"EQUILIBRIUM" AT TILT...WITH A BIT OF ROCKIT RAGS THROWN IN

In mid-1992 Neville from Limelight opened up a night at Tilt called "Equilibrium", recruiting a bunch of us regulars as co-managers and promoters.
I remember Rob Wong, DJ Jay and I were pushing for the name "Spahn Ranch" (before that awful band came out), but they chose "Equilibrium" instead. We were trying to get a Manson thing going on, and funny enough, just a month or so later the New York City version of "Helter Skelter" opened up at the Jackie 60 spot where "Troublemakers" used to be. Oh well, we tried...
To be honest at this point I can't even remember what night of the week "Equilibrium" was (I'm thinking Saturdays), but it was really packed and had us going down to Soho on the West side, which was kind of out there as far as the club spots were concerned for that time.
I remember a couple of good live shows held on this night, most notably a Loretta's Doll set that was fantastic.
Tilt was a huge space with a big dance-floor and if I'm not mistaken while we had the upstairs, there was another event going on downstairs that was more mainstream.
Anyway, here are a bunch of shots from one of the nights held there.
I don't know if these were ALL taken the night of the "Loretta's Doll" show, but nevertheless they would have all been withing a month or so of each other since the night didn't go on for very long (three months at best).

Aimee

Adam, Sheila and Rob Xian

Sheila

Bryan Doll/ Loretta's Doll

Ed and Jessica

DJ Jay Consoli

Randi

Around the time "Equilibrium" was going on, Jesse got a job at "Rockit Rags", which was the T-Shirt place everyone went to in the back of Bleeker Bob's on 3rd Street.
Soon after he started he managed to get me a job there as well, and I ended up working there for a couple of years before I switched over to the Bleeker Bob's side of the business until 1997.
"Rockit Rags" was an awesome job. It was the perfect location for your friends to come by and just chill with you until it was quitting time, and we would then jet off to whichever club was on that night.
This was when there was a club to go to every night of the week, even Sunday. It was insane since everyone made it out no matter what, every night. So it was one big family getting together night after night, clubbing until the sun came up, only to turn around, go home for a quick minute before heading out to work or school, just to do it all again later that evening. I don't even remember when I slept at this point. I think on the train or bus...An hour here, and hour there.
What contributed to the full club roster in NYC at the time was Techno. At about this time DJ Reese opened up a Techno/Trance night at Space at Chase up on 3rd Avenue, and it was awesome. This is when the Techno scene really hit NYC and a ton of us from the Goth/Industrial clubs were also hitting all the Techno spots as well. So besides the Goth/Industrial clubs going on, we now had the Techno clubs really beefing up the options to hit. Just amazing.
If I'm not mistaken, the week looked like this:
Monday: Black Lips at Pyramid
Tuesday: Communion at Limelight
Wednesday: London Dungeon at Zone Decay
Thursday: United States of Techno at Pyramid or Helter Skelter at Jackie 60
Friday: Stigmata at Pyramid
Saturday: Ward 6 (various locations at this time) or Equilibrium at Tilt
Sunday: the techno night at Space at Chase or Belfry at the Bank
Then of course you sprinkled in some time at the Mission (which became Ace bar), King Tut's Wah Wah on 7th and A, 7B's on Avenue B, Mona's up on Avenue B, Downtown Beirut on Houston, and a couple other dive bars in the east Village.
I remember Ian always showing up to Bleeker Bob's at the end of my shift with two 40 oz. bottles of St. Ides and we would crack those suckers open and drink as we walked to wherever we were going that night (ahh yes, when you could drink on the streets as long as the bottle was in a bag!).
Well, here are a couple shots I found from inside the store when we were working there: Summer hanging with us during one of our shifts and Jesse behind the counter ...

Summer

Jesse