Mountain View is set during the summer of 1988. That same year I walked into The Starving Musician in Santa Clara and bought a Fender Mustang and this Boss DS-1 to use in the garage/punk band I was playing in.
A year later Kurt Cobain would make that same combo famous on Bleach. I managed to see Nirvana in SF at the Kennel Club in 1990 when they came through with Tad and Dickless. Full set here:
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