Anthony DeCurtis still rocks Rolling Stone magazine! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob A

Today's Guest: Anthony DeCurtis, long-time Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor, writer, and co-author with Clive Davis of The Soundtrack of My Life.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Anthony DeCurtis, long-time Rolling Stone magazine contributing editor, writer, and co-author with Clive Davis of The Soundtrack of My Life, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that needs rock ‘n’ roll every day… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

I cannot tell a lie – or at least not too many – I let my Rolling Stone magazine subscription end around the same time my Playboy magazine subscription expired about a decade ago.

My hearing took a beating over the years – probably not helped by my own stint as a rock music critic in the 1980s and standing too close to one too many heavy metal hair bands in concert – and live shows lost their appeal. That’s what happened to my interest in Rolling Stone.
ANTHONY DeCURTIS podcast excerpt: "Being a staff writer at Rolling Stone magazine was a job and it was a hard one. But when Kurt Cobain died, for example, we all gathered in the managing editor's office. There were staff rivalries there, a number of egos knocking around, but when you looked around the room, you knew nobody had to carry anybody else's water. Everybody could hit the story hard."
You can LISTEN to this interview with ROLLING STONE magazine writer ANTHONY DeCURTIS, co-author with CLIVE DAVIS of THE SOUNDTRACK OF MY LIFE, by clicking the audio player above!

As for Playboy – well, just how many articles can you really read before succumbing to the photos? And once you’ve seen two in every size, shape, race and ethnicity, well... Or maybe it’s low T? I dunno. (Let’s save that for the next special episode of Mr. Media Interviews.)

But the one characteristic of both magazines that I enjoyed for decades was the writing. And