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- [Host] Bands of Enchantment, Albuquerque Sessions.

Filmed live at the KiMo Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

(upbeat rock music) (audience cheering) (audience cheering) Tonight's band from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dust City Opera.

(audience applauding and cheerin - [Ken] The one, the only, Dust City Opera!

(audience cheering and applauding) (bright rock music) ♪ The streets are awash with the blood of the angels ♪ ♪ Somewhere a voice is calling to me ♪ ♪ And a pale horse will meet me at the scene of my falling ♪ ♪ If my feet don't stop and take me back home ♪ (bright rock music) ♪ There's a tear in a river for each breath I lose ♪ ♪ I can feel the light fading in this tunnel of doom ♪ ♪ Staggering in one boot I cried out to you ♪ ♪ Put down the phone and bring me back home ♪ (whimsical circus rock music) ♪ A foreign text is crowding my vision ♪ ♪ Patterning the faces that are fading from view ♪ ♪ I'd reach for your hand if I could just find my own ♪ ♪ Oh oh ♪ ♪ I'm so far from home ♪ (whimsical circus rock music) ♪ As the tears fill the river of life that I lose ♪ ♪ I can feel the light turn colder in this tunnel of doom ♪ ♪ Staggering in one boot I cried out to you ♪ ♪ Put down the phone and bring me back home ♪ ♪ Put down the phone and bring me back home ♪ (Paul vocalizing) ♪ Put down the phone and bring me back home ♪ (Paul vocalizing) (audience cheering and applaudin - Please sir, can I have another?

(audience cheering) (smooth rock music) ♪ Lilac breeze through the back door ♪ ♪ Hangs in shadows off the porch ♪ ♪ A TV theme plays in my head ♪ ♪ Blue light flickers like a dream ♪ ♪ Take me where I used to be ♪ (smooth rock music) ♪ Street lights turn the day to night ♪ ♪ Hum their songs to passersby ♪ ♪ And all the while they're observed ♪ ♪ By mountains with their softening curves ♪ ♪ And time is kind and I am hers ♪ ♪ Ooh being drunk on a ladder ♪ ♪ Pocket full of screws and nothing really matters ♪ ♪ Up there ♪ ♪ Up there in the air ♪ ♪ Ooh I can't feel the earth ♪ ♪ Down there where folks don't know their worth ♪ ♪ Subject to the curvature ♪ (smooth rock music) - Made the mistake of wearing my brand new hoochy daddy shorts today.

And I've been cat called 17 times, "Hey boy, put that thing down."

♪ Back there you are with me still ♪ ♪ A smoke drift from the windowsill ♪ ♪ Outside the night has come ♪ ♪ And it's just me and Ketel One ♪ ♪ Abandoned by that setting sun ♪ (smooth rock music) ♪ Ooh being drunk on a ladder ♪ ♪ Pocket full of screws and nothing really matters ♪ ♪ Up there ♪ ♪ Up there in the air ♪ ♪ Ooh where I can't feel the earth ♪ ♪ Down there where folks don't know their worth ♪ ♪ Subject to the curvature ♪ (smooth rock music) ♪ Ooh like being drunk on a ladder ♪ ♪ Pocket full of screws and nothing really matters ♪ ♪ Up there ♪ ♪ Up there in the air ♪ ♪ Ooh where I can't feel the earth ♪ ♪ Down there where folks don't know their worth ♪ ♪ Subject to the curvature ♪ ♪ Ooh like being drunk on a ladder ♪ ♪ Pocket full of screws and nothing really matters ♪ ♪ Up there ♪ ♪ Up there in the air ♪ (Paul vocalizing) (smooth rock music) (audience cheering and applauding) (audience member whistling) (upbeat rock music) - Yeah.

- Tell Jesse his hair looks good!

- Dusty City Opera, take two.

(clapper board clacking) (upbeat rock music) - [Ken] How'd you get involved with the bands?

- [Clara] Paul and I were Facebook friends because I was following one of his other bands.

He said, "I'm starting a folk ensemble of sorts."

- [Paul] Have you heard of Contra Dance?

(Clara giggling) - No.

- Neither had I.

And that's like what folk is to her.

- Yeah.

- It's kinda like square dancing - And so I was like, "Oh, maybe he really wants to go actually really folky."

No, that was not what was happening.

- [Scott] The previous bass player was like my mentor.

I was a student.

- [Ken] And you found out that you went to high school.

- Well, yeah.

I mean, I remembered Paul afterward and when I first joined the band, I just thought you looked kind of familiar and I was like, "Oh, it's Albuquerque".

- [Dave] Travis and I had like a winter choir concert two weeks later, he was like, "Hey, my band's going on tour in like six weeks, do you wanna come?"

- You always say, "Yes!"

- Yeah.

But we went to school together too.

♪ Hid it's face from the light of noon ♪ - Paul and I were in a big band together.

- Like a Jazz band - [Travis] Outta the blue, kind of like Clara.

I got a text saying, "Do you wanna join this band?"

I was like, "All right, cool."

I didn't know anything else about it.

And then everything kind of just gelled and it worked.

- [Ken] We got folk, jazz, all the, I mean it's starting to make sense now.

(band members laughing) I'm starting to get the origins right.

- [Paul] It was hard for us to work together at the beginning 'cause we all kind of spoke different languages.

It's a lot less painful than it used to be.

(all laughing) ♪ I'll find you there ♪ (smooth rock folk music) (audience cheering and applaudin - [Travis] You guys rule.

Thank you so much.

(upbeat rock music) ♪ When the light angles into the leaves ♪ ♪ You can't place the scent or the breeze ♪ ♪ A million tiny lives lie hidden in the tree ♪ ♪ Soft voices whispering extraordinary things ♪ ♪ A neon shift replaces and faces that you knew ♪ ♪ Lizard brain is racing for the change inside of you ♪ ♪ Then alien summer came and they awoke in us ♪ ♪ We shed our human skin to find ♪ ♪ New fingers reaching up ♪ ♪ From quiescent chrysalides beneath the August moon ♪ ♪ The travelers made conscious ♪ ♪ The world to consume ♪ ♪ While the nightingales chitter and chant ♪ ♪ They feed in the forest of man ♪ ♪ We preying proboscides█ paralyzing sting ♪ ♪ An army of witch-mantids hunting everything ♪ ♪ The sonic trigger instigates the slaughter of the earth ♪ ♪ Frontal lobes corrupted by the hive█s ancestral thirst ♪ ♪ Then alien summer came and they awoke in us ♪ ♪ We shed our human skin to find ♪ ♪ New fingers reaching up ♪ ♪ From quiescent chrysalides beneath the August moon ♪ ♪ The travelers made conscious ♪ ♪ The world to consume ♪ (upbeat folk rock music) ♪ Gloria I█m receding from the beaches of my dreaming ♪ ♪ Into this exoskeleton ♪ ♪ The men you knew is gone ♪ ♪ Like the memory of a song ♪ ♪ I knew you once but that was long ago ♪ ♪ Alien summer came ♪ ♪ They awoke in us ♪ ♪ We shed our human skin to find ♪ ♪ New fingers reaching up ♪ ♪ From quiescent chrysalides beneath the August moon ♪ ♪ The travelers made conscious ♪ ♪ The world to consume ♪ (Travis laughing maliciously) (dark rock music) (chaotic rock music) (chaotic rock music) (upbeat rock music) (chaotic rock music) (audience cheering and applauding) ♪ It feels like either die ♪ ♪ Or sit here and go crazy ♪ ♪ I've broken every mirror ♪ ♪ Put these holes in the wall ♪ (audience clapping along) ♪ I watch cars go by all day ♪ ♪ Do they wonder what goes on in here ♪ ♪ It doesn't really matter ♪ ♪ I just sleep and watch the TV ♪ ♪ Oh darlin' ♪ ♪ I don't know why I'm dyin' ♪ ♪ It'll be better when it's over ♪ ♪ And they'll come and sell our things ♪ ♪ I can't wait for the day ♪ ♪ I'll be dressed in red ♪ ♪ Someone's gonna find me here ♪ ♪ With the radio on ♪ ♪ Oh darlin' ♪ ♪ I don't know why I'm dyin' ♪ ♪ It'll be better when it's over ♪ ♪ And they'll come and sell our things ♪ ♪ I cant wait for the day ♪ ♪ I'll be dressed in red ♪ ♪ Someone's gonna find me here ♪ ♪ With the radio on ♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ (audience cheering) ♪ It feels like either die ♪ ♪ Or sit here and go crazy ♪ ♪ I've broken every mirror ♪ ♪ Put these holes in the wall ♪ ♪ I watch cars go by all day ♪ ♪ Do they wonder what goes on in here ♪ ♪ It doesn't really matter ♪ ♪ I just sleep and watch the TV ♪ Bands of Enchantment, though.

(Paul shouting) (smooth rock music) ♪ I can't wait for the day ♪ ♪ I'll be dressed in red ♪ ♪ Someone's gonna find me here ♪ ♪ With the radio on ♪ (audience member applauding) (audience cheering and applauding) (melancholy rock music) ♪ Every day█s a little worse than the one before ♪ ♪ I start each morning waking up on the floor ♪ ♪ It's a special kind of hurt ♪ ♪ That gets me out the door ♪ ♪ Every day█s a little worse than the one before ♪ ♪ Jared quit coming in to work ♪ ♪ He hadn't said a lot since the divorce ♪ ♪ His register's closed ♪ ♪ Haven't found a replacement ♪ ♪ The Hospital's are full of Covid patients ♪ ♪ Authorities are calling off the search ♪ ♪ Every day█s a little worse than the one before ♪ ♪ I start each morning waking up on the floor ♪ ♪ It's a special kind of hurt ♪ ♪ That gets me out the door ♪ ♪ Every day is a little worse than the one before ♪ (clarinet humming) (melancholy rock music) ♪ All the kids lying in their graves ♪ ♪ Disappearing since the 1880's ♪ ♪ Cardinal invocations of a god they█ve long abandoned ♪ ♪ You see 'em all in court but nothing happens ♪ ♪ Splashing cups of cabernet ♪ ♪ Every day is a little worse than the one before ♪ ♪ I start each morning waking up on the floor ♪ ♪ It's a special kind of hurt ♪ ♪ That gets me out the door ♪ ♪ Every day is a little worse than the one before ♪ (melancholy rock music) (audience cheering and applauding) ♪ I'll find you there ♪ ♪ I'll find you there ♪ - It's just, it's really fun.

You know, just like yelling and (Paul shouting) and it's just, you know, it's cathartic.

- [Travis] It is cathartic.

Yeah I think Paul is always going after catharsis and I think one of my favorite things about sharing that with an audience is how polarizing it can be.

So some people will be super uncomfortable with it and some people will realize, "Oh, this is a, this is a thing that I needed to explore."

And so being able to share that with an audience is a fun part for me.

Finding our people is really great.

- Yes, yes.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- [Paul] The song is just an excuse to make noise and thrash around and yell.

- [Ken] Well, on that note, with that note, let's release one.

- [Paul] This is actually a really nice song after all that.

(smooth rock music) ♪ They're calling you from across the park ♪ ♪ The light that you held is getting dark ♪ - [Paul] I was not that ambitious when we started.

I was like, you can go like this, you can go like that.

It'll be great.

Years later, here we are!

(band laughing) ♪ Down the breeze ♪ - [Paul] I really enjoy like bad vibes.

(all laughing) Yeah.

I just (Paul growling) (Paul smashing) (Travis laughing) take it out, (Paul stomping) stomp on it.

I think when I was seven, my favorite movie was, 'IT.'

And.

- That tracks.

- Continues to be.

- That tracks.

- So.

(all laughing) - That's the kind of stuff that I, you know, gets me ♪ Forgotten lines of long ago ♪ ♪ A strangers eyes and you fall ♪ ♪ Into the arms of someone whose name you can't recall ♪ (Paul groaning) (Travis groaning) (audience applauding) - So good!

(audience member cheering) (distorted rock music) ♪ I've been drowning in the weight of my dreams ♪ ♪ I can't stop the flood of harrowing scenes ♪ ♪ I wake up in between everyone ♪ ♪ When will my penance be done ♪ ♪ Every night is just the same ♪ ♪ A flood of burning rain ♪ ♪ Carries me to my grave ♪ ♪ No one is saved ♪ ♪ No one is saved ♪ ♪ Under the waves ♪ ♪ We all must be washed clean ♪ ♪ I█ll see you in my dreams ♪ (heavy rock music) ♪ I've been tied to the hood of the car ♪ ♪ Set the evil out the jar ♪ ♪ And I've seen everyone I know ♪ ♪ Turn to stone under the snow ♪ ♪ No one is saved ♪ ♪ Under the waves ♪ ♪ We all must be washed clean ♪ ♪ I█ll see you in my dreams ♪ (dark rock music) (dark rock music) (dark rock music) (dark rock music) (audience cheering and whistling (audience cheering and applaudin (singer vocalizing) ♪ When they come she lets them into her fire ♪ ♪ Warm-Aura feel-good supplier ♪ ♪ A belt looses they belt for desire ♪ ♪ The devour the taste of Messiah ♪