"He was 17, newly unmoored from Los Angeles, and soon found himself living above the original Rainbow Grocery (16th St. between Valencia & Guerrero) in a cheap, scrappy apartment full of people who were making art because they didn't know how not to. Days blurred into nights, music equipment passed hand to hand, and half-eaten burritos littered the floor. The city outside their window seemed to run on its own strange frequency."
""The book is a story about San Francisco-the time and place, and my place in it," he told 48 Hills from Paris. "It feels like it was such a special time, different from any other. My community just all happened into that city at the same time, and it felt like a sense of royalty in that we all got to live through what San Francisco was at that point.""
"Leaving LA was instinctive for the future indie musician, who found its cookie-cutter mentality, obsession with beauty and glamour, and the entertainment industry off-putting. "I was a darker kid than that, and I aimed for something a bit more intense," says Bottum.San Francisco was the opposite. If LA was bright flood lights on Hollywood Blvd., the City by the Bay was the underside."
Roddy Bottum moved to San Francisco in 1981 at age 17 without a plan or job and lived above the original Rainbow Grocery in a cheap, scrappy apartment with other artists. Days blurred into nights as music equipment circulated and half-eaten burritos cluttered the floor. The city felt like a fully formed community whose rhythms predated his arrival. He later achieved fame with Faith No More and Imperial Teen and relocated to New York in 2010. He regards his San Francisco years as a special, privileged time when a creative community converged and felt like a shared sense of royalty.
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