The Dudes: The Moustache, Montreal
Gary Sperrazza!, Phonograph Record, December 1974
WHILE THE FREE world lies in wait for the "next big thing," Montreal is living and growing to the status of musical hot-bed of the 70's. The city is content with creating and refining its own talent and seems unaware that the sheer bulk of top-quality rock here threatens to burst from the seams of Quebec to spill out across the U.S.
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