Purring in the desert

We just got back, from playing the "Clean Air, Clear Stars Festival" out in Pioneertown, CA. This is a little place in the Joshua Tree area where they used to film old Westerns back in the day. The old town is well-preserved and anyone walking down the main drag through town looks like a bad-ass that's about to draw and take your wretched life from you. Dust kicks up from their heels and they sort of fall into a swagger as if they're mildly possessed by the dirty and the dangerous who've come before them. It was fun.

We played for a good cause, with good bands and met good people. Check out Spindrift, Sky Parade, The Flash Express, The Go Fever, they were some of the ones that stood out to me. There was also a cool local guy whose CD was played between sets that was awesome. I thought it was Neil Young, but it wasn't. I can't remember his name though, which pisses me off because I really liked it.

Anyway, we could only stay for the day because we're trying to finish our new record, but we really enjoyed it and are grateful to have been invited to play.

"Clean Air, Clear Stars" - go next year if they do it again!