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When Lucerne Valley went punk: How Desolation Center festivals in the 1980s inspired Coachella, Burning Man
Editor s note: This article originally ran in the Palm Springs Desert Sun on Oct. 16, 2019.
In the early 1980s, the music and art scenes in Los Angeles thrived. There were no limits, everything was up for grabs and the underground turned out bands opposite of the mainstream. Thought-provoking performance art would have shocked traditional audiences with nihilistic realism of living during the Cold War. Men, women and people of different racial and cultural backgrounds united to create experimental music ahead of its time. Punk rock anarchy made chaos sexy to suburbanites.
To casual observers and critics alike, punk was considered a flash-in-the-pan genre, just another degenerate subculture that would fade quicker than a searing, loud-as-hell album after turning off the electricity. Unfortunately for them, punk was more permanent and corrosive, like rust gnawing on the chrome empire of music. Thomas Tarbox Kiersted, known to wear his signature flannel shirts and pink converse, was at the forefront of that genre in Houston in the early 1980s. His sudden unexpected death has left the community reeling.
Punk produced a dizzying array of styles and manufactured output, whether amateur fanzines chock-a-block with interviews and scribbles spewed out of Xerox machines or homemade tapes unleashing an endless barrage of noise across the world. But the most preferred transmission, the weapon of choice, was the 45 rpm 7-inch single. And the Degenerates, who first emerged in 1979, created an epic slice of that early punk output in town. Releasing their self-title
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