Green On Red: Gas Food Lodging
Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 18 May 1985
ALL OF a sudden, its a-happening. Seems like every LA outfit that you ever read about in these pages moons ago is over here with a TV slot, a night at Dingwalls and an interview with some short-haired reporter in a paisley shirt to their credit. The big labels have marched in too, scraping off all the cream to pour down hungry punters gullets at the next summer of love.
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