Dave Mason and Streetwalkers at Hammersmith Odeon
Chas de Whalley, NME, 13 September 1975
SOME NEED WIRES and some need strings, but Dave Mason don't use none of those things. Instead he hitched himself onto the back of his red Firebird and flew high above an ecstatic audience on his first full concert appearance in Britain for almost seven years.
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