Lynyrd Skynyrd & Tesla | October 1, 2021 | FivePoint Amphitheatre | Irvine, CA...
Review & photos by Joe Schaeffer
It was a night of classic rock in Irvine when Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tesla gave a near sold-out crowd a heavy dose of 70s...
The Doobie Brothers | September 2, 2011 | Ravinia Festival | Highland...
Review and photos by Alex Kluft
The Doobie Brothers played a fantastic show at the Ravinia Festival, their eighth appearance at the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States....
Iggy Pop | The Bowie Years – Box Set Review
The Bowie Years, a seven-CD box set, explores Iggy Pop’s Berlin-era music output of the latter part of the 1970s. Featuring remastered versions of Pop’s The Idiot and Lust For Life, the...
Allman Brothers Band | Fillmore East February 1970 – CD Review
What a difference a year makes!
At Fillmore East, the seminal 1971 ABB classic that gave proper validity to the southern rock genre and made the sextet superstars is our...
The Rolling Stones | Hyde Park Live – iTunes Review
Welcomed back to Hyde Park for the first time since 1969, the Rolling Stones begin Hyde Park Live, available exclusively through iTunes, with the ubiquitous rolling thunder of a...
Judas Priest | British Steel (30th Anniversary Edition) – CD/DVD Review
Ask any Judas Priest fan about British Steel, and they’ll more than likely confirm it is the band’s definitive masterpiece. Aside from spawning the singles, “Breaking The Law” and...
Emerson, Lake & Powell | Complete Collection – Box Set Review
Emerson, Lake & Powell were not Emerson, Lake & Palmer. But they came close and should have been bigger. The three-CD Complete Collection from Emerson, Lake & Powell pays...
Deep Purple | 2011 Reissues – CD Review
Before the lineups that made “Smoke On The Water” and “Burn,” the original Deep Purple recorded three glorious albums, setting the foundation for what the band would eventually blossom...
Leslie West | Unusual Suspects – CD Review
His career began with the Vagrants, one of the few teenage garage rock bands to come out of NYC. But Leslie West is probably best remembered as a founding...
Kansas | April 26, 2017 | The Wiltern | Los Angeles, CA – Concert...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Ron Lyon
Taken at face value, Kansas is viewed as another American band with a few hits in the 70s and 80s. Of course, there’s...
