Spin Doctors: Doctors Orders
Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 16 October 1993
At the open air theatre on the THE sun-blasted campus of San Diego State University, the golden-limbed teens in the box-fresh sneakers and blue and white T-shirts, the well-behaved sons and daughters of Uncle Sam — clutching nothing more mind-altering than a slice of pepperoni pizza and a Classic Coke are whooping and clapping and punching beach balls into the air.
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