The last time one of John Dal Santo’s parties made it into the Reader was in April 2003, when the party he threw for his 20th birthday was busted and he spent the night in jail on three misdemeanor charges. (Two of them were dropped, but he ended up paying the city $250 in fines.) “From now on,” he said back then, “I’ll make sure everything I’m involved in is legal. I’ve learned my lesson.”
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They’d lined up an all-star roster, including Swiss DJ Plastique de Reve (best known for his work on the International Deejay Gigolos label) and Berlin’s Phon.o, who’d done a live PA at Sonotheque on October 6, as well as Love and Atomly. The party was promoted “only” through e-mail and the Internet, though as Dal Santo admits “the crew that booked Phon.o had access to the entire Smart Bar mailing list” and a listing ran in the Reader. “They didn’t think they’d attract that many people, says Montez. In fact, says Dal Santo, “we thought we underpromoted.”
In his blog at www.atomly.com the next day, Lee wrote that at this point he “had to go to the front door and tell them to stop letting people in.” As he did, though, he “looked at the stairwell and out the window and realized that we had over a hundred people waiting to get in and more were coming at a constant rate.”
“I’m not interested in conversating,” McNichols replied. Jashnani shook his head in apparent disbelief and asked for the officer’s badge number. We were almost to the door.
“It seems like they’re just trying to inconvenience us in order to prevent us from questioning whatever the police do in the future,” Jashnani said when I tracked him down later. Ya think?
