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PODCAST: Episode 838 - The Mojave Experience Festival 2026 Lineup Reveal 10.20 - Two New Bands · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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  None. What's up everybody, it's your
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  boy Kefi. I am back once again with
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  another Ghost cultman.com live stream.
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  We are super stoked today to be announcing 2 more bands for the
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  Mojave Experience Festival, the debut inaugural excellent Mojave
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  Experience Festival. I'm so looking forward to this.
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  I'm really excited. We're partnering up with the
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  festival. We're going to do these
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  announcements every week until the full line up is revealed and
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  then you'll get the whole poster reveal and all the deeds.
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  Early bird tickets already went on sale.
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  You can get tickets now at the links in our description.
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  This is really America. We don't have that many cool
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  underground metal festivals. We have a few.
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  We have a lot of big butt rock festivals that occasionally have
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  some great metal bands and I'm always oddly amused when we get
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  those. But super cool.
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  First things first, if you're new here, please like and
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  subscribe. It helps us keep the lights on.
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  I will drop the tip menu in a second where you can share a tip
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  with us if you are so inclined. You might be, you might be, but
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  you know, I'm just grateful to do what I do and cover this
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  music. Mark is back.
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  What's up brother and thanks for being here and I appreciate the
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  follow. Klaus Pater is also here.
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  We've got quite a few people watching on the tube of you and
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  on the gram and I'm hanging out on TikTok.
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  Yes, thank you FUBU microbar shirt.
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  This is one of my favorite shirts.
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  This color looks really fucking good on me.
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  I need some more olive green metal shirts to go offset the
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  black and the occasional light colors I let in, probably due to
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  the band haunt and their awesome colored shirts.
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  But anyway, best experience for this show is always YouTube
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  where we show our stuff every day.
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  We have our band interviews, our weekly live streams, this show,
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  these will all be podcasts on our podcast.
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  You can also watch this live on Facebook, Twitch, Instagram and
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  other places. Lynn loves metal.
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  Hello, good to see you. But yeah, I'm back.
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  I'm doing the thing. We're going to announce 2 bands
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  every week until the whole lineup of Mojave Experience is
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  settled and I will be hopefully coming out in early next year.
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  I had to run around every day, A crazy day.
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  I host karaoke in San Francisco every Sunday night.
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  Hosting karaoke. It was a banger time.
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  Then I had a doctor's appointment.
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  I had to do some blood work. I have more errands to run.
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  It kind of never stops, but I'm happy to be here.
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  Let's let's do the damn thing and I will bring in the thing.
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  Hey, Andrew, what's up? Thanks for being here.
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  All right, so thanks to everybody for tuning in.
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  And yeah, once again, if you are so inclined because you know,
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  this shit costs a lot of money and we are not corporate that we
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  do some tips you can share. But of course, make sure you go
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  follow the Mojave experience. I'll share their links.
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  Here's the Facebook event for you guys.
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  I didn't do this last week and you know, sometimes you folks
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  can't, it's hard to kind of do all the things and conversate
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  and be part of everything. But here's the link I shared it
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  here should be populating now. I will drop it in the chat on
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  the tick of the talk as well, as well as where to drop a tip.
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  But I appreciate everybody here. Very nice for you to be here.
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  Yeah, last week, you know, I was really pleasantly surprised.
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  A lot of people showed up and showed out, people who are not
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  regular viewers of our stuff. So again, super excited that
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  people are enthused enough for this festival to come and join
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  us for these announcements. And as soon as I drop this link
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  to the Facebook event on TikTok, it's weird how that happens,
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  Then I will dispense with the pleasantries and get to it.
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  All right, My shit is not cooperating.
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  All right, I'll try to drop it in later.
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  Anyway, guys, I'm in a search passing by.
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  What's up, Sir? Good to see you again.
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  Thanks for tuning in, Festival announcement time.
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  And just for some housekeeping. Hey, what's up?
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  Just for some housekeeping again.
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  I have a weekly live stream every Thursday where we recap
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  the week's events, drama, news, concert tours and festivals,
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  etcetera etcetera. We paid tribute to He's Freely
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  on Friday, my good buddy Ken Pierce of Piercing that will
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  join me. He is the biggest KISS fan I
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  know and we chopped it up about Ace for quite some time.
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  I'm sure there'll be some more Ace stuff and discussions.
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  We're still kind of unpacking all this with a crazy time in
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  our lives that all our heroes are leaving us.
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  But much appreciated for everybody that passed by.
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  And like I said, we always hope to encourage some tipping.
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  We do make some money from advertising, but we are not
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  corporate backed. So that is the whole thing.
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  Just so you know, somebody told me that I need to space these
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  guys out a little bit, but we do cash app, we do Kofi, we do
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  PayPal, we do Venmo, whatever works for you.
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  But I like cash app lately the most dropped that too.
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  Cash app at goes cold man, dollar sign goes cold man.
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  So we we did the thing and talked about ace.
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  And then again, there's our tip menu and here's the cash App QR
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  code in case you're so inclined. Hey, just me is here.
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  What's up? Just me talking about some metal
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  festival action. Just me as one of our loyalist
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  followers on TikTok and I'm always appreciative.
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  So what are we here to talk about?
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  The Mojave Experience is a brand new Stoner doom psychedelic rock
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  festival in the spirit of the original desert scene festivals
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  and happenings that were not very well advertised.
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  It was a tight community of people, word of mouth.
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  Go to the desert, set up a generator, jam, party, drink
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  toque, drop stuff. Whatever you do, do it safely
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  and hydrate and generally dance and have a good time.
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  I mean that's what it's all about.
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  March 2020, sixth, March 20th and 21st in Joshua Tree.
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  I am so pumped. We already announced a couple of
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  new bands last week. They already made the prior
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  announcement. I will recap all of that before
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  I announce the next two. The friendly me is back.
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  What's up? The friendly me.
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  So they already announced Ted Meadow.
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  San Francisco's on Stoner rock legends, also earthless from San
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  Diego. Incredible band.
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  They are worth the price of admission for the Liquid Light
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  show alone and just an incredible band.
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  They really can do no wrong in my eyes.
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  Last week of this very spot we announced John Garcia doing.
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  He's been touring with his solo band and doing an absolute
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  banger job of a retrospective setlist featuring Caius and Slow
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  Bird and You Need A and all the things.
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  John is one of the preeminent vocalists of of Stoner rock and
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  and and dune metal influence so many people.
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  He's maybe the best singular voice there is.
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  And like I said, really the first guy to not try to strictly
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  sound like Ozzy or Dio and try to be himself, which I really
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  respect. Shameless plug as I drink my
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  liquid death. And then we also announced Acid
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  King, again, Bay Area based. I have all the Acid King records
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  on vinyl, including their comeback record a couple of
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  years ago. Laurie is a treasurer.
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  I see her at shows and she's a huge metal fan and a just a big
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  supporter of other artists, which I really love.
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  And I think it's going to be like an epic experience.
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  And it's super cool that there is actually some femininity
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  represented in our scene. Like there's just not enough of
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  it. There was some great bands that
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  have femme singers, but we really need the true
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  representation. Hey, southeast of them, what's
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  up? What's up?
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  Thanks, brother. Hey, Gabe is here from Auntie
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  Mosby's Gabe. We're doing our weekly
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  announcement for the Mojave Experience Stoner Rock and Dune
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  Festival. And Gabe's a big psychedelic
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  rock person too. So now that we've caught you up
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  on all the previous announcements today, I am proud
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  and pleased to announce 2 new artists.
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  And if you were not already hooked by the previous bunch,
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  check this out. Mario Lali and the rubber snake
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  charmers. Oh my God, so Mario is
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  synonymous with this music. He's been making this music for
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  45 years. Bassing guitar.
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  You know him probably best from Yawning Man.
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  And offshoots he was in what could be considered the
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  foundational band besides Sabbath and a bunch of stone
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  rock bands and 70's rock bands. But in terms of the underground,
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  80s desert scene across the river, I used to have their
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  tapes, terribly dubbed tapes that I got at Lower East Side in
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  New York City flea market that had tapes and videotapes from
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  around the world. And Mario's an incredible
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  artist. He put together basically a
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  super group of dudes to, you know, I know that a lot of super
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  groups are not super, but this album that came out last year,
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  Mario Lally and the Rubber Snake charmers other folklore from the
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  other desert cities. And this is Mario Sean Wheeler
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  on poetry, sort of vocal ish, sort of vocals poetry.
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  Brent Bjork, of course, you know him from Caius and Brent Bjork
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  and a million other bands and Ryan Gutt.
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  I hope I said that correctly. What an incredible record.
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  It's kind of like a live record. You know, this is going to be
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  like a spiritual awakening type of event concert from them.
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  So in the desert where they belong, making this music.
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  I mean, it's going to be insane. I am so hyped for these.
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  And then furthermore, so this album is out now on Heavy Psych
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  Sounds, which we've covered a lot of.
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  I've interviewed the label head and I have quite a bunch of
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  Heavy Suck Sounds vinyl in my collection.
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  And I'm pleased to say, and this record is still available for
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  purchase. You can go check it out.
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  You know, it's like a 40 minute record with four songs, exactly
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  what you want. And this came out about a year
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  and a half ago, March 29th, 2024.
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  And you know, I love what Sean, Sean described this audience
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  perfectly on this record. There's a thing where he says
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  you're all here for a celebration of life and not the
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  fake hypocrisy of the world. So I mean, like absolutely
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  incredible. I'm paraphrasing, of course,
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  Fumblefoot is passing by. What's up, Ron?
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  And John Graham is here. And then so that's I mean, like
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  right off the bat, that's just a humongous addition to the line
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  up. And now one more just to keep it
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  a hundo. I am so honored to discuss
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  Ecstatic Visions addition to this line up.
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  This is a band from Philly that I have been into for ages and
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  saw them in New York City and Philly.
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  I haven't seen them in quite a while, but they're so good and
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  they're so good live. Their most recent album was
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  2022's Elusive Mojo. I would love to know if they are
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  working on a new record. Also from the Heavy Sights
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  Sounds label. Again, cannot miss, cannot go
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  wrong. Just an absolute killer band
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  live. And so now you have This is
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  becoming a Titanic lineup and there's still more coming.
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  So I mean, like, again, if this is your scene and this is your
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  genre desert fest, I hope someday we'll come back to New
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  York. We've covered them, you know,
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  sometimes the Decibel metal and beer festivals have some Stoner
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  bands, but it's mostly extreme metal as Decibel as want to do.
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  We did have a heavy psych sound San Francisco, which was
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  wonderful. I know Ripple Music is doing the
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  15th anniversary party, but this is your jam.
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  If you're in California, if you're in Nevada, if you're in
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  the southeast, if you're in the southwest, if you're in the East
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  Coast, if you're in Europe, come to Joshua Tree.
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  I've never been. I'm super excited to go.
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  Imagine hearing all this incredible music with like
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  minded individuals. Nobody's there to make a bad
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  time. Everybody's there to have a good
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  time. You know everybody's going to be
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  cool and it's going to be art and music and cool vendors and
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  all the things. I've been in touch with Patrick.
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  Patrick of the Van Volume has put this thing on and put this
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  thing and I'm really excited. I talked to him over the
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  weekend. We were chopping it up and
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  talking about things. Oh, hey, VW is back.
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  Thanks so much again, man. Oh, thanks again for the Ace
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  tribute. It was awesome and great, great
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  musician. Miss the Ace bro so much, man.
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  It's right in the childhood. I really, you know, like I, I
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  really, I wasn't ready for Ozzy and I'm still processing my
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  grief about that. And then, you know, honestly,
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  it's been a crazy summer. Bret Hines and Sam from Limp
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  Bizkit over the weekend. Whatever you feel about that,
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  man. He was really like a part of a
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  whole movement of American Music 25 years ago.
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  But this, you know, we've lost Ozzy.
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  He was really our North Star for doom and Stoner medal and Stoner
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  rock and weed and all the things he did all the things first.
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  So thank you, man. I appreciate the the tip and the
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  the Super. Thanks.
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  That's really meaningful. Every little bit helps every
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  little subscribe every little bit.
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  So yeah, man, that's your and there's their new record,
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  Elusive Mojo. So their most recent record.
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  Hopefully they'll announce a new one.
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  And that's our line up update for the Mojave experience coming
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  in at a very reasonable 15 minutes.
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  Everybody who tuned in today. Thanks everybody listening on
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  the follow up podcast of the reboot.
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  You know rewatch this highly rewatchable on your sites where
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  you stream. Thanks so much for supporting
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  us. I will be dropped a new
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  interview video this morning with Dave of Revocation.
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  If you like some technical death metal and great guitar shit.
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  I also love talking jazz with Dave because he's a big jazz nut
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  and jazz player also when he's not making metal.
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  We have more interviews coming later this week.
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  My show will be on Thursday. Check us out wherever you check
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  out your videos and your podcast.
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  I'm Kefi at ghostcultman.com. Shout out to Patrick and the
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  Mojave Experience. This is shaping up to be a
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  banger of a festival. And Yep, Ozzie and Rodger,
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  Arizona. Oh, yeah, bro, for sure.
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  You know, Pink Floyd is my favorite band ever.
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  And I can't. I can't fucking.
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  I cannot with Ozzie. I cannot with Roger.
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  I miss Ozzie, I'll be back soon. Thanks for watching.
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  More to come from the Mojave experience.
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  Take care and peace. A double pieced a better peace
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  out.