This was technically not our first gig at Sierra Vista - just the first one where the the power stayed on longer than 20 minutes and the roads weren’t buried in 2 feet of fresh snow. After being treated to a lakeside sunset meal from the dining room, we got a tour of resident sound guru (and Humpty’s alum) Blake’s storied vintage house audio set-up, including PA, soundboard, and monitor components from Grateful Dead and String Cheese Incident tours.

The turnout wasn’t stellar and our energy never matched the mile-high elevation, but the soundboard recording of our mediocre performance was pristine. Pristine enough that Andy–unemployed at the time–decided to sink some serious time into patching together a CD’s worth of tracks for mass-distribution at High Sierra Festival one month hence. Here’s a sampler:

• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
• Ass Ripper (aka Ripper’s Revenge)
• Where’s Walker
• Too Many Sparks
• Hindsight