If you’ve heard of the Bobby Fuller Four you probably know of their big hit, “I Fought the Law” - later covered, memoraby, by the Clash, and my own band used to play it as well - big crowd favorite. This one’s just as good - later covered by Phil Seymour and Marshall Crenshaw, among others. And the band distills that two-guitars-bass-and-drum sound to its purest form. This one rocks.

But as interesting as the music of the band is the story - which ends up with Bobby Fuller himself dead, covered with gasoline, blood and bruises in his mother’s car in Los Angeles in July 1966. It was ruled a suicide, then later termed “accidental” - the idea being that he’d been to an LSD party, fallen and died - and it was made to look like a suicide. But why the gasoline, then? Then there was the fact that four days after Fuller was found dead, two guys with guns show up at the apartment the band’s guitarist shared with the drummer. Rumors of mob connections, that maybe Fuller was actually murdered. Strange dealings. Strange days indeed.