When Gabe Flores isn’t chilling at Walt’s or working at Walt’s, he’s making music, writing songs, and shredding. Gabe plays in two LA-based bands, Hooveriii, a predominantly metal band that is so hesh your neck hurts after listening to them. His other band is Grave Flowers Bongo Band – get the name thing he did there? And yes, their sound is full of bongo, all around, but it’s also melodic, Eastern inspired, full of trancelike instruments that could easily be mistaken for sitars and tablas. His new album Flower Pot sounds like something the Stones would’ve recorded at Keith Richard’s Villa Nellcote, high on acid, hallucination surrounding them. Brian Jones on bongos, wearing a Cheshire Cat grin. So how did a hesh metal head whip out such a playful collection of songs? “My inspiration was really about having a good time at home jamming with friends all acoustic style and not pissing off the neighbors.”