Talk:Palm Desert Scene

The Universe
Greatest scene in the universe. Wish I grew up here during the 80's and 90's. 69.201.161.195 (talk) 19:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Yawning Man
Put Yawning Man in the Notable Bands section. As they inspired Kyuss, and Kyuss are usually thought of as epitomising the scene, I put Yawning Man at the head of the list, but feel free to change that if you doubt it's of much use.

Merge with desert rock?
Recently it has been requested that this article and the desert rock article be merged. I support merging desert rock into this article. The term is nearly always used to describe bands from this scene, and both articles contain much of the same info. Opinions?  ~Asarlaí  23:57, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 02:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

This is a mistake based on a misunderstanding of the original (or earlier?) genre known as desert rock. See bands like American Music Club or Thin White Rope, or even the early Chris Issak albums. When I was a DJ on college radio in the 1980s the term 'desert rock' was widely used in publications like CMJ & Spin, and was frequently seen on the stickers on album shrink wrap to direct unknown bands to potential listeners. This was a well-known term at the time and described an expansive, open sound with a lot of undistributed guitar, slow tempos, and often somewhat psychedelic lyrics. '''The definition described on this page now seems to be much younger, and has no relation (other than perhaps the proximity of deserts) to the earlier term. Unfortunately''' I cannot separate the two at this time but suggest someone with better editing skill do so, perhaps renaming the later to something like 'desert rock of the 1990s'... User hujev Jan 31, 2021 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1007:B019:52FC:2D9A:1CDF:D582:4DCD (talk) 05:36, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Distinction with North African desert music
There is a form of desert-inspired rock music from the Sahara desert currently under desert blues. I am changing the redirect to desert rock music to desert rock to account for this. --Arcahaeoindris (talk) 15:12, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Merge and Redirect?
I'm sorry but I'm a bit confused here, is the proposal to merge this INTO Desert Rock (a disambigulation page)?? Desert rocks include other desert areas in the U.S. and of course Africa. Not all Desert Rock or Desert Punk is part of the "Palm Desert Scene". There are substantial contributors from Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and other desert areas in California. Why does American Desert Rock redirect to this very small representation of local regional music in Palm Desert? Netherzone (talk) 21:59, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a great point. At the moment there is no article for "desert rock" except for this one and desert blues of the Sahara. You are welcome to distinguish this further, I'm mainly working on the African desert rock article, which needs a lot of improvement. --Arcahaeoindris (talk) 13:27, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Blender Link/Citation dead
The link to the Blender article doesn't work. Not sure if it can be found somewhere else.84.201.158.100 (talk) 12:09, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I've rescued it, thanks for the heads-up!  Skomorokh   16:07, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

o lol
This is the funniest sentence in uh, the universe: "Anyway not all Palm Desert scene bands are 'stoner rock.'" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.48.103.67 (talk) 21:52, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

This whole scene sounds like a load of nonsense to me. Psyechedelia primarily grew out of country rock thanks to the likes of The Byrds and The Doors. Later bands such as R.E.M. sometimes used the country/ the desert as inspiration. Calling a scene 'desert rock' just smacks of being egotistically reductive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Picnico (talk • contribs) 10:24, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

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