and 2013, and recorded several tracks with them which appeared on the 2013 Lanark Records release Rockin’ Together. Television Returning to his given name, Weiss began working for KCTS Television, Seattle’s PBS affiliate in 1992. Through 2003, Weiss helped manage national and international productions, including documentaries which were broadcast as part of the American Experience and American Masters series. In 2004 he began working for Seattle Channel, the city of Seattle’s government-access television station. Between 2007 and 2017, Weiss helped lead a team which won the Excellence in Government Programming award (often referred to as “the best municipal TV station in the nation”) from the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA), eight times. Author Weiss’s first book, Stranded in the Jungle: Jerry Nolan’s Wild Ride - A Tale of Drugs, Fashion, the New York Dolls, and Punk Rock, was released in September 2017. On September 14, 2017 it became the number one new release in Amazon.com’s “Punk Musician Biographies” category. On October 1, 2017, it hit number one. The forward was written by Chris Stein of Blondie. Reviews were mainly positive; Rob Ross wrote in popdose.com, “…Mr. Weiss is a damned fine writer. There’s none of the deifications that writers tend to do when writing about a “hero” of theirs; it’s objective, fact-filled – painstakingly researched and simply fascinating…” Jimi LaLumia wrote in PunkGlobe that, “‘Stranded In The Jungle’ is a must read…”; Joe Whyte wrote in LouderthanWar.com, “I can safely say that Curt Weiss’s “Stranded In the Jungle”…is up there with “Please Kill Me”, “England’s Dreaming”, Andy Blade’s “Teenage Punk Rocker” and our own Brother John Robb’s “Punk; An Oral History” as one of the best accounts of the era of punk rock and the preceding years and aftermath.” Michele Kirsch wrote in Glass Magazine, “…forensically detailed and brilliantly written… It’s one of those books that is so good, you get a mild panic attack as you approach the end of it…” Negative critiques from Simon Wright in Only Rock and Roll, point out, “…the lamentably tabloid title…,” and notes that though, “…Weiss is himself a drummer…occasionally he discusses Nolan’s technique in some detail: I wish there was more of this.” Discography (As Lewis King) Rockats Live at the Ritz - Island Records, 1981 Rockats Make That Move - RCA Records, 1983 Tim Scott Swear - Sire Records, 1983 Joy Ryder Tired of Phoney - RCA Records,