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Weekly Volcano reporter Mark Thomas Deming sports a theory that Tacoma has one of the most tight-knit music communities anywhere partly because so many bands jam in the basement hidden below Sharp & Sons USA of Yesterday Motors. 

He tested his theory firsthand. He maneuvered past guitars, amps, drums, speakers, microphones, mixers, a yellow bicycle, pinup girls posters, framed picture of Yorkshire terriers, a rotating Jesus lamp, a portrait of John Wayne, and many empty beer cans to file his full report here.