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Sagittarius: Present Tense; The Millennium: Begin

Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998

TO GET THE full scope of these groundbreaking recordings, released within weeks of each other in the summer of '68, it's vital to know that the protagonists, Gary Usher and Curt Boettcher, were not merely kindred spirits, rather they shared a quasi-mystical approach to songwriting and production that is rarely found today.

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