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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Czarkastik a répondu le Mon 20 Oct, 2008 @ 3:28pm |
 Coolness: 149040 | got this mssg today figured i'd disseminate it.. enjoy
by Frankie Bones (from East Music Group) Plurisms - The origins of P.L.U.R. The kids in the rave scene adopted this as their mantra and even when I first started The Peace, Love, Unity Movement, it's fitting to know my original theory followed the same exact path only minus the glowsticks and the beads. Right from the very start of New York City's underground rave scene, the mission was to make sure the people involved would be peaceful, have love for what we were doing and show unity if something was to go down. I reached out into the industrial wastelands of Brooklyn, New York and threw warehouse parties. I looked for locations, broke into warehouses and put people and sound together and somehow made history. That was a plan I had from day one. The same weekend I played my first rave in England to 25,000 people, a teenage black youth named Yusef Hawkins was murdered by a group of whites simply for coming into their neighborhood. That was on August 23, 1989. Long before the terror of 9-11-01, New York was already a city of Ghosts. I'd estimate the number of victims to be over 10,000 people. People that lost their lives because of three things, Crack, Aids & Racism. Hawkins death was not out of the ordinary. New York City had serious racism in the 80's. There also was an active Italian Mob in Brooklyn and stories of people being taken out were common. My father was murdered driving a taxi in 1985. On his second job in his 16th hour of work that day. The guy who killed my father was black and yet I never blamed anyone else but the guy that did it. Hip Hop music may have actually helped me because it opened my eyes to what goes on in the streets. The guy that killed my father served 7 1/4 years, was released and then killed two more people. Crazy world out there. You never could understand what losing a parent is like and It was not easy. But I became hellbent with my music. I had a five year plan with do or die stamped on the plans. I got a resident club gig the week I turned 18. That lasted FIVE weeks. That is when NY State raised the drinking age to 21 and I was fired. Things were really not working to my advantage. But I started writing and producing records. With almost 3 years until turning 21, I knew well in advance I was going for the top spot in NYC. I wound up doing resident slots in Long Island and NYC. Palladium, Roxy, Quik (Vinyl). Then I went to London. Things just exploded from there. The first thing I did when I got back from London was tell all my closest friends about what I experienced. Many of my closest friends were making techno tracks, so everyone was excited. And I had people in London who knew well in advance about the potential. A couple of friends of mine planned on going to the West Coast to do parties and then in very early 1990, I get a call from London. Some really big people wanted to meet my people in New York and when that meeting happened, it was just a matter of time. So I just kept sharing that experience, of the music and what happened. Once my closest friends experienced the music combined with the effects of Ecstacy, that was it. The message was clearly out, and there was no stopping us. The thing about Ecstacy is it breaks down everything society wants us to be and the minute you understand that, you look at things different. I think what it does to you is makes you find a common peace which exists in all people. It broke down things on many levels and combined with Electronic Music, it was like nothing else anyone ever experienced. By the end of 1989, there was six of us and we began to map out a plan of action. Rule number one? Be responsible, professional and run business. None of us were drug dealers before. None of us would be after. I opened up Groove Records as a base of operation to sell Techno records and tapes. That happened in April of 1990. The first actual rave party happened on June 30,1990. Now I had regular rotation in many NYC clubs, so the night we through the rave somehow worked against us. Why? Because we still were in a club. The crowd was no different from any other NYC crowd, but we had visuals which projected our videos from London on a wall and people became curious. It would take exactly two years from that party to reach the point where 3000 people were coming to dance all night until 9 a.m. That was realized on June 20, 1992. It was not an easy task. A former friend of mine named Lord Michael started doing weekly parties at Peter Gatiens Limelight, and that brought the gangster mentality into the scene. The only problem was they did not understand how we were pulling 3000 people to basically anywhere we had people go. See in Manhattan, nightlife existed only in Manhattan. The outer boroughs never could draw more people to an event then they did, meanwhile anytime I threw a STORMrave, tumbleweeds would be blowing around The Limelight. They hated me for that BTW. We always made sure our parties were safe. To insure that we would put the parties in really bizarre spaces. Way out to no man's land in Brooklyn. We had several little problems, but from 1990-1992 everything was based on The Peace, Love and Unity Movement and most of the kids loved that because they never experienced anything like it. We started doing STORMrave in 1991. In 1991 it was a series of all night parties which were raw outlaw events. The Brickyard in Brooklyn for instance. We started out with about 200 people, made people park 1/2 mile away and walk down frieght tracks to get to where we were. (see picture) Plurisms. 15 years go by and people tend to forget. But I never decided I was going to start this thing called P.L.U.R. and everyone was going to live happily ever after. I mean the legend of STORMrave is not some kind of fairy-tale. With any tale or legend comes those people who try and change the actual story, or say it never happened in the first place. Take, Laura for instance (from Hypereal). Her name seems to come up whenever P.L.U.R. is mentioned and she goes into length about how she spun records at STORMrave in 1993. STORMrave ended on December 12, 1992. I never met the woman personally. She explained P.L.U.R. from day one using me as a catalyst. Here is Laura's take on LOVE..."Love is an unconditional appreciation of something or someone. It combines with peace to allow you to think things like "Frankie Bones isn't a bad guy, in spite of his flapping mouth. The peace gives you the chill factor so you can get to the unconditional love." She then goes on to explain how the great big light bulb came on when her friend Brian from San Francisco explained "Respect". "And then suddenly it all came clear to me. You can't have peace, love, and unity without respect". Here goes that flapping mouth she spoke about without even ever once thinking it would come back to bite her in spite of her 'epiphany'. Thank the American Library Of Congress for the copyright of my 1990 record release called P.L.U.M. (The Peace, Love and Unity MOVEMENT). And that was the beginning. In 1993, I released a track called "Peace, Love, Unity" (The STORMrave Story). The first word written after the title credits says "Respect". To the German band Genlog. So whoever thought of sticking the eighteenth letter to make it into P.L.U.R. must of been looking at that record...Here, look for yourself. Now lets talk about 'Raves". The first actual 'rave' in America was on June 30, 1990. Called "Atmosphere" in New York City. On September 7th, 1990, Los Angeles had its first actual 'rave'. Prior to those two events anyone claiming they were throwing raves would be lying. There were some half baked attempts which were simply parties at clubs. Now during all of this, I had been fortunate enough to be able to headline both parties, East & West and I'm willing to admit without the west coast underground of Los Angeles, I would have never witnessed how it could work in America. There were British people starting to throw parties in L.A. at the same time I first played there. I got booked to play L.A. because of my London connections. I was really lucky in that sense. Because I was the only American DJ to play the original Summer Of Love Orbitals in London. Orbitals because the first large scale raves happened off the M25 Motorway outside of London. That is where the entire P.L.U.M. concept came about. Movement rather then Respect. Because you cannot have Peace, Love and Unity without Respect, yet without MOVEMENT, you cannot have Peace, Love, Unity and Respect. What good is it without movement? And that my friends is why I have to excuse my so called "Flapping Mouth" and dismiss anyone else making claim to something I already had taken into consideration. And it started out as violence actually. But there is no such thing as a peaceful revolution. "You better start showing some Peace, Love and Unity, or I will break your $%^ing faces". That is how it started. On this fateful night sometime in 1991, the first tribe wound up in Ferry Point Park under the Whitestone Bridge in the South Bronx. Where Hip Hop's original roots began. Not only that but we are 'raving' to Techno music? In the South Bronx? That is why P.L.U.M. was so important to what what we were doing. Each of the original 6, had come to realize, if we were going to create (a) movement, it would be very important to make damn sure that every person we invited knew well in advance what our gatherings were about. And we had a great group of people in those days. People who would help a stranger if something was wrong at an event. So to witness 300 people dancing to Techno in the South Bronx was historical to me, even in 1991. The fight that broke out was a couple, boy and girl having a domestic problem which happened like a tornado, right into the main rig where I was spinning. And my reality clashed with the one thing I was trying to prevent from day one. So I took it personal. Being at ground level, I jumped up onto the office desk which had the turntables and mixer on it, to give me a four foot height advantage, and yelled into the Mic to stop the fight and to end that shit right there and then. Now I had just ruined 300 people from what could had been a ritual because it was four hours in, 2 a.m. in the morning and the music stops, and my mouth "begins Flapping". This is actually a DJ's worse nightmare. So the fight gets broken up and I did say we were all there for Peace, Love and Unity. Not to have two people ruin it for everyone. It was a touchy time. The Bronx had the Happyland fire happen a year prior, where 97 people died because of a fight between a man and a woman. The guy lit a gallon of gas on fire and torched everyone in the club. Horrible. This is why P.L.U.M. was important at the time. I'm not going to drag 300 people to The Bronx and have people behave like that so I took it personal. I told the crowd, "You all need to respect each other and if you see something happen, get involved to stop it." Had we not had the gear on an obsolete office desk from the 60's the party would had been over. I then said, "anyone who has a problem, say it now, and fight me, right here right now". And then proceeded to say whoever it was fighting, I'll break your $%@ing faces." So I am not Anti-PLUR whatsoever. I just knew that once the music started back up, that night was going to be legendary because once the negative would dissolve, people were going to appreciate why they were there. It was a beautiful thing in the aftermath. That party went until 10 a.m. without any further incidents. -F.B. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JasonBeastly a répondu le Mon 20 Oct, 2008 @ 3:37pm |
 Coolness: 76745 | TL;DR |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Blisss a répondu le Mon 20 Oct, 2008 @ 4:03pm |
 Coolness: 129755 | Originally Posted By CZARKASTIK
So I just kept sharing that experience, of the music and what happened. Once my closest friends experienced the music combined with the effects of Ecstacy, that was it. The message was clearly out, and there was no stopping us. The thing about Ecstacy is it breaks down everything society wants us to be and the minute you understand that, you look at things different. Man I love Frankie, but he's gotta chill out on the hippy shit. Its ironic thats it is the drugs more than anything that originally ruined the rave scene in the 90s Kids, ecstasy is not the solution to the worlds problems. Your don't need ecstasy to have peace love unity and respect. You don't need ecstasy to enjoy a rave. And you don't need ecstasy to enjoy techno or any other kind of music. If you're young and you've recently started raving, Take the advice from an old schooler, Try to stay as far away from the drugs for as long as you can. All you need is a smile, a good attitude and you'll do fine |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» databoy a répondu le Mon 20 Oct, 2008 @ 4:14pm |
 Coolness: 106150 | m'kay? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Blisss a répondu le Mon 20 Oct, 2008 @ 4:39pm |
| Coolness: 129755 | Here's another quote from Frankie:
"That is where the entire P.L.U.M. concept came about. And it started out as violence actually. But there is no such thing as a peaceful revolution. "You better start showing some Peace, Love and Unity, or I will break your $%^ing faces". That is how it started." So basically in the new concept we subsitute the Respect for Violence, Because everyone knows that violence is always the best way to get people to listen ;) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Turtle a répondu le Tue 21 Oct, 2008 @ 12:17pm |
 Coolness: 68340 | I have heard frankie frist time at Arrival i can't remember what year it was but one of the greatest dj's of house music....And techno too ... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» clown a répondu le Tue 21 Oct, 2008 @ 12:23pm |
 Coolness: 221800 | Lynzyn, i think it was 2003.. i was there too.. :D he played before or after Thomas Krome that year.. fucken sick !!
very cool article from one of the WORLDS biggest pioneerS !! woot woot ! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» No_Comply a répondu le Tue 21 Oct, 2008 @ 12:24pm |
 Coolness: 84970 | Wasn't Ms. Punish on before Krome? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Turtle a répondu le Tue 21 Oct, 2008 @ 12:36pm |
| Coolness: 68340 | Originally Posted By CLOWN
Lynzyn, i think it was 2003.. i was there too.. :D he played before or after Thomas Krome that year.. fucken sick !! very cool article from one of the WORLDS biggest pioneerS !! woot woot ! Á yes i think u r right...And yes Great article baby...Bones rules... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» clown a répondu le Tue 21 Oct, 2008 @ 2:04pm |
| Coolness: 221800 | MRs. Punisher ?? yeah, i think your right.. it was a long time ago and the memory i kept from that party was that the people who threw it were fuck-tards as they refused to pay one of the headliners (the one i came for, THE DELTA) which prevented them from playing !! :( |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Holly_Golightly a répondu le Tue 21 Oct, 2008 @ 2:32pm |
 Coolness: 158770 | i still have some sonic grove records for sale if there;s people interested! :) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» No_Comply a répondu le Tue 21 Oct, 2008 @ 2:43pm |
| Coolness: 84970 | Originally Posted By CLOWN
MRs. Punisher ?? yeah, i think your right.. it was a long time ago and the memory i kept from that party was that the people who threw it were fuck-tards as they refused to pay one of the headliners (the one i came for, THE DELTA) which prevented them from playing !! :( Ben and Mik? i wouldnt know.. my memories are equally fuzzy from that night (thank you speed/shrooms combo) |
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