Don’t read the comments, everyone tells you. Which does bring up the question, why does everybody still comment if nobody’s supposed to read it? Well, I went against hive advice and got stung, because Marc Ribot got dismissed as “boring surf clichés recycled. I’m not sure why these guys can’t create anything truly original.” Man. With whom has Marc Ribot played? Everybody! Who keeps hiring him? Everybody! He shouldn’t be able to impress us, let alone frighten us if he wants to! But he does! by Andrew Hamlin