Circus Raves
Circus Raves, a sister publication to Circus, was launched in 1974, but lasted only until 1977.
38 articles
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Uriah Heep: The Tour That Detoured The Demons
Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus Raves, January 1974
Scarcely a year ago, the Heep found America filled with threatening crazies, and went scurrying back to England with culture-shock. But a new look at ...
Steve Miller: The Joker — Steve Miller Draws a Wild Card
Profile and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus Raves, March 1974
For years Lady Luck smiled on the heavy rollers. But working hard and playing the percentages, the veteran blues guitarist came up with a royal ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, March 1974
HIGH ON THE HOG – BLACK OAK ARKANSAS CELEBRATES SUCCESS. ...
The Who Plunge Into Madness With Quadrophenia
Profile and Interview by John Swenson, Circus Raves, March 1974
GIVEN THE SITUATION that the average life span of a successful rock group is less than two years, the Who have set some kind of ...
Seals and Crofts: Seals & Crofts: Hotbed Of Controversy — 'Unborn Child'
Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus Raves, April 1974
They became soft rock's #1 duo on the strength of pretty music and sweet lyrics, but when a Strawberry blonde delivered her anti-abortion poem to ...
Doobie Brothers: How Stampede Drove Their Fans Into Bars
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, May 1974
LATE ONE summer night in 1974, a clean-cut bar band plugged in on the stage of a waterfront singles menagerie in southern Connecticut. ...
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, June 1974
THE AMBASSADOR THEATRE in Saint Louis has held its place in history since the 1920's as a grand old movie palace built in Hollywood's early ...
Black Sabbath, Deep Purple: Black Sabbath and Deep Purple: Who Really Are The Kings Of Heavy Metal?
Comment by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, November 1974
ONE HALF-DECADE ago, Black Sabbath couldn't get a favorable review if they begged for it – and beg they didn't. ...
REO Speedwagon: R.E.O. Speedwagon: The Band That Flies Together
Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, November 1974
WHAT REALLY GOES on after hours in Rock 'n' Roll Land? When a band is not touring or performing what do they do to take ...
Steppenwolf Howls Back From Oblivion On Slow Flux
Report and Interview by Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, November 1974
"IT JUST ISN'T fun anymore." With those cursory words on Saint Valentine's Day, 1972, John Kaye and the other members of Steppenwolf parted company – ...
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Upstarts: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Profile by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, December 1974
Alex Harvey is practically old enough to be your father: 38 years of rock’n’roll soul, to be exact. Of course he isn’t necessarily the oldest ...
Deep Purple summon the Thunder Gods with Stormbringer
Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, January 1975
In the midst of Purple's whirlwinds of sound and fury, the band remained silent about their brooding motives. But in a rare interview Ritchie Blackmore ...
Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus Raves, January 1975
IT WAS six o'clock on a heat-dripping Monday morning and the hundreds of youthful boogieoids gathered in front of Spartanburg's largest record store were ready ...
David Bowie: Who Will I Be Now?
Report by Ron Ross, Circus Raves, February 1975
TWO YOUNG black men with Afros and Yes T-shirts gazed at the art-deco murals and shrugged their shoulders. As they awaited the debut of David ...
Johnny Winter: Will The Real John Dawson Winter III Stand Up And Rock?
Report and Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus Raves, February 1975
THE RECORD Plant, one of New York's finest recording studios, occupies a floor of an otherwise unprepossessing office building in the heart of the Times ...
Report and Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, March 1975
DAVID COVERDALE cocked his head forward and let loose with a thunderous growl to counter Ritchie's furious riff-picking. Glenn Hughes directed his bass notes at ...
George Harrison, Tom Scott: George Harrison: How Dark Horse Whipped Up A Winning Tour
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, March 1975
AS GEORGE HARRISON'S tour began to cross America late in 1974, reports filtered back to New York City that all was not right. Though the ...
Queen's Four-Fold Strategy for Global Conquest
Report and Interview by Ron Ross, Circus Raves, March 1975
FROM A SINISTER MOAN, like a furious fiend lurking in a deep cave, Brian May's fed-back power chords slid up to a piercing demonic howl. ...
Doobie Brothers: How Stampede Drove Their Fans Into Bars
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, May 1975
LATE ONE summer night in 1974, a clean-cut bar band plugged in on the stage of a waterfront singles menagerie in southern Connecticut. ...
Jethro Tull invade America with a vengeance
Interview by Ron Ross, Circus Raves, May 1975
WHILE A bizarrely costumed quartet of musical madmen generated waves of sonic splendour, Ian Anderson scowled at his congregation of fans and hopped about like ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, May 1975
HERE WE have two solo artists, one with his place assured in the music business as a legend with money in his pockets, the other ...
Review and Interview by Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, May 1975
EIGHT-THIRTY PM. On the sixteenth story of a monster New York skyscraper a lonely light shone at the end of a cavernous floor. The deserted ...
Thin Lizzy: Nightlife (Vertigo) Rating: one heart*
Review by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, May 1975
THIS BAND is, like Free, one of the all-time great rock 'n roll aggregates of all time — due to the intense diversity of contributions ...
Roxy Music: Will They Rule America?
Interview by Ron Ross, Circus Raves, June 1975
THE LOBBY OF Howard Stein's Academy of Music was buzzing with expectation as a standing room only crowd counted the moments remaining until Roxy Music's ...
10cc: Mondo Perverts Flail Out With The Original Sound Track
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, July 1975
When they raided my club that nightThey ruined my act with the leather umbrellaThe Chief de Police got a frightHe was up in my boudoir ...
Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson: Hunter-Ronson: Once Bitten, They're Twice Shy
Profile and Interview by Ron Ross, Circus Raves, July 1975
AFTER ALL those years in suburban Kent, last autumn Mick Ronson finally moved to a new house right off Hyde Park, the hub of Central ...
Sadistic Mika Band: Let Pink Floyd Fans Beware
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, July 1975
EARLY IN THE SUMMER of 1974, Mika Katoh, a small, beautiful, Japanese woman, walked out of her room in London's Portobello Hotel, and crossed the ...
Elton John: A Million Dollar Friendship: An Interview with Gus Dudgeon
Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, August 1975
NARY A POTENTIOMETER breathed a word at the Caribou Ranch high in the Rocky Mountains. And the baffles relaxed as the massive array of equipment ...
Rainbow: Post-Purple: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Report and Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, September 1975
HE IS FAMED for cultivating a public image that extends beyond even the bounds of the antisocial. Even with Deep Purple, his own band, his ...
Supertramp: To Concept Or Not To Concept?
Report and Interview by Jon Tiven, Circus Raves, September 1975
THE DEBATE RAGES on amidst rock scholars – is the latest album by Supertramp a concept album, or is it not? The critics vote "Yes", ...
Uriah Heep: After A Bum Reality, The Return To Fantasy With Wetton On Bass
Interview by Ira Robbins, Circus Raves, September 1975
"IT'S A WINE and roses situation," quoth Ken Hensley, speaking of the hand-in-glove way that Uriah Heep's new bass player, John Wetton, has fit into ...
Bob Dylan: Dylan's The Basement Tapes – The Best Of The Bootlegs Goes Establishment
Overview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, October 1975
BOB DYLAN'S ART is his body of work. There are close to twenty legitimate Bob Dylan albums. There is a book, Tarantula, and another of ...
Black Sabbath: Sabbath's Sabotage: An interview with Tony Iommi
Interview by Mick Houghton, Circus Raves, October 1975
THREE TIERS OF GOLD, silver and platinum discs span one wall of the snooker room. They provide irrefutable evidence of the worldwide success of Black ...
Jethro Tull: A 'Minstrel' Bares His Soul
Interview by Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, November 1975
IAN ANDERSON IS twenty-eight years old today, a fact which pleases him none too greatly. The face is no betrayal of age; long and thin, ...
Rush: Breaking Into America… Canada's Answer To The New York Dolls?
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, November 1975
DETROIT'S MICHIGAN PALACE was full to the brim. Though the rock 'n' roll style of the early '70s has faded into a rebirth of hippiedom ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Circus Raves, December 1975
FIVE YEARS AGO in the bleak Northeast England town of Wakefield a guitar player named Bill Nelson sat around rapping with some friends who owned ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Circus Raves, December 1975
ALTHOUGH ULTIMATELY hopeful, Eric Clapton's greatest records – the towering Layla and the intimate 461 Ocean Boulevard – are liberally laced with sorrow and pain. ...
The Eagles: Fishing With The Eagles For the Universal Trout
Interview by Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, December 1975
THINGS ARE SO MELLOW on Jim Guercio's Caribou Ranch, those 3,200 acres of secluded headland lying right outside Denver, that even the birds seem to ...
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