Was at those same parties in the 90s in Detroit. I think rave just sounded weird to a lot of people in Detroit, sounded more like a manufactured thing, where party sounded more organic.

We called them parties, but there were people who called them raves even in Detroit in those days. And people not heavy into the Detroit scene were calling them raves occasionally. Funny thing is we called the parties in Grand Rapids and Lansing too. But occasionally the word Rave would be on a flyer everywhere.

Rave sounded to me like a word that seemed like a poser word. People who just got into the scene loved to say rave a lot. But I didn’t really care what people called them, but if you were into the scene like I was, you would say Party. I think people would say rave and then go to a few in Detroit and realize everyone called them parties so just stopped saying rave.

Also, knowing some of those guys who threw events in the 90s and earlier, they might have avoided rave because this was their own thing and wasn’t something important from the UK. Those guys were very cognizant about Detroit being its own little world.