Live At Montreux 1976 Weather Report

When Mile Davis recorded In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew in 1969 and 1970, respectively, he simultaneously created a new strain of jazz called fusion, combining elements of...

Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter | Live At Montreux 1988 – DVD Review

Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter are giants in their there respective musical fields. But together, they take things to an entirely different level. The Live At The 1988 Montreux...

2007 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: The Politics Of Induction

By Shawn Perry The 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony may go down in history like the 1919 Black Sox Scandal: disastrous, yet undeniably fascinating! The melodrama surrounding Van Halen already...

Dixie Dregs | Live At Montreux 1978 – DVD Review

Long before he was in Kansas or Deep Purple, virtuoso guitarist Steve Morse held the torch for the all-instrumental band out of Florida, The Dixie Dregs. What started out...

Carlos Santana | Plays Blues At Montreux 2004 – DVD Review

Carlos Santana's Plays Blues at Montreux 2004 culls some great footage of the Latin guitar God playing with blue legends Buddy Guy, Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown and Bobby Parker. We...

Live At Montreux 2003 Yes

In 1977, Yes welcomed keyboardist Rick Wakeman back into the fold and recorded their magnificent eighth studio album Going For The One in Montreux, Switzerland. Oddly enough, they didn’t...

For Patti Smith Upon Her Induction Into The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

By Gary Peterson "Mayakovsky would read poems in the streets of Moscow and people would riot. It was just like a Who concert." - Patti Smith KRYPTONITE & WILHELM REICH - Milwaukee, March...

Where’s Phil?

By Ralph Greco, Jr. So the seminal girl group, the Ronettes made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s a long time coming and surely well deserved. Ronnie Spector, the...