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Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 28 February 1977

LET'S SEE, as of now I have written two features on Deep Purple, plus, uh, I reviewed In Rock, Machine Head, and Who Do We ...

ZZ Top: Tejas (London)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, April 1977

AS POWER trios go, Grand Funk are no longer a trio, and not nearly so powerful as their obstinate primitivism once made them seem. Yet ...

Cheap Trick: Cheap Trick (Epic PE 34400)

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1977

WHEN A group has a guitarist with Donald Sutherland's face and Huntz Hall's wardrobe, a drummer named Bun E. Carlos who looks like Rod Steiger ...

Rick Derringer: Sweet Evil

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1977

KNOW ABSOLUTELY zero zilch about this Rick Derringer cat 'cept the basic facts, mac – like he was once in the McCoys (Rick's been told ...

Piper: Can't Wait

Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, August 1977

BY THE TIME the first two cuts on Piper's second album had finished, I thought they'd really done it. 'Can't Wait' and especially 'Drop By ...

The Runaways: Waitin' For The Night (Mercury)*****

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 19 November 1977

NOW THIS is a difficult one. Five stars, yes, but not entirely for the reasons I expected. Kim Fowley has kissed off his associations with ...

Aerosmith: Draw The Line (Columbia Import)

Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 17 December 1977

AEROFLOP! ...

Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band: Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 21 January 1978

AND WELCOME back the Bosstown Sound! That's Boston USA, spelled B-O-S-S-T-O-W-N, home of the J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, The Modern Lovers (sort of) and now…Willie ...

Eddie & The Hot Rods: Life On The Line (Island)

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, February 1978

When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first cigarette... ...

Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band: Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band (MCA — Import from Virgin)

Review by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 25 February 1978

BOSTON (OR should I say Bosstown?) Massachusetts is also undergoing a Modern World Revival. Former inmates like Aerosmith, J. Geils and even the Modern Lovers ...

Aerosmith: Draw The Line (Columbia)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, March 1978

PAINT BY NUMBERS FOR DEAF MUTES ...

Aerosmith: Draw The Line (Columbia JC 34856)

Review by Toby Goldstein, Crawdaddy!, March 1978

SCREAM ON ...

Good Rats, The: Good Rats: From Rats To Riches (Passport)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, July 1978

ACCORDING TO the liner notes, the Good Rats recorded this new set in just two weeks last fall. Never mind that this was their first ...

Johnny Burnette & The Rock 'n Roll Trio: Tear It Up (Solid Smoke SS-8001)

Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 7 September 1978

OF ALL THE raving rockabilly legends — men like Charlie Feathers and Sonny Burgess — who never gained a commercial foothold, Johnny Burnette was one ...

Cheap Trick: At Budokan

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 December 1978

THE TRICK experience, but hardly cheap at £8.50 a shot. Even so, it's worth it, as is evidenced by the fact that Flyover in Hammersmith ...

Aerosmith: Live! Bootleg

Review by Max Bell, NME, 9 December 1978

THE INEVITABLE live double from Aerosmith rolls inexorably into the American "Christmas like a fat Thanksgiving turkey". ...

Starz: Coliseum Rock

Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 13 January 1979

THANKFULLY, AFTER their last atrocious album Attention Shoppers (ugh! That's worse than Olias Of Sunhillow for an LP title), this fourth Starz disc finds the ...

David Johansen: In Style

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1979

DAVID JOHANSEN'S first solo effort last year was a satisfying effort which found the former New York Dolls lead singer working on musical turf halfway ...

Cheap Trick: Dream Police

Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 29 November 1979

IN THE BEGINNING, Cheap Trick was lovable because they tried to pull off the toughest trick in the book: making rock that was both bonehead-hard ...

Van Halen: Women And Children First (Warners) *****

Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 5 April 1980

VAM! BLAM! KAPOW! SPLAT! ...