PlayThisRiff.com, which is owned and operated by Bob Balch from Fu Manchu, has released a new “Lick Of The Week” lesson, available for free at this location.

In this addition to “Lick Of The Week”, Bob Balch shows us a Mountain style lick using E Minor Pentatonic with a blues note and a string skip. Leslie West would also use blues notes and skip strings. He does a similar lick in the Mountain song "Never In My Life”.

Lo Sound Desert, the video documentary about the Californian Desert music scene, which gave birth to bands like Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Queens Of The Stone Age and more, will finally be released worldwide this summer on July 1st via Monoduo Films. A decade in the making by filmmaker Jörg Steineck (Truckfighters), Lo Sound Desert is the definite music documentary about desert rock. A video trailer can be found below.

Lo Sound Desert provides a deep, intimate look into the Low Desert music scene’s history with never-ending jams in the middle of the desert which continues to live on with the same vitality, authenticity and resilience as two decades ago. Lo Sound Desert is narrated by Josh Homme (Kyuss, Eagles Of Death Metal, Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures), Brant Bjork (Kyuss, Fu Manchu), Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson, Orquestra del Desierto, Ten East, The Perfect Rat) and many other from bands like Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Mondo Generator, Dali’s Llama, Hornss, Slo Burn, Unida and Fu Manchu.

What was started by revolting punk rock kids throwing parties in the middle of the desert - hidden from narrow-minded authorities of suburban America in the early 80s, became a movement over the years.

“If my opinion matters, this film is very authentic.” - Brant Bjork (Kyuss)

“Outstanding! One of the rare rock documentaries that will survive.” - Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson)

From endless jams in unconditioned rehearsal garages to wasteland venues to smoked-up European backstage rooms: ‘Desert Rock’, a specific vibe of pure analog rock music, was fostered by the beauty of a surrounding that naturally provides a lot of space. Until nowadays it continued its slow-moving underground spread and became international treasure. In a way Desert Rock never reached extreme popularity like simultaneously grown, commercially hyped Grunge Rock in the early 90’s. But it still seems to be around and inspires new generations of rock bands to carry on.

On July 1st and with the help of UK promoters Desertscene and Desertfest they're celebrating Lo Sound Desert's release and the London premiere with a screening  of the long 2-part version (incl. bladder-friendly intermission) at one of the The Desert Fest location's The Black Heart, featuring bands live on stage after the screening and a getting out  of hands DJ-party afterwards. More details here.