Fables Of The Deconstruction
Edwin Pouncey, Wire, The, July 1999
ONE MAY evening in 1967 at San Francisco's Matrix club, Steppenwolf's bass player Nick St Nicholas got up on stage, plugged his guitar into an amplifier and Echo-lite unit and proceeded to experiment.
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