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The Dictators: Manifest Destiny (Asylum 7E-1109)

Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 28 July 1977

THREE YEARS ago I dismissed the Dictators' first album by saying that the joke of a bunch of musical-mental incompetents acquiring a record contract had been played out by the Stooges. How was I to know that such a thing would become a major trend?

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