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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