The Jam: Civic Theater, Santa Monica
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 5 April 1980
HERE IN peanut butter land they call jam jelly and it's transparent, slick and insubstantial, easily assimilated sweetness. Maybe that's why The Jam are having a hard time spreading in the States.
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