Time Has Come Today

People who are born into a life of rock and roll either make music, collect it, write about it, sell it or get into the record business. Harold Bronson has done all of those things. In Time Has Come Today, he recounts the fascinating adventure of his musical life.Before he co-founded Rhino Records, America's leading reissue label, and put decades of music history back into circulation, Bronson was just another devoted fan growing up in Southern California in the 1960s. But with boundless enthusiasm, a discerning ear and a near-photographic memory, he channeled his passion into writing for the UCLA Daily Bruin and then Rolling Stone. He met and interviewed many of the era's greats, then launched the Rhino label from the back room of the Los Angeles record store he managed. In that role, he worked behind the scenes with many of those same artists - in studios, offices, concert halls and restaurants - to bring their old (sometimes new) music to the public.Time Has Come Today contains concert accounts, historical events and meetings with noted hitmakers, with fascinating details that have never before been made public. This unique, behind-the-scenes document is packed with dates and details and loaded with many of the great Bronson worked with: Lunches with Peter Noone, Terri Nunn, Wally Amos, Henny Youngman, Andrew Loog Oldham A limo ride with all four MonkeesIn the studio with Black Sabbath and othersHome visits with George Carlin, Howard Kaylan of the Turtles, Mike Nesmith, Stephen Bishop and moreParties with Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper and moreConversations with the Bee Gees, the Doors, the Knack, ELO, George Clinton, Mickie Most, Hunter S. Thompson, John Sebastian, Van Dyke Parks, Rod Argent, Bon Scott, Janis Ian, Edgar Winter, the Chambers Brothers, Suzi Quatro, David Essex, Sha Na Na, Mike Chapman, Nicky Hopkins, Badfinger, John Kay of Steppenwolf and many more