Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks: Where’s The Money?; Last Train to Hicksville
Mick Gold, Let It Rock, December 1973
LIFE USED TO be tough but simple in Tin Punk Alley: you made it or you didnt. Groups would ride in their pink Cadillacs or expire gratefully. Since the advent of ecology, things have gotten more complex: dead groups dont fade away, they only re-cycle themselves, juggle their membership, shoot up a new lease of life.
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