“There are a lot of ways to spend your 20s, and going out to see live local music all the time is about as good as it gets.”
That’s Marc Weidenbaum at Disquiet in a rememberance of Greg Brown, guitarist of Cake, recently dead at the way-too-soon way-too-sad (and way-too-close) age of 55. I was lucky enough to see Cake multiple times in the 90s at The Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco…Brown’s death weirdly bookends the announcement that the club will close at the end of 2026 after 35 years.