The producer of the Electric Daisy Carnival rave said Monday in the Los Angeles Times that his event is being unfairly portrayed by leaders and media as a social ill, in much the same way early rock 'n' roll was rejected by the establishment.
The number of people needing medical attention at Electric Daisy raves is no higher than other entertainment events in Los Angeles, Pasquale Rotella wrote in an op-ed piece published Monday in The Times.
He pointed to the L.A. Rising Festival in July at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where 15 people out of 50,000 attendees needed medical attention, and a Manhattan Beach volleyball championship in August that brought 35 alcohol-related arrests.
The Electric Daisy Carnival was heavily criticized after the fatal drug overdose of a teenage girl at its June 2010 festival at the Coliseum.
But that was the first major incident in 15 year of putting on raves, Rotella said.
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