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Allman Brothers, Edgar Winter Group, Mahavishnu Orchestra et al : Rock & Roll Nine, Hollywood FLA

Jim Esposito, Rock, 26 February 1973

ALMOST EVERYTHING about Rock & Roll Nine was good in some ways and bad in others. Celebrated on an isolated raceway in the swampy boondocks a considerable distance west of the innocuous little city of Hollywood, Florida — usually noted mapwise by an unconnected name floating in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale — it was supposed to be just another one of those twelve hour mini-festivals that have been enjoying some success recently.

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