Pub Rock: Grass Roots On the Other Side of the Fence
Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
IN BRITAIN DURING the late '60s and early '70s, while rock 'n roll was being transformed into Big Business, a network of bands sprang up that formed a grass-roots resistance to rock's expansion and dilution.
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