It wasn't the Night They Raided Minsky's. But it was 742 times better. The LAPD closed down the Candy Apples gangbang late Saturday afternoon. By that time, Candy had dusted off 742 gents and was sure to break a record somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 according to director Jim Powers.
Dave Cummings reports: "As I remarked to you Saturday at the Candy Apples Gang Bang, she's one the most durable, nasty, and sex-loving girls I've ever worked with---she's in six of my 19 Sugardaddy videos. Had the cops not stressed out the situation, she easily would have hit 1,000 "instances of sex" ( my expression for each time she took a cock into her mouth or pussy). I counted as 14 of the times. I saw only one instance of strap-on use, namely, Randi Storm, who counted as number 742, which was occurring just as the organizers shut things down. Taxpayers might question the amount of time and number cops at the event, instead of being out on patrol where their presence might have prevented some muggings, burglaries, robberies, traffic fatalities, etc."
Whether the final tally was 742 or 1,742, Candy Apples was dolled up Saturday morning to look like Walt Disney's Tinkerbell, diaphanous outfit and all, for her assault on gangbang immortality. As part of the promotional onslaught, Candy had appeared on the Howard Stern show last Monday where she was the follow-up act to Johnny Toxic and the vomit queens, Cream and Shel. Apples said she didn't participate in the vomiting, though half of Stern's staff, apparently did.
The worst-kept secret of the day was that Apples is getting married October 23. "I was keeping it to myself," said Candy prior to the start of the festivities. She observed that gangbangs are an excellent preparation for the honeymoon. "I'm feeling really good. I was a little nervous when I got here, but I'm mostly excited; a little overwhelmed. But I'm really confident. I've been on a couple of the other ones as a fluffer."
Apples says that Howard Stern wants to devote a whole E! show to her. "I was on the show last Monday, but he didn't have me get naked," she notes. Apples said Stern was kind of "taken in" by the whole vomiting aspect of the show prior to her coming on. "He was really nice to me, though," she says. "I think they [Toxic and company] got all the brunt of his comments. "He was nice and respectful to me; very wonderful, better that I thought he'd be."
Apples has been in the business six years. "I figured it was time I get my name out there," she says. "I've been in everyone's movies in the background. I don't get a whole lot of press. I try. I work hard. We had a list of 2100 guys the last I heard. I made the commitment, and I'll be here until we get through every last one who wants to participate."
Sponsored by Heatwave/Sterling, the Apples' gangbang which was to be broadcast live on the Internet via gangbang.com , was staged in downtown LA at an empty, but thoroughly whitewashed, multi-storied warehouse that turns into a Rave Club at night.
At least 13 bands were scheduled to play throughout the day. Bands with names like Sound Checks, Bad Chile, Firing Squad, County, Mulch, DC4, The Spooky, Droid, Drove, Drain Bramaged, Sexual Mayhem, NBA and F-Sho.
And, just like he promised, Sasha Gabor was among the first guys waiting in line to get his gangbang papers authorized. Sasha, who's currently under house arrest, was asked how the hell he swung the deal to get himself free for the day. Sasha credits his friend, Spas.
"I'm not entirely sure how he did it," Sasha said. "Spas and the attorneys cooperated fantastically to get me out." Though Sasha swears Spas is from Bulgaria, Gene Ross is betting money that the Transylvanian accent of Spas' is authentic.
"He [Spas] got a release through the sheriff's department," said Sasha who wears one of those thig-a-ma-jiggies around his right ankle to monitor his comings and goings. "As long as it's warranted for work, I'm able to take two hours in the morning for bus rides; work eight hours a day, then two hours to turn back.
"I've got a 12 hour window to be out," Sasha adds. "I can work in a movie, but it's better for me to sit at home and write articles and interviews. Really, it needs to be the girl who's able to come to me. For me to go out in the park and sit with a tape recorder, it's next-to-impossible."
Sasha was saying for the longest time that he wanted to be the first guy in to get the Apples' gangbang rolling. "But I heard that the husband-to-be, the fiance, wants to be number one. I wish him the best," Sasha commented. "He has never performed in front of people. There's going to be a lot of horny guys there. If he's not ready, that's a pressure on him."
On the other hand, Sasha said he was ready to go after 26 days in LA lockup. Since he's been out of the clink, he has gotten his pipes cleaned on at least one occasion. "About two weeks ago," he says. "I had a stewardess out of Australia who came up. I never met her before except on the Internet. I told her I was an ex-airline pilot." [Which he is.]
Sasha: "I flew 707's and 727's. I was a flight engineer and first officer. I would be flying 747 Captain if I hadn't been having a couple of drinks. The FAA said, Mr. Gabor, you don't need an airplane to fly. But no cop ever pulled me over up there. But it's no laughing matter. The people that had said I should never be let out or on the road, I have five children and I feel the same way. I hope no drunk driver ever gets on the road and kills any of my children. At the same time, only an alcoholic understands how an alcoholic feels where one is too many and 20 is not enough. It's really, really rough."
Bill, Candy Apples' husband-to-be, and gangbang participant had this to say: "This will be my first time on camera. I'm a little nervous. I've known Candy probably 8 to10 years. She danced at a club that my partner used to have. We met through there and had mutual friends and hung out. I didn't see her for around five years. Like a year ago we hooked up, and I've been with her ever since.
"I love her to death," he adds. "We get married October 23 and leave the next day for our honeymoon. It's going to be a real small ceremony, a Hawaiian luau theme. It's for close friends and family."
Bill kind of hinted that the gangbang wouldn't be his first and last time in front of a camera. "We might do something else," he says. Jim Powers claims that Bill's going to be part of the new d.p. combo with Dave Hardman, replacing Rick Masters. "Gabor's [from Heatwave] going to pick up that series again," Powers said.
Working with infinitely more elbow room this time around, Powers remembered the close-order drill of the Spontaneeus Xstasy gangbang. "It worked too good," he recalls. "People broke the stage. This time, if you want to watch, and you're not fucking, you go up to the mezzanine level and you get a great view from up there. We're going to have a lot of looky lou's with the bands. We're going to bring 20 guys at a time into the room, three-at-a-time fucking her. That way you got the pussy, the blowjob and she can jerk somebody. Bringing five up there at a time is too much. It'll be a quieter environment, less pressure."
Powers had a run-in-of-sorts with AIM days prior to the gangbang. Powers wanted to have on-the-spot Eliza testing. AIM wanted the Full Monty, the PCR-DNA test. "You go and throw a gangbang, and everybody wants to ruin the party," Powers said. "My perception was, if you're wearing a condom, what's wrong with an Eliza test? It's not like you're fucking without rubbers. But AIM stepped in, and Sharon Mitchell flipped out. But it's okay. We were trying to get DNA testing on everybody, anyway. The idea of the Eliza test was having it available to people that showed up on the day of the thing."
[Maggie Knowles of AIM was there to make sure everything was copacetic.]
"It's unbelievable," said Powers. "It's like having your aunt sent down here, yelling at you. But it all worked out. I like Sharon." Powers was asked if there was a predetermined number he had in mind to set new 'bang standards.
"Houston did 620, right? I got to beat that," he said. "I want to hit four digits. I'm looking to be here until dawn if we have to. We'll fuck till the cows come home. Honestly, we had 750 people confirmed that said they had DNA's. Then we had a couple hundred with Elizas. Eliza tests we're allowing in, but they're not allowed to penetrate her. Just blowjobs. If we can go 2,000, we're going to do it. One guy can go in five different times. I'm hoping guys are coming up 10 times."
Ready to establish the Apples' beachhead, this is what retired army colonel Dave Cummings had to say about Apples prior to the event: "She's durable, she's pretty, she loves sex, she's nasty. She knows how to look in a camera. She knows how to make every guy feel special. She gets my dick up all the time. She's been in six of my movies. I've worked with her four times including the one that the German Television Network filmed as a documentary. She was seen by 2 million viewers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria back in December. It's been re-shown I think every four or five weeks. I can tell because all of a sudden I get three hundred e-mails from Europe.
"She's perfect for this," Cummings continued, "the right personality, all her interviews are outgoing. And she's so durable and so flexible. I've been asked my favorites many times - I use the Juli Ashtons, the Shanna McCulloughs, Serenity, but Candy Apples is right there. I always mention her name, too."
"I want to see if she breaks the record; it's an event. It's a happening. It's the kind of thing you don't want to miss," noted Howard Stern semi-regular, Melrose Larry Green of melroselarry.com.
Green said he was there to interview Apples and submit it to Stern. "This is my first gangbang," admitted Melrose Larry who said he loves AVN and reads it cover-to-cover. "I read the articles and think it's very important, what you're doing. It's a great publication."
"Pornography is wonderful," Melrose Larry went on to say. "It's like liquor. You have to know how to deal with it. You have to know how to tolerate it. If someone sits at home and drinks a whole bottle of vodka a night, they'll turn into an alcoholic. If somebody sits at home and whacks off all day long, he's going to get a very sore penis. There's nothing wrong with porn. There's nothing wrong with two people having sex. There's nothing wrong with watching a gangbang. Anyone who thinks so doesn't want to be my friend. Who's getting hurt?"
Former porn star Lana Sands was also there to cover the event from a journalist's perspective. Sands is now writing for an urban Internet magazine, hookd.com
"It's supposed to open in October, but they're pushing the release date back probably a couple of months," says Lana who had been writing for a hip-hop magazine called XXO doing a sex advice column for them. "Now I'm doing a big adult section on Hookd." Asked if she thought she'd ever become a practicing journalist, Sands responded, "I didn't think I'd ever become shit. I didn't know what was going to happen to me."
Sands said she got a reporter's gig when Vibe magazine came to her and did layouts and an interview of her. "I had made a lot of friends, and they gave me some job opportunities. I proved myself worthy."
Powers made some post police raid comments.
Powers: "It was unbelievable. We applied for a permit, but they were getting us on all these technicalities. That's why they took a whole day before they finally put together 50 cops lined up outside as though they were going to break up a concert. We had three female vice cops, four regular vice cops; three or four fire marshals were there. You name it. They arrived. As all this was going on, my guys were giving me reports. I was hurrying guys through. Everybody was getting three seconds to fuck her. Boom! You're up, you're up. I was sending guys through over and over to break the record. It was madness. Candy was fucking the whole time, and I was physcially throwing the guys off her as soon as they were done. I knew we were about to be raided, and I was hoarse screaming through a megaphone. As soon as the cops were outside ready to come in, we screamed at the camera crews, 'Grab your gear and run. Meet me at my office. Bring me the tapes and get your check.' This was about 3:30 or 4. It was just chaos. Then we had to rush Candy out the door.
"They [the cops] did everything they could to ruin it from the very beginning," Powers continued. They were doing spot checks at 8 in the morning. And I had vice looking for me the night before. Basically it was people calling in and tattling. Gods-knows-what-else.
"We really had this thing set up and paced," Powers says. "We would have had 3 or 4,000 people easily by 7:00 at night. This was suppoed to be an all-night thing, a complete zoo. I told Gabor this was the best thing that could happen."
Powers, however, says he did have fiance problems. "He [Bill] was screaming at me the whole time because a couple of the guys in the beginning did cum shots in her face. He said he was going to pull her off. I was dealing with this crazed fiance who's soon-to-be-wife is getting gangbanged. He was yelling that this was supposed to be orderly. Let me see. Describe order to me. I got 50 cops downstairs waiting to bust us, we're trying to set a world record and you're worrying about these little nuances."
Sterling's Gabor said the fire inspectors who came in early on, were nice but claimed people were calling in "snitching".
Gabor: "But after that vice showed up. Then came the head lieutenant. They were walking up and down, looking everywhere trying to find people smoking or drinking or underage people. I think they thought at one one point they couldn't bust us. And it's too bad. The building manager said after it was shut down, people were still showing up like it was a concert."
