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Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

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Wolfman Jack
Age: 57 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 21
Died: 1995
Died: July 1
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