What makes for a bad party?

Okay, just about everyone has been to a bad party... what I want to no is, what specifically made them bad? Was it bad dj's, bad arrangements or what? What could the production company have done to keep the party from sucking?

A BAD PARTY FOR ME HAS MOST OF THESE THINGS GOING...
1. BAD VIBES...IT'S HARD TO HAVE ENJOY YOURRSELF WHEN THE VIBE IS REALLY *COLD*
2. BAD MUSIC.... IF THE MUSIC IS NOT GOIN STRONG I BRINGS ME *DOWN*
3. PROMOTERS.... I HATE IT WHEN THEY HAVE 80 MILLION RENT-A-COPS THAT ARE JUST WAITING TO FEEL YOU UP TO OR HOW THEY PUT IT *CHECK YOU*.... THEN YOU GET TO THE DOOR WHERE EVERONE IS YELLING AT YOU TELLING YOU THAT YOU CAN'T TAKE IN ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN..... AND OF COURSE YOU HAVE YOUR PROMOTERS THAT ARE UNORGANIZED... YOU KNOW THE ONE'S THAT REALLY DON'T CARE HOW THE PARTY GOES AS LONGS AS THEY MAKE MONEY THEY'RE HAPPY AND NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!
OK SO THOSE ARE THE THREE THINGS THAT ARE COMMON IN THE BAD PARTIES THAT I HAVE BEEN TO.
[This message has been edited by JEMM (edited 08 November 1999).]

I'm all for the little adventures the night of a party. You know, go to place X and get the directions or whatever, or you only know what specific place it'll be at that afternoon. Kinda fun, you know? But knowing at least the GENERAL area (i.e. San Marcos vs. just "San Diego") or something like that is kewl. And don't pull a UFF, with their shit with Angelik, and change venues 4 times in 48 hours, 2 of them in the last like, 8. Just make sure your shit is together way beforehand so there is no last minute shit to ruin the party.
My US$0.02

1. COPS
2. COPS
3. BAD VIBES BECAUSE THE LAST PARTY GOT BUSTED AND EVERYONE'S ON EDGE.
4. BUNK PILLS MAKING EVERYONE PISSY (THEY SHOULD BUY THEM AHEAD OF TIME BUT...)
5. WATCHING PEOPLE G OUT.
6. YOU ARE JUST TRIPP'N BALLS ON SEVERAL MICRODOTS AND THE OWNER OF THE VENUE HAS TWO 'BOUNCERS' ESCORT YOU OUT BACK AND THEN ACCUSE YOU OF BEING AN UNDERCOVER COP.(I DIDN'T QUIT FREAK'N OUT UNTIL I HAD GOTTEN A GOOD NIGHT SLEEP, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY MY DEALERS CALLED TO TELL ME I HADN'T BEEN CUT OFF)
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TBritton
"Tis better to understand what you hate, than to hate what you don't understand."
[This message has been edited by TBritton (edited 10 November 1999).]

1. Make the entrance lines as quick as possible
2. Don't run out of water
3. Make suree there are enough toilets

Another annoying thing is the map point crap. Like Nation for example. The map point was a 2 hour drive from the venue! Then they put the venue up in the mountains with like 50 degree weather and everyone is dressed for 75 degree LA weather because that's where the map point was! What a mess; everyone froze.
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Love
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of fear

Overdoses.
5$ bottled waters and no running water.
Over sold party and standing out side for two hours hoping to get in or get in and have NO room to dance.
Shit sound systems when you wait for the beat to kick and it never does.
No drugs going around/beat drugs going around.
Headline DJ you've been waiting to see for about 4 years doesn't show.
150 degree temperatures in the coldest place of the party.
Hmmm, what else?

Macho men and wannabe players like Juicer and Fuzzychest. People just there for the drugs and the chance of hooking up, not the atmosphere the music and the drugs.
Selling water for to damn much.
Closing down early because you planned poorly and the police show up for noise violations.
Too many parties going on at once so that the crowd is super spread out.
Security with chips on their shoulders.
Serving alchol when mixed with the aforementioned macho men and players.
People who cannot handle there drugs and get so fucked up you need to call EMS.
Shity light shows.

bad vibes
bad pills (i've thrown up b4, not fun)
production co. that doesnt bother to get permit
bad music
beeing too hot, god i hate that
beeing too cold and coming out the next morning with bronchitis
when they dont let you bring vapo-rub in
(but you can still have fun even though some of this stuff goes on, dont let the man get you down)

- poor sound system
- poor ventilation
- lack of running water
- overcrowding
- expensive water
- long lineups for bathroom / unclean bathrooms / port-o-lets instead of real bathrooms
- poor sound
- inconvenient / expensive parking
- long lineups to get in
- corrupt security
- lack of medical team standing by
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d e e p .
"Deep, I can't help but notice that everything you say in here is either negative, rude or just plain stupid" - Freaky Candy Monkey

Yer an asshole and you know it, and no amount of planning or readily-available good drugs will change that fact.
-Adj

OVERCROWDING definitely #1
i went to a party once where you couldn't even stand anywhere without someone smashing you. at one point i didn't even know if my feet were on the ground or not!
BAD MUSIC.....thats a given
BAD WEATHER.....
BAD LOCATION....
BATHROOMS ARE DISGUSTING or NO TOILETPAPER...ugh
IF THEY RUN OUT OF WATER.....ugh!!!
PEOPLE LAYING ALL OVER THE DANCE FLOOR AND IN FRONT OF THE SPEAKERS!!!!!!! MY BIGGEST PET PEEVE!! get the hell up!!!
COPS
MEAN SECURITY...better to be seen and not heard...
LONG LINES TO GET IN...
BAD SOUND SYSTEMS..... ugh...

too cold
people accuse you of being a pig/****
people are mean
people don't help each other
cops come and say "we are coming back in 45 minutes, if everyone is not gone by then we start throwing tear gas"--true story, happened in Ky right when Josh Wink finished a sun rise set. A friend had od'd on heroin--stupid ass--and the local authorities were none too pleased...
bad drugs--at the above party--someone was selling capsules with powder in them, turned out it was acid,
nothing worse than some asshole selling acid when you think you're buying e!
excessively dirty venue--i.e. some kind of hard core metal foundry or something with inches of black shit everywhere, coughing up black phlegm for days...
2 words, power failure!
can't think of anything else right now...
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better a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy