ZZ Top | August 15, 2010 | Pacific Amphitheatre | Costa Mesa, CA –...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Ron Lyon
The 2010 concert season at Orange County’s Pacific Amphitheatre ended with a bang (plus a little hell raisin’ and beer drinkin’) when ZZ...
Styx | September 18, 2021 | Agua Caliente Casino | Rancho Mirage, CA –...
Review & Photos by Joe Schaeffer
Styx are back on the road after lockdown with their 2021 album Crash Of The Crown re-energizing the band’s live shows. Their set at...
Heart, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts & Cheap Trick | August 23, 2016 |...
Review by Shawn Perry
Heart Photos by Charlie Steffens/Gnarlyfotos
Joan Jett Photo by Maria Huizinga
Cheap Trick Photos by Don Redondo
The mid to late 70s saw a radical shift in popular music....
Rival Sons |September 19, 2014 | The Observatory | Santa Ana, CA – Concert...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Ron Lyon
For the first show behind their fourth album Great Western Valkyrie on home-turf California, Rival Sons let loose with a soulful, hard rockin’...
Kid Rock & Lynyrd Skynyrd | July 8, 2009 | PNC Arts Center |...
Review by Ralph Greco, Jr.
It was a drinking crowd, to say the least. I never knew so many people were still so into Skynyrd, especially when you have...
Last In Line | August 3, 2013 | The Slidebar | Fullerton, CA –...
Review & Photos by Ron Lyon
The original musicians who helped propel Ronnie James Dio’s solo career to the top of the heavy metal mountain gathered together for the first...
Brian Wilson & The Zombies | September 12, 2019 | The Greek Theatre |...
Review by Shawn Perry
Photos by Stevo Rood
Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson paired with the Zombies sounds like a dream ticket on paper and…for the most part, it was in...
Grateful Dead | May 19-21, 1995 | Las Vegas, NV – Concert Review
Review by Shawn Perry
This review originally appeared in Whatzup Magazine, June 1995
The Grateful Dead have made the Las Vegas trek an annual event that usually falls on a week-end...
Concert Review: UFO | September 29, 2011 | Coach House | San Juan Capistrano,...
Review by James P. Shelley
The beach air was rolling in when we arrived at the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano for the UFO show that evening. Given...
Styx & Don Felder | February 2, 2018 | The Venetian | Las Vegas,...
Review by Ralph Greco, Jr.
Photos by Marai Huizinga
A rock band residency in Las Vegas is a special animal. Strict attention to time constraints, staging across spaces built long before...

















