Desolation Center | movie | 2018 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The untold story of a series of Reagan-era guerrilla punk and industrial desert happenings in Southern California that a | dG1fN3oxYWRkeXhxeEE

Transcript

00:00Back in the 80s we put on parties in the desert and we called ourselves Desolation Center.

00:16Is the punk movement part of the Nazi movement?

00:19No, that's the police, that's the Nazi movement.

00:29The 80s have been long at odds with police.

00:31The early 80s was a time of experimentation and rebellion.

00:35The LAPD freaked out about punk rock like it was the second coming of the Black Panthers.

00:41They were gonna squash that stuff.

00:43I started thinking I need to apply some of the out-of-the-box punk rock thinking.

00:49And it sort of struck me like, wow,

00:52why couldn't we put this kind of really cool music into this desert environment?

00:58Like how many things could go wrong, you know?

01:04I immediately understood the element of danger and

01:08the element of feeling alive are actually connected.

01:11Everything that I found exciting at the time all here in this remote spot.

01:18Everyone was on acid and there was no plans for us to get home.

01:22Did you guys have permits for that?

01:24No.

01:26Total anarchy.

01:27I had no idea that we were making history.

01:31It's these magic moments that the people who go to them

01:34are affected by them and it might inspire future generations.

01:39Desolation Center was one of the inspirations when we started doing Burning Man.

01:46It was beyond a theory, you know?

01:48It was made real.

01:49This gig makes total sense.

01:52And I just remember thinking this is transformative.

01:56Those shows reflected that spirit of, I'm going to make it happen.

02:02It was definitely one of those doors that opens and

02:05you're kind of different on the other side.

02:17I was kind of hoping to see the hillside come down on everybody,

02:20but that's my disappointment.