Description He is one of the inventors of rock criticism.
He lives in Portland, Oregon..
About the author Richard Meltzer is the author of over a dozen books, including A Whore Just Like the Rest-winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award-and innumerable articles.
Traveling from psychedelia to the "dinosaur-rot early \'70s" to the redeeming majesty of punk and the constant solace of jazz, this will stand as a remarkable document of an era by a singular voice in music writing.
Now he has collected the best of his prodigious output into a gonzo sampler of the reviews, profiles, interviews, and essays that form the heart of his rockwriter legacy.
And for the next thirty years he fearlessly expanded the boundaries of music writing.
His first book, The Aesthetics of Rock (acclaimed by Greil Marcus as "a disemboweling of rock\'s soft white underbelly"), became an instant cult classic when published in 1970.
Description He is one of the inventors of rock criticism
