Yawning Man - Rock Formations VinylYawning Man: Palm Desert, California. Yawning Man, who hail from the arid desert area of Southern California, have been playing, jamming, and recording since 1986, and are a highly influential band. Most of their fans and those heavily influenced by them consider them to be 'the originators' of the entire Desert Rock movement genre, and their influence has reigned far and wide across the globe. An incredible steppingstone in the history of the band,