San Francisco The Musical History Tour A Guide to over 200 of the Bay Area's Most Memorable... Book

Take into consideration that the book was published in 1996, so the wealth of Bay Area musical history is better found on the inter webs. Selvin’s tenure at the SF Chronicle peaked in the 70’s. It shows. There’s great information about the established music venues and arenas of the time period. I dug the histories of repurposed and long gone jazz and blues clubs. It’s thin on punk and new wave clubs. Missing is the On Broadway, which had a music history going back 50 years. What about John Lee Hooker’s club in the Fillmore; Eli’s Mile Hi Club and Esther’s Orbit Room in Oakland? Barrington Hall in Berkeley? Gilman Street is under the wrong name. If you are a Deadhead or Jefferson Airplane fanatic, you’ll find addresses of cemeteries, drug busts and the like.