Barney Hoskyns Professions : Music critic Born : 1959 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Barney Hoskyns When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they 'started the whole hippy thing' in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas. It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me...people would come to Ben Frank's to hang out with us after we played shows. Barney Hoskyns crowds sunset people But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood. Barney Hoskyns truth-is balls real Similar Authors Donal Henahan music-critic Hyman Taubman music-critic Harold C. Schonberg music-critic Eduard Hanslick music-critic Michael A. Walsh music-critic Justin Davidson music-critic All Authors