The Third Mind played the Mystic Theater in Petaluma, Ca. on January 18, 2024.

You have your first, ordinary mind: ‘I gotta pay the rent and go to the store,” Alvin said. “Then, regular creative mind: ‘I gotta write a song and go to band rehearsal.’ The third mind puts all the various parts of your life and art together to create something new.


Dave Alvin (guitar, vocals), Jesse Sykes (guitar, vocals), Mark Karan (guitar), Michael Jerome (drums, percussion), and Victor Krummenacher (bass, vocals)

This evening’s music was great, but photo results suffered from very low light levels in the venue, and an inebriated photographer. (Some shots with shutter speeds as slow as 1/6th second, hand-held.)