Pipeline
Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, November 1973
IT WAS AN unusually hot week in Kingston, Jamaica. Early spring this year. I was having lunch at an outdoor cafe with an up and coming reggae star, Max Mambo. The Stones were in town, recording tracks for their next album and Max was a session man.
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