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STEPPENWOLF is a magnificent first album by a magnificent quintet of the same name. It's the conventional guitar, drums, organ line-up, but the best we've ...

Jimi Hendrix: Hendrix Experience Devastate Continent; Can They Do It Here?

Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 23 September 1967

ONLY ONE short year after it began, the Jimi Hendrix Experience has left Europe in an emotional shambles after one stunning concert upon another. The ...

Ravi Shankar: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival (Columbia)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968

RAVI SHANKAR at the Monterey International Pop Festival is a stone groove! The whole audience, who sat under glaring sun for three whole days last ...

Jimi Hendrix: Jimi doesn't think he's a big name yet

Interview by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 25 February 1967

HIS APPEARANCE is striking. Heads turn as he passes. Tall, black military jacket with ornate braid, wild and shocking black hair, Dylan-like. A face hewn ...

Action, The, Byrds, The, Donovan, Lee Dorsey, Jimi Hendrix, Lovin' Spoonful, The, Paul McCartney, Move, The, Gene Pitney, Alan Price, Paul and Barry Ryan, Small Faces, The, Dusty Springfield: Beatle Blind Date: Paul McCartney reviews the new pop singles

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 25 February 1967

LEE DORSEY: 'Rain Rain Go Away' (Stateside) Lee Dorsey. It's in the same old vein and it'll be a hit. Sometimes I wonder if he ...

Beach Boys, The, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Herd, The, Albert King, Jimmy Ruffin, Vanilla Fudge, Ken Dodd: Beach Boy Bruce Johnston reviews new singles in Blind Date

Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967

VANILLA FUDGE: 'You Keep Me Hanging On' (Atlantic). Oh! I love it. Oh it's great. I didn't recognise the beginning at first. Yeah, Vanilla Fudge. ...

David Crosby, Jimi Hendrix, The Monkees, Otis Redding, The Who: Monterey Pop Festival: Inside Looking Out

Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967

BEAT: Just wanted to get your comments on what's happening here in Monterey this weekend. ...

Blue Cheer, Bobbie Gentry, Human Beinz, The: Albums from Blue Cheer, Bobbie Gentry and the Human Beinz

Review by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 23 March 1968

VINCEBUS ERUPTUM (Philips) Blue Cheer 'Summertime Blues', 'Rock Me Baby', 'Doctor Please', 'Out of Focus', 'Parchment Farm' and 'Second Time Around'. ...

Guitar Designer Leo Fender Dies

Obituary by uncredited writer, Rolling Stone, 16 May 1991

CLARENCE LEO Fender, the inventor whose solid-body electric guitars changed the course of music history, died on March 21st in Fullerton, California. The eighty-two-year-old Fender ...

Cornell Dupree, King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack: Cornell Dupree: "Mean N' Greasy"

Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, March 1973

"IT'S HIGH time that session musicians were given greater recognition. After all, it's often their playing which makes a hit record, rather than the singing ...

Isaac Hayes, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin, Isaac Hayes, Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Winterland, San Francisco CA

Live Review by uncredited writer, The Berkeley Barb, 14 November 1969

WINTERLAND BUMMER ...

Procol Harum: Beyond A Poem

Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 29 July 1967

"BEYOND THESE things" is a blue-eyed British group who named themselves after a Siamese cat, recorded a poem, sent it to number one in England ...

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap: 16 Salutes The Union Gap

Profile and Interview by uncredited writer, 16 Magazine, July 1968

IN THIS day and age, with all the competition, it's quite an accomplishment to have a top ten record – especially for a new group. ...