The Blasters
Todd Everett, Trouser Press, April 1982
IT'S AN IRONIC fact of life that until quite recently very few of the so-called (and frequently maligned) "Los Angeles" bands had deep roots in the City of the Angels. Doug Fieger's from Detroit; the Eagles are from Detroit, Texas, Florida and elsewhere and so on as far back as you care to go.
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