Five times support bands destroyed the headliner: “We gotta follow these guys?”
“We blew everybody off the stage”.
Vanilla Fudge
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Deep Purple’s biggest inspiration.
The only band that outperformed Vanilla Fudge live: “We blew everybody off the stage”
A world-beating outfit.