<p>Have any of your kids attended one of these “paint raves”/concerts? I don’t get the appeal, but apparently my son and his friends want to go to this. Any words of advice? I can’t even imagine getting into a vehicle to drive home when you’re covered in paint.</p>
<p>I had no idea that you can now buy tickets for a rave at Ticketmaster.
Is your son in college?</p>
<p>He’s a senior in high school. The minimum age for this event is 17. Because it’s an “official” event, I’m hoping it won’t get too out-of-hand. Am I crazy for allowing this?</p>
<p>“You can go, but one speck of paint in or on the car and you are dead meat.” ought to do it. Make the kids sit down and come up with a formal plan for not messing up the vehicle that they will go home in.</p>
<p>I’m picturing a lot of naked kids in the parking lots/ramp after the show.</p>
<p>dayglo doesn’t come out…make sure they wear clothes they don’t want to see again. And cover the car seats with garbage bags/plastic tablecloths/sheets or something of the like, Our lesson learned from bad experience.</p>
<p>My daughter has successfully gone to many raves during her college days (just graduated), in-state and out of state. It originally was an underground culture, but it is becoming more and more mainstream. A lot of glow sticks, lighted wands, glow in the dark paint, finger lights, lit mouth guards, pacifiers, crazy outfits, kandi jewelry (friendship)etc. She has a group of friends she usually goes with and runs in to the same people whenever she has gone in state or out. Seems to be the same crowd that goes. She has made many new friends as well. Raves have the reputation of being the club drugs scene, i dont know if it is exaggerated or not, Im sure it happens, but as my daughter says, you just go with the people you know and trust and hang with them. As she is slightly older now, she goes less often, but still enjoys them. BTW, her current boyfriend, she met at a Rave one year ago and they are still together H and I really like and enjoy him.</p>
<p>My daughter attended a Dayglow event her senior year. Even though my daughter and her friends were all 18, because of the distance(2hrs) and late hour, I drove the kids there, and hung out with a friend until it was time to pick them up. You can just imagine how thrilled they were with that arrangement, lol! </p>
<p>In the 20-30 minutes between 1:00 and 1:30 I was waiting for them, I saw at least 10 kids hauled off by EMTs. The parking area was full of kids in various stages of intoxication. I saw people leaving the venue and then re-entering, which was supposed to be prohibited. But the creepiest part to me was the crowd that was showing up at that hour, 30-40+ year old guys. The majority of people in line to get in when I dropped them off were 17, 18, 19 year old girls, dressed in tiny tanks and bootie shorts, so that combination pretty much grossed me out! </p>
<p>I talked to one of the police officers working the doors and she told me the kids were re-entering by buying new tickets. She also told me that the event wasn’t over until 4:00am and that things were quite tame when I was there. She told me they have to call in EMTs from other municipalities as the night goes on.</p>
<p>On a positive note, the kids had a blast and my car suffered no damage!</p>
<p>Tickets are $35, so I can’t imagine anyone paying to re-enter. Dropping them off and picking them off might be a good idea, as we live close.</p>
<p>Yeah, I can’t imagine it either. But in some circles, apparently in Miami/Miami Beach, $35 is nothing!</p>
<p>LOL…I definitely live in suburbia! I have only heard the term “rave” on TV and I thought that it was a drug/dance “party”.</p>
<p>Now high school kids attend them (mixed with 40 year old men) and their parents drive them? I’m clearly out of touch :-).</p>
<p>" Raves have the reputation of being the club drugs scene, i dont know if it is exaggerated or not"<br>
No, this is in no way an exaggeration.
“A lot of glow sticks, lighted wands, glow in the dark paint, finger lights, lit mouth guards, pacifiers, crazy outfits, kandi jewelry (friendship)etc” </p>
<p>Along with dayglow paint, all these things listed are used to enhance the MDMA (ecstacy) high.</p>
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<p>true according to wikepedia, but many kids attend these event without the use of drugs and really get into the dressing up and coming with their own posse.</p>
<p>Yeah, Ecstasy is still a huge part of that scene. And musicamusica is right that all the glow sticks, and flashing lights are used to enhance the experience.
It’s gotten more mainstream than it was, but there are still drug issues. If you trust your kid, then let them go. Just because there are drugs around, doesn’t mean everyone is on them.</p>
<p>There is definitely drug use! And there are also a lot of kids who don’t do drugs who enjoy these events. But after what I witnessed, I would never allow a teen to attend one of these events without a parent dropping off/picking up.</p>
<p>My kid is “Straight Edge”. (I had to look that one up when he told me). He doesn’t drink or use drugs. I told him that many kids at this event could be under the infulence, but he said he’s used to dealing with it.</p>
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<p>And ticketmaster sells the tickets now!</p>
<p>Ticketmaster selling tickets to a drug centric event?!?!
(as I clutch my pearls)</p>
<p>Yes Ticket-anythingforabuck-master.</p>
<p>As Trojanchick says…if you really trust your kid, well fine. But it does not pay to be naive about such things. I do think that getting paint on the car would be the least of your worries. YMMV</p>
<p>I would not characterize dayglow as a “rave” but so be it if people want to do; </p>
<p>both of my girls have attended, while in college… one has anxiety in crowded. large situations…and was fine…</p>
<p>If it was me, and they were still in high school, I might think twice (as I did whenever they did anything back then), but driving them might allay my fears…</p>
<p>fyi, I have seen many, many of the girls pics from dayglow and it looks like a blast…jmo ymmv</p>
<p>ps: they don’t need to go to a concert to be surrounded by drugs…high schools have plenty of that going around as well…</p>
<p>I agree with musica, although while I am familiar with Ticketmasters mercenary policies ( I am a hard core Pearl Jam fan after all), I still considered them mainstream, and didnt expect them to sell tickets to a party known for the use of ecstasy.
Live & learn.
[Dayglow:</a> A rave for the party animals - CalTimes](<a href=“http://sai.calu.edu/caltimes/index.php/2011/09/21/dayglow-a-rave-for-the-party-animals/]Dayglow:”>http://sai.calu.edu/caltimes/index.php/2011/09/21/dayglow-a-rave-for-the-party-animals/)
[Amongst</a> The New Rave Children: An Old Person’s Review of Saturday’s Dayglow Party - Dallas - Music - DC9 At Night](<a href=“http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2012/04/so_what_exactly_will_be_happen.php]Amongst”>http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2012/04/so_what_exactly_will_be_happen.php)</p>
<p>D’s former roommate DJ’s at Dayglow events. I asked her earlier this year what Dayglow was and she explained that “it’s kind of a rave co-opted by corporate interests with stronger X” , (aka Molly) No drugs, mushrooms, or alcohol allowed at the event. Most kids pregame and are rolling before they enter.
<a href=“http://34st.com/2011/10/theres-something-about-molly/[/url]”>http://34st.com/2011/10/theres-something-about-molly/</a></p>