A look into the San Francisco EDM/rave scene of the early 90s. | dG1fcG1vVlRSWExYYzg
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00:00A lot of people converge on San Francisco in a lot of ways, you know, my parents converged
00:14on San Francisco's beatniks, and then the hippies came and pissed off the beatniks,
00:18and then, you know, in the 70s a sort of a gay revolution happened here, and that pissed
00:24off the hippies, and then the punks pissed off everybody, and then, um, rave kill.
00:30It was all very Alice in Wonderland, where I've landed and I took the blue pill and I'm
00:36here, you know, or is it the red pill, I don't know which one, I guess it didn't matter which
00:40pill I had taken, I ended up here.
00:43It was energetic and you never knew what was going to happen when, what, or where, but
00:47it was going to happen, you know.
00:48I just played records all night and well into the morning, let's just see how it goes.
00:53The internet was exploding, the technology was exploding, but there was also this culture.
00:58All of a sudden the little world unzipped and it was like, ah, wow, it was an incredible
01:05sense of liberation.
01:06There's always been a lot of open-mindedness and experimentation here in the Bay Area with
01:12music and art.
01:13I mean, I definitely have always felt a strong connection to that.
01:16The sons and daughters of Wavy Gravy, we're the fodder of this fresh scene.
01:22Check this, boom, phoom, the whole place lifted, electrifying energy.
01:28It was a totally new experience and we were naive, but the naivety and idealism is the
01:34only thing that's ever made a difference in the world, you know what I mean?
01:37That's the energy that I'm talking about that exists in San Francisco.
01:42It felt renegade, it felt outlawed, it felt filthy, it felt absolutely wrong and perfect.
01:48I just slipped in between the beats of the music and was like, I was never really the same.