The Paper That Taught Me Everything I Wasn’t Supposed To Know About

Ted Quinn:
The Paper That Taught Me Everything I Wasn’t Supposed To Know About Art, Music, Politics, Sex & Consciousness
“As a rebel ex-child star, around the age of 12 or 13 (who can really remember the 70's?) with my friend Leland, son of the beautiful hipster mom, Barbara, I would hitch-hike down to Laurel Canyon to the corner of Sunset and Crescent Heights by day, between trips to the door of Rodney's English Disco, where we tried, but usually failed to get in. We would pop a quarter into the vending machine and steal a stack of the Freep, sell them on the corner and then spend our loot at the Canyon Country Store. Thirty years later at the Beatnik Café in Joshua Tree, I confessed this story to the Freep's Founder, Art Kunkin, upon first meeting him. He gave me a big smile and a hug saying "I wholeheartedly approve." It is a dream come true to know this man, much less be able to work with him on THE paper which taught me everything that I wasn't supposed to know about art, music, politics, sex and consciousness.
Ted (Teddy) Quinn, musician, cultural activist, writer, artist, broadcaster on Radio Free Joshua Tree