Rock 'n' Roll in Orange County

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The great acts—from Hendrix to Joplin andfrom Kiss to Korn—played to the Orange County crowd at such classic venues asHuntington Beach's Golden Bear, the Anaheim Convention Center and Anaheim'sDoll Hut. Rock 'n' roll's OC roots include Leo Fender's electric guitar factoryin Fullerton and the birthplace for the garage-band standard "Louie Louie" inAnaheim. As the music changed, iconic OC groups like Social Distortion andAvenged Sevenfold helped lead the way. Final curtains came down here, too:though killed in England, Eddie Cochran is buried in Cypress, and BobbyHatfield, half of the Righteous Brothers, is interred at Corona del Mar. Joinpop culture expert Chris Epting for the essential big hits plus idiosyncraticflip-side riffs of Orange County's mighty rock 'n' roll history.