The Meters
Don Snowden, unpublished, 12 May 1984
"One of my theories is that as long as I don't know about something, I can continue to seek it out," George Porter reflected in the relative post-set calm of New Orleans' Snug Harbor club. "I think if I found that secret thing, that spontaneous thing that happens, it would be the end of us playing together."
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