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Banging The Bongos

Iman Lababedi, Creem, August 1982

NEW YORK — "Baby psychedelia," claims Billy Altman three songs into the Bongos' first set at the Bottom Line. "Like an early Nervus Rex if Nervus Rex had been better musicians" he amplifies, "I don't like this type of pop if it doesn't know how to rock."

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