Shakin' Street Gazette
Shakin' Street Gazette was a bi-weekly free fanzine edited by writer Gary Sperrazza! and published at the State University College at Buffalo, NY, between 1972 and 1974.
16 articles
List of articles in the library
The Frut: Spoiled Rotten (Westbound 2008)
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Shakin' Street Gazette, 1972
SPOILED ROTTEN is the title and that's what they are. Motor City rock is dead, and the only great group left (The Stooges) recently bit ...
Roy Wood: Boulders (United Artists)
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 18 October 1973
‘There are solo albums and there are solo albums...’ Melody Maker ad. ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 29 November 1973
Well, Alice is rich. ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 28 February 1974
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1972: 10,000 people rockin' and reelin' with the feelin'. Onstage is Humble Pie, who, by this time, have worked their set into ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 14 March 1974
OK, HERE'S THE STORY: Alex Chilton, fresh from his Memphis residence with the Boxtops ('The Letter', 'Cry Like A Baby', 'Sweet Cream Ladies') heads to ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, April 1974
GERMANY IS HARDLY the center of the rock universe. So the only rock and roll that seeped in during the late 60's were from those ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, May 1974
No, Mott hasn't changed and yes, Ariel doesn't fit in ...
Roxy Music: Songs from Europe: Roxy Music's Stranded
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, May 1974
"Eno once busied himself amplifying the travel of earthworms.""Thomas Mann in Buddenbrooks characterizes the decline and dissolution of a prominent family with the increase in ...
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, June 1974
FROM THE PUBS of England and Wales they come, weaned on the music of early rock 'n' roll, playing for pittance and sweat. till all ...
Rick Derringer: All American Boy
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, June 1974
AND THE PATTERN continues: to rock music cultists, the real excitement and spotlights do not always lie with the finished product, the hit single. It ...
Edgar Winter: The Edgar Winter Group: Shock Treatrment
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, June 1974
LET'S FACE IT: why do they call this the Edgar Winter Group? ...
Sweet: The Sweet: Sweet Fanny Adams (RCA)
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 11 September 1974
AS YOU'VE DOUBTLESS read by now, Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman are two British songwriters who hit on a tried-and-true success formula: injecting rock and ...
How to be a Rock Critic: A Megatonic Journey
Essay by Lester Bangs, Shakin' Street Gazette, 10 October 1974
LATELY I'VE NOTICED a new wrinkle on the American landscape: it seems as if there's a whole generation of kids, each one younger than the ...
Traffic: Where The Eagle Flies
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 10 October 1974
RECORD COMPANIES amuse me. As soon as their bands get an established name, the corporate mouths start watering as they see visions of dollar signs ...
Hawkwind: Hall Of The Mountain Grill (United Artists)
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 7 November 1974
WHEN LAST WE visited our resident space-age hippies (Shakin' Street No. 3), they had completed their lengthy and powerful Space Ritual, exploring what Tom Bingham ...
Overview by uncredited writer, Shakin' Street Gazette, 7 November 1974
THIS IS YOUR BIG CHANCE! Yes, it’s all coming back. Following the rock & roll revival, the surf music revival, and the reggae revival, the ...
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