A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Promiscuous Me: Straight Outta Compton

Promiscuous Me: Straight Outta Compton

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John Mendelssohn
May 07, 2015
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Before The  Pits who altered the course of popular music in our time, those depicted in my Facebook timeline photo, there was an earlier version, comprising the author on organ, a Billy Cobham-styled drummer from the Palm Springs ghetto (I hadn’t realized there was one), a prematurely balding guitarist who looked unnervingly like the hippie icon Wavy Gr…

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