Zebra got its start in 1975. Af-
ter relocating to Long Island,
NY from Louisiana shortly after
forming, they quickly hit it big in
the Tri-State music scene. Their
reputation grew thanks to their
covers of Led Zeppelin, RUSH,
David Bowie, The Moody Blues,
ZZ Top and Montrose. This is
when I first saw the band, most
often at the now-defunct Mad
Hatter of Stony Brook, NY. Even
though their sets were com-
steadily added more originals to
the sets to the point where their
nights were mostly originals and
just a handful of covers. Despite
this, the audiences kept grow-
ing, enough for Long Island ra-
dio station WBAB to get behind
the band. Eventually Atlantic
Records took note and signed
them. At the time of its release,
their debut album was one of
the fasted-selling debuts in the
label’s history.
Four albums and a DVD later the band is
working harder than ever, and they pulled
out all of the stops at The Newton Theatre.
prised of covers and only a
handful of originals, even then
I never thought of Zebra as a
cover band. They always added
their own style to every cover
they played; I always knew that
what I was seeing was an origi-
nal band that was using covers
to get to the next level. The band
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Four albums and a DVD later
the band is working harder than
ever, and they pulled out all of
the stops at The Newton Theatre.
Their performance was charac-
teristically tight and found the
band playing and sounding as
good as always. Singer/guitarist
Randy Jackson’s soaring vocals
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