We've been touring to Colorado since '98 and have made so many friends that it feels like a second home. It's a combination of the beautiful outdoors and people who love live music.

It's a breath of different air because creative input didn't come from members of Vinyl. The Rondo Brothers came in and just mutated a bunch of our songs. They affected it with dub, tempo, pulled instruments in and out of the mix, sliced and diced, reassembled, and in some cases, giving the song an entirely different feel.

He's a master musician. He's a genius on the keyboards and a visionary as far as the ground work he laid with P-Funk.

People play hard, party hard and love music.

Categories are a drag. It's groove music. We don't just jam, the songs have parts. We don't just go off into oblivion. There is a beginning, middle and end with room for fooling around in the middle.

We've got trees down and at least one report of one home being damaged.