The J. Geils Band
Sylvie Simmons, Creem, July 1982
TUCSONS GOT McDonaldss and bars and Sears and Taco Belles, but there any resemblance to life as we know it stops. Its hot as a hairdryer, dusty and abandoned as my Styx album collection, and everywhere you look theres a cactus. Tall and thin or small and scrawny green prickly things. Everywhere.
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