Fusion
Fusion was an influential music magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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The Chambers Brothers: Love, Peace and Happiness
Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 6 February 1969
THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS have enjoyed a good deal of popularity and commercial success during the past couple of years, but to be quite honest, the ...
Albert King: Years Gone By (Stax STS2010)
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 26 July 1969
MEMO FROM: Loyd Grossman TO: Albert King Concerning: Years Gone By ...
The Nice: Ars Longa Vita Brevis (Immediate)
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 26 July 1969
ARS LONGA Vita Brevis is an incredibly good album, probably one of the best to have been released in the last few years; certainly one of ...
Crosby Stills and Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash (Atlantic SD 8229)
Review by Gary Kenton, Fusion, 8 August 1969
IT'S ABOUT time. The supergroup has finally come to pass. Oh, the idea has been around; many fine jams have come off as the result ...
George Harrison: Electronic Sound (Zapple)
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 8 August 1969
THIS ALBUM... phlurp phlurp phlurp... is on Zapple (grauughh! *'&'%%!) the Beatles personal label /--perhaps no other company wapwapwapwapwapwap uuuhwweeoques—would record it-++++++++++++ ...
The Groundhogs: Groundhogs: Scratching The Surface (World Pacific WPS-21892)
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 8 August 1969
THE GROUNDHOGS are indicative of a new trend in British blues music. Until recently most British blues bands borrowed heavily from rock (the use of ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 5 September 1969
FOR SOME reason Cream seems to have become the standard against which all other rock trios are judged. Not only is this unfair, it is ...
Booker T & The MGs, Cream, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Paul McCartney: Hey, Mr. Bassman
Overview by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 19 September 1969
THE ELECTRIC revolution that helped to spawn rock and roll also helped to popularize a whole new set of instruments to take along on its ...
Ten Years After: Ssssh (Deram)
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 19 September 1969
AS ALVIN LEE says in his liner notes, "The major problem of being TEN YEARS AFTER has been to record an album." This is their ...
The Stooges: The Stooges (Elektra)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 19 September 1969
I WAS ONCE thinking of doing a piece on Blue Cheer where I wanted to show, through all sorts of diagrams and convoluted logic, that ...
Country Joe & The Fish: Country Joe And The Fish: Here We Are Again (Vanguard)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 3 October 1969
COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH are certainly unique in American rock. By the time their first album came out they had really passed their peak ...
Fairport Convention: Fairport Convention (A&M SP 4199)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 3 October 1969
THIS RECORD would be worth the price of purchase just for one cut: the group's rendition of an early Dylan song 'I'll Keep It With ...
Lee Michaels: Lee Michaels (A&M)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 3 October 1969
IF YOU liked Al Kooper, you'll love Lee Michaels. I hate most of Kooper's stuff but Michaels is beginning to grow on me. ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 3 October 1969
MAYBE HIDDEN away in the offices of Atlantic Records right now is an evil genius publicity man who is trying to devise a monstrous hype ...
Bamboo, Bread: Bread: Bread (Elektra) Bamboo Bamboo (Elektra)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 17 October 1969
RELEASED TOGETHER, utilizing similar cover formats and nearly identical one-word names beginning with the letter "B": Elektra must have intended these two albums to be ...
Ed Sanders, The Fugs: Ed Sanders: We Reach The Moon
Interview by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 17 October 1969
This interview between Ed Sanders and Nick Tosches took place on Labor Day evening, 1969 at Ed Sanders' Lower East Side apartment in New York ...
John Mayall: The Turning Point
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 17 October 1969
A TURNING POINT in British blues music may have been reached last May when Mick Taylor and Colin Allen left John Mayall's band. Following their ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 17 October 1969
TERRY REID is not a very well known, often deprecated, and monstrously talented performer. Mickie Most is not a very good producer; Mickie Most is ...
The Flock: The Flock (Columbia)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 17 October 1969
THE FLOCK is a fairly decent horned and guitared conglomerate from Chicago whose blues-based and otherwise eclectic first album is nice in an unobtrusive sort ...
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 17 October 1969
THE NICE are one of the few different groups on today’s pop scene, centering their music around the keyboard work of Keith Emerson. They use ...
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks: Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks (Epic)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 14 November 1969
DAN HICKS is an ex-Chariatan, a founding father of the group which (among other things) helped to bring a stately Victorian air to early Haight-Ashbury. ...
Little Anthony & the Imperials: Little Anthony and the Imperials: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 14 November 1969
LITTLE ANTHONY AND the Imperials. Ah, just saying the name is a high, bringing back all those battered End records of 'Tears On My Pillow', ...
Mick Taylor, The Rolling Stones: Mick Taylor Interviewed
Interview by Tony Norman, Fusion, 14 November 1969
MICK TAYLOR is 20 years old and has been gifted with the ability to play fine guitar. His pale, young face is framed by a ...
Sha Na Na: Sha-Na-Na: Sha-Na-Na (Buddah)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 14 November 1969
SHA-NA-NA has a cute stage show. They come out, dressed fit to kill in an assortment of gold lamé, black pants, white socks, t-shirts, etc., ...
Bonzo Dog Band, Grateful Dead: The Bonzo Dog Band, the Grateful Dead: Boston Tea Party, Boston
Live Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 14 November 1969
Have You Seen My Bonzo Dog Doo Dah? ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: The Year of The Dead
Report by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 14 November 1969
THE GRATEFUL Dead are on the way up. But whether it be from a growing musical acumen on the part of their audience, a starring ...
Tommy James & The Shondells: Cellophane Symphony (Roulette)
Review by Danny Goldberg, Fusion, 14 November 1969
WE ALL AGREE that Gary Puckett and The Union Cap is pretty awful and we all agree that The Rolling Stones are pretty good. Those ...
Blodwyn Pig: Ahead Rings Out (A&M SP4210)
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 28 November 1969
IT IS BY now fairly common knowledge that Jethro Tull was this eighteenth century sort of crank from England who went around advocating the use ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: In The Reaches of Laurel Canyon
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Fusion, 28 November 1969
RITCHIE YORKE visited Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young "in the reaches of Laurel Canyon". At the beglnnlng of his interview he reported a feeling he ...
Santana: Santana (Columbia CS 9781)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 28 November 1969
THERE ARE guitar bands. There are vocal bands. There are organ bands, horn bands, sometimes stray combinations of all of the above. ...
Savoy Brown: A Step Further (Parrot PAS 71029)
Review by Gary Kenton, Fusion, 28 November 1969
IT'S PRETTY frustrating to be a victimized musician these days. It has always been, of course, but now, with all these quasi-blues heavies making it ...
The Liverpool Scene, Steve Miller: Steve Miller/Liverpool Scene: Boston Tea Party, Boston
Live Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 28 November 1969
THE STEVE MILLER BAND and the Liverpool Scene played at the Boston Tea Party on October 17th, 18th and 19th. ...
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: The Butterfield Blues Band: Keep On Moving (Elektra EKS 74053)
Review by Gary Kenton, Fusion, 28 November 1969
PAUL BUTTERFIELD seems to have fallen out of public grace recently. Back in the days of East-West, he gained recognition for being a true blues ...
Blodwyn Pig: Boston Tea Party, Boston
Live Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 12 December 1969
Blodwyn Pig on a Cold and Rainy Night ...
Harry Nilsson: Everybody's Talkin' ‘Bout Harry Nilsson
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Fusion, 12 December 1969
FEW SINGERS COULD have found a more aptly-named success vehicle than Nilsson's current hit record, 'Everybody's Talkin'', which is featured so persuasively in the film ...
Carry That Weight: Music In The ‘60s
Overview by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 20 January 1970
THE WAY IT WORKS is that someone picks up the torch and carries it for a while, and when they get tired, or irrelevant, or ...
Blind Faith, Eric Clapton: Eric Clapton: Another Crossroad
Interview by Keith Altham, Fusion, 6 February 1970
MANY PEOPLE THINK that Eric Clapton is the best guitarist in the world. A veteran of the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Cream, all that ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band
Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 20 February 1970
THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND has been causing somewhat of a commotion in the music world of late. They were the talk of the town during ...
Guide by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 20 February 1970
The Beatles – do you still want to know what they're up to? Even if, sub specie aeternitatis, it's, like, nothing? Well, go ahead, indulge ...
Electric Kool-Aid: On & Off the Bus
Essay by Michael Lydon, Fusion, 6 March 1970
The last words of Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test are "WE BLEW IT". In caps, naturally. ...
Interview by Keith Altham, Fusion, 6 March 1970
The Nice are perhaps one of the most controversial groups on the pop music scene today. Praised by many for relieving us from the excesses ...
The Velvet Underground c/o New York, NY
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Fusion, 6 March 1970
NONE OF THIS concerns anything except maybe the back room at Max's Kansas City, which is on Union Square in Manhattan but not worth finding ...
MC5: Back In The USA (Atlantic)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 20 March 1970
WHAT A difference a year can make. This time last year the MC5 were riding high on the crest of the biggest hype in the ...
Richie Havens: Stonehenge (Stormy Forest)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 20 March 1970
THE SUBJECT OF Richie Havens is always sure to provoke an argument. Those who tend to dislike him do so with a great deal of ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Restraint
Profile and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Fusion, 17 April 1970
NEIL YOUNG HAS A voice like a sunrise, fresh with promise, wise with years and practice, something you turn to for light encouragement and warmth. ...
James Taylor: Sweet Baby James (Warner Bros.)
Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 15 May 1970
JAMES TAYLOR was the first artist signed to the Beatles’ Apple label, and ironically, the first to leave it as well. While there, he produced ...
Review by Ben Edmonds, Fusion, 12 June 1970
THIS ALBUM was released well over a year ago, sold very few copies, and has been confined to the dungeons of neglect. ...
Eric Clapton, Keef Hartley: Eric Clapton: Eric Clapton
Review by Loyd Grossman, Fusion, 18 September 1970
WHEN I HAVE to write something I mope. I mope and do other things. And I don't think about my topic. I only think about ...
Bonzo Dog Band: The Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band
Retrospective by John Mendelsohn, Fusion, 2 October 1970
IT GIVES ME limitless pleasure to inform you that, unless you're a member of a decidedly tiny minority of rock and roll women and men, ...
The Mothers of Invention: Weasels Ripped My Flesh (Reprise/Bizarre 2028)
Review by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 2 October 1970
THIS ALBUM should be had for the cover art alone. Cal Schenkel's art direction has gone itself one better this time with Neon Park's acrylic ...
Retrospective by Charlie Gillett, Fusion, 13 November 1970
TO START where I should, with autobiographical recollection: the only Little Willie John single I can remember hearing when it came out was 'Leave My ...
Profile by Greg Shaw, Fusion, 19 February 1971
THE ORIGIN of The Kinks is nearly shrouded in antiquity – 1964, to be exact. There weren't many 'rock' groups around yet; just the Stones ...
Discography by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 19 March 1971
"The Chatanooga Choo-Choo careens headlong into the hub of an exploding galaxy. The cadavers of 19 raped and strangled astronauts float de-pants'd, froggish in the ...
Eric Clapton: Rock — A Dilemma
Essay by Michael Lydon, Fusion, 19 March 1971
Michael Lydon views rock and roll as a space/time continuum, in which problems and, sometimes, solutions often arise. ...
The Rolling Stones: No Dead Flowers
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Fusion, 14 May 1971
For all their irrelevance to politics, ecology and third-world revolution, they continue to be a special kind of fun. ...
The Staple Singers: The Staple Swingers (Stax 2034)
Review by Gary Kenton, Fusion, 14 May 1971
IT'S ALL A bad idea except for the music. It's The Staple Singers — you know them — they couldn't make lousy music if they ...
Waylon Jennings: The Taker/Tulsa (RCA 4487)
Review by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 28 May 1971
EVEN THOUGH this album stinks it wasn't always like that for Mr. Jennings. ...
Profile by Charlie Gillett, Fusion, 23 July 1971
IF BRITAIN HAD a good system of radio stations, the history of the world might have been at least a little different. ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, 23 July 1971
TOUCHÉ, Jesus Christ Superstar (the non-statement rock opera of the year), here's a religious message with a bit more balls and a lot more talent ...
The Doors: The End of Jim Morrison
Obituary by Al Aronowitz, Fusion, 17 September 1971
WE ALL MAKE our deals with the devil. I suppose Jim Morrison must have realized that he made his. Listen to Jac Holzman, the president ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: A Simple But Compelling Sound: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Overview by Greg Shaw, Fusion, 15 October 1971
WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT it would be an old-fashioned rock 'n' roll band to pull us out of the doldrums of 1968's acid comedown/methedrine blues nightmare? ...
Obituary by Michael Lydon, Fusion, 29 October 1971
MAYBE THIS should be a collection of unrelated notes. I’m not sure how the things I’m thinking about fit together. King Curtis is dead. That ...
Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Sometimes I Just Feel Like Smilin'
Review by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 29 October 1971
ALL OF Butterfield's albums are beauts that never obsolesce. The complete Catholicism of his/their approach to musical communication has already resulted in more than your ...
Profile by Lester Bangs, Fusion, 12 November 1971
NICO IS ONE of the true enigmas of our time. Austere, elusive, a tall ghostly woman with an aura of utter loneliness and distance so ...
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, 12 November 1971
She's got long black hairAnd a big black carI know what you're thinkin'But you won't get far!She's gonna make you itch'Cause she's a witch! ...
The Rolling Stones: Rocking Chair: Working Out
Column by Michael Lydon, Fusion, 10 December 1971
I HAVE been writing about music for years, and am now trying to play myself. This changes matters. ...
Charles Manson, Ed Sanders: Charles Manson: Stalking Manson – The Sanders Saga
Essay by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 24 December 1971
Ed Sanders spent the summer of the Tate-LaBianca murders yodeling the ditties that were to come to comprise Sanders Truckstop into an overhead mike at ...
Lonnie Mack: The Hills of Indiana
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, 24 December 1971
"FOR BEST results, this record should be played more than once." Maybe Elektra should've included that tip in the liner notes. ...
John Lennon: Rocking Chair: Popular & Vital
Column by Michael Lydon, Fusion, 24 December 1971
JAMES TAYLOR came on the jukebox in the bar last night, singing that pretty Carole King song about "Call me and I'll come running and ...
Dionne Warwick: "...The Holy Ghost, Of Course."
Overview by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 7 January 1972
ONCE THERE was a little pickaninny girl from East Orange, N.J. She used to play organ and sing in the choir at the church of ...
Humble Pie: Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore (A&M 3506)
Review by Ken Barnes, Fusion, March 1972
HUMBLE PIE, after innumerable fits, starts, and musical style shifts, have apparently, with the release of this double live LP, finally found their direction — ...
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Quicksilver
Profile by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, April 1972
THE ONCE-FAMOUS logo, "May the Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind," has been supplanted by an outsized plastic marquee proclaiming ‘Summer of ...
Yoko Ono: Rocking Chair: Oh! Yoko
Column by Michael Lydon, Fusion, April 1972
YOKO ONO smiles from her recent album cover (fly) with great compassion. Her face is heavy, peasant-like. She is looking out through a sheet of ...
The Faces: A Nod Is as Good as a Wink to a Blind Horse (Warner Brothers 2574)
Review by Ken Barnes, Fusion, April 1972
ROD STEWART or no Rod Stewart, this album just doesn't make it. The top-ranking male vocalist of our time manages along with his bosom buddies ...
Aretha Franklin: Young, Gifted, and Black (Atlantic)
Review by Michael Lydon, Fusion, May 1972
FROM THE shimmering, expectant notes which mark its opening to the brutally final chord of its close, Aretha Franklin's new album, Young, Gifted, and Black,is magnificent. ...
Blue Öyster Cult: Blue Öyster Cult (Columbia 31063)
Review by Nick Tosches, Fusion, May 1972
NEVER JUDGE a fellow earthling by the way he/she looks; this was perhaps the first lesson I gleaned from the Blue Öyster Cult — upon ...
Captain Beefheart: The Spotlight Kid (Reprise 2050)
Review by Nick Tosches, Fusion, May 1972
POTENTIOMETERS pop (the odor of electricity) behind the silvery mugs of android dervishes. A gasket goes. The old Aristotelean construct programs splatter into a mess ...
Review by Sheila Weller, Fusion, May 1972
THE BLACK cultural tradition has always depended for its survival on oral, rather than written, communication: from the chants of tribal Africa to the folk-tales ...
Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything? (Bearsville 2006)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Fusion, June 1972
YOU COULD reasonably put Something/Anything? anywhere on the scale between mere self-indulgence and full blown egomania, but that would be missing the point. If you ...
Deep Purple: Machine Head (Warner Brothers 2607)
Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, July 1972
YA DON'T judge Lew Alcindor by Fran Tarkenton, and you can't judge Deep Purple by the Move so let's fergit any angles like that because ...
Electric Light Orchestra: The Electric Light Orchestra (United Artists 5573)
Review by Ken Barnes, Fusion, July 1972
THE ELECTRIC Light Orchestra is prime Mover Roy Wood's long-cherished dream come true — a rock trio augmented by cello, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, recorders, keyboards, ...
Little Feat: Sailin' Shoes (Warner Brothers 2600)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, July 1972
THERE WAS A time, a few months back, when I worried whether or not I'd ever behold the coming of a second Little Feat album. ...
Kenny & The Kasuals, The Litter, The Sonics: The Sonics, Kenny & The Kasuals, The Litter reissues
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Fusion, July 1972
The Sonics: Here Are The Sonics (Etiquette 024); Kenny & The Kasuals: Live at the Studio Club (Mark 5000); The Litter: Distortions (Warwick 671) ...
Jim Dickinson: James Luther Dickinson: Dixie Fried (Atlantic 8299)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, August 1972
UP TO YOUR ears in sessionmen gone solo? More than fed up with Russell/Nix-type Southern boys? Bludgeoned to insensitivity by Kinney Product? Well, James Luther ...
Profile by Greg Shaw, Fusion, September 1972
IT'S HARD to remember a time when the role of the producer wasn't considered just as important as that of the musicians in the making ...
Wilf Carter (Montana Slim), Lightnin' Hopkins, Hank Snow, Lester Young: Rocking Chair
Column by Michael Lydon, Fusion, September 1972
JUNE TODAY, not busting out in Boston where the sky is as grey as the pigeons, but here. My trip has continued from Bloomington across ...
Kim Fowley: I'm Bad (Capitol 11075)
Review by Gary Kenton, Fusion, October 1972
PERSONALITY AND spunk. Isn't that what rock & roll has been missing lately? Well, here's Kim Fowley with a new album and he's got plenty ...
Pink Floyd: Obscured by Clouds (Harvest 11078)
Review by Dan Nooger, Fusion, October 1972
WITH THE arrival of Meddle last year, even Pink Floyd's most ardent followers must have found themselves wondering if the group hadn't outlived themselves. The ...
The Philadelphia Story, Early Sixties Style: What It Was, Was Pud
Retrospective by Greg Shaw, Fusion, October 1972
It all started in 1959, perhaps rock 'n' roll's bleakest year. Buddy Holly had gone down in flames over N. Dakota, Little Richard had gone ...
Various Artists: Fillmore – The Last Days
Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, October 1972
NO PART OF this review is meant as a slur against the names of Bill Graham, Fillmore Records, or Columbia Records. I realize that the ...
Alice Cooper: Dancing In The Street Without A Permit Is Strictly Forbidden
Report by Jonh Ingham, Fusion, November 1972
Alice hits London. Summertime blues 1972. ...
Dorsey Burnette: Here and Now (Capitol 11094)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, November 1972
REMEMBER THE Burnette Brothers? Johnny and Dorsey, that is, out of Memphis in the Fifties doing 'The Train Kept A-Rollin'' and mucho ace rockabilly? No? ...
The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder: Boston Garden, Boston MA
Live Review by Michael Lydon, Fusion, November 1972
THE ROLLING Stones were magnificent in Boston. We arrived at a packed Boston Garden high and hopeful for an evening of visual thrills and musical ...
The Zombies: Everything you wanted to know!
Retrospective by Metal Mike Saunders, Fusion, November 1972
HALF A YEAR AGO I would have started this piece by saying that the Zombies, like so many other defunct mid-Sixties groups, have suffered dreadfully ...
Big Star: No. 1 Record (Ardent 2803)
Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, December 1972
THIS IS certainly one of the most novel and incredible albums released this year, possessing chameleon quality only hinted at by Raspberries. Believe me, brothers ...
Memoir by Michael Lydon, Fusion, December 1972
BATTERY FAILING, headlights down to a dull yellow gleam, the gas guage below empty, we roller-coasted over the last range of hills into Berkeley — ...
Grand Funk Railroad: The Case for Grand Funk Railroad
Profile and Interview by Metal Mike Saunders, Fusion, December 1972
I HEARD Grand Funk’s first album for the first time in November, 1969. I was a freshman in college and a friend down the hall ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, January 1973
FAMILY IS an all-around brilliant British quintet who have just bestowed their seventh disc upon a generally unappreciative American public. The United States doesn't deserve ...
Patto: Roll 'Em Smoke 'Em Put Another Line Out
Review by Ken Barnes, Fusion, February 1973
PATTO'S THIRD ALBUM is something different. Not different than their last release, Hold Your Fire, which is fairly similar stylistically, but very distinctive indeed in ...
Don "Sugarcane" Harris: Sugarcane Harris
Guide by Charlie Gillett, Fusion, February 1973
An appreciation in the form of a letter from Charlie Gillett to — I.C. Lotz c/o The Mad Peck Flash Burn Funnies Fusion 909 Beacon St. Boston, Mass. 02215 ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers, The Wailers: The Wailers: Catch A Fire
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, May 1973
AFTER ALL THESE veers, a new Wailers' LP! But wait, Catch A Fire doesn't have anything to do with those soggy Seattle-ites who rocked hot ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, June 1973
AFTER WHAT SEEMS like a decade of musical silence, Terry Reid has finally come across with a new album which isn't called Water (scheduled for ...
Led Zeppelin: Houses of the Holy
Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, August 1973
LED ZEP'S ANNUAL album is at last upon us, and although many a fan may be befuddled by its lack of rhythmic/lyric/melodic coherence-conformity, it is ...
The Beau Brummels: Beau Brummels: Stellar Studio Band
Overview by Mitchell Cohen, Fusion, November 1973
ONCE THE all-engulfing wave that was the British Invasion of 1964 had begun to subside, it began to be possible for some home-grown talent to ...
Big Star: Radio City Comes to NYC
Live Review by Jon Tiven, Fusion, March 1974
BIG STAR IS America's premier rock band, hands down – they'll no longer be forced into comparisons with Raspberries, Stories, Blue Ash, or any of ...
The Doors, Jim Morrison: Jim Morrison: Remembering Morrison
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Fusion, June 1974
THE rock world was still staggering from the back-to-back deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when they were suddenly and mysteriously joined in pop ...
The Marshall Tucker Band: A New Life
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, June 1974
I used to have a band like this one once. Yeah. Five guys trying to work into that storm 'n' lull Grateful Dead groove. Organ, ...
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