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Hullabaloo

Hullabaloo was the precursor to Circus magazine. Launched in 1966, it changed its name in 1969.

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James Brown: Outasight

Interview by uncredited writer, Hullabaloo, November 1966

On stage, there are a dozen musicians and a few dancers, gyrating to a rock tempo. The conductor is tall and he smiles toward the ...

The Rolling Stones

Report and Interview by uncredited writer, Hullabaloo, November 1966

RELAXING IN my pad. . . Not much to do in the days and weeks ahead. In fact, I'm ready to go on vacation.... ...

The Lovin' Spoonful: A Taste Of The Spoonful

Report by Henry Diltz, Hullabaloo, December 1966

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL day to be flying somewhere. Just above a floating sea of white clouds the silver wing sticks out into vast baby blue ...

Herman's Hermits, Peter Noone: Herman's Hermits: After Noone In Hollywood

Interview by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, March 1967

Can a straight cat from England find happiness in America the beautiful? Tune in to day's heart-warming installment: Alone With The Hermit, By Danny Fields. ...

The Mamas and The Papas, The Velvet Underground: Mama Cass: Andy Warhol And the Big Bird — Pop Pope Casts Cass

Report by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, May 1967

SHE HAD ALWAYS BEEN FASCINATED WITH HIM... AND HE HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO MEET HER ...HULLABALOO SAW THEM TOGETHER, SAW HER POSING, SAW HIM FILMING ...

The Doors, The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones: Got Live If You Want It! (London); The Doors: The Doors (Elektra)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, May 1967

BOLTS OF LIGHTNING ...

Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (RCA Victor LSP-3766)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1967

Love From An Airplane ...

The Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday (Columbia CS 9441)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1967

Byrds Glorious ...

The Rolling Stones: Between the Buttons (London PS499)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1967

ONE OF the essentials in any record review would seem to be a simple catchword or two describing the contents of the album in question. ...

Tim Buckley: The Incredible Tim Buckley

Profile and Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, September 1967

WE ARE sitting around talking about music when the adjective and the noun link: someone says that Tim Buckley is incredible. ...

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1967

LIKE THE Beatles themselves, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol) is both enigmatic and brilliant, comprised of so many elements that one hardly knows ...

The Doors

Report by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, October 1967

It was a different New York they returned to this time, and the underground they remembered seemed almost as remote as the subways in which ...

Country Joe & the Fish

Profile by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, November 1967

HOW GREAT can a group be when one well-known rock writer labels his copy of their new Vanguard LP, "This record is to be played ...

Tim Hardin: Tim Hardin 2 (Verve/Forecast)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, November 1967

TIM HARDIN is one of the giants of contemporary pop music and his new record, Tim Hardin 2, is the kind of haunting and haunted ...

The Blues Project, The Kinks: The Blues Project Live at Town Hall (Verve-Forecast); The "Live" Kinks (Reprise)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, December 1967

"LIVE" STUFF ...

Vanilla Fudge: Vanilla Fudge (Atco)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, December 1967

HAS THERE ever been such a start to an album as on Vanilla Fudge (Atco)? 'Ticket to Ride' is such an ear-popping masterpiece that it ...

The Doors: Strange Days with the Doors

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1968

"We want the world and we want it now!" say the Doors, who open wide for HULLABALOO. They hail from the West and are definitely ...

The Beach Boys: Smiley Smile (Brother)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1968

THE BEACH Boys' Smiley Smile is the long-awaited new Beach Boys album and the sequel to Pet Sounds, the latter being one of the classic ...

The Doors: Strange Days (Elektra)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, March 1968

COMPARED TO the Beatles and the Stones, the Doors are minor leaguers, very talented, very promising, but not quite There yet. Compared to nearly everybody ...

The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (London)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, March 1968

THEIR SATANIC Majesties Request succeeds by taking enormous chances. One's first impressions' are almost entirely negative: (1) it doesn't sound like the Stones; (2) it ...

Vanilla Fudge

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, March 1968

WHAT'S IT like to interview the Vanilla Fudge? Well, it's like this. ...

The Who: Who? A Conversation With Peter Townshend Of The Who, That's Who!

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, March 1968

The who, what, where, when, why — and how! — of the sensational Who! Singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Townshend tells us all! ...

The Who: A Further Discourse with Peter Townshend of the Who

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, May 1968

The lowdown on Blow-Up, all about the Who's influence on the Beatles, and who really invented feedback! ...

Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield Again (Atco)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, May 1968

BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD Again (Atco), the group's second LP (made while they were in a state of flux), isn't a tightly structured unit, but it contains ...

Vanilla Fudge: Part Two of an interview with the Vanilla Fudge

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, May 1968

Tim Bogert raps on white blues groups, Fudge movies, Fudge albums, road tours, trend-setters, protest songs, the Beatles, the Stones, the Monkees, the Doors, and ...

Vanilla Fudge: An Interview With The Vanilla Fudge, Pt. 3

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1968

Bassist Tim Bogert raps on Sgt. Pepper, Elvis Presley, songwriting, the Rascals, the Vagrants, touring, getting mobbed, soul music, and much, much more. ...

Eric Clapton, The Move, Pete Townshend, The Who: Peter Townshend of the Who Talks! We Listen!

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, June 1968

"I mean, everyone seems to be arguing who invented feedback. I mean, I did — without a doubt." The whole truth on feedback, Eric Clapton, ...

The Rolling Stones, The Who: Peter Townshend of the Who 
talks about Mick Jagger 
and the Rolling Stones!

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, July 1968

PART FOUR of this interview needs even less introduction than did Part Three. You all know Peter Townshend of the Who. Here, he talks with ...

Jefferson Airplane: An interview with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, August 1968

WHEN WE heard that the Jefferson Airplane, long one of our favorite groups, were in town to play the Fillmore East, we quickly arranged an ...

The Who: Who? A Conversation with Peter Townshend the Who, That's Who!

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, August 1968

HERE IS Part Five of our monumental interview with Peter Townshend, guitarist and songwriter of the Who. Go. ...

Jefferson Airplane: A conversation with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1968

BOTH MARTY Balin and the Jefferson Airplane are far too well-known to require a lengthy introduction here. I talked with Marty for a couple of ...

The Band, Country Joe & The Fish, Cream, Donovan, The Doors, The Incredible String Band, Randy Newman, Phil Ochs: Albums from the Band, Cream, Country Joe & the Fish, Donovan, Randy Newman, the Incredible String Band, Phil Ochs, and the Doors

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1968

HERE WE are, talking to ourselves again, still waiting for the new releases by the Rolling Stones, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Doors, the Byrds, ...

The Doors: An Interview with Jim Morrison and The Doors

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, October 1968

THE DOORS' OFFICE is in a brightly painted yellow stucco building set back off Santa Monica Boulevard. Located over an antique shop, it boasts a ...

The Band: On The Horizon: The Band

Profile and Interview by Al Aronowitz, Hullabaloo, October 1968

BIG PINK IS ONE of those middle-class ranch houses of the type that you would expect to find in development row in the heart of ...

The Who: The Peter Townshend Interview. Who?

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1968

HERE IS Part Seven of our interview with Peter Townshend, guitarist and songwriter of the Who. ...

Tim Hardin

Profile and Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, October 1968

He says that if he doesn't die, he'll be rich and famous. Probably, all things being equal. In most instances, the legend looms larger than ...

The Doors: An Interview with Jim Morrison and The Doors, Pt 2

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, November 1968

Q: Are you doing anything with films at the moment? ...

Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe McDonald: An Interview with Country Joe McDonald

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, December 1968

I HAVE BEEN an admirer of Country Joe McDonald and the Fish ever since I first heard them years ago on tape at a friend's ...

The Doors: An Interview with Jim Morrison and The Doors, Pt 3: A Doors Rap

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, December 1968

Jim, Ray, Robby, and John rap about the similarities and differences between rock and jazz, commercialism, Waiting for the Sun, singles, and the Jim Morrison ...

Arthur Brown: The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Profile and Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, December 1968

ARTHUR BROWN is after your soul. As he is lowered on stage by a thin wire that tempts fate, his full-length robe whips about him ...

Tim Hardin: A conversation with Tim Hardin

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969

"You've got to come down to the Au Go Go and listen to me sing now. It's different!" A legend comes into his own — ...

Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe McDonald: Country Joe Continues His Rap

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969

HULLABALOO'S Paul Nelson goes Fishing with the very opinionated Mr. McDonald — ...

Harry Nilsson: Aerial Ballet (RCA Victor)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969

MY FEELING persists that Harry Nilsson, very good, could be a great deal more than very good if only he could manage not to construct ...

Jefferson Airplane: A Further Rap With Marty Balin

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969

HERE IS Part Five of our interview with Marty Balin of the Jefferson Airplane. In it, Marty tells us how he feels about music, bands ...

Steppenwolf: John Kay #1

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, January 1969

JOHN KAY, lead singer and songwriter of the fast-emerging Steppenwolf, wears dark glasses and has been called by one pop reviewer the logical alternative for ...

Traffic Is Very Heavy Today: An Interview With Steve Winwood

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969

AT THE time I interviewed Steve Winwood, Traffic's American tour had just been cancelled, and Steve himself was rumored to be in a state of ...

Country Joe & The Fish: Candid Conversation With... Country Joe

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1969

Part Three of the Country Joe McDonald interview. ...

Tim Hardin: Candid Conversation With... Tim Hardin

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1969

PART TWO of the Tim Hardin interview. ...

Traffic: Into Traffic with Steve Winwood

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1969

IN PART Two of our interview, Traffic's Steve Winwood and I talked about producing, songwriting, the creation of 'Dear Mr. Fantasy', and interpretive critics. ...

Jimi Hendrix #1

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, February 1969

THE JIMI Hendrix Experience just spent six weeks in Los Angeles, ensconced in a rambling home in Benedict Canyon that was once occupied by the ...

Steppenwolf: John Kay #2

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, February 1969

ATHOUGH HERMANN Hesse could never have imagined him, Steppenwolf's John Kay is fast becoming a culture hero via printed words (his own, naturally). Here, Kay, ...

The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet (London)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1969

AS JUST about everybody knows, there is a widespread back-to-the-basics movement going on right now in today's rock scene. Translated into records, this means that ...

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