just a rant ...
man ... ok, so the drastics played this loft party this last saturday nite near humboldt park as a sort of psuedo-celebration of the puerto rican festival happenin in the park all week ... the loft party was two nites, friday and saturday, and started at 11 and was planned to go till about 4 ... let me pretext by tellin yall bout how ridiculous it was to get to the spot which was on north ave near california (pretty much THE neighborhood) ... there was literally at least 2 cop cars at every intersection on north ave between western and california, and the streets were blocked off ... this, despite the fact that there was literally NOONE on the street, a handful of familys walkin, but it wasnt like a street fair, all the events were in or around the park, so this was retarded ... we managed to skate by 2 or 3 intersections, but when we got to the block we were playin on, and were literally 3 doors away from the loft, this howdy-doody-barney-phife lookin mug (who sounded like the pimply teenager from the simpsons, but was easily 40) tells us he has "strict orders from his superiors not to let anyone by" ... were like, comon man, were goin 10 feet, but squeaky the wonder cop wasnt havin it ... so we snuck around back (which ended up bein better to load in anyway) unloaded our stuff and realized we had forgotten several very important things we need to play (mics, mic stands, instruments, cables) ... not sure why we were so off point, but chris and tom went back and grabbed stuff while we setup ... so everythings cool now, except that i guess the whole time we were loadin in there was some unmarked cops chillin across the street from the spot jus scopin us real hard ...
jus a little background ... so the way the party was workin was 5 bux to get in and then there was booze, there was actual security guards checkin IDs and all that so this thing was legit ... the guy who owns the building was there and was partyin too, AND its all commercial around this building so there was no chance of a noise complaint ... plus its the puerto rican festival ...
so the nite kicks off, little slow startin, but it was pickin up steam ... jah son and ryan (heavy rotation) were throwin some hiphop and reggae wax that was pretty nice ... we get up a lil after midnite and start doin our thing, crowd starts to get into it, and we really start cookin, everythings feelin nice ... got one more tune in the instrumental part of our set before our singer fada dougou gets up and rocks the crowd, its just after 1am when ... BAM ... i swear in the blink of an eye there was 15 cops in the room, all screamin "SHUT IT DOWN" and "STOP PLAYING", etc ... we wind down, and the cops are pretty much forcin their way into every section of this loft, i presume checkin for drugs or somethin ... they start yellin for everyone to leave, and slowly people start to leave ... i stayed behind the drumset, lit a square and drank my beer while watchin the whole event, hell, i wasnt doin anything illegal ... so me and chris were jus chillin back there along with most of the drastics, as there was no where to go really as the cops were blockin everything, so even if i had torn my stuff down i couldnt go anywhere ... papa g seemed to take most of the heat for the event, which was pretty upstanding of him, i think they gave a couple tickets for selling booze (which we werent), for not having a maximum occupancy sign (comon guys, seriously ?) and somethin else i cant remember ... the whole thing was pretty chaotic so its hard for me to remember details ... anyway, so after most people had cleared, this younger cop (in full bulletproof gear) rolls up to us as we all sat there in disbelief of what jus happened and says "yeah, so i didnt hear you guys but everyone leavin was sayin you guys sounded really good, and i like reggae stuff, so whats the name of yer band" ... we all kinda look around at each other but no one says nothin (this is why i love the drastics, loose lips sink ships sucka) ... so he asks again and we all jus kinda ignore him when some kid in the crowd goes "theyre the drastics" ... fuck ... so much for that, then he asks "you guys got a card i can have?" ... again, everyone jus kinda looks around at each other, and i say "you want a cd its 12 bux" ... no, he doesnt want to buy a cd, he just wants our info (funny that), so he gets out a piece of paper and writes down the drastics and maybe thedrastics.com or somethin ... he finally leaves and were all like, "the fuck was up with that" and before he even leaves the room, we all see him hand the card w/ our info on it to his sergeant ... what the fucks up with that !? sketchy shit ... though we might now be on a CPD watch list which is kinda cool ... but the fun doesnt end there, the cops said even more dumb shit to us later ... so now its the end of the nite, everyones out of there except us, a few of the guys that live there and few girls brave enough to hang around, i was playing bartender which was fun, cause now theres all this booze thats not gonna get drunk ... so this cop comes back in and is like "ok, you guys lock that door, and were gonna drive by once more to make sure everythings ok, we want to make sure you guys get home safe, theres been some gunshots fired around here recently" ...
oh ?
really ?
gunshots huh ?
hmmm ... maybe its cause YOUR WHOLE FUCKING SQUADRON WAS BUSTIN UP THE PEACEFUL REGGAE DANCE PARTY INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH FUCKING GANG BANGERS !?!? ... jeebus ... that shit pissed me off ... he left, and then another 15 min went by of us jus hangin out and ANOTHER cop comes back in and is the biggest dick in the world ... he aggresivly made us leave, despite the fact that now there was NO REASON for his punk ass to be there ... there was like 8 people in the room, all over 21 jus hangin out and drinkin ... last i checked that shits legal ... ugh ...
anyway, nite still turned out ok, we swiped a handle of jim beam and headed back to the crib, where at one point there was a roundoff competition and mad fedora wearing ... but thats for another post ...
woop woop ... thats the sound of the police
mr dc na fe let i play reggae
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