Blog | Aug. 15, 2008

Press for Tape Op Book and int. with Larry

by Larry Crane

One of the local Portland weeklies did a blurb on me and the Tape Op book for the reading tonight. Mercury

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Blog | Aug. 15, 2008

Press for Tape Op Book and int. with Larry

by Larry Crane

Tape Op is a bi-monthly magazine devoted to the art of record making.

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