# Ron Garmon

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American novelist

Ron Garmon Pen name Rocky Redglare Occupation Journalist writer rock critic Nationality American Genre Music journalism, speculative fiction, horror

**Ron Garmon** is an American journalist, rock critic, and short story writer who served as Arts Editor for [*L.A. CityBeat*](/source/LA_CityBeat) during its last year of publication, 2007 to 2008.[1] He resides in Los Angeles.[2]

Garmon's lyrical, oft-hallucinatory writings have been a fixture in L.A. rock journalism since the late 1990s through his scene columns in *Mean Street*,[3] *[L.A. Record](/source/L.A._Record)*, and *[L.A. CityBeat](/source/LA_CityBeat)*. While at *L.A. CityBeat*, Garmon interviewed [Jimmy Carter](/source/Jimmy_Carter), [Edward Albee](/source/Edward_Albee), [Carl Reiner](/source/Carl_Reiner) and many more. Garmon's cover stories followed L.A.'s underground music scene, bringing to light the trashing of the iconic [Morrison Hotel](/source/Morrison_Hotel), and investigating the fate of long-vanished cult movie director [Tom Graeff](/source/Tom_Graeff). He's possibly L.A.'s first [medical marijuana](/source/Medical_marijuana) critic, reviewing dispensaries and strains in the print edition of the *[L.A. Record](/source/L.A._Record)*. He contributed live music reviews, and under the heading 'Hear This While High' recommended pairings of recordings and marijuana strains, to the *[SF Weekly](/source/SF_Weekly)* music blog "All Shook Down".[4] 1" His byline has appeared in the [Los Angeles *Times*](/source/Los_Angeles_Times), *[Famous Monsters of Filmland](/source/Famous_Monsters_of_Filmland)*, *Famous Monsters Underground #1*,[5] *Brand X*, *[Utne Reader](/source/Utne_Reader)*, *The Tracking Angle*, *[Scarlet Street](/source/Scarlet_Street_(magazine))*, *New Angeles Monthly*, and the *Heinlein Journal*. Examples of Garmon's approach to the rock LP can be found in *Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed*.[6] He wrote liner notes for the CD reissues of *The Best of [Spirit](/source/Spirit_(band))* and four [Bootsy Collins](/source/Bootsy_Collins) albums.[7]

His speculative fiction is published in *Paraphilia*[8] and *Antique Children*.[9] Garmon and fellow science fiction writer [Brad Linaweaver](/source/Brad_Linaweaver) were 2002 nominees for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for one of their "Left Brain/Right Brain" features in *Cult Movies Magazine*. His 1998 *RetroVision* article[10] on radical filmmaker [Peter Watkins](/source/Peter_Watkins) was cited in *A Companion to Science Fiction*.[11]

In 1999, Garmon and ex-*[Scarlet Street](/source/Scarlet_Street_(magazine))* publisher [Jessie Lilley](/source/Jessie_Lilley) founded *Worldly Remains: A Pop Culture Review*,[12] which ran eight issues before folding in 2004. Popular culture icons such as [Michael Parks](/source/Michael_Parks), [Ivan Dixon](/source/Ivan_Dixon), [Frankie Smith](/source/Frankie_Smith), [Robert Quarry](/source/Robert_Quarry), [Keith Morris](/source/Keith_Morris), [Gloria Hendry](/source/Gloria_Hendry), and [John Quade](/source/John_Quade) gave uncensored interviews. There was much quirky coverage of retromedia, and reporting on bizarre public events such as the 2000 [Reform Party](/source/Reform_Party_USA) Convention.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-lacitybeat_1-0)** Roderick, Kevin (June 4, 2008). ["CityBeat's Remake"](http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/06/citybeats_remake.php). LA Observed. Retrieved June 21, 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-boyleheights_2-0)** Chavo, El (September 25, 2008). ["The Best Thing About Boyle Heights? Some White Guy"](http://laeastside.com/2008/09/the-best-thing-about-boyle-heights-some-white-guy/). LA Eastside. Retrieved June 21, 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-meanstreet_3-0)** Garmon, Ron (2007). ["Bad Religion"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080602093602/http://www.meanstreet.com/article.php?article_id=593&issue_id=111). *Mean Street* (111). Mean Street Magazine, LLC. Archived from [the original](http://www.meanstreet.com/article.php?article_id=593&issue_id=111) on June 2, 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-allshookdown_4-0)** ["Author Page for SF Weekly – Ron Garmon"](http://blogs.sfweekly.com/author.php?author_id=2218).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Hellnotes: Famous Monsters Underground #1"](http://hellnotes.com/famous-monsters-underground-1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-grooves_6-0)** Kim Cooper; David Smay, eds. (2004). [*Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed*](https://books.google.com/books?id=o4wRvuoA0QYC&q=Ron+Garmon). Routledge. p. 288. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-415-96998-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-415-96998-7). Retrieved June 24, 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bootsy_7-0)** Baker, Cary (September 13, 2007). ["Four Albums of Classic Funk from Bootsy Collins to be Reissued by Collectors' Choice"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080706111154/http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003726.html). Modern Guitars Magazine. Archived from [the original](http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003726.html) on July 6, 2008. Retrieved June 21, 2008.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Garmon, Ron (2009). Díre McCain; D. M. Mitchell (eds.). ["The Ape That Exploded"](http://issuu.com/paraphiliamagazine/docs/paraphilia_five/243). *Paraphilia*. **1** (5). Paraphilia Books: 243.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-aqc_9-0)** Garmon, Ron (2010). Jim Lopez (ed.). ["Headsman's Apology"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110707221921/http://www.beerlivery.com/jimlopez/spit.html). *Antique Children*. **1** (1). AQC Books: 190. Archived from [the original](http://www.beerlivery.com/jimlopez/spit.html) on July 7, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-watkins_10-0)** Garmon, Ron (1998). ["Peter Watkins Blows Up The World: The War Game Revisited"](https://web.archive.org/web/20071224171451/http://picpal.com/peterwatkins.html). Archived from [the original](http://picpal.com/peterwatkins.html) on December 24, 2007. Retrieved June 24, 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-sfcred_11-0)** Seed, David (2005). [*A Companion to Science Fiction*](https://books.google.com/books?id=HO_z5WFKwpoC&q=Ron+Garmon). Wiley-Blackwell. p. 304. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-4051-1218-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4051-1218-5). Retrieved June 24, 2010.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-remains_12-0)** ["Worldly Remains"](http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=WORLDLY%20REMAINS&etos=%). Retrieved June 21, 2008.

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