Posts Tagged ‘Black Angels’

Roky Erickson’s LA show w/Black Angels- Halloween

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

TEXT BY: DANIEL HARJU

ALL LIVE/SHOW PHOTOS BY: JEN ZILIOTTO

Jen truly is a photographic wyzzyrd

“The Halloween audience at the Roky Erickson and the Black Angels show on October 30, was mixed and reflected the dual nature of Roky’s music catalogue – the psychedelic crowd and the heavy metal crowd. As Roky launched into the perfect soundtrack for the night, the audience’s exalted mood exploded like fireworks. “If it’s raining and you’re running don’t slip in mud ’cause if you do, you’ll slip in blood tonight, is the night of the vampire.” Then, but one thought could spread throughout the theater: this must be the perfect place to be on Halloween.”

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Interview with Clean Air Clear Stars Founder, Tommy Dietrick

Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Tommy Dietrick, ex-guitarist of Brian Jonestown Massacre and current member of Sky Parade, recently took the time to discuss his inspiration behind founding that sweetheart-of-the-rodeo desert festival: Clean Air Clear Stars. The festival features a stunning line up of mostly Los Angeles based, psychedelic-inspired musicians. Last year’s line up included such mind-expanding favorites as Entrance, Spindrift, Gram Rabbit and beyond, while this year showcases third eye Titans Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels and Dead Meadow. Be forewarned: this is not another vapid hipster street fair: the entire event is designed to raise consciousness of global warming, with proceeds going to Global Inheritence, a creative activist company.  

For those who haven’t attended the event, the three day festival takes place in the truly stunning terrain of Joshua Tree National Monument– a sweeping wilderness Gram Parsons and Keith Richards would go to to get high, pray to strange rock formations, and watch UFO’s sail by in the ethereally bright desert sky. Two decades earlier, the landscape’s tumblin’ tumbleweeds also served as a backdrop to the likes of Roy Rogers’ sharp-shootouts and other classic Western dramas.  In a third wave of interpretation, Dietrick appropriately situated this one of a kind gathering in a place a little bit country, a little rock n’ roll–making Clean Air Clear Stars the scene to a next generation of creative expression.     

 

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