Prague Rawk Summer

Obtained tix to Fiery Furnaces at The Fillmore this Thursday and have, in the meantime, been obsessed with them. It's such a fresh vibe they're putting out there.
I had another prog rock attack as I passed Aquarius Records http://www.aquariusrecords.org/ on Valencia. In case you haven't heard, Aquarius is one of San Francisco's best music shops with amazingly detailed reviews pasted onto the CD's and LP's. They also seem to curate special areas of music, like New Zealand pop about ten years ago and these days have a thriving trade in Japanese noise bands and the like. The shop use to be in Noe Valley, but migrated to The Mission in the 1990's as The Mission boomed and Noe Valley got, um, all breedery and even more sedate. Well, I was certain they'd have VdGG in stock and I had a major jones to hear their 1969 song, "Refugees." Turns out they had a deep stock of VdGG. Incidentally, I happened to see in the store two of the most casually elegant drag queens I've seen in some time. One seemed inspired by Diana Ross and the other more like Nina Hagen on a day off. Ah, SF. In any case, I was pleased as punch with my purchase. That's Van der Graaf Generator looking very '69 in the photo here.