Deep Purple | Paris 1975 – CD Review
It's easy to assess Deep Purple as a powerful live band on the basis of Made In Japan, which featured the classic line up of Richie Blackmore, Ian Paice,...
Greg Lake | Live In Piacenza – CD Review
Released a year after Greg Lake's passing, Live In Piacenza certainly delvers a double-edge sword of poignancy — recounting the ELP singer’s “Songs Of A Lifetime” solo tour, as...
Supertramp | Live In Paris ’79 – Live Release Review
Every vintage rock fan I know has a list of tours they kick themselves for missing, and the jaunt Supertramp managed for their mega-popular Breakfast In America album was...
Yes | Topographic Drama: Live Across America – CD Review
Topographic Drama — Live Across America was recorded over 12 concerts from February 2017. For this record, this incarnation of Yes — guitarist Steve Howe, keyboardist Geoff Downes, bassist...
Alice Cooper | A Paranormal Evening At The Olympia Paris Live 2018 –...
Welcomed to spend the night with Alice Cooper via a PA voiceover just before opener “Brutal Planet,” the crowd gathered this night in the City of Light is pretty...
Steve Hillage | Madison Square Garden 1977 – CD Review
Besides his association with Gong, Khan and System 7, guitarist Steve Hillage has released quite a few critically acclaimed solo flights of guitar mastery. On Madison Square Garden 1977,...
Greg Lake | London ’81 – CD Review
I recall being rightly impressed by guitarist Gary Moore and his finger flights of fancy, emulating Keith Emerson on "Fanfare For The Common Man," when I caught a Greg...
The ABC&D Of Boogie Woogie Live In Paris – CD Review
The great double piano stride racing of "Bonsoir Boogie" opens The ABC&D of Boogie Woogie - Live In Paris CD, featuring Axel Zwingenberger, Ben Waters, Charlie Watts (yeah that...
Kansas | Leftoverture Live & Beyond – CD Review
I had the privilege of seeing Kansas twice in 2017. Celebrating yet another rock and roll 40th anniversary, the band's break-out album Leftoverture was played from top to bottom...
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | CSNY: Déjà Vu Live – CD Review
One can only speculate what was brewing in Neil Young’s mind when he wrote and recorded his 2006 protest album, Living With War. It's easy to say that the...
