Silverhead: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles
Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, April 1973
IF YOU HAVEN'T seen them, you might feel like cramming Silverhead into the flash-in-the-pan bin. Their albums haven't been monumentally impressive, and their publicity veers toward making them look like glitter as if it's Tinkerbell's fairy dust that will send them flying to the top.
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