Date: Friday April 24th, 2009
Promoter: Task:Fire Pro, Get Wacky
Venue: 4 Peaks Desert location
Album Link: Click here
Good job TASK!! and good job to my baby, Forest. <3
it was a great experience, many great memories were created that night.
took me a bit to get up my review, sorry.
took me a bit to get up my review, sorry.
i arrived to the original spot on the 4 peaks road at apprx 5pm. the spot was very clean, due to the crew and some friends arriving the day before and making the spot pretty for the event. I took a few pictures of the sunset and environment, and helped made some preparations for set-up. When the sun was setting Matt Dunn & Harmony arrived with their equipment. Since they have thrown events on this road before they suggested we throw this on annother spot nearby, since they did not feel that this spot was a good place for the event. TASK took their advice and moved the location at 7pm, a little late but they felt that this move is necessary to make this event successful. Me and Matt Dunn drove to the new spot first. We saw a small group of campers on the location to a far side, but we decided to go through with it, since it was 7pm and it was a little late to try to find annother spot or move everyone back to the original.
Yardz had accidentally blew his generator during set-up, so we had someone go to town to rent annother one. I am glad they went through with this, or we would not have had it a 2 stager. I was willing to put money down on that if necessary, but they had it handled.
There was a bit of confusion durring the rushed set-up but everything worked out. The stages were set-up. the DJ's started performing, the door was up and opperating, fire performers started lighting up, and attendees started arriving and having a good time.
the original spot was right on the inital desert road in, no turn-offs about 3 miles in. the new spot was closer to the beginning on the road, and was a right hand turn at about 2 miles and about 4 miles down that. durring the quick switch we tried to visibly mark where the right turn is, but somehow during the night our caution tape and markers went missing. We are not sure if was other campers or event sabatogers, but with little evidence comes little blame.
Basicly, we realized at about 11 that the door got slow, and we better check for lost people. Alex and I left the event and parked my car at the right turn. Not long later we started finding multiple groups of cars come from farther down the road towards the original spot. Some people said they went from a few minutes to an hour down that road. Some people yelled, some people did not believe us, and a friend of ours apparently got tazed by some random people down that road. We tried to assure everyone that we knew where the event was, and directed everyone down the right turn as quickly and orderly as possible. We think we found everyone we could, then left the door at about 1pm.
We went back down to the event. It was certianly going well and TASK ended up just a little over breaking even. I got to spin fire once too, and Zulu took some new pictures of me spinning staff. I got a few shots of firespinners and a few shots of DJ Louder....
...Then the helicopter started flying overhead and several cop SUV's decended into the area at apprx 2:30. They were a quite forceful group of cops, started yelling, overdooing the "GTFO" announcement. Alex, Jackie and I organized ourselves together. We had my car, gabes car keys, and no knowledge of where Gabe and Forest were. The cops were quite allowing of the event attendees to get out of the desert and back home. They did not create a checkpoint on the road or anything of the sort, and i have only heard of one pull over on the way home. Gabe, Forest, Harmony and few others got in trouble for tresspassing, but recieved no charges & no equipment got confenscated.
Alex, Jackie and I left the spot with Gabe & I's vehicles, and reconviened at Gabes house. At the time we did not know where they had gone or if they had been arrested. Jackie had to get home and we did not want to leave Gabes car out at that spot where it could either be shot at, stolen, or destroyed. Forest and Gabe arrived at their house in the next day at about Noon. A few VERY nice cali attendees stayed after to help Gabe & Forest clean up the location and give them a ride home. I thank them to no end.
Quite some interesting memories were had. I wish i had more time for photo-taking, but working and making sure this event was successful in any way i could came first. The reviews went great and people seemed to really have enjoyed themselves.
~karma
Yardz had accidentally blew his generator during set-up, so we had someone go to town to rent annother one. I am glad they went through with this, or we would not have had it a 2 stager. I was willing to put money down on that if necessary, but they had it handled.
There was a bit of confusion durring the rushed set-up but everything worked out. The stages were set-up. the DJ's started performing, the door was up and opperating, fire performers started lighting up, and attendees started arriving and having a good time.
the original spot was right on the inital desert road in, no turn-offs about 3 miles in. the new spot was closer to the beginning on the road, and was a right hand turn at about 2 miles and about 4 miles down that. durring the quick switch we tried to visibly mark where the right turn is, but somehow during the night our caution tape and markers went missing. We are not sure if was other campers or event sabatogers, but with little evidence comes little blame.
Basicly, we realized at about 11 that the door got slow, and we better check for lost people. Alex and I left the event and parked my car at the right turn. Not long later we started finding multiple groups of cars come from farther down the road towards the original spot. Some people said they went from a few minutes to an hour down that road. Some people yelled, some people did not believe us, and a friend of ours apparently got tazed by some random people down that road. We tried to assure everyone that we knew where the event was, and directed everyone down the right turn as quickly and orderly as possible. We think we found everyone we could, then left the door at about 1pm.
We went back down to the event. It was certianly going well and TASK ended up just a little over breaking even. I got to spin fire once too, and Zulu took some new pictures of me spinning staff. I got a few shots of firespinners and a few shots of DJ Louder....
...Then the helicopter started flying overhead and several cop SUV's decended into the area at apprx 2:30. They were a quite forceful group of cops, started yelling, overdooing the "GTFO" announcement. Alex, Jackie and I organized ourselves together. We had my car, gabes car keys, and no knowledge of where Gabe and Forest were. The cops were quite allowing of the event attendees to get out of the desert and back home. They did not create a checkpoint on the road or anything of the sort, and i have only heard of one pull over on the way home. Gabe, Forest, Harmony and few others got in trouble for tresspassing, but recieved no charges & no equipment got confenscated.
Alex, Jackie and I left the spot with Gabe & I's vehicles, and reconviened at Gabes house. At the time we did not know where they had gone or if they had been arrested. Jackie had to get home and we did not want to leave Gabes car out at that spot where it could either be shot at, stolen, or destroyed. Forest and Gabe arrived at their house in the next day at about Noon. A few VERY nice cali attendees stayed after to help Gabe & Forest clean up the location and give them a ride home. I thank them to no end.
Quite some interesting memories were had. I wish i had more time for photo-taking, but working and making sure this event was successful in any way i could came first. The reviews went great and people seemed to really have enjoyed themselves.
~karma
