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Tom Waits: Pantages Theater, Los Angeles CA

Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 November 1977

TOM WAITS' followers keep a close, almost medical eye on their hero's voice, much as Jets fans used to watch the status of Namath's knees. The report from the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, where Waits inaugurated a series of pop music concerts on Saturday, is encouraging.

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