How easy is it to get in? Long lines, big bribes? Get there early, don't go at night? Info please. Also let me know if anybody knows who's playing this weekend.

I'm not going, but a buddy is... don't get your panties balled up :)

Re: Crobar Chicago

$$$

I believe they have a number listed in the phone book. Your buddy can call and listen to the event hotline once he arrives in Chicago.

Re: Crobar Chicago

[url]www.purefuture.com[/url] - there forums will have loads of people who go or

or

[url]http://www.crobar.com/[/url] and click the chicago link

^ I went to their site yesterday and they didn't have upcoming events, just past events

Re: Crobar Chicago

Metro/Smart Bar ... or is it now Sound Bar?

And Vision... these are all places you should be looking. I used to have a handful of websites that would help, give me a day and I can peruse my favorites. What music is your friend into??? Chicago has everything depending what day of the week.

Re: Crobar Chicago

just curious....How much to get in??

:roll: I found Oakenfold's playing at Vision on Saturday, and he sounded all about that.. unless I can find any other big talent, it looks like he's going for to it. He likes progressive & trance

Re: Crobar Chicago

Friday July 8th is going to be a great night. However I found Collete at the Metro Smartbar, Saturday: [url]http://www.smartbarchicago.com/[/url].

Club Zentra has some local residents playing Progressive House & Trance July 9th. [url]http://www.zentranightclub.com/events/rsvp.php?date=2005-07-09[/url]

also have him pickup a copy of the redeye from a newstand.

Re: Crobar Chicago

Yes,yes it is!! :lol:

Re: Crobar Chicago

I saw Mousse T there a few years back. It was average as far as price was concerned, I think $15. I was crazy though, they had bondage racks set up everywhere. A friend paid to get strapped up, and these two dominatrix whipped him with leather whips and pinched his nipples until they turned bright ass red. Funny as hell and freaky at the same time. Two blocks down is the crazy horse too. Could make for a wild night.

^:CrackUp:

Re: Crobar Chicago

urchicago.com should point you towards all the listings for the month.

Crobar sucks though. I'd advise your friend not to go. It's a "pretty" club but people are all glammed out and not at all there for the music. Go to Vision or Smart Bar or Sound Bar (Zabiela tonight).

Poor Crobar. It use to be so good.

Chicago isn't the kind of place that screams WHAT AN AMAZING CLUB SCENE!....but if you're there long enough and know the particulars it's beautiful underground vibe comes to life. Viva Chicago!!!!

its all about sound bar from what i understand!!

^I didn't see anything good going on at soundbar... but I guess anything would have been better than me telling him Oakenfold was there (thinking he'd laugh)

Re: Crobar Chicago

[quote=picklemonkey]How easy is it to get in? Long lines, big bribes? Get there early, don't go at night? Info please. Also let me know if anybody knows who's playing this weekend.

I'm not going, but a buddy is... don't get your panties balled up :)[/quote]

Do people still bribe doormen to get into parties? With security in the modern day and age we live in, there is never less than 2 bouncers if not several more at the door at big clubs, (assuming that there is only one designated person doing the "velvet rope" amongst this group, that one person is somewhat on display, so how would one use this as an advantage without being that guy who had to pay to get in to pay? I think maybe the bribe has evolved into table service and you are bribing the club itself sort of, like, call me VIP and I'll pay $300 for a $15 dollar bottle of Absolut and keep bringing the ice to me while I sit instead of dance.... I pray that there aren't many if any of these guys on this board, and if there are, just give me a buck and I'll get you in the door by letting you pretend to be friends with me Deal?

Re: Crobar Chicago

[quote=miketpoto][quote=picklemonkey]How easy is it to get in? Long lines, big bribes? Get there early, don't go at night? Info please. Also let me know if anybody knows who's playing this weekend.

I'm not going, but a buddy is... don't get your panties balled up :)[/quote]

Do people still bribe doormen to get into parties? With security in the modern day and age we live in, there is never less than 2 bouncers if not several more at the door at big clubs, (assuming that there is only one designated person doing the "velvet rope" amongst this group, that one person is somewhat on display, so how would one use this as an advantage without being that guy who had to pay to get in to pay? I think maybe the bribe has evolved into table service and you are bribing the club itself sort of, like, call me VIP and I'll pay $300 for a $15 dollar bottle of Absolut and keep bringing the ice to me while I sit instead of dance.... I pray that there aren't many if any of these guys on this board, and if there are, just give me a buck and I'll get you in the door by letting you pretend to be friends with me Deal?[/quote]

Fuck man, your gonna have to come to Orlando... then you can see some of this take place. It's still about who you know and who you blow, but Chicago still has that underground vibe like someone said before. It's hard not to have a great time, unless your just in town for a night out at the riviera.

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Um, I live in midtown manhattan, so why would I leave NYC to search for an underground vibe or see people kiss ass to get in and still have to pay? Unless I am severely unaware and its being kept a great big secret, is there more to an underground "vibe" than just ambiance like say... amazing groundbreaking beautiful music? Thats pretty much what I think of as a positive underground experience... Cause I guess to me "underground" simply meaning 'not mainstream' doesnt really mean anything other than no posters or outwardly public promotion beforehand.

But I just had a laugh when I think of a certain pompous individual who recently generalized mixing with ableton with the blanket statement of "lacking in energy" and that he would refuse to listen to a mix without a tracklist in front of his face at the same time... and then commented he'd like to hear what I could do with some turnatables. My point to this recap is simply this, if Tables are somehow being true to the music or the roots of the EDM/DJ genre and its intrumental origins/bare bones tools.... then i would assume this had something to do with it being all about the music and not status/industry/labels/brand-name-dj's or anything for lack of a better word "commercial". Yet if in even scanning through an hour long mix with ears alone, to hear if anything jumps out at or speaks to you personally, is something you put yourself above or to quote "beyond the point" of even having the slight possibility of being a rewarding experience or good listen for the sake of the music?

      I can't help feeling as though it sounds like my mix would serve as anything other than a chance to find some tracks to add to his next mix, or as my favorite musically pure and "underground" staple is commonly referred to as a "promo mix". I have nothing against the existence of promo mixes, but I certainly hold no respect for anyone who thinks of themselves as somehow being more true to their art or themselves because they resist change or dare I say this..... Their progressive to make progress... even from analog to digital and from that which has physical limitiations into that which has virtually inifinite possibilities within one's own imagination or perhaps just those within the range of human audible frequencies.... Or maybe I just don't give two shits if a mix doesn't sound just like it was done on decks if its good fucking music, or music that moves me and still makes me move (which is good for me)...

So to go completely off point, and bring it all back home.... NYC is on a roll with pulling in world talent and substance (along with a roster of names as well, but luckily they are distinguishing themselves as separate entities more and more) so if I were in orlando I couldn't miss out on floating around in an inner tube at typhoon lagoon till close , only to go focus on out-dressing overpaying more than the next guy to sit down instead of dancing... But I know thats not all there is down there... and we have that crap too, with no lazy river... :(

Re: Crobar Chicago

[url]http://www.inside-chicago.com/fforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16700[/url]

thems some good parties :shock: :MadNow:

Re: Crobar Chicago

i went to crobar right after it got remodelled. it wasnt my type of club, too glam.

sound-bar and vision are definitely the big ones right now. you can usually rsvp to the clubs to get in for a discount before a certain time. most of the time its on the clubs' websites.