THE ELECTRIC SCENE HERE IS A CLOSED CIRCUIT

Temecula, CA – This story is dedicated to Candice who recently moved back to being a Georgia peach. She once introduced me to some young friends as, “This is Mr. Pete, he makes all us ‘scene kids’ look cool to the outside (Temecula Valley) world.” That is not as hard as it would seem because of the ‘Naked City’ syndrome in the scene. You see, Sports Fans, back in the day there was a TV show called the Naked City that ended each show with the tagline, “There are 8 Million stories in the ‘naked city’ (NYC), you have just seen one of them.” Well, there aren’t 8 million stories in this fully clothed area, but the people I know in the scene around here have interesting stories themselves worthy of any TV show, and these stories are real. Here’s one of them for your perusal.

THE FIRST OF TWO REPORTS ON THE REAL ‘UNDER’ PART

Temecula, CA – Most of my music reports about new music or tales of the ‘underground’ come from locations that are known, commercially underground spots, you might say. However, there is an underground to the underground. This is the first ‘gonzo’ report on one purposely hidden side of the scene, the punk side. This ‘secret location’ has been known to me for a while but when you’re a social butterfly on a bicycle, you can’t always be ‘Johnny on the spot’. But as the ‘historian’ of the music scene, you get around to checking out things that might make a little piece of local history and add another strand to the music quilt of the valley. This is especially true when you find out a friend of yours is planning to ‘Bedrock’ it there with his new band. So me and ‘the crew of you know who’ paid a visit to where the dust rattled under the radar. The accommodations were bare-bone but the hospitality was all Ritz-Carlton. Here in pictures is the real underground punk/pit scene in the valley.