Zoo World
Zoo World was a bi-weekly music magazine published between 1972 and 1975 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and nationally circulated in the USA.
145 articles
List of articles in the library
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 12 September 1974
MOST EUROPEANS would, quite rightly, give their balls to suck Slurpees at a 7-11 or grow up absurd on Yankee turf, but they don't get ...
Allman Brothers Band: Capricorn Bar BQ: Bill Graham Plays Ball In Macon
Report by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 13 September 1973
WOULD YOU drive 600 miles through the midsummer heat of Florida and Georgia to scoff some free rubs and red hot chicken at the Allman ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band: Brothers And Sisters (Capricorn CP0111)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 27 September 1973
UNTIL ABOUT two years ago the Allman Brothers Band existed in a vacuum whose bounds were conveniently defined by the Mason-Dixon line. Before them was ...
Brian Eno, John Cale, Kevin Ayers, Nico: Kevin Ayers/John Cale/Eno/Nico: June 1, 1974 (Island)
Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 10 October 1974
LIVE ALBUMS have become an abundant nuisance which bands seem to feel an obligation to produce every few years, often with no redeeming content. The ...
Interview by John Swenson, Zoo World, 6 June 1974
VIBRAPHONE VIRTUOSO Roy Ayers slouches in a scoop chair in a loose fitting tweed coat, talking with great animation about his latest album, Virgo Red. He smiles ...
Bachman Turner Overdrive: The Band That Laughs Last…
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 24 October 1974
THE BACHMAN-Turner Overdrive had just arrived backstage at the San Antonio Municipal Auditorium when the door to their dressing room burst open and seven extremely ...
Bachman Turner Overdrive: BTO II (Mercury)
Review by John Swenson, Zoo World, 28 February 1974
BACHMAN TURNER Overdrive emerged as one of the best new groups of 1973, and their debut album was the best work to come out of ...
Bachman Turner Overdrive, The Guess Who: Randy Bachman: Guess Who's Back Pages
Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 14 February 1974
UNDERSTANDABLY, Bachman-Turner Overdrive is the first band ever to challenge the Guess Who's sovereign supremacy on their own Canadian turf, because, more than any other ...
Bad Company: Bad Company (Swan Song SS 8410)
Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 29 August 1974
BAD COMPANY is an oddity among supergroups. Instead of being a showcase for overdeveloped egos, the four members have fused their past influences into a ...
Badfinger: Ass (Apple); For Love Or Money (Warner Bros.)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 11 April 1974
BADFINGER SEEMED, at one time, to be the hope of the future for those who relished the past efforts of The Beatles. ...
The Band: Moondog Matinee (Capitol SW-11214)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 3 January 1974
OF ALL THE generative US music strains that contributed to what became known in the 60's as Rock, none has been so overlooked and forgotten ...
The Band, Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan & The Band: Before The Flood (Asylum AB-201)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 29 August 1974
"THERE'S A flood out in California, and up north it's freezing cold/and this living off o' the road — it's gettin' pretty old." John Phillip ...
The Band, Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan & the Band: Hollywood Sportatorium, Pembroke Pines, Fla.
Live Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 28 February 1974
"The White-suited Mystic Rescues His Flock" ...
The Beach Boys: Helping People Find That Perfect Wave
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Zoo World, 24 October 1974
MIKE LOVE, a Beach Boy, sits under a tent backstage at Roosevelt Stadium in New Jersey. The tent breeds flies like Northern Jersey breeds bad ...
Review by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 7 June 1973
JEFF BECK'S erratic career has been marked by equal touches of brilliance and downright stupidity. Nowhere is the guitarist's penchant for self-destructive behavior more in ...
Leonard Bernstein, Gary Lucas: Leonard Bernstein: Lenny's song and dance in Vienna
Report and Interview by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S Mass, the piece commissioned to open the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington, was premiered this summer in Europe. A company of 200 took ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 28 February 1974
ONLY JANUARY, and already the Album of the Year is upon us. Big Star's Radio City is most assuredly the finest American record since Bob ...
Report and Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 17 January 1974
LONDON – Blackfoot Sue have nothing but kind words for their fellow Birmingham Buddies who've gone on to bigger and better things. ...
Live Review by David Rensin, Zoo World, 23 May 1974
"Bastion Of Ennui" nets record gate. ...
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 25 November 1972
IT REALLY freaks me out when somebody tries to tell me Vol 4 is the best thing Black Sabbath ever did. ...
Blue Oyster Cult: Secret Treaties (Columbia KC)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 4 July 1974
VIOLENT FANTASY, and the fantasy of violence — confrontation and aggression — present the logical ultimatum of warlike Christian civilizations: Imperial control of the means ...
Brownsville Station: The Right Track
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 7 June 1973
IF YES HAVE nightmares, they're probably about Brownsville Station. ...
Jerry Butler: Power Of Love (Mercury)
Review by John Swenson, Zoo World, 9 May 1974
JERRY BUTLER is unquestionably the King of Chicago-style cool R&B (the name Ice Man didn't come for nothing – at a time when Pickett epitomized ...
Can: Ege Bamyasi (United Artists UA LA 063-F)
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Zoo World, 13 September 1973
AH! FINALLY another platter full of stuff to sear the audial nerves clean of all the CS&N/America/Eagles slush that's been fed to them almost without ...
Canned Heat: One More River To Cross
Review by John Swenson, Zoo World, 14 March 1974
CANNED HEAT is one of those groups who hang on by the skin of their teeth, jumping over a spate of mediocre albums from success ...
Captain Beefheart: Low Yo Yo-Ing It In Blunderland
Review and Interview by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 10 May 1973
"I don't want to kill my china pig/No I don't/A man's gotta live/A man's gotta eat/A man's gotta have shoes/To walk out on the street..." ...
The Carpenters: Then And Now (A&M SP 3519)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 2 August 1973
KAREN AND Richard, Carpenters, greased and ready to kick the sleazy jams and jellies out of Tin Can Alley and back out onto Sunset Strip ...
Cockney Rebel: The Psychomodo (Capitol)
Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 11 November 1974
WITH A LOT more guts than sense, Steve Harley dissolved Cockney Rebel in late July, causing their second album, The Psychomodo, to fall like a ...
Report by Michael Gross, Zoo World, 14 March 1974
HIPPY DIED in 1967. Time Magazine was the accused murderer, but the case was thrown out of court for lack of evidence. Since then, all ...
Chick Corea, Return to Forever: Chick Corea's Pop Renaissance
Interview by John Swenson, Zoo World, 11 April 1974
"I GREW UP in a musical environment," states Chick Corea matter of factly as he sits cross legged in the main room of the apartment ...
Larry Coryell: Eleventh House: Larry Coryell's Supergroup
Interview by John Swenson, Zoo World, 14 March 1974
ROSLYN, NEW York, 1974. Larry Coryell's Eleventh House returned to My Father's Place, the Long Island club where the band was born six months earlier, convinced that they ...
Crosby Stills Nash & Young: CSN&Y Reunion
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Zoo World, 25 April 1974
CHICAGO – "Welcome American Dairymen" reads the hotel lobby marquee and beneath it in smaller letters, "Welcome Stephen Stills Group." Upstairs overlooking the city in ...
Review by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 17 August 1973
TWO INTERESTING corollaries to the albums under discussion are the interviews with Daltrey and Entwistle that appear in the appendix of Gary Herman's otherwise boring ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Zoo World, 6 December 1973
TAKE ONE Oklahoman Indian; stick one guitar in his hand and what you come up with is a singer/songwriter/guitarist more impressive and powerful than all ...
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 15 June 1972
2013 NOTE: When Machine Head shipped in '72 it was just another album, the latest release by an up-and-coming heavy metal band, stuck in the ...
Deep Purple: So Dreadfully Hot Here In The Colonies
Report by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 23 December 1972
"WHERE'S THE booze?" ...
Delbert & Glen: 1972 American Success Story
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 26 April 1973
IT'S GONNA BE mighty hard to write anything on Delbert & Glen without coming off like variation 39 of the classic American success story – ...
Derek & The Dominos: Derek and the Dominos: In Concert
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 29 March 1973
OFFHAND I'D venture to say there won't be many people disappointed with the new Derek and the Dominos. Perhaps the worst feature of the whole ...
Doobie Brothers: The Doobie Brothers: Toulouse Street
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 30 September 1972
THERE IS SOMETHING strangely deceptive about the Doobie Brothers. First of all, their name conjures up images of Maynard G. Krebs, the ultimate beatnik and ...
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show: Belly Up (Columbia)
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 6 December 1973
WILL SUCCESS spoil Dr. Hook? Or will Dr. Hook spoil success? Such is the saga of the madcap Medicine Show – a study in reverse ...
Bob Dylan: Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Soundtrack by Bob Dylan (Columbia KC 32460)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 13 September 1973
Dylan Meets Billy: America's Albatrosses ...
Bob Dylan: Planet Waves (Asylum 7E-1003)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 28 February 1974
LIKE THE reformed gunslinger-turned-family man, who's barely kept his pistol from rusting by occasionally battling some tin cans in his backyard — Dylan's been called ...
Electric Light Orchestra: On The Third Day (United Artists)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 14 February 1974
AM I EVER proud of Jeff Lynne, a Birmingham Boy who has lived down a past that he's not particularly proud of and put out ...
John Entwistle, Pete Townshend: Peter Townshend: Who Came First; John Entwistle: Whistle Rhymes
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 3 February 1973
PERHAPS THE farthest-reaching cultural upheaval of our era is the formation of subcultures on every plane of society as an escape from the total immensity ...
The Faces: Live — Coast To Coast (Mercury)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 11 March 1974
MIND YOU, it's not that I dislike Rod Stewart, for I think he sings very well despite the fact that it sounds like some hostess ...
Freddy Fender, Doug Sahm: Viva Tex Mex... Viva MD 20/20... Viva Freddy Fender!
Report and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Zoo World, 6 June 1974
"...and Freddy Fender is probably still down in Nuevo Laredo waiting to turn the world on — wonder if Sir Doug's found him yet?" ...
Interview by Michael Gross, Zoo World, 8 January 1973
LONDON – The red bus was drifting past Marble Arch, turning towards Knightsbridge. I was leafing through the notes I'd taken that afternoon, and came ...
Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids
Profile and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 20 December 1973
YOU MIGHT FIND this hard to believe, but if it wasn't for a fifth of whiskey Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids probably wouldn't be ...
Foghat: Road-tested In America
Profile and Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 9 May 1974
FOGHAT DELIVERS hard English rock 'n roll with an American accent, and as such they aren't fully appreciated in their native England, where the only ...
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 10 May 1973
2013 NOTE: A big Savoy Brown fan back in the day, much as I loved the group's transformation which produced Street Corner Talking I was ...
Peter Frampton: Frampton's Camel
Profile and Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 19 July 1973
PETER FRAMPTON has had a difficult time getting his personal recognition – everytime a band he's in gets popular, he splits. But now he's put ...
Frijid Pink: All Pink Inside (Fantasy)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 7 November 1974
WHAT DO you do if you're a certified and stamped One Hit Wonder? It depends. You can only play out your hit for so long; ...
Marvin Gaye May Not Be Goin' On
Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Zoo World, 7 November 1974
"SOMEBODY PLEASE turn that thing down," Marvin Gaye casts this weary appeal to one of the numerous aides that flitter through his suite in New ...
Grateful Dead: Wake Of The Flood (Grateful Dead Records GD-01)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 20 December 1973
OWING TO THE rather blatant corporate eccentricities of American record companies the Grateful Dead have formed their own label, following a stormy six years with ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 27 September 1973
"WHAT IS A GREENSLADE?" asked records editor Arthur Levy when I first volunteered to review this new album, and this is a question with true ...
Tom T. Hall: For The People In The Last Hard Town (Mercury)
Review by John Swenson, Zoo World, 11 April 1974
TOM T. HALL is unquestionably one of the finest country music songwriters ever to pick up a pen or belt down a double shot of ...
Daryl Hall & John Oates: Nutritious Music: Daryl Hall & John Oates
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 17 February 1973
DARYL HALL, one half of Whole Oats, decided that Philadelphia can lay claim to one of the most innocuous music scenes in the entire country. ...
Keef Hartley: Lancashire Hustler (Deram)
Review by John Swenson, Zoo World, 6 December 1973
THE BRITISH Blues Process is an ongoing phenomenon with its share of well publicized superstars, but for every Ten Years After and Savoy Brown are ...
Profile and Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
THERE SEEMS to be a general reawakening to the 1967 Summer of Love recently. All of England is agog over Star Trek reruns while 600,000 ...
Hawkwind: Hall Of The Mountain Grill (United Artists)
Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 19 December 1974
FOR THEIR first four albums, public approval of Hawkwind was in direct proportion to how seriously one considered the music. The question of quality or ...
The Heavy Metal Kids: Heavy Metal Kids: Heavy Metal Kids
Review by Ira Robbins, Zoo World, 24 October 1974
THERE ARE LOADS of ways for a rock band to make themselves interesting. All that is required is either a brilliant songwriter, a unique vocalist, ...
Herman's Hermits: So What's Wrong With Herman's Hermits?
Retrospective and Interview by Harold Bronson, Zoo World, 27 September 1973
CRINKLED NOSES and pained "ooohs" accompany ninety-five percent of the responses I receive when I tell people I like Herman's Hermits. But how can I ...
Interview by Harold Bronson, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
ALTHOUGH NICKY Hopkins' bouts with more than casual illness are no secret, the British pianist has one of the more prolific careers as a session ...
Humble Pie: Mooshi Mooshi Humble Pie Rock Me In Osaka
Report by Steven Rosen, Zoo World, 30 August 1973
TOKYO – Tokyo Airport lay hidden beneath gray layers of rain as the specially-chartered "Pie In The Sky" aircraft landed after hours of delays, near-missed ...
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 1 June 1972
IF DETERMINATION has anything whatsoever to do with success, Humble Pie is destined to become one of the major groups of the decade. Since their ...
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, 31 January 1974
IF THERE'S two movie theatres in your town, and one is showing some foreign art movie like Elvira Madigan or The Heartbreak Kid and the ...
Jefferson Starship: Slow Orbiting
Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 19 December 1974
THE JEFFERSON Starship didn't hit Texas in a blaze of glory, they infiltrated it, with what had to be the most leisurely national tour by ...
Waylon Jennings: Maybe They Don't Even Know I'm There
Interview by Nick Tosches, Zoo World, 1 August 1974
LOOKING MORE like an Exxon station grease monkey on his lunch break than the Pontifex Maximus of Nashville's Telecaster outlaws, Waylon Jennings sits there washing ...
Elton John: The Leaving Of America
Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 6 December 1973
Beau Brummel Meets Yogi Berra ...
Jo Jo Gunne, Savoy Brown: Jo Jo Gunne and Savoy Brown in Concert
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 1972
MAYBE THE auditorium's marquee had the right idea by posting "Rock Concert" for all the world to see while supplying absolutely no details whatsoever – ...
King Crimson: Lark's Tongue In Aspic (Atlantic SD 7263)
Review by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 5 July 1973
ONE THING you gotta say about Robert Fripp, the auteur behind King Crimson, is that he's ambitious. After perfecting his mellotron-dominated "death of the universe" ...
The Kinks: Preservation Act I (RCA LPL1-5002)
Review by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 28 February 1974
MUCH HAS been written concerning Ray Davies fragile state of mind with all its eccentric manifestations and how it seems to correlate to his songs, ...
Kiss: Kiss (Casablanca Records 9001)
Review by Harold Tribune, Zoo World, 11 April 1974
SOME RECORDS by new groups on new labels might be looked on with considerably more disinterest than what's greeted this release. Just as Casablanca Records ...
Alvin Lee and Mylon Lefevre: They'd Rather Do It Themselves
Interview by Harold Bronson, Zoo World, 14 February 1974
LOS ANGELES – Alvin Lee, hyperactive on-stage, doesn't race around the familiar public relations office bumping into desks and chairs with incessantly twitching fingers. Ten ...
Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Warner Bros.)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 24 October 1974
HERE THEY come again, those six hazy L.A. razor boys with the penchant for wry lyrics and poppin' their thang in public. Still intact, still ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Zoo World, 25 April 1974
LYNYRD SKYNYRD are an alcohol band. Steeped in southern blooze, they create that perfect sleazy barroom atmosphere both in concert and on record. ...
Harvey Mandel: Fluctuating Intensity
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 25 November 1972
HARVEY MANDEL is a conversationalist of flucuatingly intensities. Sometimes he's right with you, sometimes he's way ahead, and other times he spaces out and you ...
Barry Manilow, Bette Midler: Barry Manilow
Profile and Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 20 December 1973
BARRY MANILOW sits at the piano flanked by Sharon, Robin, and Charlotte, affectionately known as the Harlettes onstage, and it looks like a scene out ...
Curtis Mayfield: Back To The World (Curtom)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, 19 July 1973
WITH ALL courtesy to the self-proclaimed Black Caesar, Curtis Mayfield's Superfly was the musical equivalent to Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather. Both were nearly as ...
Review by John Swenson, Zoo World, 9 May 1974
LES McCANN can do no wrong as the bluesy boss purveyor of R&B piano — he easily out-funks every pretender who shows his face and ...
Van Morrison: Hard Nose The Highway (Warner Bros.)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, 11 October 1973
I KEEP HAVING this dream – wish fulfillment, for the Freudians out in Zoo World – where the mailman rings the bell, and tells me ...
Mott The Hoople: The Hoople (Columbia)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 6 June 1974
MOTT THE Hoople, as a concept band, never worked so well in terms of pure commerciality as they do on The Hoople. ...
Interview by Mark Plummer, Zoo World, 6 June 1974
ARIEL BENDER was the eternal loser. A rock 'n roll gypsy who could touch gold and turn it to lead. All his roads took the ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 23 May 1974
NOBEL PRIZE Winner Konrad Lorenz, in his book Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins, alludes to modern man's downfall stemming from several factors: Genetic Decay, Overpopulation, ...
Martin Mull: The Wonderful, Wacky World of Martin Mull
Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, August 1973
And His Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room!!! ...
Rick Nelson: Has it Really Been 2 Years Since Garden Party?
Profile and Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 11 October 1973
WHEN RICK Nelson walked onstage at Madison Square Garden for Richard Nader's Rock 'n Roll Revival: Volume VII, fully two years ago this October 15th, he ...
Willie Nelson: The Emperor of Austin
Profile and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Zoo World, 18 July 1974
"I WAS LIVING in Nashville," Willie Nelson recalls. "I had just written a song called 'What Can You Do To Me Now?' and the next ...
New York Dolls: New York Dolls (Mercury)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
THERE DOESN'T seem to be any argument about what the Dolls look like, since even for '73 they're a bit scary: glitter mutants escaped from ...
New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon (Mercury)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, 1 August 1974
TOO MUCH Too Soon is a great album by an increasingly more mature band whose only limitation seems to be their dubious association with a ...
New York Dolls: First Annual N.Y. Dolls Trivia Quiz
Special Feature by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 3 January 1974
Do you think you can make it with Frankenstein? Or with David Jo Hansen? Or with Jerry Nolan? Or with Billy Murcia? Now that the ...
New York Dolls: In Defense of the Dolls: New York Dolls
Comment by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 19 July 1973
OUTRAGEOUS? Ridiculous? Unnecessary? These are typical reactions to the New York Dolls, the hottest group to hit the Big Apple since The Blues Project. Their ...
Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (Virgin Records 2001)
Review by Gary Lucas, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
Mike Oldfield's Saga Of The Tubular Bells ...
The Osmonds: The Plan (Kolob/MGM SE-4902)
Review by Toby Mamis, Zoo World, 11 October 1973
YOU'D HAVE to be a hermit not to have heard the Osmonds, either a hermit or a pompous ass that only listens to "FM radio, ...
Python Lee Jackson, Rod Stewart: Python Lee Jackson: In A Broken Dream (GNP-Crescendo)
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 28 October 1972
THERE'S OBVIOUSLY more of a story behind Python Lee Jackson than GNP Crescendo would care to tell, probably because they're just as caught up in ...
Suzi Quatro: Suzi Q: Expatriate Rockerette
Interview by Toby Mamis, Zoo World, 3 January 1974
N.Y. — "I DIDN'T want to play with girls anymore," she told me via transatlantic phone conversation, from her manager's office in London. ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 18 July 1974
ABOVE ALL else, Queen excels. They excel at playing highly visceral rock 'n roll, they excel at bringing mythological elements into their music and appeal, ...
Queen: Putting the Crown on Queen
Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 20 December 1973
ALL OF ENGLAND is abuzz with the news of a hot group with all the majesty of Led Zeppelin, a group that delivers superstar appeal ...
Queen, Sweet: Sweet: The Sweet (Bell); Queen: Queen (Elektra)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 11 October 1973
(FANFARE) HERE they are (blast of fuzzbox trumpets) the NEW (cannon-fire) ENGLISH (fireworks explode to form a Union Jack) HEAVIES! ...
Raspberries: The Raspberries: Starting Over (Capitol)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 26 September 1974
MAYBE YOU had 'em pegged wrong, in the matching mod suits, Eric Carmen mincing like the late Paul McC with an Ohio accent. But hey, ...
Lou Reed: Rock N Roll Animal (RCA)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, 25 April 1974
IT'S JUST like Lou Reed to follow the worst album by a major artist in 1973 (Berlin), with what might be his best album since ...
Lou Reed: Berlin (RCA APL1-0207)
Review by Wayne Robins, Zoo World, 3 January 1974
HEARD ANY good jokes lately? Here's one from Lou Reed. "She put her fist through the window pane/It was such a funny thing." That's from ...
Lou Reed: Sally Can't Dance (RCA CPL1-0611)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 24 October 1974
At the Point Where the Velvet Underground Leaves Off And Lou Reed Begins ...
The Righteous Brothers: Give It To The People (Haven)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 10 October 1974
THEY DID it in Las Vegas and they sure do it here. Recombine their talents, hop into the saddle with strong material and take hold ...
The Righteous Brothers: Wollman Rink, Central Park, New York NY
Live Review by Toby Mamis, Zoo World, 1 August 1974
REUNION IN CENTRAL PARK ...
Johnny Rivers: Road (Atlantic)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 4 July 1974
THE PROBLEM with being an Interpretive talent (as opposed to a one-man writer-singer show) is that you're ultimately dependent on the material you select to ...
The Rolling Stones: Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones Records COC 59101)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 8 November 1973
THE TWICE-yearly ritualized introduction to your latest Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin review: "Well folks, on first and fifth and eleventh listening the imagery is ...
The Rolling Stones: It's Only Rock 'N Roll (Rolling Stones COC 79101)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 19 December 1974
The Rolling Stones: Ain't Too Proud to Rock 'N Roll ...
Todd Rundgren: The Thinking Man's Todd Rundgren
Interview by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 3 January 1974
TODD RUNDGREN, whose name conjures visions of teenager-grown-up, multicolored hair, GeeGee awards from 16 magazine, production for younameit/you'vegotit, and self-made man extraordinaire, is a realistic ...
Todd Rundgren: Todd (Bearsville)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 14 March 1974
WHEN TODD Rundgren stopped being in rock bands (circa his second solo-ish album, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren) his musical leanings toward that which was ...
Todd Rundgren, Utopia: Todd Rundgren: Utopia
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 19 December 1974
A LOT OF Todd Rundgren fans may not like this album, sad to say, for the Todd of Something/Anything is as visible as dust in ...
Leon Russell: Live At The Long Beach Arena (Shelter STCO-8917)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 16 August 1973
PHIL SPECTOR released the first Ronettes LP on Philles ('63) following the success of 'Be My Baby' and 'Baby I Love You' and the Crystals' ...
Leon Russell: Portrait Of The Artist: Leon Russell
Profile by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 4 July 1974
The Oklahoma Master of Space and Time: Duke Ellington, Phil Spector, Leon Russell ...
Doug Sahm: Tornado Warnings From Texas
Report and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Zoo World, 12 September 1974
"We... can play all the music" Doug Sahm says flatly of the veteran Southwestern aggregation he is taking on the road ...
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 17 February 1973
TALK ABOUT a programmed response: why is it that every time you pick up a new Savoy Brown album, the first thing you do is ...
Bob Seger: Live at the Highway 5 Screen (Air-Conditioned) Drive-In Movie Theater
Report by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, July 1973
WHEN YOU really stop to, think about it, a drive-in theatre is the perfect place to see Bob Seger. After all, he is the hallowed ...
Bob Seger: System-Atic Steps to Julia
Profile and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 11 September 1972
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This has to be one of the first interviews I'd ever done, one of the first stories I ever wrote. I remember interviewing ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 2 August 1973
FROM THE START, I knew this band was for me. My love of Free and their lack of delivery on Heartbreaker made me sure that ...
Silverhead: 16 And Savaged (MCA)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 28 March 1974
FRESH FROM a cameo appearance in To Sir With Love comes Michael Des Barres, lead singer and some-people-think-he's-a-star of Silverhead, who looked a lot better ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 18 July 1974
FOR THOSE of you out there who are still wondering who Status Quo are, they are a rather heavy British band who, in the late ...
The Stooges: The Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 14 February 1974
N.Y. – Certainly not Kiss, a local band who remind of Black Sabbath, not Teenage Lust despite the scanty garb of the Lustettes, not even ...
Stories: A Stories With A Happy Ending
Profile by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 16 August 1973
FROM THE beginning, Stories were a rather unique band unlike any other. The 'known' member of the group, Michael Brown, had been a leading exponent ...
Stories: Travelling Underground (Kama Sutra)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 31 January 1973
STORIES HAVE GOTTEN into the habit of changing drastically right after they put out an album, which would be disastrous if their mutations weren't always ...
Ten Years After: Alvin Lee & Company
Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 3 February 1973
ONE OF THE most eagerly awaited albums lately was Alvin Lee & Company. "That's old material that was recorded a long time ago," Alvin stated ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 20 December 1973
TIME TO open Tiven's rock dictionary and search for a few very basic definitions: ...
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 3 February 1973
GLENN HUGHES, bass player and vocalist, and drummer David Hollan – two thirds of Trapeze – sat side by side on a double bed in ...
T. Rex: Marc Bolan's Optimistic Overlook
Report and Interview by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 11 November 1972
"A NICE THING happened in New Jersey," related Marc Bolan with a gleam in his eye. He pauses momentarily and the small group of press ...
Tanya Tucker: Would You Lay With Me In A Field Of Stone? (Columbia KC 32744)
Review by Toby Mamis, Zoo World, 25 April 1974
WITHOUT A doubt, Tanya Tucker is singing better than ever on this album, her third. Nobody, but nobody, can cram as much emotion into a ...
Tucky Buzzard: Tucky Buzzard (Passport)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 20 June 1974
TUCKY BUZZARD is a band most assuredly on the upward climb, still grabbing out in several directions, bringing together a variety of approaches on their ...
The Turtles: The Turtles (Happy Together Again) (Sire)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 19 December 1974
ITEM: THE Turtles' It Ain't Me Babe album cover was one of the first to recognize and promptly display rock 'n roll fatty tissue, at ...
Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground: Velvet Underground Live With Lou Reed (Mercury)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 4 July 1974
THE GREATEST thing about Lou Reed is that, until recently, his lyrical vocabulary was the perfect compliment to his music. His capacity in both depts. ...
Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps: The Bop That Just Won't Stop
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 1 August 1974
FOR THE MOST PART, the continuing "rock 'n roll revival" phenomenon we've been witnessing these past 5 years is a pretty shabby affair. What with ...
Loudon Wainwright III: Attempted Moustache (Columbia)
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 3 January 1974
MOST PEOPLE seem to think Loudon Wainwright III is some kind of a folksinger, about halfway between Bob Dylan and Martin Mull in the general ...
Barry White: Can't Get Enough (20th Century)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Zoo World, 7 November 1974
YOU KNOW, I've heard people say that too much of anything isn't good for you. But I don't know about that, 'cause the fact is, ...
Barry White: Limitless Love — The Maestro's Message
Report and Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Zoo World, 2 January 1975
"ISAAC HAYES? I defend him now," Barry White smiles confidently in his dressing room, Chivas in hand, dragging on his Benson-Hedges menthol. "People started to ...
The Who: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 18 July 1974
HOSTILE YET oblivious to their circumstances (the cavernous Madison Square Garden), the Who transcended their retrograde Heil sound system for almost two hours on the ...
Johnny Winter: Saints And Sinners
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 28 March 1974
YOU'D THINK that anyone who's paid as many dues as Johnny Winter would just wanna sit back and collect residuals, now wouldn't you? Not Johnny, ...
Johnny Winter: Still Alive And Well
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, Spring 1973
BY NOW EVERYONE must know the reason it took Johnny Winter such a long time to get around to recording this album was not simply ...
Edgar Winter: When Edgar Winter Faced The Music His Heavy Metal Went Pop!
Profile and Interview by David Rensin, Zoo World, 24 October 1974
EDGAR WINTER tried to relax with little success, his normally impassive face showing signs of serious discomfort as he attempted to fit his six-foot frame ...
Wishbone Ash: Hometown Rubdown
Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 5 December 1974
"IT'S GOING to be very weird going home to England, very weird," observes a suntanned, squinty-eyed Martin Turner. Wishbone Ash has been down here for ...
Stevie Wonder, The Commodores: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale NY
Live Review by Vernon Gibbs, Zoo World, 24 October 1974
'S Wonderful! ...
Frank Zappa: The Great Southern and Western Expedition Is On!
Report and Interview by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 23 April 1973
"THE FIRST TIME I ever took the Mothers out on the road I approached it from a sociological point of view. ...
ZZ Top: Tres Hombres (London XPS 631)
Review by Bruce Malamut, Zoo World, 25 October 1973
THE TOTAL Tank. ...
back to LIBRARY
