BAM
BAM (Bay Area Music), was a free bi-weekly music magazine founded in 1976 and in the San Francisco Bay Area starting in January 1976 and continuing on for 23 years until 1999. BAM's editorial focus when it was first published was on covering the musicians and culture of the local Bay Area music scene but expanded to cover the entire California music scene when it began publishing separate Northern and Southern California editions in the 1980s.
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Lowell George, Little Feat: Lowell George Walks Alone......
Profile by Mark Leviton, BAM, 1 September 1978
...and Gives Those Little Feat a Rest ...
Alice Cooper Is Back From Hell
Interview by Howie Klein, BAM, 15 December 1978
FIRST THE reality — huge smokestacks are belching soot and grime into the cramped grayish sky. It looks like a job for the Environmental Protection ...
Interview by Howie Klein, BAM, 15 December 1978
LOS ANGELES – In the stately Beverly Hills suite of offices which houses B and B Associates, Chaka Kahn's prestigious management firm, the air is ...
Terry Reid: Still Making Waves
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 15 December 1978
SANTA MONICA — Suppose for a moment you're a member of some English supergroup in the midst of a 30-city tour of the United States ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Crazy Horse: In Full Gallop
Profile and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 19 January 1979
SAN FRANCISCO – During the past several years Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, and Frank Sampedro played before standing room only crowds in some of the ...
Aynsley Dunbar, Jefferson Starship, Journey: Aynsley Dunbar: Let There Be Drums!
Interview by Howie Klein, BAM, 16 February 1979
SAN FRANCISCO – Within the world of rock and roll there are certain performers whose distinctive virtuosity transcend their individual works recorded with a particular ...
Bob Welch: Three Hearts Up His Sleeve
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 16 February 1979
IT ISN'T EVERY DAY that a song, Phoenix-like rises from the ashes of its own failure and goes on to be a hit. It's even ...
McGuinn, Clark & Hillman: McGuinn Clark and Hillman: Flight From The Past
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 2 March 1979
LOS ANGELES — To examine the fates of original Byrds members Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and Chris Hillman as they form a new act for ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 6 April 1979
LOS ANGELES – Ambitious, blunt but expressive, forceful, aggressive when the occasion requires it, capable of manic dedication and drive towards work and life goals...a ...
Doobie Brothers, Tom Johnston: Tom Johnston: The Former Doobie Still Listens To The Music
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 19 October 1979
THE YEAR was 1972. Summer had waned and I was driving along Highway 101, with the only source of music being a static-laden AM car ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 1 February 1980
INTEGRITY, MORE than any other word seems to define what Graham Nash is all about. ...
Flying Burrito Brothers: More Hot Burritos: the Flying Burrito Brothers
Report and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 7 March 1980
LOS ANGELES — If tradition in music is meaningful in any way, it is because performers can emerge and fade, groups can split up and ...
Pink Floyd: Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 7 March 1980
MONEY CAN'T buy you love, but it can buy you the most expensive, elaborately mounted rock show you've ever seen. As spectacle, there's no question ...
The Specials: The Whisky, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 7 March 1980
BEFORE THERE was reggae as we now know it, Jamaica had a ferociously happy, syncopated music variously called bluebeat, rock steady or ska. ...
Waddy Wachtel: Confessions of a 'Mafia' Guitarist
Interview by David Gans, BAM, 7 March 1980
WADDY WACHTEL, ace guitarist and member of Peter Asher's "L.A. Mafia", has just finished the most important recording sessions of his career – his own. ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 18 April 1980
LOS ANGELES — "About the time we were doing our first album we used to play a club up the street here on Lankershim that ...
Boz Scaggs: Middle Man (Columbia)
Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 18 April 1980
WATCHING THE degeneration of an artist's talents is no fun, especially when they've done truly classic work in the past. Boz Scaggs has never recovered ...
John Stewart: Wheels of Thunder
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 18 April 1980
If you can laugh in the face of the fireIf you can dance in the light of the flamesAnd if you don't look down when ...
Merle Haggard: The Country Club, Reseda CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 18 April 1980
MERLE HAGGARD and his ten-piece backing band opened this new club with the kind of set most performers must only dream of. The set relied ...
The Dickies: Dickiemania: Threat or Menace?
Profile and Interview by Davin Seay, BAM, 18 April 1980
LOS ANGELES — That's right America; pretend it doesn't exist and maybe it will go away. When will you ever learn? Wake up before it's ...
Grace Slick, Jefferson Starship: Grace Slick: Making Her Own Dreams
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 1 August 1980
MILL VALLEY – "I can't do anything middle of the road. My music is either very polite, with classical instruments, or, its rude and offensive." ...
Electric Guitar Pioneers Leo Fender & George Fullerton
Interview by David Gans, BAM, 29 August 1980
An Interview With Two Gentle Giants of the Music Industry ...
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 12 September 1980
A Journey Into the Dark Underbelly of L.A. ...
The Eagles, Randy Meisner: Randy Meisner: Ex-Eagle Flies High Solo
Profile and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 7 November 1980
DURING THE FRANTIC throes of the late '60s, this city devoured more musicians than it rewarded. The situation hasn't changed much since. But back in ...
Wall of Voodoo: Separating The Myths From The Lies
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 21 November 1980
HOLLYWOOD – They warned me. They all warned me. The woman at Index Records warned me. The disc jockey who interviewed them on the air ...
Stephen Bishop's Escape From Hollywood
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 16 January 1981
IN APRIL 1975, an obscure singer-songwriter named Stephen Bishop wrote an article for the small Los Angeles publication Folkscene which stated he'd been writing songs ...
The Adolescents, Circle Jerks: The Adolescents/Circle Jerks: The Starwood, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 16 January 1981
A PACKED house and a dance floor that demanded knee pads and crash helmets provided the Black Hole of Calcutta ambiance for an evening of ...
Captain Beefheart: The Country Club, Reseda
Live Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 27 February 1981
"YOU EITHER LOVE it or hate it," explained the guy standing behind me to his wary girlfriend during Captain Don's blistering set. "It's the weirdest ...
Rosanne Cash Comes Into Her Own
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 10 April 1981
COTATI – LONESOME steel guitar moans waver and echo throughout the Inn of the Beginning – a classic Old West watering hole 50 miles due ...
The Grandmothers: Grandmothers: We Are The Motherpeople
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 22 May 1981
LOS ANGELES — In Don Preston's Echo Park rehearsal room, a band is running through what they refer to as a "punk version" of Frank ...
Little Feat : A Fan Remembers America's Greatest Unsung Band
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 28 August 1981
LOS ANGELES – I have in my closet a roll of grainy 8mm silent film taken in spring 1970 at a concert near the base ...
Captain Beefheart: Ted Templeman on Captain Beefheart
Interview by David Gans, BAM, 10 September 1981
What did you expect when you did Captain Beefheart's Clear Spot? ...
Interview by David Gans, BAM, 1982
The super producer talks about Little Feat, Van Halen, the Doobies, and staying sane in a world of crazies. ...
Randy Newman: Ragtime to Riches
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 15 January 1982
EVER SINCE his 1968 debut album, many have considered Randy Newman one of the greatest songwriters in America. ...
Richard Thompson: McCabe's, Santa Monica, CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, BAM, 15 January 1982
"IT'S TIME TO ring some changes" was, in the words of the opening song of the set, the basic theme of Richard Thompson's first group ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 26 February 1982
Everybody looked like a broken-down movie extra; a withered starlet, disenchanted stuntmen, midget auto racers, poignant California characters with their end-of-the-continent sadness, handsome, decadent, Casanova-ish ...
Crystal Gayle, Tom Waits: Tom Waits: Hollywood Confidential
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 26 February 1982
LA's Hobo Laureate Creates the Score for Coppola's One From the Heart. ...
Les Paul: 30 Years of Gibson Les Paul: A Loving Look at an American Classic
Retrospective by David Gans, BAM, 21 May 1982
THERE'S SOMETHING very special about the look, feel and sound of a Gibson Les Paul guitar. Ask anyone who's ever owned or played one, or ...
The Blasters Bring It Back Alive
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 21 May 1982
Records can be great, but hearing a great live performance is still, for me, the essence of music. Vinyl is only the documentation of a ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash: Together Again
Report and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 30 July 1982
CLOSED SESSION No Admittance – these words are scrawled on the door of Studio 2 on the Zoetrope film lot in Hollywood. A young woman, ...
The US Festival: A Celebration of Music, Technology and People
Report and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 13 August 1982
SAN BERNARDINO — The Police, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benatar, Talking Heads, Jackson Browne, Santana, The B-52s, Eddie Money and over 20 other top ...
Missing Persons: Found In L.A.
Profile and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 5 November 1982
I MUST CONFESS something. Before even having heard Missing Persons produce a single note, I was attracted to the group because of a photograph I'd ...
Ava Cherry: Bowie Backups and Beyond
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 19 November 1982
LOSANGELES — Back-up singers don't always rise to distinction, but vocalist Ava Cherry, who worked extensively with David Bowie on the pivotal Diamond Dogs tour ...
The Dream Syndicate: Dream Syndicate: Psychedelia Updated
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 19 November 1982
LOS ANGELES — Steve Wynn is getting a little tired of having Dream Syndicate, the LA band for whom he writes, plays guitar and sings, ...
Joni Mitchell: Wild Things Run Fast
Review by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 3 December 1982
JONI MITCHELL'S in love. At least she was while writing and recording Wild Things Run Fast. You can hear it in the loose and easy ...
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 8 April 1983
THE BEVERLY CENTER IN LOS ANGELES is a mod-a-go-go kind of shopping mall, acres of parking, chock full of stores devoted to video equipment, "intelligent ...
The Band, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson: Robbie Robertson: Between Trains
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 6 May 1983
QUALITY IS something that Robbie Robertson definitely understands. ...
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil: Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil: Still Going Strong After 20 Years
Retrospective and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 20 May 1983
HOLLYWOOD — The walls of their workroom are covered floor to ceiling in awards certificates, gold records and photographs of the biggest hit-makers of today ...
Mike Love & Dean Torrence: Rock City Here We Come
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 20 May 1983
Mike Love and Dean Torrence Are Making Oldies Sound New ...
The Brat, Carlos Guitarlos, Los Illegals, Los Lobos, The Plugz, Ruben and the Jets: East LA Rocks!
Report and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 1 July 1983
But bands find it's a long way from the Barrio to Hollywood... ...
Black Flag: The Truth about Black Flag
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 12 August 1983
LET'S FACE IT – much of what passes for music in our country is, in fact, nothing more than product, the worthless, soulless result of ...
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 23 September 1983
LOS ANGELES – Fringe jackets, mini-skirts, turtlenecks, striped trousers, long hair, 12-string guitars, LSD, acoustic instruments, garage rehearsals – lots of things are coming back ...
Green On Red: Living for Tomorrow
Interview by Alan di Perna, BAM, 8 November 1983
FOLK ROCK — that distinctly American, never-quite-homogeneous blend of down-home traditions and youthful rebellion. The acid-ridden stepchild of a bygone decade? A cultural curio? If ...
Ray Manzarek Opens Another Door
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 18 November 1983
FEW MUSICIANS have the opportunity, or possess the talent, to expand the capabilities of their instruments, to redefine for ensuing generations just how far musical ...
The Motels: Dual Life of Martha Davis
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 18 November 1983
"I GUESS I'M basically a simple girl." Such words, when spoken by a successful chanteuse, somehow ring hollow amidst the social trappings of stardom. How ...
The Firesign Theatre's Nostalgia for the Future
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 2 December 1983
LOS ANGELES — Joey Yolk, wearing his T-shirt from the 1997 Rolling Stones Farewell Tour, has just struck out on foot for the big city, ...
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 10 February 1984
LOS ANGELES —"Music is a vehicle for ideas, and if the ideas suck and the music's good, it's still pretty bad music." The man at ...
Christine McVie: Fleetwood Mac's Songbird Flies Solo
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 9 March 1984
CHRISTINE MCVIE'S Greatest Hits? Yeah, I have a copy on cassette that I play in my car, but don't go looking for it in the ...
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 23 March 1984
HOLLYWOOD — There have only been a few really great rock and roll movies — Gimme Shelter, Don't Look Back, Potemkin, Monterey Pop. Now, add ...
Wild Man Fischer's One-of-a-Kind Mind
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 1 June 1984
LOS ANGELES — "Mark!" Larry "Wild Man" Fischer's voice crackles over the telephone. "I'm depressed. The music business is hard... I might be doing some ...
The Dream Syndicate: Dream Syndicate: Acid Punk Grows Up
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 13 July 1984
IT'S A HUMID 100 degrees and smoggy in Hollywood. Yet there we are, Dream Syndicate vocalist-writer Steve Wynn and I, sitting in Steve's parked car ...
Randy Newman: The Natural Soundtrack (Warner Bros.)
Review by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 13 July 1984
WHEN IT COMES to capturing the flavor of America at various points in this century, few songwriters have been able to do it as well ...
The Pretenders: Spending Time With The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 24 August 1984
THE PRETENDERS have landed in Pittsburg. It's a Monday night, about 9 pm, and Chrissie Hynde is bored. ...
Bill Graham: Legacy of a Dance Hall Keeper
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 21 September 1984
Taking a look at his life as it is and as it was, Bill Graham addresses his place in rock and roll's order of power, ...
Rickie Lee Jones: The World According to Rickie Lee Jones
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 12 December 1984
RICKIE LEE JONES is telling a story on the radio: "In the dreamscape where you write, there are people who shadow you. Like I have ...
Cyndi Lauper Bops Through The Night
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 1 January 1985
PADDING SLOWLY through Burbank Airport, clutching a grey handbag and a Walkman cassette player, Lauper, at first glance, resembles a simple immigrant from "the old ...
John Fogerty: The Natural Is Back
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 15 March 1985
WHAT BECOMES a legend most? You won't find John Fogerty in mink. He favors checked flannel shirts, suspenders, jeans and work boots, would rather go ...
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 29 March 1985
LOS ANGELES — Henry Rollins simply will not look at me. The Black Flag vocalist has been described as everything from Jim Morrison with Charlie ...
Vanity: Dressed For Success: Behind Closed Doors With Vanity
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, June 1985
SAN FRANCISCO — "I know this is the right key," a Tri-Star Pictures publicist sighs while trying in vain to unlock the door to the ...
Malcolm McLaren: The Great Opera Swindle
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, June 1985
Malcolm McLaren Reveals His Grandmother's Role In The Sex Pistols And Hypes His Hip Hop Opera ...
Utopia: Better Living Through Electricity
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, June 1985
Todd Rundgren And Utopia Get Wired ...
Bruce Springsteen, Nils Lofgren: Nils Lofgren: The E Street Flip
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, November 1985
NEW JERSEY – There he is, taking windmill swipes at his guitar with wild abandon, then doing a complete flip on the Meadowlands stage while ...
Walter Becker, China Crisis, Steely Dan: Walter Becker: Breaking the Silence
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, December 1985
Steely Dan's Walter Becker Ends His Five Year Absence From The Music Industry ...
Jefferson Starship: The Starship Strikes Back
Profile and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 11 December 1985
"Say ya don't know me?Or recognize my face?...Don't you remember?We built this city on rock and roll!"– from 'We Built This City'by Bernie Taupin, Martin ...
The KBC Band: Kantner Balin Casady Band: Old Flight Mates Carry On
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 20 December 1985
"WE DON'T play many tapes submitted by unsigned bands," said KFOG DJ John Russell on the air a couple of weeks ago. "But I think ...
10,000 Maniacs: At Least Six Are Not Insane
Profile and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, February 1986
JAMESTOWN, NEW York, about 400 miles from NYC, is home for 10,000 Maniacs. ...
Alan Parsons: The Alan Parsons Project: Studio Rats
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, April 1986
"You know Poe has been a big influence on me and Alan," says Parsons collaborator Eric Woolfson. "And when I saw this word, 'stereotomy,' I ...
James Brown: Papa's Got A Brand New Hit
Report and Interview by Ben Fong-Torres, BAM, 11 April 1986
"CALL HIM MR. BROWN," a colleague advised me on the eve of my first meeting with James Brown. "Or he might not talk to you." ...
The Beatles: The Final Invasion
Retrospective by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 5 September 1986
Twenty-four thousand screaming fans couldn't be wrong. But what they didn't realise on that late August evening was that the Beatles didn't want to be ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 10 December 1986
NO ONE will ever accuse Peter Case of being a schemer or a planner. "When it comes to building a career," admits the 32-year-old singer/songwriter, ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 16 January 1987
THE FIRST thing you notice is the twinkle in his eyes. That is the clearest signal that David Crosby is, indeed, back among the living. ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 23 October 1987
Fleetwood Mac Swap Partners For Tango Tour ...
Rock & Advertising: The Selling Of A Revolution
Report by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 4 December 1987
Madison Avenue Buys A Big Piece Of The Rock: How The Ad Industry Takes Your Favorite Songs And Turns Them Into Jingles For Toothpaste, Tennies ...
Buster Poindexter, David Johansen: David Johansen: Buster Poindexter Does L.A.
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 29 January 1988
"I LOVE L.A.," announces Buster Poindexter, fingering the stem of a martini glass. "I think it's great." And why shouldn't he? ...
Ry Cooder: Fascinatin' Rhythms
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 12 February 1988
FIVE YEARS may have passed since Ry Cooder last put together an album of non-movie music, but it's not as if the guy has been ...
Cindy Lee Berryhill: Beat Wise
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 11 March 1988
ONCE UPON a time Cindy Lee Berryhill tried to make it as a Top 40 singer in San Diego. ...
Neil Young: Blue Notes for a Restless Loner
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 22 April 1988
THE ROBERT De Niro of rock 'n' roll, Neil Young has continually transformed himself throughout his career and inhabited musical characters in much the same ...
Van Halen: Tales From The Crypt
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 1 July 1988
THE ITINERARY for Van Halen's Monsters of Rock Tour reads like a combined schedule for the Washington Redskins and University of Miami football teams. ...
Eric Burdon: An Ex-Animal Leaves His Cage
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 7 October 1988
LOOKING MORE LIKE A bantamweight boxer than a veteran rock singer, Eric Burdon stares out the window of his publicist's tenth floor office in the ...
Mark Knopfler, Randy Newman: Randy Newman And Mark Knopfler: Newman's Navigator to A Land of Dreams
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 21 October 1988
'IT'S MONEY That Matters', the first single from Land of Dreams, bristles with guitarist Mark Knopfler's trademark guitar licks, Randy Newman a la Dire Straits' ...
Randy Newman: A Nightmare on Main Street
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 21 October 1988
RANDY NEWMAN was sitting in the Forum Arena in Inglewood a while ago, watching the Lakers put on yet another basketball clinic at the expense ...
Chris Hillman, The Desert Rose Band: The Desert Rose Band: Chris Hillman's Hot Burrito #3
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 2 December 1988
ROCK IS no longer the dirty word it once was in Nashville. But after LA's Desert Rose Band placed four singles on the country charts ...
Was (Not Was): Spies In The House Of Funk
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 2 December 1988
MASTERS OF funkified musical left turns, that was one way to describe Was (Not Was) after listening to their 1983 LP, Born to Laugh At ...
Al Stewart: A British Eccentric Finds A House In Bel Air — And A Home
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 10 March 1989
SINGER-SONGWRITER Al Stewart has a theory about why he'll never sell as many records as Lionel Richie or Billy Joel. ...
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys: Tom Petty: Once In A Full Moon
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 5 May 1989
BY THE time Tom Petty became a Traveling Wilbury last year, he had every reason to stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Roy ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 30 June 1989
WELCOME TO the Griffith Park Pony Rides. Assorted toddlers, most of them 2- or 3-something, are circling a dusty track, strapped onto tired ponies. Not ...
Stan Ridgway: Drawing Mosquitos With An Eye For Detail
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 20 October 1989
STAN RIDGWAY is a great painter of life. Rather than oil or water colors, however, his medium has always been the English language. He creates ...
Steve Vai, Whitesnake: Steve Vai: Vaiing For Attention
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 12 January 1990
NO, YOUR eyes aren't deceiving you. Steve Vai is holding a seven-string guitar, custom-made for him by Ibanez. ...
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 12 January 1990
WAKING UP before noon is still a foreign idea to many working musicians, and not just the ones who are hopeless drug addicts. It's just ...
Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, The Notting Hillbillies: Mark Knopfler: Going His Own Sweet Way
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 20 April 1990
NO, THE Notting Hillbillies are not Mark Knopfler's version of the Traveling Wilburys. In fact, there was never supposed to be a band at all. ...
Todd Rundgren: In Todd We Trust
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 15 June 1990
FOLLOWERS OF Todd Rundgren may not get as much publicity as Deadheads, but the loyal legions that flock to Rundgren's concerts – particularly in the ...
Jane's Addiction: Addiction By Subtraction
Profile and Interview by Roy Trakin, BAM, 30 November 1990
PERRY FARRELL is onstage at LA's Henry Fonda Theater on Halloween night, haranguing the hippie generation for selling out its ideals, and urging his followers ...
Color Me Badd: Irving Azoff: Azoff's Fables
Interview by Bill Holdship, BAM, 17 April 1992
Giant's Irving Azoff On The Music Industry: What It Was, What It Is, & What It's Going To Be ...
Green Day: If Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Is Green Day Today’s Beatles?
Comment by Metal Mike Saunders, BAM, 15 May 1992
IF YOU BUY one album this coming year buy this one: Green Day’s Kerplunk! ...
Warrant: Up To Date With The Down Boys
Interview by Metal Mike Saunders, BAM, 18 September 1992
AS GOOD A place as any to start here might be with a letter I wrote to an unnamed Pacific Northwest fanzine editor on January ...
The Motels: The Dual Life Of Martha Davis
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 18 November 1993
TAKE MARTHA DAVIS, the sultry, dark-eyed leader and lead singer of the Motels. Last year, her band's third album, All Four One, went Top 20 ...
Review and Interview by Metal Mike Saunders, BAM, 28 January 1994
Popcore Ascending? Or Is That Just The First Phase Of 'The Greatest Band In America'? ...
Tori Amos: So You Found A Girl Who Thinks Really Deep Thoughts
Interview by Kim Fowley, BAM, 10 March 1994
THE PROSTITUTES who work at Nevada's infamous Chicken Ranch brothel, just outside of Las Vegas, once raved to me about Tori Amos's debut Atlantic LP, ...
Marianne Faithfull Springs Eternal
Interview by Deborah Frost, BAM, 7 October 1994
"Since AIDS, I've changed my attitude. Now I'm honored. I want to be part of the gay community and I am." ...
Frank Zappa: Zappa Honors The Hall Of Fame
Report and Interview by Bill Holdship, BAM, 10 February 1995
IF ANYONE OUT there is wondering why Lou Reed (who never had a good word to say about Frank Zappa during Zappa's lifetime) was chosen ...
That Dog: Bow Wow Wow! That Dog Learns New Tricks
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, BAM, 11 July 1997
TONY MAXWELL is hedging his bets. Sure, the floor of the Mercury Lounge – a sweaty club on Manhattan’s Lower East Side – barely allows ...
King Cotton: Bad Acid, the Bonedaddys and the Blues! King Cotton Has Lived Through 'Em All
Profile and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, BAM, 25 July 1997
IF YOU happen to find yourself at B.B. King's at the Universal Citywalk on a Sunday night, you'll encounter an unusual musical aggregation. ...
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