Praise From A Former Reporter

Harvey Kubernick:
"The 'Los Angeles Free Press' was our geographical compass to far pockets of the community we never got exposed to in any local public school. To some it was viewed as an 'underground' outlet of real news and pop culture information. To others it was digested like a Bible or Torah. The paper always had a regional pulse that informed a passionate collective staff heartbeat that delivered editorials that could be heard and felt all over the United States and the world.
The weekly also had an open-minded music policy. The music editors were not narrow-minded... One of my very first writing jobs was an interview with Brian Auger in 1972. I list the 'FREEP' in my biography with a sense of pride. The ads always directed us to new sounds and wonderful concert experiences; the fabulous Pinnacle Concerts, seminal and influential interviews, defunct movie theater houses, groovy Troubadour shows from the '60s and 70s, or ancient record shops that we initially found in the pages that informed and still impact our melodic travels."
Harvey Kubernik has been a music journalist and writer/interviewer since 1972, in Crawdaddy, the LA Times, MOJO, HITS and the original LA Free Press. He is the author of “This Is Rebel Music, The Harvey Kubernik InnerViews" , the upcoming "Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music In Film and On Your Screen" and "Memory As Calendar." Anthologies include, "The Rolling Stone Book Of The Beats" and "Drinking With Bukowski" and the recording set "The Jack Kerouac Collection."