Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2016 March 16 • Wednesday

We love books at Gutbrain headquarters here. And we especially love specific reference books that zero in on some sliver of pop culture. Somewhere in this apartment, for instance, is a book about villains in Victorian-era science fiction novels. Or something like that.

There's also a special place in my heart for books in Japanese, since they're so often nicely designed and look nice on the shelf and also because they might encourage me to resume the Japanese language studies I suspended years ago.

All of which brings us to this handsome volume, 60's Garage Disc Guide, a nicely designed, Japanese-language reference book about garage band recordings from the 1960s!

Most of the text is track listings for the various records you see in the pictures and I think I could decipher most of the rest of it if I really wanted to.

This is really the kind of book you want to curl up with. Of course you need the right music playing when you do...