22420 Pacific Coast Highway: Tales of Tim Hudson, Sky Saxon… and Ian Botham
Mick Middles, Rock's Backpages, July 2012
STICK-THIN, clad in purple and black. Leather trousers, knee-length boots. Boney, bug-eyed, skank hair, dead face, white cheeks. This strange man was telling me to worship dogs. It was his belief – not mine – that Dog is God. That they inhabit the earth to scrutinise our every mood, to report back to the profound. (I believe cats do that, but let that pass).
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