But it sounds like the perfect match. They’re the guys I looked up to when I was learning how to play drums. “I’ve lived kind of a sad-happy life,” she muses. No cell phones, man! Being sad or depressed is always a catalyst for writing with me.”Her writing has continued to blossom, earning her comparisons not merely with other tunesmiths, but with the New York School of poets as well. “It’s like, every time you take a breath, it’s heavy, but on the outside you’re like a clown family traveling along the universe. She may have been a cheerleader and a member of the local Monkees fan club, but she was a track star as well. We believed we were going to be huge, which is great about being that age. The four of us are going to sit down with her to talk about writing and producing three or four new Go-Gos songs. When we play live it’s really not like that at all, it’s raw and driven. Kathy and Jane try out some more guitar-hero moves. From her unintimidating glamour and pixieish stage presence to her unforgettable voice (think of Georgette from Wiedlin, however, is no niblet.
Belinda crushes Gina in an embrace. They got on board with that, thank god. The condition may have been caused by overexertion, tension or the gnarled-up way she plays guitar.
Red velvet. Who really knows why. So we stopped what we were doing and we all drove over. It got to be a very tense situation — people trying to get you to work when you can’t.
I’ve never done anything that bad to anyone to deserve this.”If Charlotte’s ailment had torn the band apart, Gina’s brought them together. They discovered that they were owed more than a million dollars in royalties from the sales of Even before Canzoneri’s departure, the band had hired Front Line Management, which guided acts like the Eagles and Steely Dan. That was a façade, a thing they wanted us to do for the general public because it’s easier to consume little pop princesses instead of these punk rebel girls. Suddenly, absurdly, they look like a rock & roll band: Valentine thrumming away on bass; Wiedlin, chic as you please in her canary sweat pants, emerald sweat shirt and Yankees baseball cap; Carlisle trying out her mock macho moves. I had this epiphany. I immediately just withered and fell to the ground. Honestly, if you want to do the right thing just split it all equally. Music moved me in a way that nothing else did, spoke to me in a language that I understood and made perfect sense to me. Then I got a guitar and took lessons for several months, and that was just too slow. I was like, ok, whatever, I’m just grateful to be in this band.It certainly has been like a marriage.
“Being in this band is like being in high school all over again,” says Gina Schock, the group’s drummer. It just got to be too much stress on me.” Over time, Kathy developed a stomach condition severe enough to land her in the hospital. '”Those who saw Schock in the weeks after her operation describe her as pale and wan-looking; today, clad in a simple housedress and wearing no makeup, Gina is gorgeous, the Go-Go’s most effortlessly lovely member. Local guitarist Eve Monsees filled in on rhythm guitar for the rest of the tour. He would show me all these ways to pitch. The band had resolved its management squabbles and was ready to record some songs, but Charlotte started noticing that she couldn’t move the fingers of her left hand.Her ailment was eventually diagnosed as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, an inflammation of the piece of cartilage that covers the inside of the wrist. Not in the Go-Go’s little bubble. It got to the point where we were going, ‘Come “It would get very frustrating for her,” says Gina Schock, “not to be able to do anything at rehearsals. I feel sorry for kids coming up in the business these days, I mean, Jesus Christ. "Safeguard your mental health "Sexual minority women are at higher risk of depression and anxiety. X drummer D.J.
Tom Tom Magazine is more than just a magazine it is a movement. I think we came very close to breaking up.”For Charlotte, some of the memories are still raw. Regina Ann "Gina" Schock (born August 31, 1957) is an American musician. So, the first concert I ever went to in my life was in ‘69 and it was Led Zeppelin opening for the Who. “You know when you see somebody who you immediately like and want to get to know?
Very cool.She makes us a little lunch of Los Angeles’ best bologna, from a German deli she frequents. And then last year, we really didn’t have anybody but ourselves.”Curled up on a sofa in her Malibu digs — a sun-swept house that features a parade of Mexican tchotchkes; two diaphanous teddies, hung on the wall of her bedroom; and, outside, a miniature horse named Bunny Wailer — Jane seems the perfect essence of a Go-Go. I went out on tour a couple of months later.I do! The Go-Go's: (L-R) Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock (on drums) and Kathy Valentine perform on stage at Brondyhallen supporting The Police in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 5th 1982. And they don’t give a fuck where you end up in five years or ten years. The track begins, and they start their pantomime. Jeff Whitty, who won a Tony for Avenue Q, is writing the script, and Ed Sylvanus Iskandar is directing it.
She asked me to be in her little punk band and I did that. The only drugs I’m allowed to do are valium and pot because I can’t do coke because I have a hole in my heart. I was so pumped up and crazed. The little things we do hurt each other a lot more than the little things anyone else could do.”Wiedlin maintains that she is easily bruised emotionally, despite her apparent confidence. That was the mentality you’re dealing with, just fucking nuts! I, on the other hand, had come from Baltimore playing in clubs where I was playing 4 sets a night.My work ethic was completely different than these guys- I had come to LA to make my mark. “I would fluctuate from extreme sympathy and compassion to pure frustration and resentment,” admits bassist Kathy Valentine.
Belinda crushes Gina in an embrace. They got on board with that, thank god. The condition may have been caused by overexertion, tension or the gnarled-up way she plays guitar.
Red velvet. Who really knows why. So we stopped what we were doing and we all drove over. It got to be a very tense situation — people trying to get you to work when you can’t.
I’ve never done anything that bad to anyone to deserve this.”If Charlotte’s ailment had torn the band apart, Gina’s brought them together. They discovered that they were owed more than a million dollars in royalties from the sales of Even before Canzoneri’s departure, the band had hired Front Line Management, which guided acts like the Eagles and Steely Dan. That was a façade, a thing they wanted us to do for the general public because it’s easier to consume little pop princesses instead of these punk rebel girls. Suddenly, absurdly, they look like a rock & roll band: Valentine thrumming away on bass; Wiedlin, chic as you please in her canary sweat pants, emerald sweat shirt and Yankees baseball cap; Carlisle trying out her mock macho moves. I had this epiphany. I immediately just withered and fell to the ground. Honestly, if you want to do the right thing just split it all equally. Music moved me in a way that nothing else did, spoke to me in a language that I understood and made perfect sense to me. Then I got a guitar and took lessons for several months, and that was just too slow. I was like, ok, whatever, I’m just grateful to be in this band.It certainly has been like a marriage.
“Being in this band is like being in high school all over again,” says Gina Schock, the group’s drummer. It just got to be too much stress on me.” Over time, Kathy developed a stomach condition severe enough to land her in the hospital. '”Those who saw Schock in the weeks after her operation describe her as pale and wan-looking; today, clad in a simple housedress and wearing no makeup, Gina is gorgeous, the Go-Go’s most effortlessly lovely member. Local guitarist Eve Monsees filled in on rhythm guitar for the rest of the tour. He would show me all these ways to pitch. The band had resolved its management squabbles and was ready to record some songs, but Charlotte started noticing that she couldn’t move the fingers of her left hand.Her ailment was eventually diagnosed as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, an inflammation of the piece of cartilage that covers the inside of the wrist. Not in the Go-Go’s little bubble. It got to the point where we were going, ‘Come “It would get very frustrating for her,” says Gina Schock, “not to be able to do anything at rehearsals. I feel sorry for kids coming up in the business these days, I mean, Jesus Christ. "Safeguard your mental health "Sexual minority women are at higher risk of depression and anxiety. X drummer D.J.
Tom Tom Magazine is more than just a magazine it is a movement. I think we came very close to breaking up.”For Charlotte, some of the memories are still raw. Regina Ann "Gina" Schock (born August 31, 1957) is an American musician. So, the first concert I ever went to in my life was in ‘69 and it was Led Zeppelin opening for the Who. “You know when you see somebody who you immediately like and want to get to know?
Very cool.She makes us a little lunch of Los Angeles’ best bologna, from a German deli she frequents. And then last year, we really didn’t have anybody but ourselves.”Curled up on a sofa in her Malibu digs — a sun-swept house that features a parade of Mexican tchotchkes; two diaphanous teddies, hung on the wall of her bedroom; and, outside, a miniature horse named Bunny Wailer — Jane seems the perfect essence of a Go-Go. I went out on tour a couple of months later.I do! The Go-Go's: (L-R) Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock (on drums) and Kathy Valentine perform on stage at Brondyhallen supporting The Police in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 5th 1982. And they don’t give a fuck where you end up in five years or ten years. The track begins, and they start their pantomime. Jeff Whitty, who won a Tony for Avenue Q, is writing the script, and Ed Sylvanus Iskandar is directing it.
She asked me to be in her little punk band and I did that. The only drugs I’m allowed to do are valium and pot because I can’t do coke because I have a hole in my heart. I was so pumped up and crazed. The little things we do hurt each other a lot more than the little things anyone else could do.”Wiedlin maintains that she is easily bruised emotionally, despite her apparent confidence. That was the mentality you’re dealing with, just fucking nuts! I, on the other hand, had come from Baltimore playing in clubs where I was playing 4 sets a night.My work ethic was completely different than these guys- I had come to LA to make my mark. “I would fluctuate from extreme sympathy and compassion to pure frustration and resentment,” admits bassist Kathy Valentine.