Anthony Phillips | Slow Dance – CD Review
On 1990’s Slow Dance, Anthony Phillips manned the synths, classical and electric guitars, programmed the drum machines and samplers, and wrote everything. Considered by many ‘Ant’ (Phillips’ well-known nickname)...
Jack Russell’s Great White & M.O.B. | May 4, 2012 | Coach House |...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Glen Willis
OK, I’ll say it: It’s kind of surreal for me to see local, hometown musicians — people you knew about when they were...
Todd Rundgren | April 6, 2012 | Coach House | San Juan Capistrano, CA...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Donald McMullen
You have to wonder why Todd Rundgren keeps coming back to the Coach House. Not that it’s a bad thing necessarily; it’s just...
Skid Row / Black Star Riders / White Lie | May 16, 2014 |...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Ron Lyon & TourBusLive.com
Friday nights are meant for kick ass rock ‘n roll and the Coach House delivered on that promise with three bands...
X, Meat Puppets & Mike Watt | December 23, 2017 | The Observatory |...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Ron Lyon
It’s a tradition that X plays a series of shows in Los Angeles in late December. Hard to say if the holidays have...
Ian Anderson | October 20, 2012 | Long Beach Terrace Theater | Long Beach,...
Review by Shawn Perry
The secret is out: Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson may or may not be mutually exclusive. Anderson blurred the line even more when he released...
Yes | Magnification – CD Review
The key to the music of Yes has always been about how much texturing could be applied to jolt any given piece through the stratosphere. Anyone familiar with the...
Heaven & Earth | September 21, 2013 | Canyon Club | Agoura Hills, CA...
Review by Marianne Heath
Photos by Kimberly Annette
On a typical end-of-summer warm evening in the San Fernando Valley, I went to check out a band I’d never seen before, playing...
Paul Simon | The Complete Albums Collection – Box Set Review
There can be little argument as to the importance and impact of Paul Simon as a songwriter and singer. As if he didn't achieve enough with Simon and Garfunkel,...
Page & Plant | May 13, 1995 | San Diego Sports Arena | San...
Review by Shawn Perry
It had been a while since I'd seen Jimmy Page and Robert Plant together, but not as long as one may think. In 1988, I went...
