Doobie Brothers: The Reward Of Facelessness
Wayne Robins, Creem, December 1975
WHO WERE THEY? Just a bunch of street people who "looked like bikers and said they wanted to be rock 'n' roll stars" with precious little indication that they had the chops to back up that fantasy.
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