Max is NOW!

I love dancing. Most of my friends are aware of my foot-moving passions, as it’s not on rare occasion that they will find me lunging my hips and pivoting my toes to the tunes of the “hardest working man in show business.” And for those of you who haven’t seen my mad-style and moves that could serve the Karate Kid a taste of his own medicine, well don’t worry for too long. Mainly, because myspace has the new video uploads and soon you will be showered with my personal collection….namely video of me dancing alone in my room.

Okay, but back to the point here, I love to dance, and that love manifests itself on the occasional weekend as making the great journey to Club Bang! in Hollywood. It has always been a great time, lots of dancing, and some incredible music….
But this has changed.

Let’s start with the first thing I noticed…
The vibe from the new crowd is WAY different. Arguably, the Bang! crowd has changed faces a bit. Four different people throughout the night tried to pick a fight with me. FOUR! Four human beings tried to push me and antagonize me. Granted it was somewhat cramped in one spot and I’m a large man who could very easily be invading someones personal space, but please, its a club.

Second…
They eliminated the real draw of Club Bang! for me, their Soul room. It has been replaced by what they call “English 80s and New Wave.” Now, I try not to be a stickler for titles or a music nazi, but I do believe they played a number of titles that were neither English 80s (or 80s in general) or New Wave. Another oddity of this room was when Soft Cell’s Tainted Love was played three times during the night. I mean, I’m no expert or DJ, but I do believe there is a plethora of music to choose from that is either New Wave and English 80s, not to mention great to dance to as well.

Third…
The main room’s DJ (although Ryan said he thought it was a guest DJ) was terrible this time. He played obscure, odd-timed, guitar driven rock for a good portion of his sets. Off course, there is nothing inherently wrong with any of this, except that it’s not really fun or easy to dance to. The few times I found my self in this room during the night I would dance a song or two and just loose the energy because of the very dampered feel of the song or just do to my own confusion about the beat. I’m not a drummer, but I’m pretty sure dance songs are meant to be able to be followed by anyone.

And Finally…
I saw a lot of dirty looks and not enough feel-good dancing. This is key for me to have fun. I need happy people dancing all over.

And so, for now, I bid Club Bang! goodbye…..
I will miss you friend….but you really did lose your soul with your Soul room.

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