Hampton Grease Band: Music To Eat
Byron Coley, Spin, June 1996
THE HAMPTON GREASE BAND were an Atlanta-based combo unlike any other. A genuinely strange and Southern-fried cross between the early Mothers of Invention, the Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart's Magic Band, and San Francisco psychedelians Mad River, the HGB's music defies easy categorization.
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