I’m doing the happy dance over today’s installment of RNRHS, featuring honest-to-goodness American music legend, Peter Case. Many children of the ’80s, myself included, love his band, The Plimsouls, and associate them with a very memorable time in our lives. “A Million Miles Away” is the touchstone, nostalgia wrapped up in an endlessly listenable package. Hell, the title for my book comes from the lyrics. The thing is though, The Plimsouls were only the tip of the proverbial iceberg and Case’s solo career has proven to be most…
Category: News, Rock 'n' Roll High School Tags: 80s music, a million miles away, author, Bring Me Back, Chick Lit, karen balcom, Led Zeppelin, novel, peter case, the plimsouls, women's fiction
This week’s RNRHS is from Regina Joskow, one of my oldest (as in we’ve been friends for a long time) and dearest friends. Regina was one of the amazing women that I looked up to when I got my first music biz job and she was similarly in love with Soul Asylum, so we had much over which to bond. On top of that, her birthday is the day after mine, so we are astrologically in synch. I had to send Regina a note yesterday afternoon while I…
Category: News, Rock 'n' Roll High School Tags: 80s music, author, banks forest, Boston, Bring Me Back, CBGB's, Chick Lit, Creem Magazine, high school, Kansas, karen balcom, music, the ramones, The Who, todd rundgren, Trouser Press