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Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead: San Francisco Bay Rock
Guide by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, 1966
The San Francisco rock scene is a complex one. It is a plentiful jumble of hard rock, folk-rock, blues-rock, bubble-gum, and adult bands that have ...
Crawdaddy: Get Off Of My Cloud!
Comment by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, February 1966
YOU ARE looking at tho first issue of amagazine of rock and roll criticism. Crawdaddy will feature neither pin-ups nor news-briefs; the specialty of this ...
Folk, Rock & Other Four-Letter Words
Comment by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1966
THERE HAS BEEN a great increase recently in the number of popular artists whose songs are influenced by or taken from American folk music–both traditional ...
Buffalo Springfield: Everybody Look What's Going Down...
Comment by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1967
LET ME tell you about popsicle sticks. ...
Kinks, The: The Kinks: Face to Face
Review by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1967
IF YOU ARE not a Kinks fan, you are either a) uninformed, or b) not a Kinks fan. If it's the latter, there's nothing you ...
Doors, The: The Doors: A Discussion of a Doors Song
Essay by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, May 1967
VERY FEW PEOPLE have the balls to talk about "rock and roll" anymore. Revolver made it difficult. Between the Buttons, Smile, and the Doors lp ...
Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: The Golden Road: A Report on San Francisco
Overview by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, June 1967
SITTING IN THE window. Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Village, flirting with the girls going by, the Grateful Dead very loud on 4X speakers somewhere in the ...
Review by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, September 1967
THE Procol Harum album just keeps getting better and better. So far anyway. Maybe one day it gets worse, but long after I've gotten as ...
Comment by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1968
THERE IS confusion afoot in the rock music world, a familiar confusion that arises from lack of understanding, lack of communication, and lack of common ...
Who, The: From the Marquee to the Met: Watching The Who
Interview by Miles, Crawdaddy!, September 1970
SAY THE WORD. "Who". Who did you think of? Pete Townshend, great underrated rock guitarist adrift in a Sargasso sea of eulogies to Clapton and ...
Cat Stevens: It Must Be Destiny
Live Review by Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, June 1971
CAT STEVENS couldn't come along at a better time. Time magazine has informed us that we're entering a period of gentle, reflective, and introspective music, ...
Who, The: The Who Puts the Bomp
Comment by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, December 1971
WHO NIGHT. The crowd waits reverently, attention vaguely focused on the massive half-ton fortress of amplifiers looming in the shadows of the dimly lit stage. ...
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, August 1972
THE NEW Tull package is clever, very, and complicated enough to sustain interest over an extended series of listenings. Most albums can be assimilated in ...
Chicago: What Do You Think They'll Call Their Seventh Album?
Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, February 1973
It all began when, after my particularly scathing review of Chicago V appeared in the October Crawdaddy, I received the following telegram from Bobby Lamm, ...
Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, March 1973
LOS ANGELES – Bonnie Raitt is by nature a purposeful woman. On a personal level, she is attempting to forge a new ethic reaching beyond ...
Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, June 1973
"You try to be a low-key individual and stay out of people's way and you end up owning the top floor of some hotel in ...
Will Reggae Make It? Jamaica Says It Will!
Overview by Greg Shaw, Crawdaddy!, June 1973
THE STONES, Aretha, Traffic, Paul Simon and Roberta Flack have all made celebrated pilgrimages to the island and bandwagon trend-watches are beginning to mutter about ...
Eric Weissberg: Dueling Banjos
Profile and Interview by Noe Gold, Crawdaddy!, June 1973
TWO SETS of calloused digits have been seen onscreen recently in movie houses large and small, strutting over the frets of a Yamaha guitar and ...
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: Over-Nite Sensation (Discreet)
Review by Noe Gold, Crawdaddy!, December 1973
THERE HE sits, perched atop his Olympian toadstool, dropping farts and thunderbolts into a tape recorder. Few have escaped his world unscathed by his grungy ...
Review by Michael Gross, Crawdaddy!, January 1974
LOU REED IS the grand ghoul of them all. He happens to scare people. He stands in the same relation to Bowie and Iggy and ...
Review by Noe Gold, Crawdaddy!, January 1974
SPUNKY, THAT'S got to be the word for it. A hybrid of spicy and funky. ...
Jackson Browne: Such a Clever Innocence
Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, January 1974
I've been out walking,I don't do that much talking These days.These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to ...
Profile and Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, March 1974
Genesis combines surreal songwriting with an interesting instrumental and visual approach. Lead singer Peter Gabriel notes: "We all took courses in pretentiousness." ...
Review by Noe Gold, Crawdaddy!, April 1974
GRIEVOUS ANGEL is the final, triumphant chapter of an epitaph Gram Parsons must have begun writing years ago. No one could have done it better ...
Boz Scaggs: Slow Dancer (Columbia)
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, June 1974
SLOW DANCER is Boz Scaggs' fifth album, and you have to wonder when he's going to start repeating himself, because none of them sound the ...
Dr. John: Dr John: Finally In The Right Place
Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, June 1974
From Gris Gris to Gumbo to the Top of the Charts, with "goofer dust an' powders an' oils an' sachets an' lotions an' candles an' ...
Mott The Hoople: Mott the Hoople: The Hoople (Columbia)
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, July 1974
IT'S TOUGH being a rock and roll star these days. Ask Ian Hunter, Mott the Hoople's lead singer and group dictator. After five years of ...
Eagles, The: The Eagles Have Stopped Takin' It Easy
Report and Interview by David Rensin, Crawdaddy!, July 1974
With a new lead guitarist, a new producer, a hit and a series of almosts, the Eagles step out on the border... ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping (MCA)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, September 1974
FLORIDA's Lynyrd Skynyrd keeps getting compared to the Allman Brothers Band, mostly because the group is Southern, and because lead singer Ronnie Van Zant has ...
David Bowie: Lindsay Kemp: The Man Who Taught Bowie His Moves
Interview by Mick Brown, Crawdaddy!, September 1974
LONDON — Lindsey Kemp doesn’t converse. He orates. Words spill out, like wine from a jug, in a long, liquid flow; pictures spring to life, ...
Rolling Stones, The: The Stones: It Wasn't Only Rock 'n Roll (And I Liked It)
Retrospective by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, November 1974
IN EARLY 1967 a rumor shot through the Crawdaddy office that Brian Jones had left the Stones. Tim Jurgens and I agreed that, if true, ...
Beach Boys, The: The Beach Boys: Wild Honey, 20/20 and Endless Summer
Review by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, November 1974
CAPITOL HAS BEEN repackaging the Beach Boys for a long time, but they haven't done a good job of it since Best Of Volumes I, ...
Alice Cooper: Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Review by Michael Gross, Crawdaddy!, November 1974
THEY'VE CALLED the perpetration of Alice Cooper on the pop public one of the greatest PR coups of all time. They've called Alice a charlatan, ...
Kiki Dee: More Than Opening For Elton
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Crawdaddy!, March 1975
NEW YORK – The first time Kiki Dee came to New York City, she was showcased by her newest record company, Rocket Records, at the ...
Jack Bruce: Back on Harmony Row
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, March 1975
COMBINE CREAM, the Stones, and some avant-garde jazz and you've got this year's talk of the town. ...
Leonard Cohen: The Romantic in a Ragpicker's Trade
Interview by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1975
"I THINK MARRIAGE is the hottest furnace of the spirit today," Leonard Cohen said on the phone from Mexico. "Much more difficult than solitude, much ...
Who, The: The Who: The Celluloid Passion Of Roger Daltrey
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, April 1975
LONDON – "They just don't make records like they used to," the mini-cab driver complained, battling the mid-day London traffic, edging the car towards Battersea. ...
John Cale, Nico: John Cale: Fear (Island); Nico: The End (Island)
Review by Mick Brown, Crawdaddy!, May 1975
ALONG WITH Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico were members of the first – and definitive – incarnation of the Velvet Underground. ...
Leo Sayer: Star Gazing With Leo Sayer
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, June 1975
THE MATRONLY ladies selling ice creams and chocolates have fled the lobby. The theatre grows dark. A four-piece band ambles out from the wings, barely ...
Atlanta Rhythm Section, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Al Kooper, Mose Jones: Southern Rock: Gone With The Trend
Report and Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, July 1975
Al Kooper may not give a damn, but with Lynyrd Skynyrd hot and the Atlanta Rhythm Section burnin', Southern Music is rising again. ...
Profile and Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
LONDON – "Where did they come from?" demanded a rock 'n roll lifer, pointing towards Dr. Feelgood who were entertaining at a star-studded and overstuffed ...
Overview by Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, October 1975
IN BRITAIN DURING the late '60s and early '70s, while rock 'n roll was being transformed into Big Business, a network of bands sprang up ...
Eric Clapton: Please Take This Badge Off Of Me
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, November 1975
Trying to transcend the past, Eric Clapton puts reggae on the laidback burner and rediscovers electricity ...
Rock Dreams/Schemes: The History of Crawdaddy(!)
Retrospective by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, March 1976
YOU ARE looking at the first issue of a magazine of rock and roll criticism. Crawdaddy! will feature neither pin-ups nor news briefs; the specialty ...
Band, The: Across The Great Divide with Robbie Robertson
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Crawdaddy!, March 1976
A Portrait of the Artist as a Mystery Man ...
Peter Frampton Comes And Gets It
Report and Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, May 1976
NEW YORK – Peter Frampton seems an unlikely hero. Soft-spoken, he projects something of a folk ambiance, not the glitter/stud machismo characteristic of so many ...
Santana: The Ice Cream Man Cometh
Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, July 1976
LACROSSE, WISC – "Everything OK with the Dip?" ...
Rolling Stones, The: Mick Jagger: I Want To Go Out On A Limb
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, August 1976
PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE hovering around the sedate Scottish hotel lobby like desperate fireflies. They have been buzzing about all afternoon, nervously checking shutter speeds and light ...
Ramones, The: The Ramones: Ramones (Sire)
Review by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, August 1976
DA RAMONES: NO MERCYBEATS ...
Blue Oyster Cult: Agents Of Fortune (Island)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, September 1976
It’s back-to-the-roots for the Oysters this time; the roots being the band’s late-’60s incarnation as the Stalk-Forrest Group. Which is to say, Agents Of Fortune ...
Rod Stewart: Lean And Hungry Rod
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, September 1976
YESTERDAY ROD STEWART wanted his picture taken. Today he's not so sure. Flaunting a carefully arranged scruffy look, the singer strolls into a rented London ...
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers: Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers
Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, October 1976
WHAT WE HAVE here, as every pop observer knows, is a four-piece band led by a highly eccentric singer-songwriter full of inspiration and highly visible ...
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Crawdaddy!, November 1976
LOS ANGELES – "Hughie [McDowall] just smashed one cello absolutely to pieces," Bev Bevan recalls with a laugh. "He throws it in the air and ...
Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia (Arista)
Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, December 1976
CHATTY PATTY: PISSIN' IN WAX ...
Eagles, The: The Eagles: One Of These Nightmares
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, April 1977
Say a Prayer for the Pretenders... ...
Dictators, The: The Dictators: Manifest Destiny
Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, August 1977
IT WOULDN'T BE hard. One could assemble a tidy list of contemporary Major Acts whose initial fate it was to be cast as "critics' favorites": ...
Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, August 1977
ALONG WITH THE New Wave, there seems to be a related roots discovery phenomenon taking place: the full scale re-examination of mid-'60s pop R&B that ...
Roger Daltrey: One of the Boys
Review by Ira Robbins, Crawdaddy!, August 1977
DALTREY'S FOUR-YEAR solo career, apart from his personal excess/success as a matinee film idol, has certainly left much to be desired by anyone with more ...
Hall & Oates: Magic: Hall & Oates' Wizardry
Interview by Don Snowden, Crawdaddy!, October 1977
LOS ANGELES – "I think I would have been either Gary Gilmore or a musician," Daryl Hall maintains in deadly earnest, nonchalantly flicking an ash ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Crawdaddy!, November 1977
Every British band knows it: only American success buys the Bentleys. Be Bop Deluxe, Steve Harley and Ian Hunter have all had their stateside ups ...
Review by Fred Schruers, Crawdaddy!, November 1977
WHEN LINDA Ronstadt dropped her hands down the mike-stand and went to make some small talk with the audience at a New York concert early ...
Review by Dave Schulps, Crawdaddy!, April 1978
BESERKLEY RECORDS certainly keep things interesting. Slightly over a year ago they became the first American New Wave independent to secure a distribution deal with ...
John Martyn: One World (Island)
Review by Steven X Rea, Crawdaddy!, April 1978
JOHN MARTYN'S music is a blur of blues and jazz and rock: Bessie Smith's emotiveness, Hoagy Carmichael's mellowness, Skip James' growl and bellow, and Martyn's ...
Television: Adventure (Elektra)
Review by Dave Schulps, Crawdaddy!, June 1978
TELEVISION USE the energy and the imagery of the Big Apple, cross-pollinating them with a musical vision akin to what was coming out of the ...
Carly Simon: Boys In The Trees (Elektra)
Review by Jon Young, Crawdaddy!, July 1978
CARLY SIMON used to be dangerous. Remember? She had to her credit a lethal attack on marriage ('That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should ...
Who, The: The Who: Who Are You
Review by Ira Robbins, Crawdaddy!, October 1978
Ever since Pete Townshend immortalized teenage rebellion with the phrase "Hope I die before I get old," he has been haunted by the obvious ramifications ...
Bottle Rockets, The: The Bottle Rockets
Report by Geoffrey Himes, Crawdaddy!, October 1996
ON OCTOBER 20th, 1977, the single-engine prop plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed into a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi, killing the band's lead singer Ronnie Van ...
Essay by Chris Charlesworth, Crawdaddy!, 1998
THREE YEARS AGO I met Paul Williams for the first time at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This resulted in Omnibus Press, of which I am ...
Beach Boys, The: The Disciples of Brian: The Beach Boys' legacy in Decade #4
Essay by Geoffrey Himes, Crawdaddy!, 1998
What were the best Beach Boys records of the 1990s? Geoffrey Himes takes issue with his friend Paul Williams. ...
Elvis Presley and the Impulse Towards Transculturation
Essay by Rob Bowman, Crawdaddy!, Spring 2000
ELVIS WAS A hero to most but he never meant shit to me/You see straight out racist the sucker was simple and plain/Motherfuck him and ...
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