I used to love reading the local scene reports in Maximumrocknroll. Because it was pre-internet I could never hear the bands without sending off for their records, so I'd just have to imagine what they sounded like based on short interviews and photos. I remember seeing this really early lo-fi picture of Rancid playing live and thinking they must be incredible. In my head I'd built them up as a kind of west coast Pussy Galore. How completely wrong I was.
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