Shiva’s Headband: Take Me To The Mountains
Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, September 1971
EVERY SO OFTEN a company will try the "shotgun" strategy releasing large numbers of albums by new groups in hopes that a few will catch on. Mercury tried it in 1967 with a pile of lousy psychedelic albums, MGM's attempts in 1968 will not soon be forgotten in Boston, and now Capitol is giving it ago.
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