I'm known to many as TINY...and I'm here to tell all of you my story of GRAPE APE. The event phenomena called grape ape was started over 15 years ago. In 1990, I met Richard & Micah Swartz who had an idea of bringing the first Electronia Event to South Orange County.
The Grape Ape event was born on one night at a club called Happy Wednesday's. The club went on till 2am then Richard decided to go to a after party...The party was raging and Richard went into the living room to watch the TV that was on and suddenly it happened...The Grape Ape cartoon came came on USA network and Richard decided at that point that Grape Ape will be the concept of a event.
At the time I was just a very young teenager who was getting into some new form of music and club environment. I became good friends with Richard Swartz and joined the Grape Ape team as one of the people who spent the wee hours of the morning promoting this event at various other underground clubs.
During those days there weren't many promoters in the Electronia scene...A few were Daven The Mad Hatter, Tef, Koolaid/destructo, Mariah bat lady, and Rudy/Sue Dread which mostly put events in Los Angeles or Hollywood.
The Electronia Scene did not exist in the South bay & Orange County area until the Swartz brothers on Septmember 1990 put together the first GRAPE APE in Irvine at the Wild River water park. The event was a huge success and the turnout were in the thousands.
The event brought a new form of music and club scene to soo many people in Los Angeles & Orange County. The following year Richard Swartz took over the production of all "Our World our Future" events including Grape Ape. I was again called upon to do what I do best in spreading the word of this massive event.The 2nd and 3rd Grape ape events were held in a warehouse in Valenica California and water park in Irvine California the following years.
The event highlighted DJ's at the time: JOEY BELTRAM, DJ DAN, DONALD GLAUDE, DOC MARTIN, RON D CORE, LENNY V, BEEJ, OSCAR D.G., FESTER & R.A.W. Today most of these DJ's are world renown in their respective music genre. September 25, 1993 was the very last Grape Ape event that was held in So. Cal.
The Grape Ape Phenomena was a part of Electronia beginning 13 years ago.
THIS SUMMER AFTER 13 YEARS...THE EVENT THAT STARTED IT ALL IS RETURNING TO CALIFORNIA...
THANKS TO RICHARD SWARTZ FOR BRINGING ANOTHER GRAPE APE EVENT BACK FROM THE JUNGLE TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE BIGGEST ELECTRONIA EVENT OF THE SUMMER!!!!!!
SATURDAY - AUGUST 25, 2007 - BEGINNING AT 12:00PM
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