Echoes: An Interview With Gene Clark
Steve Burgess, Dark Star, 1977
WAY BACK THEN, in DARK STAR 3, I wheeled out something called "Gene Clark: Zenmaster", a highly personal crit of the myth-spinner himself, whose music I have always been so affected by (God, I'm so affected) that I'm practically pickled in it by now. Get the picture; it was more a work of spiritual necessity than an earnest attempt to impress the hell out of y'all with my erudition. Apparently it had various results:
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