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Additional 70s Music Notes
Circus magazine called The Tubes “the bull-goose loonies of the San Francisco scene.” Although originally comprised of Arizona musicians, the band was really an outgrowth of the outrageous theatrical rock scene storming the stage in the early 70s…
Carter's Iranian Deportations
On January 2, 1979, in Beverly Hills, California, Iranian protesters congregated outside the home of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The shah’s mother and sister who’d been staying there grew increasingly apprehensive as the protest outside their doors escalated into violence…