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Read # Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story PDF by ! Laurie Lindeen eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story AmazingHilariousMovingIf you love Rock `n' Roll, you'll love this book! As a former female rocker wannabe, I found Laurie Lindeen's journey through rock music sobering and enlightening, and completely compelling to read. I played a bit of electric guitar as a teenager, but after going along for a ride through Laurie's exploits, I'm glad I chose a different career path. Life for a struggling female punk rock band is anything but glamorous. Hilarious at moments, yes, but the dark, gritty side of p
| Title | : | Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.33 (981 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743292340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
All rights reserved. . From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Sharp and sensitive, stoned silly and serious, all in the right places, Lindeen's account of her life as guitarist and songwriter for Zuzu's Petals is a love song (played really fast) for the postpunk or Amer-indie scene of mid-1980s Minneapolis, when bands like the Replacements and Soul Asylum had yet to move from cult heroes to major-label artists. In between, along with some touching scenes from her youth, Lindeen skillfully details great and not-so-great gigs, horrible hotels, wonderful (if weird) fans, boyfriends and all sorts of strange events and locations ("The walls are covered with black Astroturf"). After paying her dues, Lindeen finds love and marriage in ex-Replacements leader Paul Westerberg, w
AmazingHilariousMovingIf you love Rock `n' Roll, you'll love this book! As a former female rocker wannabe, I found Laurie Lindeen's journey through rock music sobering and enlightening, and completely compelling to read. I played a bit of electric guitar as a teenager, but after going along for a ride through Laurie's exploits, I'm glad I chose a different career path. Life for a struggling female punk rock band is anything but glamorous. Hilarious at moments, yes, but the dark, gritty side of playing night after night in sleazy clubs is anything but alluring. Laurie's band, Zuzu's Petals, had moments that seemed to indicate they were on the verge of hitting it big, but despite an intense level o. Nice read about "the little band that could" D. J. Robinson I love the music that was coming out of Minneapolis (Twin Tone) in the 80's and early 90's and this book gave me a lot of insight on what it was like to be in and around that scene. Zuzu's Petals overcame the enormous odds of having sometimes marginal musical ability but they made up for it with attitude and great songs. Their debut release "When No One's Looking" is my favorite female rock album of the 90's and it doesn't sound anything like other female bands from that era. How they pulled it off is truly a Cinderella story.. A brilliant Rocker/Writer reminds me of my college days! A big THANKS to Lindeen for taking me back to a time that I had forgotten in Madtown, WI and parts of the Midwest during the 80's/90's of our innocence. Anyone who has attended college (University of Wisconsin and the like) in this time period will remember the cover bands and the clubs that made these women famous. The descriptions of the travel in Europe and the U.S. made you wonder why you idealized their lives as band members. Times were hard in the climb to the top - especially for a "girls group".The dynamics of the band members and their lives outside of the band was a brilliant canvas painted with all sorts of charact
Then Laurie is thrown a curveball when she falls for Paul Westerberg of Replacements fame and reevaluates exactly what it means to "make it big." By turns hilarious and heartrending, Petal Pusher is a brilliant behind-the-scenes look at music on the front lines, and the awe-inspiring tale of one woman's fight against disease and the disillusionment of life in the rock underground.. With inspiring determination, Laurie and her Zuzu's Petals survive the many challenges of being underdogs in a man's world. Set in the years between the meteoric launches of Madonna and Courtney Love, Petal Pusher takes readers on a stirring journey across rock and roll, from the big-haired 1980s to the grunge-filled 1990s, when Laurie Lindeen brought her all-girl band, Zuzu's Petals, to compete in the indie rock arena. She moved to the city with her best friends Phyll ("Annie Oakley meets Patsy Cline") and Coleen ("former cheerleader gone off the arty deep end") to crash in decrepit apartments and coax punk rock from crappy used guitars. Minneapolis in the eighties was a musical hotbed, the land of 10,000 lakes and 10,000 band
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