In addition to making music, Howard also enjoys writing about it. His work has been published in print and online in a variety of media including Goldmine and Tell magazines, classicrockrevisited.com and bestclassicbands.com.
He has interviewed a vast array of rock legends, including members of Rush, Jethro Tull, Yes, Genesis, Badfinger, FROST*, Chicago, Dream Theater, Kansas, Styx, Eagles, Earth Wind & Fire, Bad Company, Grateful Dead, Spock’s Beard, Flash, The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Aerosmith, King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, 3, The Babys, The Darkness, The Posies, It Bites, Deep Purple, The Moody Blues, Porcupine Tree, Six By Six, The Flower Kings, Transatlantic, The Tangent, RPWL, Traffic, Asia, Beardfish, and many more legendary players.
INTERVIEWS
Joey Molland of Badfinger, October 2, 2013
TRIBUTES
Bricklin 1985
My first-ever music-focused article as a professional writer was a profile of the band Bricklin, published in the December 18, 1985 issue of The King of Prussia Courier, a local newspaper based in King of Prussia, PA.
At the time, I was working in my first post-college graduation full-time job as a reporter for the paper. I’d heard that the band had been signed to a contract with a a major label, A&M Records. It was a time when a number of Philly-area bands (including The Hooters, Tommy Conwell & the Young Rumblers, and Robert Hazard) were scoring major-label deals, and Bricklin was the latest signing. As they were local guys, based in the area my newspaper covered, I jumped at the chance to do a story about them.
I set up an interview with the band, but before that happened, I came out to see them perform at a local club, the (long-closed) Central Park in Wayne, PA. They were amazing, putting on an arena-level show with incredible energy, showmanship, and musicianship. We did the interview, in-person of course (this was well before the time of Zoom meetings), and was charmed by the guys. They were all nice and down-to-earth, while also clearly jazzed about signing a record deal and all of the exciting things that lay ahead for them. I also visited the band in the recording studio (based in nearby Gladwyne, PA) and watched them record with Grammy-winning producers Neil Dorfsman.
It was quite a time. Many adventures lay ahead for the band members and myself, and we’d connect many times over the ensuing decades, culminating in a 2026 interview with the creative core (and namesake) of the original Bricklin band, brothers Scott and Brian Bricklin, who have released the long-awaited Bricklin II.
Here is the original 1985 interview.
Howard Whitman 