Yawning Man es una banda seminal de la escena stoner de Palm Desert, al sur de California(Kyuss, Fatso Jetson, Fu Manchu, Mondo Generator, Orquesta del Desierto, etc). Sus temas mayormente instrumentales, largos a la Grateful Dead, y de similares aspiraciones místico-cósmicas son el fruto de las generator parties, fiestas en el medio del desierto con la electricidad de un generador diesel en las que las bandas tocaban gratis, en círculos muchas veces íntimos, durante toda la noche(lo que a nosotros nos suena bastante a una zona temporalmente autónoma).
Yawning Man was the sickest desert band of all time. You’d just be up there in the desert, everybody’d just be hanging, partying. And they’d show up in their van and just, mellow, drag out their shit and set up right about the time the sun was goin’ down, set up the generators, sometimes they’d just go up there and drink beers and barbecue. Sometimes it would be a scene; sometimes it would be very intimate. It was very casual and loose and everybody would like, while they’re playing, everyone would just lounge around. They were kinda like a house band. It wasn’t militant like Black Flag. It was very drugged, very stone-y, it was very mystical. Everyone’s just tripping, and they’re just playing away, for hours. Oh, they’re the GREATEST band I’ve ever seen.
Brant Bjork (2002)
Prueba de ello es que no grabaron un sólo disco hasta el 2005, aunque tocaban juntos desde el ‘86.
Un disco para empezar(aunque recomiendo mucho escuchar los vivos) en un blog también altamente recomendable.
Rock Formations (2005)
