No, not those Sonics. I’m talking about the return of the best thing to happen to Tacoma since glass-blowing—The Sonics, the band whose “Psycho” and “The Witch” rekindled my interest in rock ‘n’ roll right around the time of The Great Electronica Scare Of 1997. Thank you, Nuggets sampler CD at the used music store down the block. You saved me from Decks and Drums and Rock and Roll.

The garage rock legends return to the stage for the first time in 20 years at the Cavestomp Festival in Brooklyn this weekend. This interview’s mumbling, unclear response to “why a reunion now” makes me wonder which member’s got a gambling problem to clear up, so does that mean we should expect the old men to scream at us in a local venue any time soon?

“If we come back with our tails between our legs, I’m not goin’ out of my house,” [guitarist Larry] Parypa joked. “But if it goes as good as I hope that it does … I would like to if there’s a venue that we agree to. We want to do it in a prominent (place). We don’t want to play some local tavern or anything.”