Rip Rense

Rip Rense is an American music and film journalist, author, poet, and music producer, based in Los Angeles, California. He has written for numerous Los Angeles publications since the 1970s, including LA Weekly, the Valley News, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, and the Los Angeles Times.[1] His writing has also appeared in The New York Times,[2] Chicago Sun-Times,[3] The Washington Post,[4] and the magazines Billboard,[5] TV Guide, People and Los Angeles, among others.[1]

Rense's activities in the music industry have included writing the liner notes for albums by Frank Zappa, the Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart and the Persuasions.[6][7] He produced a series of comeback albums by the Persuasions, beginning with the group's 2000-released Frankly A Cappella, a collection of a cappella interpretations of Zappa's music. Among Rense's works as an author, The Oaks (2007) is his semi-autobiographical account of growing up in 1960s Thousand Oaks, and The Last Byline (2003) details life at a fictional newspaper from the same era.

  1. ^ a b Johnson, Brett (June 4, 2007). "A writer looks back in prose, to a young Thousand Oaks". Ventura County Star. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  2. ^ Rense, Rip (May 12, 2002). "Deciphered: A Demonic Prelude by an Ailing Chopin". The New York Times. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  3. ^ Rense, Rip (26 May 1985). "Beatles Album Travels a Long and Winding Road to Release". Chicago Sun-Times.
  4. ^ Rense, Rip (August 21, 2005). "One More Beatles Song, or Should They Just Let It Be?". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rense/Westwood was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Rip Rense: Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
  7. ^ "Rip Rense". Artist Direct. Retrieved December 11, 2014.