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It’s hard, but we’ll excuuuuuse that ramblin’ Steve Martin for sharing a table at L. A.’s Dr. Munchie’s with... aaagggrrrhhh... Karen Carpenter. This year's award for the fastest rock album goes to a British band known as the Warsaw Pakt, not because of the frenzied pace of the music (no one has yet successfully challenged Tad Nugent on those grounds), but because the LP was recorded directly onto a master disc without benefit of a preliminary taping session.
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It’s hard, but we’ll excuuuuuse that ramblin’ Steve Martin for sharing a table at L. A.’s Dr. Munchie’s with... aaagggrrrhhh... Karen Carpenter.
This year's award for the fastest rock album goes to a British band known as the Warsaw Pakt, not because of the frenzied pace of the music (no one has yet successfully challenged Tad Nugent on those grounds), but because the LP was recorded directly onto a master disc without benefit of a preliminary taping session. London records shops furiously stocking it the next day— must’ve been the holiday rush...
At a recent Robert Gordon/ Unk Wray show at NYU in December, Robertannounced from the stage: "Now we’re ooiriilllMilfl one of the youngsters come up and play." With that, he made room onstage for Bence Springsteen to come UP and loin in on “Heartbreak HoflHBlIMiiiBlIiiBiili a song for Gordon’s new Private Stock LP, as well.. .Since Jimmy lenner is engineering Bruce's long-awaited follow-up album to Born To Run, he's had to delay producing Patti Smith’s Rock ’N’ Roll Nigger (the proposed title).