The night of my 21st birthday. I will never forget this! Hell yeah! Thank you for whoever uploaded this video. In the beginning of the video, that's me with the hood on and the 2 green glow sticks and the whistle. What are the chances!?
Omg I'm having serious flashbacks and good ones. Spent many nights in my early 20s in this venue. I feel like it's hard to explain the atmosphere in the NOLA rave scene at this time. Epic. Great friends, better drugs. State palace and even the dingy warehouse raves were great. Escapades and the after party's at City Park. All us crazy fools coming out the Palace at Daylight Nothin but pupils lookin like a horde of walkers. LOL. GOOD TIMES. MISS IT. HEY that drop at 3:31 though damn. Shout out Crystal Method.
Brian French I still had a stack of Onslaught fliers up until a few years ago... I promoted in South MS, AL and FL so Donnies people would send me a bunch to distribute and in return got in free with a plus one. I literally didn't have to buy a ticket for probably 5 or 6 years
i was there also i have a lot of video and pictures i took with that NEW SONY FLOPPY DISK camera the Sony Mavica MVC-FD200 2.0MP it used a 3.5 inch floppy disk....lol was high tech back then with an astounding 2 megapixel ...lol yeah it was the best thing out there at the time …. these Raves were a lot of fun ... i went with Disco Donnie’s Cousin Justin, who kept telling me “you got to go to one of my Cousins raves … I had no idea what he was talking about … till one day my wife kicked me out and Justin came and took me to his house for about a month … then he says you’re going to love this we going to my cousins Rave ... so we got in the car and got to the State Palace Theater where there was about 1,000 people in line all the way around the building … I said dam we going to be standing in line for ever! We walk all the way back to the back door at the end of the line and he bangs on the door. I said what are doing? not knowing we were going in the back door . Donnie opens door and we walk up the stairs and right on to the stage! I said WOW this is cool …… I didn’t know just how cool it was after that night I was hooked and couldn’t wait till he threw another one … I went to about 6 of them … Then I went with his sister to the UMF in 2013 I think it was. by this time, I was way older than 95% of everyone there. but I still had a great time … Yeah, these events were a wonderful thing and I was here at his one thanks for posting a good quality video because my camera didn’t hold a lot of video …. I burned a DVD with what I took. it’s pretty good quality I guess I should upload it because it’s part of history like this one is thanks again
Dude if you would send me a copy I will pay for the shipping and your time and everything! I lost everything in Katrina and would love to have some of these memories to hold on to as we get further into our old age 😂 seriously DM me on Insta under @HillaryMarek please and we can set something up xoxo PLUR
Is this the one where they debuted that one song? I think I went to this one. Oh I looked it up and the one I went to was Sept 4, 98 and they were on a tour debuting "Vegas"
ryan Montgomery that was my favorite party!!. I remember it was so packed they opened the lobby entrance to the jungle room and I fell down the stairs and was outside all of a sudden... Lmfao took me a second to realize where I was..
Yes, Ryan. This vid is from Flashback. At Onslaught they did not really have time to set everything up that they wanted to. The Tool concert that was the same night ran a little late and they had to throw a lot of things together at the last minute. They had that enormous laser that you mentioned that was probably meant for outdoor use, lol... and they did not have all of those cyberlights lined up behind The Crystal Method like in this video. At Onslaught they had those ridiculous old school emulators just sitting on top of the pa speakers with the cyberlights mounted up on the side balcony rails pointing down at the crowd. The Crystal Method did not play Vapor Trail or Cherry Twist at Onslaught. Vegas had not yet been released. At that time, the Keep Hope Alive ep was still a "hit" and they had just released Busy Child. They did play Come 2gether and Blast, but the only tracks they played at Onslaught that ended up on the Vegas album were Busy Child, High Roller and they played 2 different versions of Keep Hope Alive at opposite ends of the set. You might also remember that when they played Caterpillar at Onslaught, Keoki came out on stage and was tossing out souvenirs to people and jumping around like he was Bunny from RITM or something. lol ...and of course, after TCM was finished Keoki hit the decks and well... the whole "my name is wile (scratch) wile (scratch) wile E coyote" :P
Ahhhhhh..... the crystal method party at the state palace. The beginning of the end of the large raves in nola. The state crackhouse palace according to the FBI. But I guess it plays part in donnie's success
I thnk it was the first Onslaught in 97... Right after their set, I split out of the palace and went to Escapades... First time I got bad vibes at SPT from too many tweaked out younguns (and this is ME talking ;) )... If this is the same night, I seen you on the second level right before there set and grave you a 3 cd set from talla 2xlc, tetsuo 2, music from technoclub frankfurt... lYou told me later that it was your wife favorite cd... So, yoiu owe me a rip WITH the artwork of DLA undecided.. so I can go mess with shariff, and also mess with matt who comes over to my house all the time and is still trying to learn what midi is? Long story, the kid has a.d.d. for real ... He lives in a morgan building in his parents backyard and has a whole mess of broke down gear, eps 16+, eps, mirage, sequential circuits ANALOG synth, sound modules, outboard sequencer's, old ass yamaha drum machines.... So, he would also like a copy of the really wack cd of the band who played at nation of sound which started it all off in that building! As for me, I got 2 mint 1200 mk 5's , an allen and heath analog battle mixer , and only about 150 actual slabs of wax right now, a whole slew of cartridges and stylh.. Looks like Traktor Kontrol Z2 mixer with my 2 decks doing dvs into one side of the allen and heath with a 3rd 1200 for scratches is in my very near future... Soon as I get my new ride in the next month or so, its on... PEACE
