My question was not so much availability, but if you are searched at door etc (some places make this condition to have raves in first place, such as Seattle under their rave law when I was there, late 90s).
Eh, usually I consume what I need before I go in; If I need more, I stick a little baggie in my sock. Works all the time. Then I just pretend I have to tie my shoe, and out comes the pills, powders, or potions of desired quantity.
Oh sure, definitely, I didn't mean to slam anyone who's done e, a, c, or whatever, or sound like I was doing so - "My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter" - HST. I'm just slamming the hordes of kids that did materialize later, that didn't give a shit about the music, just went to raves to be "different" and get "fucked up" instead of BENT. This more than anything killed raves around many parts of US I think - cuz you can always take them deeper into the woods/barns/underground to escape The Man.
HST?? Yuck, Tim :) Yuck!!!! You're right though. Raves were banned outright in Madison when a 17yo high school boy was found dead in a parking garage after overdosing on e. I guess he overheated, and dropped dead in the garage. They found him two days after the rave. I believe this was 2001... I know that before 2001, there were many more raves to go to. I guess you have the right to take whatever you want -- but dammit, if you can't hold your toxins, don't go out in public on them...! :)
Re - Orb - best since... - I think the Orb is in a very rarified league compositionally - up there with Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Zappa. Easily the best electronica and really some of the best music of this century, or any. Other people/bands that I like, such as various psy trance, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, Rush, Yes, etc - are really quite pedestrian in comparison, even if awesome in their own right. That's not to say they're terribly inferior - just that the Orb is on their own level.
I agree... The Orb definitely has taken me places only a few greats can. That's why I'm getting the tattoo :) *grin* Cheers... -B