I love the desert. There’s just something about vast stretches of open land and sky that calls to me. Perhaps that’s why I struggle whenever I find myself in Las Vegas. All I see there are vast stretches of open slots and no sky (except for the fake ones in the Vegas versions of Paris and Venice).

Is there a place on earth that is more diametrically contrasted with the land that surrounds it…than Las Vegas, Nevada?

Earlier this year, I tested the outer limits of my Vegas Endurance Threshold.

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Jeff Hoyt
Vashon Island, WA
10.16.07

Here are the songs from this show, some of which can be found through iTunes:

“Glass Onion” by the Beatles
“Within You, Without You” by the Beatles
“Vegas” by Two Tons of Steel
“Chant Jam” by Blue Man Group
“The Fish (Shindleria Praematurus)” by Yes
“Dancing Queen” by Abba
“Money Money Money” by Abba
“Too Many People” by Paul McCartney