Bay Area Music

I'll get things started so that you have some idea of what I mean. Whenever I hear any early White Stripes songs I think of the Cafe's on Columbus because when I lived in North Beach, I was dating this guy that was really into the White Stripes. I had never heard of them, but he would burn me these disks of them and other alt bands that he really liked (he actually had pretty good taste in music). Hollie Go Lightly (sp?) too. He liked them too.

I went to see Vampire Weekend last night at the Greek in Berkeley, and it was great! I love Vampire Weekend even though people say they are the whitest band ever. There is definitely something very snobby and eastcoast about the them (I think they all met in Cambridge), and even when they have songs about California, like "California English," it is kind of like Woody Allen's view of California, it always feels like it is being filtered through an East Coast frame of view.

Anyway they were great!

Oh, as far as music, the first group that I really started to associate with here was the Gypsy Kings, a Spanish group who were kind of popular when I first came up here, but I had never heard them before.

Teh other group that always feels SF to me is Simon and Garfunkel--probably because of the Graduate.

This is interesting, I love the responses. When I think of jam bands though, I think of grunge and when I think of grunge I think of Seattle, not SF. The White Stripes are the developers of the hipsters, so I can see that they ooze California culture, but I think of them as more L.A., not SF although SF certainly has it's fair share of skinny jeans taking over the world.

When I think of bands and SF together I think of the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin. Oh yeah and whoever said Green Day, and the Gypsy Kings - them too.