Steve Hillage: Watch Out There's A Concept About
Mick Brown, Sounds, 9 October 1976
IT WAS instant karma out to get me. The sound of one hand clapping – so fast you can't even hear it. We had been talking about Steve Hillage's 'Electrick Gypsy' concept, the idea that rock and roll is the one medium in a position to validate the power of technology, to put the monster under control and turn it to beneficial ends.
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