Running With Monsters: A Memoir (20 page)

B
ob Forrest is “the guy with the hat” on VH1’s
Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew
. He’s a certified addiction specialist and counselor as well as a musician. A rock-and-roll Zelig who has been on the Los Angeles music scene since the early eighties with his bands Thelonious Monster and the Bicycle Thief, he’s also a recovering addict who’s been sober for the past fifteen years. The father of two boys, Elijah, twenty-four, and Elvis, eighteen months, Bob lives with his wife and baby in Los Angeles, California.

M
ichael Albo is a Los Angeles–based author and journalist who has written about popular culture and true crime. He is a regular contributor to
LA Weekly
and the
Los Angeles Times
. His work has also appeared in the
Chicago Tribune, Premiere
magazine,
Men’s Edge
magazine, and the music magazine
Sonic Boomers
. His short story “Baby, I Need to See a Man About a Duck” appears in the book
The Heroin Chronicles
.