Makua Rothman too.
It is flat in Southern California, still, with a strange mucky gloom hanging in the sky. It has been this way for months, now, driving surf fans to the brink of madness though, today, none of that matters. For a mania has begun to take hold that has nothing to do with no waves nor sun.
A hysteria.
For but yesterday, Keanu Reeves’ band Dogstar took the stage at Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California.
Johnny Utah himself plucking his bass strings while surf fans, crazed, rubbed their eyes in the audience. Dogstar, of course, was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991 when Reeves saw a man wearing a hockey sweater in the supermarket. The two got to talking, then jamming, then, as Reeves tells it, “You know, we started in a garage, and then you end up starting to write songs, and then you’re like ‘Let’s go out and play them!’, and then you’re like ‘Let’s go on tour!’, and then…you’re playing.”
There is not word, yet, on how the show was as surf fans are still in a cloud of disbelief but take a gander here.
Vedder and his Pearl Jam closed it.
But were you there, live, in the audience? How was it? I heard that Pearl Jam played a never-before-performed tune off a 1999 release called “The Whale Song.” Vedder said, from stage, “It’s a song written by one of our great drummers named Jack Irons. We asked Jack but he could not be here. But we didn’t just get the next best thing, we got something equally as good as his dad, it’s Mr. Zach Irons who’s gonna join us on this next song. He’s gonna play guitar, left-handed, and we’re gonna sing and we hope it connects and sends vibrations to our friends under the water.”
If you missed yesterday and have fallen into the deepest of depressions, don’t worry. The festival kicks on today with Sting headlining. Tomorrow it’s back to Pearl Jam and Alanis Morissette at the top of the bill.
No more Dogstar but one hand in pocket, the other giving a high five ain’t bad.
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I think you need a Valium..
Dissapointed to read elsewhere that KR is presenting a ‘Ancient Aliens’ thing on Netflix with that fuckwit Hancock.
Eddie Vedder’s bathos-ridden voice makes me puke-up a little in my mouth whenever I hear it gargling over the supermarket tannoy.
Built a sort of driftwood ‘hut’ with daughter yesterday on beach. Very satisfying to the soul.
You’ve already recognized there are colored pills. You do understand that means you’ve already been red-pilled.
Welcome to reality. Look forward to your vote for Trump. Welcome to the right side of history.
what about blue pills for the intellectually competent?
Pearl Jam headlining at night? Utah, get me two!!
Xox
“Oh, I get hysterical, hysteria
Oh, can you feel it…
Do you believe it…”
The 90s sucked. Actually the waves were epic, everything else sucked. Don’t bring back the 90s.
Boards peaked, wetsuits were okay because you had to paddle so much due to the lack of crowds.
Real indie music also peaked, have a dig.
I just caught the last years of it but thank fuck.
Xox
I lived in it and can’t remember a thing. Thank fuck for muscle memory
Haha, couple of cones for brekky and out there.
Xox
Bass Reeves
Arguably two of the best.
they’ll be dragging the corpse of that inxs star who fucked kylie up on stage if they could
Who will?
The zombie corpse lovers who live in the past
Shhhh!!!
Dats RELIGION.
and VONR wants to be a gorilla.
What would Chandler Bing make of all this?
Never too soon,….NEVER!
Chandler might have paddled out at the Boneyard while shrooming his brains out
https://youtu.be/DiiH-0sC_Jk
All aboard the gravy wave train. Money talks. Oil bet my life on it.
Why no quicksilver France festival coverage?
Looks like Kelly is there so he doesn’t have to change diapers.
I think he brought the family in fairness to him!
I hope so for their sake
Killani was in one of the photos he posted from France! I really respect him keeping his child out of the public eye. Private is private
If this kid has a passport, what is his name?
Good point! Not our business!
C’mon man
You are right, I’m being far too preachy!
I did as you suggested Chas, and had my first ever gander at Dogstar.
Wow, they really should change their name to DOGSHIT !
Further proof that famous actor bands are only ever seen and heard because of the famous actor involved.
Q. Why is Eddie Vedder culturally appropriating the Hawaiian language for this ‘festival’ ?
A. Cos he’s a dick…
BUT does Johnnny Utah wear all of the flair, bangles and other faux rockstar thangs like Johnny Depp?
Yeah, he seems way more authentic than Depp.
cheers, beef – ^ for taking one so I didn’t have to.
Respect.
Sting, and Alanis Morrissette!? Now I understand suicide!
Death is not an option, which one would you nail?
I was hanging out with Taylor Hawkins (RIP) when he was here.
He told me when he was playing with Alanis, you had to make sure you didn’t have gun nearby because you’d want to kill yourself after every show, because of what a depressing man-hater she was.
Haha and she has been vindicated.
Xox
And on the other side of the world Kelly sits in a Hossegor hotel room riddled with FOMO while still waiting for his custom sleds hand shaped by 10 year old Thai phenom Peek-a-boo to be released from customs.
Beat me to it ha
Hey he has gotten away from the misso and kid so he is winning brah.
Xox