I just finished thumbing through Gimmie Something Better: A History of San Francisco Bay Area Punk Rock (Penguin).  The following things were thought up in my head: What’s interesting about this book,  it isn’ t about New York or LA, it’s about this weird scene that produced one band who sold more records than just about all the important bands from either of those places (Green Day), and gave us some of the most enduring artwork (Winston Smith,Flipper logo, Cometbus […]