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Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 8 June 1972

DINO VALENTI had a pretty good niche in history carved out for a while: he wrote (or at least claimed to have written) 'Hey Joe', the pube classic that's been done by everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Leaves to the Shadows of Knight. Also to Dino's songwriting credit was 'Get Together', one of the best things to come out of the whole Summer Of Love (as done by those wizards of tight AM rock, the early Youngbloods).

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