Rob Zabrecky's memoir 'Strange Cures' is an ode to a forgotten L.A.
"Strange Cures" by Rob Zabrecky; Rothco Press; 348 pages, $19.95
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In musician and magician Rob Zabrecky's new memoir, "Strange Cures," the Los Angeles of the 1980s and early '90s is an alien landscape of raucous underground nightclubs, seedy Hollywood crack dens and low-rent Silver Lake duplexes; and the Valley is a place where errant teens roam free, sans supervision and GPS-tracking cellphones.
The youths sneak onto the Universal Studios backlot to drink beer on the "Psycho" house porch, huff brake cleaner on airport runways, race around in violent punk gangs, and fall prey to pedophile arcade owners
