Doobie Brothers: How Stampede Drove Their Fans Into Bars
Michael Gross, Circus Raves, May 1974
LATE ONE summer night in 1974, a clean-cut bar band plugged in on the stage of a waterfront singles menagerie in southern Connecticut.
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