“At Desert Sessions, you play for the sake of music. That’s why it’s good for musicians. If someday that’s not enough anymore, or that’s not the reason behind you doing it--that’s not your raison d’etre--then a quick reminder like Desert Sessions can do so much for you, it’s amazing. It’s easy to forget that this all starts from playing in your garage and loving it."- Josh Homme Joshua (Josh) Homme (born May 17, 1973) is a United States musician from Palm Desert, California. ...

The Desert Sessions are a musical improv series "that cannot be defined". Founded by Josh Homme in the late 1990's. Artists such as PJ Harvey, Twiggy Ramirez, Dave Catching, Nick Oliveri, Mark Lanegan, Alain Johannes, Jesse Hughes, Dean Ween and many others have contributed as songwriters and musicians. Joshua Homme Joshua (Josh) Michael Homme (born May 17, 1973) is a United States musician from Palm Desert, California. ... Polly Jean Harvey, born October 9, 1969 in Weymouth, Dorset is a British singer and songwriter. ... Twiggy Ramirez, circa Mechanical Animals Jeordie Francis White (born June 20, 1971), better known by his former pseudonym Twiggy Ramirez, was the bassist for Marilyn Manson from 1994 until 2002 (at which point he abandoned the pseudonym). ... David (Dave) Catching (b. ... Nick Oliveri (born October 21, 1971) is a United States musician from Palm Desert, California. ... Mark Lanegan (born November 25, 1964 in Ellensburg, Washington) is a singer and songwriter both as a solo artist and as frontman for numerous bands, most notably Screaming Trees, an early grunge band. ... Dean Ween (born September 25, 1970) is the stage name of Mickey Melchiondo, guitarist & vocalist for the alternative rock group Ween. ...

The Sessions began in August, 1997 at a place called Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree when Homme brought together musicians from the bands Monster Magnet, Goatsnake, earthlings?, Kyuss (his own band) and Soundgarden. The ranch is an old house filled to the brim with rare and unique recording equipment and instruments and is owned by Dave Catching and the late Fred Drake. Songs are written on the spot in matters of hours usually, and no place in the home is safe from the music. Legend after myth after story has grown around the Sessions, and most of them are most likely quite true. For example, the song "Creosote" from Volumes 9 & 10 was written by Dean Ween and Alain Johannes on the ranch's front porch immediately after meeting each other in four minutes. The first "session" was not actually a Desert Session per se, but Homme and his band at the time (The Acquitted Felons) playing for three days straight under the non-stop influence of mushrooms. Since then the ranch has grown legendary and the Sessions have only grown in intensity and artistic merit. Binomial name Yucca brevifolia Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) are monocotyledonous trees found only in North America in the states of California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. ... Monster Magnet is an American heavy metal band. ... The Band Goatsnake are an American doom metal band, formed from the ashes of The Obsessed. ... Promotional photo by Michael Anderson. ... Soundgarden was a seminal Seattle rock band instrumental in creating the sound that came to be called grunge. ... David (Dave) Catching (b. ...

Discography

• Volumes 1 & 2 (1998, Man's Ruin)

-Special Note-: This album is extremely rare; a copy of the actual album costs around $110 on the internet.

• Volumes 3 & 4 (1998, Man's Ruin)
• Volumes 5 & 6 (1999, Man's Ruin)
• Volumes 7 & 8 (2001, Southern Lord/RekordsRekords)
• Volumes 9 & 10 (2003, Ipecac/Rekords Rekords)

Incomplete Collaborating Band List

• A Perfect Circle
• Marilyn Manson
• Soundgarden
• earthlings?
• Monster Magnet
• Goatsnake
• Kyuss
• Queens of the Stone Age
• PJ Harvey
• The Vandals
• Masters of Reality
• Mondo Generator
• Fatso Jetson
• Yawning Man
• Fu Manchu
• Eleven
• Ween
• Danzig

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