@BlindBoyGrnt
Chuckles! Yeah, always something.
The real story came about the day after those concerts.
May is usually gray and overcast, and can be chilly; not that weekend. That weekend was brutally hot.
The next morning,... it was back to work.
I was doing some fine finishing in a custom house at the edge of Orange County, Coto de Caza, where it becomes wild land, and is part of the Cleveland National Forest.
I arrived early, and went into the garage of the house (new construction, vacant). I went in and turned on my air compressor. It fired up, and started building pressure. But it was making an odd noise. So I started looking around, reaching around, tightening the drain plug, feeling around the +pressure piping, trying to find this noise, thinking I had a leak, bad valve, etc. I was literally on my hands and knees, with my cheek really close to the ground trying to look at the drain plug under the compressor. This is when I saw it... a 6' Western Red Diamondback Rattlesnake coiled up, and mad as hell, rattling with everything that it had, and I had my face right at its coil. I was looking up at it all coiled up and ready to strike. I don't know how I missed it, but, there it was, and I was offering it my cheek, right below its coiled and armed stance.
I did this wild man pots and pans panicked roll away from it. I bounced up and down a whole bunch when I was safely removed from it. Then I regained composure, and, got a tool, and escorted the snake back out into the wild land.
We found a second one of equal size at the edge of the property a couple of hours later.
Nothing like a heat spell to bring out the serpents.