San Francisco: Who needs music when we've got the Zebra?
Mick Farren, NME, 15 June 1974
IT WAS A bad times for San Francisco. It was spring, but whereas in most places this is greeted with some joy with snows melting, birds singing, and flowers coming out in California they really only have one season, so nobody gets too hung up about it. Also, they really felt that they were having the worst time they could remember.
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