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....
Tommy James & The Shondells | 2010 Reissues
All it took was the nudge of a few reissues to make me realize how good Tommy James and The Shondells were. Emerging from the Midwest in the early...
Stick Men | August 11, 2017 | The Van Dyck | Schenectady, NY –...
Review by Dave Gardiner
Photos by Stan Johnson
Stick Men (bassist Tony Levin, drummer Pat Mastelotto, and guitarist Markus Reuter) made a triumphant return to the intimate setting of the Van...
Journey | Columbia Reissues (1978 – 88) – CD Review
Every journey has a beginning, a middle and an end. Except the band, Journey,
whose destination does, indeed, seem to be infinity. What has given Journey’s
music enough sturdiness to survive...
Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band | August 7, 2010 | Greek Theatre...
Review by Shawn Perry
If someone had told me 40 years ago I’d be attending a Ringo Starr concert in 2010 to see the 70-year-old Beatle singing his old...
Allman Brothers Band | The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings – Box Set Review
In the history of the Allman Brothers Band, 2014 may well be remembered as the year the band called it quits. But earlier in the year, an unexpected surprise...
Neil Young + Promise of the Real | October 12, 2016 | Fox Theater...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Kimberly Annette
I did it again! I saw another one of the six acts from Desert Trip the week of Desert Trip without going to...
Unicorn | Blue Pine Trees & Too Many Crooks – CD Review
There are so many bands that had Unicorn's trajectory. Formed by close friends in early 1960s England, Unicorn experienced the usual personnel changes, touring and a record deal with...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Trilogy (Deluxe Edition) – CD Review
Trilogy, the appropriately titled third studio album from Emerson, Lake & Palmer, was released in 1972 and welcomed with open arms. Tarkus, its predecessor, was conceptually brilliant, but Trilogy...
Steve Hackett | February 20, 2018 | Orpheum Theatre | Los Angeles, CA –...
Review by Shawn Perry
Steve Hackett is doing more to keep the classic music of Genesis in the 70s alive and thriving in the minds and ears of fans...
