From what I gather there were "rave nights" in the early to mid 90s back when it was a "dance tent" as opposed to the barn. Brian Scroggins talked about it in that interview I did with him a few years back. I'd like to know when NSoul started running the dance part.
The first I ever heard about actual DJs playing at C-Stone was in 1998 when the foundkids played short sets in between NSoul live performances, but I wasn't really paying attention to Cornerstone much before 97 or so, so there's a lot of history I've probably missed. Someone enlighten us!
I think it was 98 or 99 when I went that the dance tent ran overnight slots. I remember talking to one DJ and he was like 'Yeah, I'm going on at 3 a.m. - hope to see you there'. Boy...good times. That was right after I really started to get into dance music.
--pete
Excerpt from my cloudy memory - 16 years ago...
Cornerstone 92 DJ Love Joy and one of his buddies were selling stuff in one of the small merch tents. To make things interesting, Love Joy brought his turn tables to attract folks to their merch stuff. People showed so much interest in what he was doing that a crowd gathered one night and it turned into a "rave". The next night same thing happened and someone bought in a strobe light and a couple of cop lights and it drew a bigger crowd. That night it got "shut down" because it got a bit crazy people were banging into merch tables and stuff...
