[scottmandue]

I had a similar problem... but at my house...

I have a couple of friends who are armature musicians so for Y2K we threw together a makeshift band and learned a dozen or so songs.

We set up in the garage and had chips and a three foot sandwich on the work bench, we are all adults so it was BYOB. People came and went through out the night but we had a constant ten to twelve visitors and I knew everyone that showed up, I pulled the plug on the band at midnight and by two everyone was gone.

We decided that was so much fun we would keep the band together and do couple of holiday parties at my house.

Second party was about twenty people and some friends of friends that I didn't know.

Third party there was thirty to forty people and half of them were complete strangers. Next morning I was picking up trash and empty bottles in the yard... not my idea of fun.

Broke up the band and no more parties over at my house, lesson learned.

I still will have six or eight close friends over for special occasions but screw the house party thing