Our Director

Bob George is the director of the ARChive of Contemporary Music and president of the Board of Directors. The initial collection of 47,000 discs that began the ARChive's collection came from his personal collection.

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Head Archivist

Our current Head Archivist is Fred D. Patterson. Fred has worked at many and varied jobs in the music industry, including six years with the publishing company Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. and more recently at MJI Broadcasting, both in New York City. Before that he was assistant manager and buyer at Rhino Records Store in Los Angeles, then manager of their store in Albany, NY. Fred still consults on recording projects for many labels, including MCA, Silvertone/Zomba, Birdman, Rhino, Island and Chronicles/Universal. Weekend you can find him DJÍing at the Subway Soul Club in Manhattan and hosting Wang Dang Doodle happenings. He has DJ'd at MaxwellÍs, The Warsaw, Village Underground, and at Lincoln Center Out of Door. Fred has published Essays in Rolling Stone's Alt-Rock-A-Rama. (Rolling Stone Press, 1996) and Make The Music Go Bang: The Early L.A. Punk Scene. (St. Martins Press, 1997). Writings have also appeared in tippsmusic.com, salon.com, rocksbackpages.com, Discoveries, L.A. Weekly, N.Y. Rocker, Rock Scene, Billboard, Contrast, Wax Paper, Slash Magazine and Back Door Man. Fred has also found the time to pen album liner notes for notable reissues by favorite R&B artists, such as Howard Tate and Darrell Banks.

By the Way

Amy Larkin is Chairman of the Board. Goran Andersson is based in Paris, France, working to create a second location for the ARC.