Radio Birdman
Anthony O'Grady, RAM, 27 February 1976
RON KEELEY, Radio Birdman's drummer, is sitting on a steel framed chair listening to a just competent group pound out hard rock as best it can. He stares flinty eyed but otherwise expressionless as the drummer beats his skins spasmodically and the bass player fumbles through an approximation of a Bad Company riff.
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