Just reading again in Matthew Colllin's & John Godfrey's "Altered State" about ecstasy culture
& acid house and the second summer of love. In there I found this copy of a newspaper ad. 35 years ago today (!), in my hometown: the first acid house party in the cultural center of the city of Potsdam. No sales at the box office!
I'm trying to remember. The fall of the Iron Curtain was yet to come. The situation in the republic was confusing. Many people left the republic through various means. There was a lot of uncertainty about what would happen next; work colleagues and neighbors, as well as acquaintances and friends, suddenly disappeared overnight. You started to think about what to do. When the first party took place (there would be a second party in June), none of this was so noticeable. I remember it was a bit of a sensation. And of course it couldn't be compared with anything that was written in the book mentioned or anywhere else. Not comparable to what you could experience after the fall of the wall. But it was special in the situation.
The music was more exclusive than at other events you usually attended, but still more like S-Express, Bomb the Bass, than Baby Ford and Mr. Fingers.
35 years……oh man.
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