Toadies with Local H

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Possum Kingdom still works. It works better with nothing around it for forty miles, played loud by the men who wrote it, in a room small enough to read the setlist taped to the floor. Anyone who wore that song out in a bedroom in 1995 already knows whether they are going. Pappy & Harriet's sits in Pioneertown, a mock Old West film set built in the 1940s that became an actual town, and the drive out past Yucca Valley is part of what you are buying - two and a half hours from Los Angeles, the last forty minutes with no streetlights, and then a roadhouse with a barbecue pit and a stage that has hosted Paul McCartney and Robert Plant for reasons nobody has fully explained. Local H opens, which is a genuinely good pairing rather than a package tour: two bands who survived the same decade by refusing to get bigger. Tuesday night, doors at seven, music at eight. The regulars book a motel in Joshua Tree rather than drive home, and the regulars are right.