this was a time when it would benefit an artist to stand up
I WAS ONE OF THOSE TEENS who prided themselves in having a really cool record collection, bragging about albums and singles few of my clueless high school peers had ever heard of. So, of course, I was a big fan of Warner/Reprise Records in the late ’60s. Aside from championing my beloved Kinks (and Grommett save them!), by 1970 they had signed one of my heroes, the all-but-unknown Neil Young, and the group that was fast becoming my new obsession, the Beach Boys. READ MORE