MCMAF: The Dilettantes  Taking love to the streets  Meeting up
for an interview anywhere in the Haight in the middle of a
Sunday afternoon is a bit of a dodgy prospect. With every easily
distracted tourist and bumbling acid casualty in the city making
random zigzags through the neighborhood, finding a clear path on
the sidewalk is enough of a challenge, never mind finding a
quiet place to talk. But there I am, in a booth at Magnolia's,
with the three songwriters of the Dilettantes, chatting away
over beers without so much as a glance in the direction of all
the scattershot energy reigning outside. Lesson? Miracles do
happen, even in the Haight.  I'm mentioning the neighborhood
because the Dilettantes identify so closely with it. Not only do
most of the band members work and spend time here, but they also
draw deeply from the Haight's '60s musical legacy. Sure, their
music is filtered through four decades' worth of post-
psychedelic comedown, but the songs of Joel Gion, Jefferson
Parker, and Brock Galland - acc