of records out of the suitcase and put the suitcase where he told me to leave it. I was 3 feet on the plane when a screech & a hand on my bag halted me. “Where do you think you’re going?!? I told you you couldn’t bring that on the plane!!” screamed this Dick. “Get off the aircraft!” At this point I burst into tears, stepped aside, and put my head on the jetway, and sobbed. Dick had now enlisted several other Delta representatives and had them gathered at the jetway. “Whats the problem?” one asked. “She’s trying to bring 3 items on this plane and I told her she couldn’t bring them and she won’t comply and she is hostile and violent & a complete security risk!” I could not believe my ears. Through my tears, I tried to reason with a lady who Dick had called over. “Look, I just want to go home,” I explained. “See this rolling suitcase- he said I couldn’t bring it on the plane so I put it here for him to check it like he said & now everyone’s mad at me, I haven’t done anything, can I please get on the plane? I only have this backpack & a small purse with me & they will both fit under the seat, please just look and understand, I did exactly what he asked me to do!” Another astute observer said “But I see 3 bags here.” I was just over it. I could not and still cannot comprehend why they were not listening to me, or even looking at how I had complied exactly with what Dick had said. They were acting like I was a moron, a terrorist, and a smarmy traveler trying to pull the wool over their eyes- all in one. I was still crying, pleading with them to listen & understand that I was not trying to bring 3 items on the plane, that I was not hostle or non-compliant, but in fact that I was more than compliant and only in tears because I needed to get home so I could go to work and didn’t understand why I was being denied any common sense from 5 professional adults. The one woman, who happened to be the Delta supervisor for the Atlanta airport, was even more of a dick then Dick. She was ordering me off the jetway while holding me against it, pushing me into it. I was getting hysterical. I could not comprehend why she wanted me to leave the jetway, because that meant the plane was going to leave without me, and that was entirely unacceptable- to me. She just kept yelling in my face and I was just a puddle of tears, no, please, please, listen to me, I haven’t done anything wrong and I need to go home and this is not fair, please PLEASE?
She kept pushing me against the jetway while screaming at me to leave. I touched her arm to get her to look in my eyes and listen for a second… and then all hell broke loose. She screamed out that I had just assaulted her & I was going to jail and NO WAY WOULD I EVER GET ON THAT FLIGHT OR ANY OTHER. The door to the plane was slammed in my face and the police were called. I was trying through my agony to put my stuff back together so I could get off the jetway & start taking down some names, because I knew I had just been So Wronged and I was not about to let it go. Then things got unbelievable. I was escorted to a chair, where I was trying still to gather my belongings, my wits, see what I should do. The woman was talking to the cop who had arrived on the scene in the corner. I got a pen & prepared to take the names of all involved. I was able to get 2 names, the woman and a gate agent’s, but was unable to get Dick the flight attendant’s name. They would not tell me. They told me “not to worry about it” and that there was “no way to find out” who he was. Then the woman & the cop came over and the cop hands me this ticket and says “This is your refund. Now you will leave. You cannot fly on Delta today, or any future day, and if you are ever seen in the Delta terminal of the Atlanta airport you will immediately be arrested. Come with me, I’m going to escort you out of here.” I panicked again. I still didn’t have the names of all involved & felt this was a bad scene out of some B movie or some McCarthy hearing. “I still need the names of everyone here and then I’ll be out of your hair. But it is my right to get the names because I feel that my rights were absolutely violated here.” Wrong. The cop grabbed me and said, “Unfortunately, when you ASSAULT an airport supervisor, you give up your rights. I should be taking you to jail but they are being nice enough not to press charges and they said as long as you leave this terminal immediately I don’t have to bring you in. You are lucky, honey, don’t push it any further.” Assaulted a supervisor? She had assaulted me! She had been pushing me into the jetway screaming in my face! What the hell was going on? And as he’s leading me out of the terminal, he’s covering his badge, making sure I cant see who ho is. Fuck That- its just plain WRONG.
The grand denoument came a day later, after an accusatory email was written to the Corporate HQ. They sent a swift reply, in essence: ‘its just because of 9-11’. I wasn’t banned, and the official report stated I had “assaulted the jetway.” What a bunch of BS. To me, that is an entirely unacceptable conclusion. However, since I hardly have the time to do my laundry, let alone pursue a serious lawsuit.. I find myself having to just let it go.