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Then again, AMG bios have always been provided as stock information packets at amazon.com, iTunes, insound.com, etc., so it's a pretty common/accepted practice. AMG is usually trustworthy, but its bio on Trans Am is laughably inaccurate (e.g., the vastly different "post-rock" bands it lumps together), so it was a no-brainer for me to cull it down. I may post one of the live photos I took of the band in '99 sometime, if only to illustrate that they are indeed a "rock" band, not a synthpop conflagration.
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Re: AMG - I noticed that instantly when I first visited this article, & did my best to undo it. I think the person who added the AMG info just wanted to quickly provide an overview of the band's history, without realizing plagiarism was being committed; I've seen this happen a lot on
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