Veruca Salt - American Thighs - Play-It-Like-It-Is-Guitar

88 Pages·1995·43.15 MB·English

by  Veruca Salt

1
L O U I S E P O S T
My name is Louise. I sing and play guitar (or Veruco Salt I was
born in St. Louis, Missouri, wbere dassic rock is a food staple
like mashed potatoes or meat. My first records were by Ringo
Starr, The Mamas and the Papas, as well as David Bowie s
Changes One, Pink Floyd's The Dari Skie Of The Moon, and
the Beatles' Abbey Rood. When I was little I idolized Michelle
Phillips and Slevie Nicks. Then cane Prince At 1B I discovered
the Velvet Undergound and moved to New York City. A fnend
lent me her acoustic guitar and I started writing songs as o rem­
edy for a broken heart.
In 1989 I mode a mod bolt for Chicago with the intention of
storting a band, but ended up in a theater company After that
terrifying experience, playing guitar in front of people was a
breeze. I found my spiritual soulmate in Nina Gordon in
Jonuary of 1992, and we embarked on this journey involving
spiders, nightmares
and car wrecks. It took
us a year and a half to
find our rhythm
cohorts, Steve and Jim,
and to deem ourselves
ready to play a show.
Nina and I write the
songs separately and
then bring them into
rehearsal, where they
are opened up for
arrangement ideas,
other parts, etc.
We appropriated the
name Veruca Salt from
o character in Roald
Dahl's Chadie And The Chocolate Factory. She is the demand­
ing little girl who is punished for her overwhelming greed by
being thrown down the garbage chute—not to be confused
^h Violet Beauregard, who chews the experimental gum and
blows up into a blueberry.
With the bond Nina and I have the luxury of making sense of
our -es through song. Someone r^enrty said that American
Thighs as a whole seems to mark a loss of innocence. There's
some food for thought.
Get Back
Words and Music by
Nina Gordon
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And I could spend it. but I'd nev er get it back Dont get it back.-
Copyright O 1994 Are You There God It's Me Music (ASCAP)
This Arrangement Copynght C 1995 Are You There God It's Me Music
International Copynght Secured All Rights Reserved 7
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All Hail Me
Words and Music by
Louise Post
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