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 
A telecaster, natch. Pseudo Nudie suits, check. Out in the desert, near the Gilded Palace of Sin, I presume. I’m not clear on the car getting lost. A temporary calamity I assume. Sounds like I shoulda been there.
Buzz…
I wish you had been there! Yes, correct! Temporary, but not so much of a calamity. Perhaps more like what made the trip perfect in a lot of ways. Met some helpful folks…got everything back intact and nobody got murdered. Came home with several stories to tell. The car deal was weird because I’ve parked there before but not in this particular “side lot”. I was feeling a bit happy but not off my rocker…I walked around that place several times but it’s dark and maybe some big truck or something was blocking my view…all I know is that the next morning after getting a ride back, it was so stupidly obvious to see the car right there where I left it, laughing at me from the road…it was just one of those nights.
STAY AWAY FROM JOSHUA TREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like The Sadies 2004 album, Favourite Colours, quite a bit. Sounds like they do a bitchen live show.