It really is insane. I lived there for many years, and since I left 6 years ago for the East Bay the rents have increased by as much as 1000 percent. I had a one-bedroom in the Marina with a garage and a view of the bay for the now-science-fiction price of $1600/mo., and I found out recently that the unit now fetches…

Nice to finally see a garage rock primer. A few thoughts:

Yeah, that band has about the rawest sound of any of the '60s garage greats, definitely one of my faves. Only had a few singles worth listening too, but they were absolutely killer. And apparently the guy got that sound with a Rickenbacker 12 string, of all things.

Re: Eden Scher from The Middle. Holy crap, did that rack appear out of nowhere. She suddenly started wearing all these huge sweatshirts on the show, so 2 minute of Googling later—whoa.

Pedophilia? re: every rock and roll song of the 1950s, which were all about banging underaged teenage girls. And if you're a power pop guy, you know that the entire first Knack album is pretty much unfuckwithable.

SOOOO psyched to see this. The whole West Coast psychedelic garage scene is so vital right now, and they're a huge part of it. Glad to see they're still at it.

You know, she really is. I don't get the acclaim. She stops and starts, she gets flustered, she seems baffled or annoyed by any type of humor or irony. But worst of all, she just asks bad questions. Trivia that evolves into pointless chains of question to which no one wants the answer. What the guest thinks of her…

I don't know. She was just on Fresh Air and seemed pretty cool. And sounded pretty young, considering she's 61.

I feel about this band the way I feel about Dinosaur Jr. I love the guitar solos. Everything in between? Meh.

Exactly. There's a reason that site doesn't allow comments, and that's because if it did, their bullshit world of pretense would collapse immediately under the weight of well-deserved ridicule. It's easy to always be right when no one can tell you you're wrong.

Ugh, I HATE this band and everything about their scene. I think they were on Live at Red Rocks a while back and it was all I could do not to put a boot through my TV.

I'd really prefer not to think about 311, if it's all the same. Also, Minneapolis? Twin Tone? The Replacements, Husker Du, etc.? That's kind of a scene, no?

I aims to please, Archmage. Have I talked to you about the atrocities in Liberia funded by the Firestone Tire Company all so that can keep using cheap labor to tap their rubber trees?

There are just six strings on a guitar. Or 12. Or seven. Or eight. Or four. Or five. And different keys. And about 100 different tunings. And dozens of time signatures. And notes. And lots of chords. That you can strum. Or fingerpick in about 100 different sequences. Quickly. Or slowly. Or both. And then play on one…

I used to love this show. It was part of the Kroft Supershow, no? Did this also have Isis and Shazam? Which are not Islamic extremist groups. Probably.

I have a Grateful Dead shirt with the Black Flag bars in the skull. It's fun to wear if you want to see people experience five different emotions in 10 seconds.

PS. I want to cut you up and eat you to absorb your soul. Hugs!

Interesting that you mention that: I usually play Forever Changes, Oddessy and Oracle, and S.F. Sorrow together as a sort of musically gorgeous, but lyrically, "Hey man, the '60's ain't all that, shit's gettin' kinda weird" trilogy. Seriously, they work beautifully together.

I've said it before, but to me, Axl Rose=Edith Bunker. "Whooooooaaaaa, sweet Awwwwwchee of myeeeeeeine!"

I don't know, I always pictured him more as stage banter Paul Stanley from KISS.