Germany's Nektar: They See the Light
Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 21 November 1974
ST. LOUIS – The light show, thinks Mick Brockett, is something that was prematurely abandoned by the rock world, and though he's reluctant to talk about specifics (he's had ideas lifted before), he soon begins to muse about lasers and how he'd like to have a flying saucer float from the screen and hover over the audience.
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