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06/02/2015

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Legends of the Desert

06/02/2015

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After headlining the Friday night of Desertfest 2012 we welcome Mario and the boys back to London with open arms.

Pioneers of the Desert rock movement Mario Lalli was recently featured on the Foo fighters ' Sonic Highways' and if you haven't seen it you can watch it here and its well worth a watch with snippets from Kyuss etc..



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Fatso Bio



Fatso Jetson was formed in Palm Desert, CA, in 1994 and are often credited as one of the fathers of Desert Rock . Fatso Jetson incorporate a broad variety of musical influences that includes punk, blues, jazz and rock music. prone to experiment with many musical textures, angular instrumental epics, and bizarre lyrics to create a punk, blues art rock all their own.

In 1995, the group recorded their debut "Stinky Little Gods" and followed that up in 1997 with "Power of Three" -- both discs appeared on SST Records. The band then teamed up with Bongload Records(Beck) who then released their third full-length disc, "Toasted", in 1998. The album produced by Chris Goss (Masters of Reality. Queens of the Stone Age).

The fourth LP was "Flames for All" in 2000 for Artist Frank Kozik's Mans Ruin Label . Fatso Jetson also contributed to "The Desert Sessions" releases that Josh Homme (Kyuss,Queens of the Stone Age) . At these

sessions Mario Lalli co-wrote two songs with Homme ("You think I ain't worth a dollar but I feel like a Millionaire" and "Monster in the Parasol") these would eventually make their way on to the Queens of the Stone Age albums "Rated R" and "Songs for the Deaf" It was Homme's record label Rekords Rekords that would release the next Fatso album in 2001 "Cruel and Delicious". For this session the band was joined by Vince Meghrouni (Bazooka, Mike Watt, BellRays) on Sax and harp adding a new dimension to Fatso's hard to pin sound. The band continues with this line up in 2010. A Fatso Jetson Live record released on vinyl only available from Cobraside records in 2007 would

be the next from the band. A new full length LP "Archaic Volumes" was released in April 2010 with a european tour to follow including a debut at Holland's "Road Burn Festival".

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