[Killer Whale Tank]

I think there is definitely a legitimate essay to be written on cover bands as a general phenomenon. It's as though he had a desire to write on that theme, and decided to cram it into his book on the Hip. That piece would have worked much better as a stand-alone essay on cover bands in general (not just Hip cover bands). If he had to write about specifically Hip cover bands, then it definitely should not have been placed so early in the book, where it gets in the way of the exciting narrative of the Hip's rise to fame. A big and basic editorial mistake.