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The Blasters

Michael Goldberg, Musician, April 1982

WITH THEIR hair greased back into pompadours, their shirtsleeves rolled up and cigarettes dangling from their lower lips, Phil Alvin and his younger brother Dave look like the kind of grease monkeys you'd expect to find under a couple of decade-old Chevys on a hot summer's day as a portable AM radio blasts hits from the past like 'Pipeline' and 'Lodi'.

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