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Journalist and editor Bob Mack (August 9, 1963 – October 29, 1963) had two great passions, good writing and good music. Admirers hailed him for conducting “the best rock and roll interview in the history of rock and roll,” for editing “the best magazine to ever be pressed or printed on paper,” and for creating “the War and Peace of Generation-X culture.” By questioning the critical consensus that valorized Dylan/Springsteen/punk and denigrated Floyd/Zeppelin/Rush, Bob helped make Prog Rock cool again. The Oxford English Dictionary credits him with naming the hairstyle now called the “mullet.”
Bob began writing professionally at fourteen, covering sports for newspapers in Southern California. He graduated La Cañada High School near Pasadena, in 1981, where he edited the campus paper and was an all-conference water-polo player. After graduating New York University with a degree in economics in 1985, Bob wrote for The Village Voice and worked for National Review, then joined the staff at Spy. During the early 90s he wrote for MTV News, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, and Rolling Stone before editing the Beastie Boys magazine, Grand Royal. In later years he worked at Vanity Fair and wrote for LA Weekly, GQ, and Details.
This site is maintained by his friends to honor Bob's memory and map his legacy. We hope to host here his published and some of his unpublished writings; oral histories by those who knew him; a photo gallery; audio recordings of Bob; and a video jukebox with the hundreds (thousands?) of songs to which he sent us all YouTube links over the last couple decades of his life.