Dean Torrence
Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, July 1975
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Third year in a row Phonograph's run a surf revival story, as if it were a current event. Looks pretty suspicious to me, some kind of under-the-pier deal. Well, I want no part of it. I'm going to take up something completely different. Let's talk about...skateboards.
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