Subject: (ASSC) ASSCon-SF4: Impressions from an ASSCon rookie Date: 1999/07/11 Author: the_rave <the_rave@my-deja.com> Even though I live only an hour from San Francisco, I don't go strip clubbing there too often. Basically, I need a reason...either a feature I'm *dying* to see or a gathering of like-minded individuals I know. In last night's case, we had both. Presenting: ASSCon-SF4. I started my night at Mitchell Brothers...my activity was limited to some stageside tipping, because the night was young and I didn't want to put too much of a workout on my wallet before meeting up with the group. So, no lap/wall/VIP dances, just some observing from the corners of the NY Live stage for a couple of hours. Of the six or seven dancers I saw at NY Live, Rochelle gave the most compelling performance and the nicest views :-) Now, on to Crazy Horse for the main event, around 8:30pm. First off, kudos to DragonFly, our de-facto host for the evening. De-facto in the sense that the plan was "go to Crazy Horse sometime between 8pm and 11pm." End of plan. After a bout of deductive reasoning, I finally discovered our group, which by the end of the evening numbered around a dozen. I will say that my tastes in strip club dancers tend to run somewhere between "real world beauty" and "gentleman's club gorgeous", so my initial impressions of the CH were not so hot. "Wannadances" bounced off me as if I were a trampoline. Finally, after an hour of just watching, I saw Shanelle, a cutie with curly, shoulder-length blonde hair, wearing a black teddy. At last...the seal was broken, and we were off to the lapdance room. $20/song "regular" (clothed), $40/song topless...I will talk about the differences later. Shanelle and I go for a couple of regular dances...at the start, she wanted to grind on me with the subtlety of a triphammer...gentle whispers, and my hands on her waist guiding her eased her into a rhythm more in with the beat of the song. Once she curbed the *bap-bap-bap* nature of her initial grind, I found the experience with her very satisfying. Thumbs up to Shanelle :-) The feature performer of the night was J.R. Carrington, with help from her sister Jenna (brunette, stacked, gorgeous), and her "sex slave" Tatiana (blonde, pretty, not stacked like the Carringtons). The crowd just ate up their three-girl show, complete with oil, dildos, spanking paddles, and plenty of on-stage coupling and tripling. Hot stuff! And I loved the choice of the song "Sit On Your Face" (I don't know who it's by, but it has a female vocalist to a rough, grungy-type guitar riff). The view was best from the sides of the stage, because if you were sitting towards the back of the theatre, facing the stage, there wasn't much to see but indiscriminate grinding. The other performance I was closest to the stage for was the two-girl set featuring Paradise (after the JR Carrington feature). My apologies for not remembering who her partner was, because, she didn't make it over to where I was sitting w/Dara. Much thanks to Dara for intro'ing Paradise to me...she was a gem to behold; time and funding permitting, I will definitely want an closer-up-close look & feel. My favorite of the night was Farrah. She's blonde & drop-dead gorgeous. After *playfully* twisting my arm and convincing me to dance with her, we were off to the VIP room. This woman is a sweetheart, to boot! As with Shanelle before, it took a little guiding to keep her from giving me a triphammer-like pounding...but Farrah was very receptive, very sensual, and VERY sexy :-) Initially we did a four- song regular set...then later in the evening before we adjourned, we did a two-song topless set. My own personal take: the only difference between the two types of dances was the toplessness. There was no discernible difference in the intensity of the dance by going topless. Farrah *DID* make the second go-round very very enjoyable...and it was disappointing for both of us when she had to "get off her horsey" :-) Highlight of the night was later on when Farrah came to visit and I gave her a backrub for about 10-15 minutes. Idle hands need to keep busy, you know :-) I did promise Paradise an appointment with my hands next time I'm in the City. All in all, it was a wonderful night. Great to meet some of the people and put faces to the names I see on the NG and in #ass-c. Thanks again to DragonFly for putting it together...to DF, Laar, Jem, Tallguy, Dara, Bob Smyth, Edgewise, everyone I met...it was great to meet you all. The_Rave in Cal