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Desolation Center | movie | 2018 | Official Trailer
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2/15/2025
The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that a | dG1fN3oxYWRkeXhxeEE
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Back in the 80s we put on parties in the desert and we called ourselves Desolation Center.
00:16
Is the punk movement part of the Nazi movement?
00:19
No, that's the police, that's the Nazi movement.
00:29
The 80s have been long at odds with police.
00:31
The early 80s was a time of experimentation and rebellion.
00:35
The LAPD freaked out about punk rock like it was the second coming of the Black Panthers.
00:41
They were gonna squash that stuff.
00:43
I started thinking I need to apply some of the out-of-the-box punk rock thinking.
00:49
And it sort of struck me like, wow,
00:52
why couldn't we put this kind of really cool music into this desert environment?
00:58
Like how many things could go wrong, you know?
01:04
I immediately understood the element of danger and
01:08
the element of feeling alive are actually connected.
01:11
Everything that I found exciting at the time all here in this remote spot.
01:18
Everyone was on acid and there was no plans for us to get home.
01:22
Did you guys have permits for that?
01:24
No.
01:26
Total anarchy.
01:27
I had no idea that we were making history.
01:31
It's these magic moments that the people who go to them
01:34
are affected by them and it might inspire future generations.
01:39
Desolation Center was one of the inspirations when we started doing Burning Man.
01:46
It was beyond a theory, you know?
01:48
It was made real.
01:49
This gig makes total sense.
01:52
And I just remember thinking this is transformative.
01:56
Those shows reflected that spirit of, I'm going to make it happen.
02:02
It was definitely one of those doors that opens and
02:05
you're kind of different on the other side.
02:17
I was kind of hoping to see the hillside come down on everybody,
02:20
but that's my disappointment.
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