Bart Bull

Vogue, Details, SPIN, Sounds staff writer, West Coast editor; loads of magazines, daily and weekly newspapers; columns, reporting, features, criticism. Couple of Deems Taylor Awards for music stuff, lots of other awards for reporting, writing, columns. Worked and traveled in more than twenty countries. Published in six languages; writes exclusively in American.

"The best new American rock writer of the '80s" -- Creem

"[SPIN's] West Coast editor Bart Bull's piece on John Lee Hooker is as witty and perceptive a piece of writing as you're likely to find in any magazine anywhere." -- Los Angeles Times;

"Shakespearean." -- Tom Wolfe

OG punk rocker, founded first American xeroxpunk fanzine, Browbeat, in 1977;

OG skateboarder, once clocked at 38 mph downhill.

Adequate accordionist; quarter-axxed steel guitar player. Historian, cultural commentator, culinary adventurer, raconteur, wanderer, cook (pro/semi-pro/amateur), bon vivant (p/s-p/a), picaro y guero y gabacho.

Record producer, arranger, and mixer. Manager; Artistes et Property Intellectual. Urbanist; Designer; Documentarian; Expatriate American; High school dropout; North Central Phoenix yo-yo champion, 1967. Danced on Soul Train (one time, 1986; not invited back) Hit long foul off Juan Marichal, 1984; Played accordion for 80,000 bikers and metalheads in Nuremburg, Germany, 1992; briefly (thanks to Title IX) a member of the Phoenix College Women's Volleyball Team; former owner/operator of Pontiac GTOs and various other muscle cars; numerous other awards, distinctions and visible scars