Judas Priest/No Dice: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 29 April 1978
JUDAS PRIEST had a captive audience, No Dice made a mark, and Gary Valentine just about escaped alive. Proving that heavy metal lives, good old-fashioned rock and roll is just about surviving and powerpop's a suitable case for abortion with the majority of Los Angeles' rich and overfed teenagers.
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