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San Francisco Rocks Again

Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 13 October 1983

Sixteen years after the Summer of Love, the bands that made the Fillmore famous are as mainstream as Tony Bennett. Meanwhile, a new generation of musicians who owe more to the Sex Pistols than to the Jefferson Airplane are calling the Bay Area home.

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