In the late 80's and early 90's the Bay Area had a garage rock 'n' roll scene that was the envy of the leather jacket and tight jeans wearing world. The Mummies, Supercharger, The Trashwomen, The Rip-offs, Phantom Surfers and many more bands took fast, catchy 1960's teen rock and stripped it down even further, playing with ridiculous amounts of reverb, recording on the most low-fi equipment possible and made raw, lewd and explosive music that forever sounded as if it was playing out of a blown speaker. In other words, they made rock 'n' roll fun again. The Mummies were famous for breaking their equipment on a regular basis, not for show as The Who or Nirvana were known for, but they just played so damn hard that keys were always flying off organs, amps blew out, or a guitar might have to be used to fight off a drunken fan wielding a broken bottle. Here are two live performance of the Mummies doing the 1964 Pleasure Seekers song, "What A Way To Die" (I believe this was for a local public access show) and their own instrumental, "The Fly":
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