The Fugs: Fug Life
Kris Needs, Record Collector, July 2008
EARLY 1965: The Charlatans were about to galvanise California's acid rock revolution at the Red Dog Saloon, Jimi Hendrix was still playing R&B standards on the chitlin circuit while the UK was still riding the beat and R&B booms unleashed by the Beatles and Stones.
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