On Sunday, Dec. 1, DiGS Bar (36737 Cathedral Canyon Drive, Cathedral City) will launch Super Fuzz, a day of celebration for bears, leather aficionados and everyone in between. From 7 to 11 p.m., Bobby California (real name: Bob Deck) will be spinning a variety of indie music, garage rock and alternative rock. For more info, visit digsbar.com, or find the bar on Facebook. Deck, 41, a Cathedral City resident and Kansas City, Mo., native who has called the Coachella Valley home for five years, recently answered The Lucky 13. Enjoy!
What was the first concert you attended?
Mötley Crüe.
What was the first album you owned?
Paul Stanley’s self-titled solo album.
What bands are you listening to right now?
Tame Impala, King Khan and the Shrines, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, MGMT, The Flaming Lips, Dungen, The Amazing, and Black Lips.
What artist, genre or musical trend does everyone love, but you don’t get?
Miley Cyrus.
What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live?
The Beatles, of course.
What’s your favorite musical guilty pleasure?
1970s soft rock.
What’s your favorite music venue?
There’s a little pinball bar in Lawrence, Kan., called the Replay Lounge. My old band (The Hefners) used to play there a lot in the ’90s. I just attended its 20th-anniversary party last month.
What’s the one song lyric you can’t get out of your head?
I love the way that The Zombies’ “Care of Cell 44” starts: “Good morning to you; I hope you’re feeling better, baby.” It pops into my head almost every morning.
What band or artist changed your life? How?
Kiss. I met them at a hotel restaurant when I was in grade school. They were out of makeup, but had their platform boots on. I went to their table and asked for autographs, but Paul Stanley was the only one who signed my paper placemat. That made me want to be in a band—I thought they were so cool! Years later, I taught myself to play drums and played in several garage-rock bands.
You have one question to ask one musician. What’s the question, and who are you asking?
Otis Redding. He was killed in a plane crash three days after recording “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” The whistling was just filler until he came up with the words for that part. I would ask him what lyrics he was planning to replace the whistling with.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
Big Star, “The Ballad of El Goodo.”
Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time?
The Millennium, Begin.
What song should everyone listen to right now?
“Pentecost Hotel” by Nirvana (the British band from the ’60s, not the grunge band from Seattle).