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Infestation (Roadrunner)

Invasion of Your Privacy starter pistol “You’re in Love” (July 1985) makes a quarter-century comeback on Infestation leader “Eat Me Up Alive,” tag-teamed with the VH1 roundhouse of “Best of Me.” Power base Stephen Pearcy (cat-scratch vox), Warren DeMartini and Carlos Cavazo (slash and burn), and original beat master Bobby Blotzer re-up their peak Point Break on “A Little Too Much” and pole-humper’s heyday “Look Out Below” (“she’s a devil, but I like that ass“). Not a whisker out of place.

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This article appears in June 18 • 2010.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.