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The J. Geils Band

Sylvie Simmons, Creem, July 1982

TUCSON’S GOT McDonalds’s and bars and Sears and Taco Belles, but there any resemblance to life as we know it stops. It’s hot as a hairdryer, dusty and abandoned as my Styx album collection, and everywhere you look there’s a cactus. Tall and thin or small and scrawny green prickly things. Everywhere.

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