Todd Everett
I've been kicking around the entertainment industry and journalism for several decades. I've worked on staff and freelance for record label advertising and publicity departments and the Capitol Record Club; written and segment-produced syndicated radio programs (Earth News with Lew Irwin and American Top 40 with Casey Kasem); was a staff reporter/reviewer for trade publications Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and Cash Box); and edited magazines (Record Review, KIIS - The Newspaper and Ampersand).
For several years, I was the entire pop music staff of Los Angeles's second-largest circulation newspaper, covering pop, rock, country, jazz and pretty much anything else that wasn't "classical" ; for a decade following that, I covered the Ventura County theater beat for the Los Angeles Times, each week writing feature articles and reviewing local amateur and touring professional productions. While writing for the Times, I freelanced television and music reviews for Daily Variety.
And then there's the weird stuff, like selling pipes and electric shavers at the Broadway department store; converting the Greek Theater's mailing list to punch cards; and writing, directing and editing in the talking toy department at Mattel.
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List of articles in the library
The Sir Douglas Quintet, Gene Vincent: Gene Vincent: He Sounded Like Maybe He Was Testifying
Report by Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 28 May 1970
THE MUSICIANS had all arrived and were standing patiently by the door at two o'clock, Sunday afternoon, March 8th. Three were official members of the ...
Merry Clayton, The Rolling Stones: Merry Clayton: She Was Born on Christmas Day
Interview by Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 25 June 1970
LOS ANGELES — There is a world of confusion in the music press — not to mention that among record companies — about the identity ...
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: The Troubadour, Los Angeles
Live Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, October 1970
FOR several years, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has been a steady fixture in such local L.A. clubs as the Troubadour. ...
Live Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, February 1971
MAKING HIS first Southern California appearance as a single after three previous attempts, Al Kooper proved that the wait wasn't worthwhile. Whatever his stature is ...
Live Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, February 1971
THE WORLD debut of Dave Mason's new group, featuring Cass Elliot, was a noteworthy occasion in more ways than one. For second billed was Ballin' ...
J. Geils Band: The J. Geils Band: The J. Geils Band (Atlantic)
Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, February 1971
VARIOUS MEMBERS of the J. Geils Band have been playing around, separately or together, in the Boston area for a number of years. It's rumored ...
T. Rex: T. Rex (Reprise RS 6440)
Review by Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 22 July 1971
AMAZINGLY, IT all comes out rock and roll; there's no questioning it. But rock and roll with lyrics dealing with such subjects as wizards, Druids, ...
Led Zeppelin: The Forum, Inglewood, California
Live Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, August 1972
WHAT BETTER WAY for Led Zeppelin to begin their three-and-a-half hour onslaught on the eardrums than with a crash of the drums? Not a "Hi, ...
Rick Nelson: You're Not A Kid Anymore!
Retrospective and Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, December 1972
ROCK AND ROLL was here to stay. We knew it in 1957, and Danny and the Juniors put it into song in 1958. But what ...
Van Morrison: It's Too Late to Stop Now (Warner Brothers)
Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, April 1974
IT'S TOO Late is the perfect album if you're going to have only one by Van Morrison. Everything you'll need to know about the Belfast ...
Jefferson Starship: Marty Balin Returns To The Fold
Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, May 1975
THE EXCITEMENT around the Airplane Mansion is real. It's in the very woodwork of this huge home in a once-fashionable section of San Francisco, where ...
Aerosmith, ZZ Top: Z.Z. Top, Aerosmith: Los Angeles Forum
Live Review by Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 31 July 1975
Something Borrowed, Something Blues, Y'All ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Starship: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Live Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, November 1975
Reunion in the Park: The Dead & The Starship Back To Basics ...
KC & The Sunshine Band: Los Angeles
Live Review by Todd Everett, New Musical Express, 29 November 1975
K.C. AND THE Sunshine Band, operating out of the T.K. Records complex in Hialeah, Florida, are at once one of the oddest and most commercial ...
Tom Waits: Not So Much a Poet, More a Purveyor of Improvisational Travelogue
Profile and Interview by Todd Everett, New Musical Express, 29 November 1975
Could TOM WAITS really be The Next Big Thing? TODD EVERETT, in Los Angeles, finds out. ...
Ann Peebles...and the Hi Records Story
Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, December 1975
THOUGH NASHVILLE, Tennessee, has proclaimed itself "Music City U.S.A.," the traditional center of musical activity in that area of the country, and the city from ...
Ozark Mountain Daredevils: The Ozark Mountain Daredevils: Kansas City Stars
Profile and Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, December 1975
THE SIGN AT the Springfield, Missouri, airport reads "Gateway to the Ozarks." Twenty minutes away is the rehearsal site of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, two ...
Linda Ronstadt: 'Heat Wave' – The Long Hot Sessions
Report and Interview by Todd Everett, Rolling Stone, 18 December 1975
"THE BAND HAD been trying to get Linda to add it to her set for quite a while," recalls pianist Andrew Gold, "but we never ...
Emmylou Harris: Elite Hotel (Reprise MS2236)
Review by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, January 1976
EMMYLOU HARRIS understands the idiom in which she chooses to work, and respects it: this separates Harris from the country-rock crowd, and makes her virtually ...
Profile by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, March 1976
DOBIE GRAY'S making something like his third comeback, and seems reasonably pleased with the prospect. ...
Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, March 1976
KANSAS CITY — The way Kansas see it, their main problem these days is that of their image. Which has to do with their having ...
Jimmy Webb: Ten Years After 'Phoenix' He's Still Looking For Hit City
Profile and Interview by Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, June 1977
JIMMY WEBB is the still-under-30 composer who appeared from nowhere nine years ago with a spate of pop hits including 'By the Time I Get ...
Automated Radio: The Future Is Upon Us
Report by Todd Everett, High Fidelity, September 1977
DOES YOUR favorite radio station sound better lately? Do the announcers sound more professional, the music brighter and more consistent? Or don't you pay enough ...
Interview by Todd Everett, Trouser Press, November 1980
IF THE IDEA of Todd Rundgren producing Wasp, an album by teen idol Shaun Cassidy strikes you as...unusual, that, Cassidy says, was the idea. ...
Detective, Michael Des Barres, Silverhead: Michael Des Barres
Profile and Interview by Todd Everett, Trouser Press, January 1981
THOUGH THE degree of his sales success thus far has been, to put it kindly, limited, Michael Des Barres has lived one of rock's more ...
Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris: Rodney Crowell: Country's New Laureate?
Profile and Interview by Todd Everett, L.A. Weekly, 1 October 1981
"I EXPECTED him to be more of a household word than he is now," admits Emmylou Harris, echoing the opinion of some of the world's ...
Rick Springfield: Rick Rules This Town
Profile and Interview by Todd Everett, Trouser Press, December 1981
IF THE Saturday night crowd at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is any indication of who buys his records, Rick Springfield has at last conquered ...
Delbert McClinton: The Last of the Great Texas Honky-Tonkers
Interview by Todd Everett, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 24 December 1981
YOU TAKE a right turn off the Pacific Coast Highway and head into the hills of Malibu. If you pick the right road and travel ...
McCabe's Hippie Spirit Celebrates Anniversary
Report and Interview by Todd Everett, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 30 January 1982
TOMORROW, MCCABE'S guitar shop in Santa Monica is marking its 13th anniversary, even though its actual opening took place in October, 1969 (which means, if ...
Profile by Todd Everett, Trouser Press, April 1982
IT'S AN IRONIC fact of life that until quite recently very few of the so-called (and frequently maligned) "Los Angeles" bands had deep roots in ...
Interview by Todd Everett, Trouser Press, July 1982
ONE FREQUENTLY repeated cliche of the rock press has it that John Hiatt is the "American Elvis Costello." ...
Stan Cornyn: It's A Warner-Ful Life
Interview by Todd Everett, Hits, 10 April 2002
FOR MORE THAN 30 years, Stan Cornyn was the "voice" of Warner Bros. and Reprise Records. The company's image-setting print advertisements – offering free Topanga ...
Sleeve notes by Todd Everett, Bear Family Records, 2008
THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME – the list of performers, not the museum in Cleveland – has often generated its share of controversy; ...
Sleeve notes by Todd Everett, Bear Family Records, 2009
UNWILLING TO meet the increased rent imposed by the managers of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, New York City disc jockey Alan Freed moved his hugely ...
Sleeve notes by Todd Everett, Bear Family Records, 2011
PAT BOONE, WHO GOT HIS START before rock and roll was invented, remarked in 2008 that he had issues with the fact that he hadn't ...
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