The Holy Modal Rounders: Good Taste Is Timeless
Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, 10 June 1971
PETER STAMPFEL, who, with Steve Weber, was, and remains, half of the driving force behind the Rounders, later paid off a debt he owed me by giving me fiddle lessons. Or trying to give me fiddle lessons, as we discovered I had a tin ear and couldn't learn a goddamned thing.
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