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The Mamas and The Papas: The Big Mamas And Papas Mystery

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 21 October 1967

NOW YOU see them – now you don't! The Mamas and Papas have cancelled their projected concert at the Royal Albert Hall on October 30. ...

Buck Owens: Village Theater, New York NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 13 November 1967

Country-Rock by Buck Owens Suggests New Musical Trend ...

The Byrds: The Golden Bear, Huntington Beach CA

Live Review by Bill Wasserzieher, Long Beach Press-Telegram, 20 November 1967

TWO YEARS ago the Byrds had Top 40 hits unlike any other pop songs coming out in America. A year ago, despite the defection of ...

The Beach Boys: California!

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Listener, 22 November 1967

2012 NOTE: In the third (and last) column below written for The Listener in late 1967, I tried to begin to grope towards construction ...

Beach Boys, The, Doors, The, Pink Floyd, Procol Harum, Sopwith Camel: Platter Chatter: Albums from the Doors, Sopwith Camel, Beach Boys, Procol Harum and Pink Floyd

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1968

STRANGE DAYS, The Doors' second album, is another cauldron of energy, excitement and improvisation. (That's Review Number 34, Ray.) ...

Record Business '68

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 ...

Byrds, The: Some of the Byrds Fly the Musical Coop

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 21 April 1968

THE BUFFALO Springfield replaced Bruce Palmer with Jim Messina. Grace Slick joined the Jefferson Airplane when Signe Anderson left. Paul Revere has had 27 Raiders. ...

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 ...

Jefferson Airplane, Lovin' Spoonful, The, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix: Popocracy — The New Revolution

Report by Lillian Roxon, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 3 November 1968

The casual, oddly dressed stars of American pop music are making so much money they don't know how rich they are ...

Crosby Stills and Nash, John Sebastian: Sebastian's Workshop... Combining John, Donovan, Dave, Steve, Graham, Al, Mike and Mama Cass...!

Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 7 December 1968

RECIPE FOR nice sounds: take John Sebastian, Dave Crosby, Steve Stills, and Graham Nash. Add the occasional Mama Cass or Al Kooper or Mike Bloomfield, ...

Donovan: 'I Put Myself Into My Music'

Interview by Keith Altham, NME Summer Special, Summer 1968

Donovan is the gentle giant in the pop world. He is largely responsible for shattering the conventional image of the folk singer satirized so beautifully ...

Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Company: Buddha's Artie Ripp: You Don't Chew It Play It!

Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 1 March 1969

WHO WAS the man with the enormous ten-gallon hat? Why did he always chew gum? ...

Lothar and the Hand People: Lothar and the Hand People (Capitol)

Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, 3 May 1969

THERE WAS a strange New York scene a few years ago, when much the same sort of thing was taking place across a continent in ...

Lovin' Spoonful, The: The Lovin' Spoonful: Revelation: Revolution '69 (Kama Sutra)

Review by Richard Green, NME, 7 June 1969

MY, HOW THE Spoonful have changed since the days of John Sebastian and the lunatical Zalman Yanovsky. ...

Canned Heat, Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter: The Blues

Essay by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 16 June 1969

"All new technologies bring on the cultural blues, just as the old ones evoke phantom pain after they have disappeared." — Marshall McLuhan, War and ...

The Lovin' Spoonful: The Urban Villagers

Comment by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 26 July 1969

POPULAR music is sentimental, trivial or melodramatic, and therefore need never be listened to by people who care about real feelings. ...

Brinsley Schwarz: The Lost Weekend

Report by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 18 April 1970

Charlie Gillett's impressions of Brinsley Schwarz, the Fillmore East, and night life in New York ...

Brown Shoes Don't Make It

Comment by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, May 1970

IT WAS, AT least for me and most of the people I know, the music that first aroused interest in things Underground, and the music ...

Captain Beefheart: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind: "I think they're going to have to get more kites"

Profile and Interview by Ben Edmonds, ZigZag, August 1970

Beefheart is and always was a Zigzag hero; we get more letter about him than any other artists, I should think – asking for news ...

The Americanization of Rock

Comment by Bill Graham, Cue, 10 October 1970

IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE that rock has been on this planet for two decades. My own involvement with the music, as a producer in these ...