(photo courtesy of Gibson performance)
Note to self: buy a cell phone.
Here in the desert, on a "road" full of dips and covered in rocks as big as your fist, the decidedly "on-road" vehicle I'm driving—a Mercury Tracer—could easily bounce and break, and nobody would ever find me. The nearest town, Lucerne Valley, is small enough and out-of-the-way enough that it doesn't even merit a McDonalds. Hell, most of the houses there look to be having moving-out sales. But we're past even
Tomorrow night, of course, being New Year's Eve.But what better band to ring in any year with? Delta Nove have been playing around in assorted Long Beach and OC clubs for at least a good decade. I caught them once when they were playing a party on the rooftop patio of some condo high-rise during the Long Beach Grand Prix, which would be something like 1998 or 1999, and they certainly made the forced huffing of racing fuel fumes much more tolerable. Then again, they were probably running on some
Long Beach Grand Prix- All Weekend!Watch downtown Long Beach transform into a race track with drifting, indy cars, and celebrity races.Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA; 562-436-3636Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, All Weekend!Featuring performances by Paul McCartney, Morrissey, The Black Keys, M. Ward, Conor Oberst and more!Empire Polo Field, 81-800 Ave. 51, Indio, CA; http://coachella.comFor more things to do this weekend--how could
