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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio Playlist: Episode 22 (Kyuss Family Tree Special)

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As of this writing, I just finished cutting the voice tracks for this episode of The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio, which is centered around the Kyuss family tree. No, it’s not the entire thing — how could it possibly be the entire thing? — but it’s definitely a decent portion of it. You’ve got your John Garcia bands in UnidaSlo Burn and Hermano. You’ve got Nick Oliveri‘s acoustic stuff and Scott Reeder sitting in on the Yawning Sons record. You’ve got Ché and two solo tracks from Brant Bjork, along with Desert Sessions and Queens of the Stone Age and even Them Crooked Vultures just because I thought it was ridiculous coming out of The Obsessed. I was right about that, incidentally.

I guess if there’s an overarching lesson to taking a look at the Kyuss family tree, it’s the sheer insane amount of music these people have produced in the last 25-plus years. From Brant Bjork joining Fu Manchu to Josh Homme hosting the Desert Sessions and Alfredo Hernandez playing drums for Yawning Man, it’s unreal how far the branches go, and once you get into the fact that Scott Reeder was in The Obsessed with Wino, there’s an entire other tree right there. Forest of Riffs. I’m not complaining — the more the merrier — but if you sit and think about it for too long, it’s little short of overwhelming.

If you get to listen to the show, I hope you dig it. If not, thanks for reading anyhow.

Here’s the full playlist:

The Obelisk Show – 08.30.19

Kyuss Whitewater Welcome to Sky Valley (S/T; 1994)
Kyuss Green Machine Blues for the Red Sun (1992)
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Desert Sessions Avon Desert Sessions Vol. 3 & 4 (1998)
Slo Burn Pilot the Dune Amusing the Amazing (1996)
Ché Blue Demon Sounds of Liberation (2000)
Queens of the Stone Age The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret Rated R (2000)
Scott Reeder As I’m Dreamin’ TunnelVision Brilliance (2006)
Brant Bjork Automatic Fantastic Jalamanta (1999)
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Brant Bjork Somebody Mankind Woman (2018)
Hermano Exam Room …Into the Exam Room (2007)
House of Broken Promises Tornado Twisted (2017)
Nick Oliveri I’m Gonna Leave You Death Acoustic (2009)
Yawning Sons Garden Sessions III Ceremony to the Sunset (2009)
Fu Manchu Saturn III The Action is Go (1997)
Unida You Wish Coping with the Urban Coyote (1999)
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The Obsessed Brother Blue Steel Lunar Womb (1991)
Them Crooked Vultures Mind Eraser, No Chaser Them Crooked Vultures (2009)
Yawning Man Camel Tow Nomadic Pursuits (2010)
Vista Chino Acidize… The Gambling Moose Peace (2013)
Kyuss El Rodeo …And the Circus Leaves Town (1995)
Kyuss Allen’s Wrench Blues for the Red Sun (1992)

The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio airs every other Friday at 1PM Eastern, with replays every Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next show is Sept. 13. Thanks for listening if you do.

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