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The Pasadena Roof Orchestra: Pasadena Roof Orchestra — Live

Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 20 March 1976

ONE OF MY happiest nights in years was spent in a dark, sweltering and cramped club in Hamburg towards the end of 1975. It was when the Pasadenans were playing a season at Onkel Po's club, where the tables are crammed around the tiny stage, and local Hamburgers grab huge mugs of foaming beer, ferried overhead.

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