Long Ryders: Bye Bye Byrdie
Jeff Tamarkin, Creem, October 1987
LET'S JUST GET this part out of the way, since it's gonna come up anyway and maybe you're one of the ones who got pissed off at 'em for doing it: the Long Ryders did that Miller Beer commercial because they needed the money. And they ain't sorry they did. So there.
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