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Rip Rense (born 1954) 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''.〔 His writing has also appeared in ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', and the magazines ''Billboard'',〔 ''TV Guide'', ''People'' and ''Los Angeles'', among others. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rip Rense: Credits )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rip Rense )〕 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. ==Early life and early career== Rip Rense's parents were Arthur F. Rense and the latter's first wife, Madelon. His father was a sports journalist with the Los Angeles newspaper the ''Daily News'' before going on to a successful career in public relations, notably with the Douglas Aircraft Company and the Summa Corporation.〔 The family home during the 1950s and 1960s was in the then-rural〔 suburb of Thousand Oaks, north-west of Los Angeles.〔 Rense was the youngest of three sons. Rense attended Venice High School, where one of his classmates was Scott Wannberg, later a leading figure in the Los Angeles poetry and literary establishment. At the start of his career in journalism, Rense worked as a reporter for the ''Valley News'' and the ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner''. He recalls that one of his early assignments, for ''LA Weekly'', was to attend a chaotic press conference held by former Beatle George Harrison in February 1979. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rip Rense」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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