Music Connection
Music Connection is a US-based monthly music-trade magazine, published in the Los Angeles area since 1977, with an online presence since 1997.
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Terry Reid: Mme. Wongs, Chinatown, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 21 January 1980
The Players: Terry Reid, guitar, vocals; Robert Newman, drums; Jon Brandt, bass. ...
Fleetwood Mac: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 3 October 1980
FLEETWOOD MAC, at the tail end of a long tour, performed a slightly edited version of their last Forum outings, but without enough tenacity or ...
Al Di Meola: Al DiMeola: Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 16 October 1980
WHILE THERE'S no doubting Al DiMeola's technical abilities or his thorough knowledge of the guitar from jazz, rather than jazz-rock, roots, several things conspired to ...
The Fleshtones: Fleshtones: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 19 February 1981
IT ISN'T every evening you run across a virtually non-stop 40-minute set of high-energy instrumental and beat music. For my money the Fleshtones have the ...
The Angry Samoans: Angry Samoans: Gazzarri's, Hollywood CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 3 April 1981
The Players: Todd Homer, bass; Billy Vockeroth, drums; Gregg Turner, guitar & vocals; Mike Saunders, guitar & vocals; P.J. Gallaghan, guitar. ...
The Gun Club: Miami (Animal Records)
Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 6 January 1982
I LOVE AMERICA. It's a land with a heart as big as all outdoors, willing to clasp to its bosom all sorts of crazies — ...
The Dream Syndicate: The Days of Wine and Roses (Ruby Records, Produced by Chris D)
Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 20 January 1982
THE DREAM Syndicate has never had to struggle for a personal sound, even though their music is often like a wild river, flowing with ripples ...
The Angry Samoans: Back From Samoa (Bad Trip Records)
Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 3 February 1982
THIS VENOMOUS collection of thirteen originals plus a nutty cover of 'Time Has Come Today' displays all the fury and sick humor of the band's ...
Foreigner: The Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 4 March 1982
FOREIGNER HAS managed to transcend the clichés of the much-vilified heavy metal rock form. Their Forum show was a powerful, direct lesson in how to ...
Foreigner: The Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 4 March 1982
FOREIGNER HAS managed to transcend the clichés of the much-vilified heavy metal rock form. Their Forum show was a powerful, direct lesson in how to ...
The Dream Syndicate: Dream Syndicate: Country Club, Reseda CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 1 April 1982
The Players: Steve Wynn, guitar and vocals; Karl Precoda, guitar; Kendra Smith, bass, vocals; Dennis Duck, drums. ...
Depeche Mode: Perkins Palace, Pasadena CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 24 July 1982
TECHNO-BUBBLE gum came to Perkins in the form of Depeche Mode, the most melodic of the new English synthesizer bands and the one most steeped ...
The Bangles: The Bangs: Al's Bar, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 5 August 1982
THE PLAYERS: Vicki Peterson, vocals, guitar: Debbi Peterson, drums, vocals; Susanna Hoffs, guitar, vocals; Annette Zilinskas, bass. ...
Rank And File: The Music Machine, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 17 February 1983
A PACKED HOUSE witnessed a powerful Rank and File set that was a model of consistency and drive. The four-piece has narrowed their focus admirably, ...
The Blasters: Non Fiction (Slash/Warner Bros.)
Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 9 June 1983
THIS RESILIENT band continues to deal with the major question of their career, namely how does a very good bar band win the hearts of ...
Violent Femmes: Music Machine, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Music Connection, 24 November 1983
THE PLAYERS: Gordon Gano, guitar, vocals; Brian Ritchie, bass, vocals; Victor de Lorenzo, drums; Peter Balastrieri, saxophone. ...
Leonard Cohen: The Songwriter: Lenny Plays It Cool
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Music Connection, 6 April 1987
The Various Positions of a Pop Guru ...
Retrospective and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Music Connection, 25 January 1988
WHEN A&M LONDON picked up Squeeze in 1977, after landing and subsequently letting go of the Sex Pistols, the band was considered to be one ...
Bernie Taupin, Elton John: Bernie Taupin: Elton's Write Hand Man
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1989
IT IS THE summer of 1989, six months of phone calls and patience have finally paid off. Bernie Taupin, the man who has been placing ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles
Live Review by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1989
WHAT CAN be said about Tom Petty and his crack band the Heartbreakers that hasn't already been said? They are quite simply the tightest and ...
Elton John: Great Western Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, September 1989
LIKE THE title of last year's album suggested, Reg is back. ...
Eric Clapton: Great Western Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, April 1990
OKAY, SO Eric Clapton isn't God. But try to convince the millions of six-stringers around the world who have tried and are still trying to ...
J.J. Cale: Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood
Live Review by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, May 1990
MENTION THE name of J.J. Cale to any blues/rock guitarist and you'll be greeted with a knowing grin and a nod of appreciation. Cale remains ...
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, July 1990
FOR OVER 25 years, English-born Ken Scott has been in recording studios working with the legends of rock. Throughout the Sixties and Seventies, Scott was ...
The Doors: When The Movie's Over
Report by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, March 1991
Did you have a good world when you died?Enough to base a movie on?– Jim Morrison ...
Pat Benatar: A Former Heartbreaker Finds True Love
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, May 1991
BETWEEN 1979 and 1988, Pat Benatar was rock's reigning queen, releasing six platinum and three gold records. during this nine-year span, the fiery vocalist cracked ...
Profile and Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1991
PROBABLY THE most underrated and yet most talented musicians are those who carry with them the less-than-heralded title of "session player." While some transformed themselves ...
Divinyls: The Divinyls: Palladium, Hollywood
Live Review by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1991
THE PALLADIUM was the perfect Southland venue for this Australian outfit whose recent self-titled album has become their biggest American hit. ...
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, January 1992
WITH THE band's last studio album, Invisible Touch, Genesis became the first rock band in U.S. chart history to send five consecutive singles into the ...
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, August 1993
2010 note: Harry Nilsson succumbed to heart failure and died on January 15, 1994, less than six months after this interview took place. ...
Ronnie James Dio: The Return of Ronnie James Dio
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, March 1994
CUTTING HIS professional teeth with the mildly successful early Seventies band Elf, the 45-year-old Ronnie James Dio (Ronald Padavona) first rose to fame with former ...
Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks: Stevie Nicks
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, July 1994
SINCE SHE FIRST EXPLODED ON THE ROCK SCENE IN 1975 AS THE SEDUCTIVE FOCAL POINT OF FLEETWOOD MAC, STEVIE NICKS HAS BEEN AS MUCH AN ...
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, September 1994
A new greatest hits collection, featuring many, but not all, your Seger favorites, should make it ten platinum albums in a row for the blue-collar ...
David Bowie: Man Of A Thousand Phases
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, September 1995
IF EVER there was a rock star who epitomized the life of a musical chameleon, it would be David Bowie – not only in his ...
Bonnie Raitt: Still Burning Down The House
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, October 1995
This redheaded Grammy Queen is back with the first live album of her long career – an album that harkens back to her grittier pre-platinum ...
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, May 1996
With more than 80 million records sold worldwide, and the release of his first official solo album, Golden Heart, this Sultan Of Swing is no ...
Bill Wyman, The Rolling Stones: Bill Wyman: Former Stone Gets Rolling
Interview by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, February 1998
BILL WYMAN is one of only two former Rolling Stones still...well, rolling around – the other, of course, being Mick Taylor – but he is ...
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass at 50
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Music Connection, 10 November 2020
GEORGE HARRISON'S debut solo album All Things Must Pass was recorded May-October 1970 in London at the Abbey Road, Trident and Apple studios. It was ...
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