Bill Wasserzieher
{{short description|American writer}}
Bill Wasserzieher is an American writer who focuses on music, film,{{cite book|author=Douglas Pratt|title=Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DTUw1SDQECoC&pg=PA247|year=2004|publisher=UNET 2 Corporation|isbn=978-1-932916-00-3|pages=247–}} and travel topics. He also writes fiction.
History
His earliest articles appeared during the late 1960s and early 1970s in the then Knight-Ridder-owned Independent and Press-Telegram morning and afternoon newspapers,{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/30671503/|title=Independent Press-Telegram from Long Beach, California · Page 152|date=July 25, 1965|newspaper=Independent Press-Telegram}} serving the greater Los Angeles region. A shift in coasts to New York led to editorial positions at the Village Voice. In subsequent years, Wasserzieher has written about bands and individual musicians for ICE magazine,{{cite book|author=Hank Bordowitz|title=Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man Revised and Updated|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6oGkakXkA0C&pg=PT74|date=1 March 2011|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-1-61713-078-6|pages=74–}}{{cite book|author=Matthew Greenwald|title=Go Where You Wanna Go: The Oral History of The Mamas and The Papas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQk3qbUp1E8C&pg=PA295|date=30 April 2002|publisher=Cooper Square Press|isbn=978-1-4616-2290-1|pages=295–}} where he had a monthly music column from 1997 to 2006, as well as the Village Voice,{{cite book|author=David N. Meyer|title=Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUIsAAAAYAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Villard|isbn=978-0-375-50570-6}} the OC Weekly, L.A. View, Crawdaddy, Yahoo Music, Living Blues, Southland Blues, Rock & Roll Disc, The Jazz Review, L.A. Free Press, Blues Revue and its spin-off Blues Music where he is now a contributing editor.{{cite web|url=http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Writer/bill-wasserzieher|title=Articles, interviews and reviews from Bill Wasserzieher: Rock's Backpages.|date=2014|work=rocksbackpages.com}}
In addition, his liner-notes essays have appeared on albums by Lightnin' Hopkins, Memphis Slim, Bert Jansch, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Chris Smither, Ted Hawkins, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Doug MacLeod, Mighty Sam McClain and others.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bill-wasserzieher-mn0001777016|title=Bill Wasserzieher|work=AllMusic}} A sampling of his many articles can be found at the Rock's Back Pages website.
Wasserzieher's film-related work includes numerous reviews as the DVD editor for Ugly Things magazine. He also appears as an on-camera commentator for a 40-minute bonus feature interview with Peter di Donato accompanying the restored 1950 film Christ in Concrete,Hasan, Mark. [http://www.kqek.com/dvd_reviews/c/2668_ChristInConcrete.htm "DVD: Christ in Concrete / Give Us This Day (1949)"]. KQEK directed by Hollywood 10 blacklist director Edward Dmytryk.Kennedy, Matthew. [http://brightlightsfilm.com/42/dvdrevs.php#.VBotHRYQZco "Creative Commies Conceive Christ in Concrete"]. Bright Lights.
He has written about air travel for Smithsonian Air & Space, Boeing Frontiers, AirTran Arrivals and similar publications. He is the author of a book on the pioneering Douglas Aircraft Company entitled Douglas: The Santa Monica Years.[http://argonautnews.com/donald-douglas-monument-honors-pioneer-at-santa-monica-airport/ "Donald Douglas monument honors pioneer at Santa Monica Airport"]. Argonaut News.
His published fiction includes "Mad Dog in the Slot," which appears in the Saturday Evening Post magazine’s Best Short Stories of 2014 volume, "Down to Guaymas" in The Cost of Paper, Vol. 3{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/49165386-the-cost-of-paper-volume-three|title=The Cost of Paper: Volume Three|website=Goodreads.com|access-date=17 July 2023}} and "White Nights" in Chance Encounters.{{cite web | url=https://worldtravelerpress.com/category/authors/chance-authors/page/2/ | title=Chance Encounters: Page 2|website=Workdtravelpress.com }}
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