Well alright! We made our way out last weekend to Joshua Tree for a couple days of debaucherous hilarity. Losing our car in the dark parking lot of Pappy & Harriet’s…lost purses, lost cameras, rides in cars with strangers, more rides in more cars with different strangers, climbing through windows, and seeing one of the most amazing bands on the planet! The Sadies. Dallas Good, Travis Good, Mike Belitsky, and Sean Dean. A better than perfect mix of Psychedelic Country, Garage, and Canadian Surf Tunes (Imagine that!). These guys are so bizarre and cool. They’re like a Charm Of Hummingbirds attacking Tippi Hedron in a phone booth! This is my third time hearing them live, up close and personal (Check the photos). The desert can be incredible all on it’s own but when the Sadies are added to the mix of rocky desert scenery, there is some well placed rock…and no telling what’s gonna happen. We managed to find a tiny bungalow for the weekend in the middle of nowhere with a kitchen and a view. The Rimrock Ranch. DO NOT GO THERE!!! I just might need the room for myself! Great folks, nice surroundings, Petticoat Junction style aluminum pool, and a nice doggy that hangs around in the dirt then invites himself in for the night if you give him a leftover Rigatoni Noodle. Then next, you’ve got your Pappy & Harriet’s. This is where you can go and listen to raunchy bands while having the most impossibly delicious Blackened Catfish Sandwich and sweet Homemade Strawberry Shortcake, then ask for a lid for your Iced Tea and have the wonderful waitress Madeleine tell you with a smile ” You’re shit-out-of-luck Bitches!” “No lids for the plastic cups.” The whole weekend was one crazy, dusty Dune Buggy Hayride to Heaven!
It was great to meet and talk to The Late, Great Jimmy Bryant’s son John who just happened to be our neighbor for the weekend. He’s busy making a documentary about his father entitled “Stratosphere Boogie”. Keep an eye out for it! Everyone was so entertaining! I’m sure I was too. Knocking on everyone’s door to no avail at 1:00 am after realizing that the key to our rented Love-Nest was still in the invisible car at Pappy & Harriet’s black-hole parking lot after the show. Using my brain, I decided to Reverse-Defenestrate myself through the Bedroom window, nearly breaking my neck before the bed below me broke my fall. Hooray! This is probably way too much information for all of the casual readers of this sporadic blog….all two and a half of you! Oh, by the way, I still have a Guitar Shop and you need to go there very soon and throw money at me, then go to the Desert. It’ll do you some Good! The Brothers Good that is! Go see the Sadies when they come around…just be sure to mind your P’s & Q’s!!!
Guitar Safari 
