Wackers: Hot Wacks
Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 25 May 1972
IN THE EARLY part of 1966, a group called the Family Tree used to play at the old Fillmore a lot. They did Beatles songs and songs that sounded like the Beatles, and I was quite fond of them.
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