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Longtime San Francisco Chronicle music hack Joel Selvin has written another error-riddled piece about Bay Area Music history:

The Chronicle's Bay Area musical history tour

• Ummm... Zeppelin made their final Bay Area appearance with Bonham in OAKLAND, not S.F.... and it wasn't his final show with the band. However, the Oakland show was Bonham's final show in America.
  
• The Metallica house was NOT at the location Selvin identifies. The actual Metallica Mansion was at 3132 Carlson Avenue in EL CERRITO (not Richmond). Selvin also noted this incorrect address in his 1996 book San Francisco: The Musical History Tour: A Guide to Over 200 of the Bay Area's Most Memorable Music Sites... which means alot of tourists have been visiting the wrong house all these years. Oh well!
  

Many Music Geeks of my generation have wanted to slap Selvin repeatedly over the years. Umlaut still has Selvin's patronizing and dismissive review of Metallica's 1985 San Francisco show in his scrapbook.

A note for the newbies: DO NOT believe everything you read by Mr. Selvin. Yes, he's been covering Bay Area Music since, like, 1906 or something.. but he is not the official Historian of Bay Area Music.