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Eye Of the Beholder: Wire Train's songs work on several levels

David Gans, Record, June 1984

OAKLAND, Ca. – Neither Kevin Hunter nor Kurt Herr had much musical experience when they met at San Francisco State University and started writing songs together three years ago. In fact, Herr hadn't played any instrument at all when he took up the guitar and Hunter had played only briefly in a band in Los Angeles before becoming Wire Train's rhythm guitarist.

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