RAVE- a myth busted.

I thought that may be we should first break the cage named 'myth' in which the term "rave" has lost its true meaning. The current definition brings to a person's mind drugs and rich spoil brats, police and caught people. But it was not so till the 1980s.

In the late 1980s, the word "rave" was adopted to describe the subculture grew out of the acid house movement.That a certain number of rave party attendees used "club drugs" such as MDMA, LSD, cocaine, amphetamines and, more recently, ketamine, and was taken by authorities as a pretext to ban those parties altogether.

Actually, this term is a lot older than 80s and to define it in wikipedia's language-

In late 1950s London, the term "rave" was used to describe the "wild bohemian parties" of the Soho beatnik underground. The word was later used in the burgeoning mod youth culture of the early 1960s as the way to describe any wild party in general.

RAVE means wildness. A party full of enthusiasm; joy unbounded. Our RAVE is the reflection or rather a resonance of the earlier rave of the 50s.