We Started The Fire: Burning Man history as a list song

2019

A rapid-fire list song in the mould of "We Didn't Start the Fire", running through Burning Man's origin story in verse: Baker Beach, Zone Trip 4, the Cacophony Society, Larry Harvey, Jerry James, Danger Ranger, Crimson Rose, the move to the Black Rock Desert and the arrival of electronic music and theme camps. It is a piece of community folklore rather than a document of any single burn, compressing decades of names and milestones into a few minutes.