Spirit of the Garage, or Lost in the Gizz-verse

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I have the distinct privilege of having played my trusty Hagstrom II guitar (quite badly) in several Long Island-based garage bands back in the day. All these bands strictly adhered to the maxim “fun first, musicianship second.” Our cover versions were not guided by deliberate fidelity to the originals and our own original music — well, we did not have any original music. The main objective was to hang out…