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The Palm Desert Scene is a group of related bands and musicians from Palm Desert, California. Their hard rock sound – sometimes described as desert rock – contains elements of heavy metal , psychedelia , blues , punk , alternative , grunge , and other genres.
Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band; Ché; CRX; Dali's Llama [2] Desert Sessions; Eagles of Death Metal [3] Earthless; Fatso Jetson; Fu Manchu; Goatsnake; Gone Is Gone; Gram Rabbit; Hermano; John Garcia and the Band of Gold; Kyuss; Masters of Reality; Mondo Generator; Nebula; Orquesta del Desierto; Queens of the Stone Age; Slo Burn ...
The Desert Sessions are a musical collective series, founded by Josh Homme in 1997. [1] Artists such as Brant Bjork, PJ Harvey, Twiggy Ramirez, Dave Catching, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan, John McBain, Ben Shepherd, Josh Freese, Chris Goss, Alain Johannes, Troy Van Leeuwen, Dean Ween, Les Claypool and many others from the Palm Desert Scene have contributed as songwriters and musicians.
The musicians often play in multiple bands simultaneously, and there is a high rate of collaboration between bands. The Palm Desert Scene is also notable for producing stoner rock pioneers Kyuss. The term "stoner rock" is sometimes used interchangeably with "desert rock." However, not all Desert Rock bands are "stoner rock."
The Desert Sun in 1948 noted, “Palm Springs square dancers covered themselves with glory at the Hemet (competition) and wound up in second and third place in the finals.
The video for "Green Machine" features bassist Scott Reeder instead of Nick Oliveri, who left the band shortly after the release of Blues for the Red Sun.Filmed in the desert, an acknowledgement of the desert rock scene of the early 90s, it shows the band performing intercut with scenes of the expansive Californian desert.
Disney arrived in the desert in 1936 to play polo. He would settle in Smoke Tree Ranch and that's where his Palm Springs story begins. History: As Disney celebrates 100 years, a look at its ...
Desert Rock exercises, a series of exercises conducted by the U.S. military in conjunction with atmospheric nuclear tests Camp Desert Rock, a former staging base for troops participating in the Desert Rock exercises; Desert Rock Airport, a private-use airport located near the central business district of Mercury, in Nye County, Nevada, United ...