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Rock the Bells = Free Shit


August 22, 2008 | Tags: Rock the Bells

I was beginning to think it may never happen, but I’m back in the DMV. After an unsuccessful attempt at driving to Vegas from Northern California, sleepless nights followed by ridiculous drives throughout SoCal and the shores of the West Coast, engine malfunctions and canceled flights, a sickness, and the endless drone of the computerized voice on the GPS, I’m out East again. And I can’t exactly say I’m happy about it. Going from having a shitload of good times and relaxation (in the most non-relaxing sense of the word) straight to work again? Not what’s good. And let’s not even think about the fact that classes start back up on Monday for me. Oh yeah, it feels good to be back.

Part of the purpose for me taking the trip in the first place was to hit the Rock the Bells stops at San Bernardino and San Francisco. The good news? Neither was a waste of time/energy at the end of the day. The bad news? Both stops definitely had their own little roadblocks to overcome. But you know what? For every roadblock, there was some nice free shit to be had that made up for it.

Not sure if you forgot, but college students love free shit. True story is that a lot of us that fit that college student demographic are rather broke and consider something like Cup of Noodles with hot sauce and lemon juice (props to the old crew I used to chill with for putting me on to that back in the day) to be a delicacy. So I’m sure that you can only imagine how wonderful I felt when people started hooking me up at Rock the Bells. Maybe you felt just as wonderful when you picked up a free mixtape from the DX booth, right? Right?! There’s still time to get one if you haven’t – just go see Meka in Denver.

Now, I’m not one for plugging things for people on the blog and turning this thing into a billboard, but there are a couple people/companies that seriously deserve some recognition right now. First of all, shouts to Acrylick – an L.A.-based clothing company that has some sick t-shirt designs. True story is that I wore one of their shirts and almost everybody that I spoke to asked me something about said shirt. Seriously. The fine folks from Acrylick held down their own merchandise booth in close vicinity to the DX booth at both Rock the Bells stops, and props should go out to people like DJ Wrex who held it down all day. Especially because selling tees in the middle of the desert all day isn’t exactly the most amazing task in the world.

Secondly, shouts to the wonderful staff holding the shows down for SanDisk. After the venue security at the San Francisco show was giving me some serious grief, the friendly SanDisk employees stepped in to do some regulating. After some negotiations and getting the proper wristbands and badges given to me, I was escorted down into some VIP press area or something like that. And yo, these people know how to do it right. Comfy sofas everywhere, free food and drinks, and the best part? Someone was nice enough to hook me up with a free 8 gig memory card for my cell phone, plus a little device so that I can just pop the memory card out and put it into my USB drive of my laptop to get everything off of it. Score! Sometimes being patient with security pays off, for real. And peep out a small portion of the area:

Those sofas were a nice, shady refuge between sets to sit and relax, especially since I was crazy enough to wear heels to that particular show. The press area at SF was hands down the best one that I saw at any point in the tour, and the staff made sure that everyone was well taken care of. Gotta love it.

Now after I get a minute to organize my thoughts (it's harder than it sounds) and all the stuff that I have to unpack, I'll be back with some words that aren't just shameless plugs. Seriously.


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