I love hotel festivals, that was actually the first decent festival I ever went to… It’s shut down now after cops got fed up with it but for awhile it was awesome. Getting blitzed then running around a hotel completely taken over by other weirdos, so much fun.
There would be 5-6 stages in all these different conference rooms and various areas, all with different electronic music in an old rave style where each stage had a specific genre more or less. Some stages had only a couple people and would be nice to retreat to. I even remember a room full of pillows to lay on, like the entire floor.
My very first time there me and my girl were pretty new to the scene, not in the drug and music sense but more in the culture and people. I simply didn’t know many people at that time still somewhat fresh from a completely different scene involving shooting heroin, smoking crack, and living sketchy.
We were rolling but took the little we had and were hoping to god we’d find more. As we danced this dude eyes us both up and just says “come with me..” We both look at each other like alright let’s see what’s up. He takes us up into his room where there’s maybe 20ppl crammed in, we walk in and they all get quiet for a moment.
Without skipping a beat he asks if we want a dip of molly, and again we look at each other like YA!
He doesn’t just lick his finger, he sucks his entire pinky finger and dips it in the bag coating the entire thing. My girl sucks it off, then he does again and looks at me.. I don’t say a word and suck that pinky like a crack whore sucks dick.
At that moment I felt the uninhibited openness that I was seeking in the EDM scene, that up until then I hadn’t found. This dude became a pretty good friend and hooked me up with some good MD after that. On the outside it looked weird, gay, whatever… But to me, that was one of the most generous positive memories I have.
God I love MDxx..
-GC