this was one of those books where you expect one thing and you get another.

on the one hand, it says it's a book of photographs of randy bachman, whose unusual access to the san francisco club scene allowed him to document all the acts that played there for two decades.

but the pictures are generally so small, and the text is so divorced from 1) the pictures or 2) randy's story, that you end up reading a completely different book - a book that catalogues the club scene in san francisco (with a distinct skew towards 70a stadium-rock).

and perhaps that's interesting to some. not so much for me.