What does The Lone Pine Cones mean?
Jon Lesh: My grandpa was in the Vietnam War. He has fighting with Lieutenant Peter James and they were stuck in a ditch for a while. Apparently the Lieutenant Peter James started going crazy and there were a bunch of grenades left. They were down to the last one … and Peter James started going insane and started thinking it was a pinecone. And then my grandpa said, ‘No it’s a real grenade. Don’t set it off. It’s a real grenade.’ And [Peter James] said, ‘No, it’s a lone pinecone,’ and he hurls it to the other side and apparently he saved them all and so he [my grandpa] told me the story and we were like, ‘All right. We’re naming our band after the lone pinecone.’ HN: If The Lone Pinecones were a lovechild of two bands, who would the parents would be? Matt Rhodes: One of the parents would be Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. I would say the other would be Secret Machines. HN: Who else are you influenced by? Ben Hughes: Queens of the Stone Age is a big one. Led Zeppelin. Fleet Foxes recently f