Before heading to eastern Europe for a five-week tour, proto-punk and garage-rock pioneer Rob Lind of The Sonics came by the studio to talk about making music with his friends as a naive teen in the mid-'60s, with no idea of how iconic his band would become.

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• [From left] Mark Kemp, Rob Lind and Ryan Pitkin.