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This is part of my response to the Feb. Hair Band Challenge to do a LO inspired by the band Poison or the show "Rock Of Love" (where Poison's Bret Michaels looks for love....for the 2nd time). Actually, the right side "Rock Reality Show Ho" is more of the Challenge response (to categories 1 & 3 of the challenge) while this left side "Rock Chick" is more of an intro...I felt like I needed to give an intro about what rock n roll meant to me, before launching into my Rock of Love page. I wanted something more meaningful to put in my book along w/ my page about this trashy show, LOL!
This side is about how I've always been a rock chick, from being a music fan, to playing in a band, to working in the music industry. Unfortunately, the scan doesn't catch the shininess of the silver cut stars, the guitar or the pink hearts on my dress. It looks more cool IRL. The scan also cuts off the right sides.
Journaling: “My older sisters got me into The Beatles when I was 3 yrs old. I've been a rock chick ever since. Sure I like other types of music. But rock n roll & all its variations is my main music love. The 1st album I bought myself was J. Geils Band, the 2nd was Def Leppard. My 1st rock concert was almost Cheap Trick & Aldo Nova when I was 10, but my parents didn't let me go. When I was in 6th grade, Van Halen was on their “Diver Down” tour. My sister Sally went to the Thurs show & got me a jersey that I wore to school on Friday; I lied & told kids that I went - they were so impressed! I remember watching Van Halen's “Panama” video when I was in middle school…there was one scene where a room full of rockers partying all raise their glasses to the camera & sing “Panama!” I said to myself, dude, I wanna be like THOSE people! Rock n roll just embodied what I was feeling at any given time growing up –energized, defiant, thoughtful, angry, moody, triumphant. MTV came along & changed the music world. Even when my tastes turned more synthesized as a teen (New Order, The Cure), it's still another face of rock to me. My 1st real concert was seeing Sting when I was 15. I had LOVED The Police all my life & had an embarrassingly intense crush on Sting. I collected vinyl albums, then cassette tapes, then, much later, CDs, voraciously. I eventually got into clubbing & my favorite songs to dance to were the rockin ones. I read Rolling Stone from cover to cover. I knew the names of band members, who was on tour, lyrics, the sequence of tracks... I started going to as many shows I could – I loved how while at a rock concert, the band would play a song I adored & it was like they were playing it just for ME! When I moved to NYC for college, I went to lots of music clubs & checked out unsigned local bands, soo cool. I'm still friends w/ some from that extended music crowd (& some of ‘em I vehemently avoid!). Once I was at a lounge w/ my sister Shirley. Some dance song came on & she started grooving, I think I yawned. THEN an AC/DC song came on, I was like aw yeah & rocked out!
Post-college, in the 90s, I fulfilled my dream of learning to play bass guitar. I'd always loved well-crafted basslines, why not do ‘em myself? I bought a bass, took a few lessons, played A LOT & ended up gigging w/ a couple local bands for several years. I had a blast! Eventually, I got caught up w/ other parts of my life & let the bass playing go, it just happened when I neglected my practicing. I still sometimes play recreationally at home alone, but I'll probably never reach the musical level I used to be at, because I'm now joyfully addicted to scrapbooking!
Meanwhile, from the mid 90s through today, my day jobs have mostly been in the music industry. Hey if you're gonna have a day job, might as well make it at a fun place, right? Music industry jobs equal free music & shows too! But I'm trying to leave the industry now & go more corporate…the long hrs are killing me & I can still be my rock self while working at a more corporate place (though I guess that means no more free CDs…)
These days, things are different. I still see shows but rarely – I have to really like or know the band to want to see 'em. I saw the reunited Police last summer, it was awesome! I would say the best concerts I've seen in my life are arguably Neil Young, Front 242, Metallica, Radiohead & The Police. (& BB King, the blues is the godfather genre to rock!). I still like seeing local music but get turned off by those 11:30PM showtimes (what I used to consider standard “going out” time!). Meanwhile, I buy maybe 5 new CDs a year tops, I do not keep up w/ the new stuff the way I used to. And yes, I still buy CDs… I like the whole album experience of a CD – the artwork, the songs put together, etc. I have mixed feelings about free downloads as I work in the industry & know that it deprives a lot of people (not just stars) who earn money off music sales. BUT free downloads get the music out to the world & that's great too. I don't read Rolling Stone regularly anymore – it irritates me now. I'm glad I no longer have to go to band rehearsals – more time to scrap! When my hubby started playing guitar w/ a band recreationally, I was psyched – I got to relive the excitement of gigging w/o having to deal w/ band drama! YET some things are still the same – a well-crafted song will STILL wrench my heart & hit me in the gut because it reflects the angst/ joy/ aggression/ wistfulness/ love I feel at a given moment. My rock spirit lives on. For Valentine's Day '08 my husband Greg got me a CD of Rancid B-sides & a matching tee; he knows his wife well (I dragged him to a Rancid show a year or 2 ago & it was ROCKIN!!).
Yup, I am still a ROCK CHICK!”
Funny I mention Def Leppard in the journaling…now Def Leppard is the subject of the MARCH Hair Band Challenge!
The right side page explores what it'd take for me to be a girl tryin to find “love” w/ a rock star on a reality show!
The Rock Star Stack was my Secret Santa gift from whenscraphappenzz. Thanks Tiff!
This was a blast to scrap! TFL :)
Thanks for spreading positivity!
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