On July 4, 1976, at a music venue/pub at the bottom of Snig Hill and Bank Street, in the steel town of Sheffield, The Clash played their first live show.

On that day, The Clash had traveled up from London to open a show for The Sex Pistols. While The Sex Pistols had been together since February, The Clash had only been practicing for four weeks before the show.

Guitarist/vocalist Joe Strummer had had extensive experience with his pub rock The 101'ers, but bassist Paul Simonon could barely play, relying on Mick Jones to tune his bass during the set. Also performing in the band were Keith Levene (later with Public Image Ltd) and Terry Chimes on drums.

The set included four songs:
"Listen"
"Rabies"
"Ooh, Baby, Ooh (It's Not Over)"
"Protex Blue"

The Black Swan (sometimes called "The Muddy Duck") eventually became Boardwalk. The owners have been trying to sell the place for years- not sure if it's open now.

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Gene and Dean Ween recorded The Pod and Pure Guava at "the Pod," a fly-ridden shack they shared on a horse farm on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township.

They recorded both albums on a Tascam 4-track, and according to Deaner, they didn't even bother buying new tapes for Pure Guava but simply recorded over demo tapes that other bands had given them on the road.

This is arguably the band's "brown"-est period- a term they devised to describe anything "f*cked up in a good way."

As their producer and sometimes bass player Andrew Weiss put it:

"...you know, stuff's always so well-orchestrated, or tries to be, when people make records, but the best sound you're gonna get out of stomp box is when the battery's right at the point of dying and it sounds like it's being strangled or something. So it's kind of like those glorious mistakes are what you're lookin' for."

(Chocolate and Cheese, Hank Shteamer, 33 1/3 books)

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A New Hope live-music/dive-bar institution since 1972, J & P's has given many local bands a chance to practice in front of an audience.

Hometown heroes Ween have a photo print hanging at John and Peter's, the same print of Ringing Rocks that was in the liner notes of Chocolate and Cheese. The photo was taken by Danny Clinch, an Annie Leibovitz protégé.

Ween used to play the occasional surprise show at this bar.

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Located on the southwest side of the Young Street Bridge in Aberdeen, WA is Kurt Cobain Riverfront Park. Dedicated to the memory of the singer/songwriter, the park is a small, river-front community park that has a number of sculptures, plaques and signs regarding Cobain.

The Nirvana frontman used to hang out under the bridge as a youth (his boyhood home is two blocks away). The song "Something in the Way" recounts his experiences there.

While it has been embellished that Cobain used to sleep under the bridge when he was homeless, this story has not been verified (although he did sleep nearby in the waiting room at Grays Harbor Community Hospital during homeless periods).

Under the Young Street Bridge there is graffiti and numerous messages tagged in memoriam of Cobain by his fans.

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The band started at this location, practicing in a shed in the backyard.

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