California Screamin'

Preparing for takeoff: Matt Bellinger, Chuck French, Mikey Ricketts and Gared O'Donnell are Planes Mistaken for Stars.

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With Love Me Destroyer, White Dynamite and We Can Cut You, 7 p.m. Friday, June 18, Rock Island, 1614 15th Street, $7, 303-572-7625, and with Love Me Destroyer, Red Cloud and Harrison Bergeron, 8 p.m. Saturday, June 19, 32 Bleu, 32 Tejon Street, Colorado Springs, $7, 1-719-955-5664

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On the way back to Denver in a rental car the next day, I go into a gas station and fish around in my pocket for change. My hand comes out covered in sand from the beach in San Diego, where I was four days earlier. I remember asking Gared that day if he ever got homesick; he is, after all, the member of the band most rooted in Colorado, with a mortgage, a wife and a baby boy. "Yeah, I get homesick all the time," was his answer, "but then when I'm home, I get road sick."

Then Mikey, overhearing us, summed up everything with blunt, stoner Zen wisdom: "Never at rest, dude."