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This weekend is the first test as the movie PREY FOR ROCK AND ROLL starring Gina Gershon is coming out and needs support.
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by seurat » Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:27 pm
"Always took candy from strangers/ Didn't wanna get me no trade/ Never want to be like Papa/ Working for the boss every night and day. I need a love to keep me happy, baby won't you keep me happy."-Keith Richards
by cattwoman98111 » Tue Sep 30, 2003 12:57 am
I want it. Give it to me. I love it. 7-Year Bitch
by tyche » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:12 pm
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www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ar...D23755.DTL
As Gina Gershon, lithe and self-assured, descended the long staircase to the basement of Great American Music Hall, an image of the stiletto sabotage in "Showgirls" sprang irresistibly to mind. But nothing as glamorous as a Vegas headliner spot was at stake Sunday evening, just the scary prospect of facing a crowd as herself, the newly minted rock singer.
Gershon, 41, walked behind a theater employee burning incense to ward off bad vibes, or perhaps just the stink of the thousand rock acts who occupied the basement dressing room before her. Artfully dressed for a sound check in vintage Alice Cooper concert T-shirt and ratty denim jacket, she was gracious and calm a few hours before showtime.
"Do you think it will be sold out?" Gershon asked her interviewer. "I wonder if it's going to be all women -- I have a big lesbian following."
That's like saying Jackie Mason has a Jewish following. A straight woman who's an unreluctant lesbian icon, Gershon swaggered into Sapphic hearts as a predatory preener in "Showgirls" and a butch handywoman in "Bound." She plays a bisexual rocker in the Friday release "Prey for Rock & Roll," based on the life of Santa Cruz resident Cheri Lovedog.
At the show, Gershon's female devotees -- and the odd gay man -- stood shoulder to shoulder near the front of the stage, enduring an overly loud opening act and 45 minutes of empty stage. Just after 10, Gershon and her backup band, the established (and all male) indie trio Girls Against Boys, unveiled their power-chord punk pop, some of it written by Lovedog for the film and some penned by Gershon with collaborators like Linda Perry and former Guns 'n' Roses drummer Matt Sorum.
Gershon vamped but never pandered, doffing her velvet jacket with a rock 'n' roll cry of "It's f-- hot in here" to reveal a sleeveless black shirt and low-slung leather pants. Her rhythm guitar work was proficient, and her voice and manner suggested Patti Smith, if Patti Smith wore couture onstage and had the skin tone of a 19-year-old. Gershon's abundant charisma and actress' nuanced delivery put the crowd in a polite frenzy -- a few ladies looked dazed by proximity.
"If there weren't the barriers there, I think they might have rushed the stage," Gershon said after the show, delighted. "Did you see the girl with the tape on her tits?"
The second stop in her nine-city tour to promote "Prey" was looser than her first, at L.A.'s House of Blues, she said. "I'm getting a little bit more free, " she said. "I'm more familiar with the songs from the movie because I've been playing them longer. With my own stuff, I feel more vulnerable."
In "Prey for Rock & Roll," Gershon's character is pushing 40 and questioning a life of small clubs and record deals that never materialize. All of which heightens the curiosity, and the bravery, of Gershon embarking on a rock tour and perhaps chasing a solo record deal (the "Prey" soundtrack is already out) in middle age.
But the actress, whose brief time on the Hollywood A-list morphed into a busy indie movie career, says she's not out to reinvent herself.
"I'm an actor, but (the producers) asked me to go on tour to promote the movie," she said. "How do you say no? Anyone would jump at the chance."
The recent deaths of a good friend and an uncle taught her to go out on a limb, she says.
"I really re-evaluated my life to where it became, 'Why not?' " Gershon said. "You don't know how long you've got on this planet, and at this moment I want to do exactly what I feel like doing."
That includes dabbling in several instruments on stage. Her performance Sunday night included keyboards, mini-maracas and an extended solo on the Jew's harp. She started playing the harp before guitar, and even played it in the Wachowski brothers' "Bound."
"Those guys let me play, like, one note" in the movie, she said with a laugh. "Someday, I'm going to do a movie where I do nothing but play the Jew's harp."
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www.sfgate.com/columnists/lisick/
Only in San Francisco would someone call in a bomb threat to a rock show featuring actress Gina Gershon. I walked up to the Great American Music Hall Sunday night to find some officers on the scene, though one was a girl with hair extensions in a micro-mini cop uniform, wearing a name tag that read "Officer Naughty" (Folsom Street Fair, same day). According to the box office manager, everything had been checked out and they were proceeding with the show, but I'm not sure that's why the venue was only about half full.
On tour to promote the theatrical release of her film "Prey for Rock and Roll", based on the life of L.A. rocker/tattoo artist Cheri Lovedog, which debuted a few months ago at the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Gershon looked every inch the Hollywood interpretation of Hot Rocker Chick as she took the mike with the guitar slung low around her hips, wearing the requisite tight black leather pants and a belly chain, with a long scarf tied tightly around her neck. (I couldn't help but imagine some sort of sartorial pre-show checklist.)
With members of New York's Girls Against Boys providing backup, Gershon held forth on a set that included original songs from the film soundtrack, some written by Lovedog and at least one co-written by Gershon and Linda Perry.
Thank God they threw in some covers, because when Gershon launched into Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" with the intro, "This song is by the great poet laureate Oswald Osbourne," it was about the only time an ounce of humor made it onto the stage. Other than that, the show was a lot of overserious rock posturing that, according to Gershon, she was schooled in by Joan Jett and others before shooting the film.
Doing a tour seems like a fun way to promote a movie about rock and roll, but this felt pretty far off from an actual rock show. I laughed so hard when Gershon tossed off her black velvet jacket and a lackey went scrambling up onstage to catch it before it touched the ground. Also, the smell of multiple hair products cooking under the stage lights pervaded the club, making me constantly aware that a professional stylist was lurking somewhere.
My two favorite parts of the night were watching the solo mom character dozing off in the balcony with a water bottle tethered to her wrist via a plastic shopping bag, and opening band Young Trade, which delivered the shambolic rock straight up with a solid foothold in reality.
by maudmac » Wed Oct 01, 2003 8:29 pm
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Other than that, the show was a lot of overserious rock posturing that, according to Gershon, she was schooled in by Joan Jett and others before shooting the film.
I have often been adrift, but I have always stayed afloat. -- David Berry, The Whales of August
by Gatito Grande » Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:33 pm
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"Do you think it will be sold out?" Gershon asked her interviewer. "I wonder if it's going to be all women -- I have a big lesbian following."
That's like saying Jackie Mason has a Jewish following.
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Her rhythm guitar work was proficient, and her voice and manner suggested Patti Smith, if Patti Smith wore couture onstage and had the skin tone of a 19-year-old. Gershon's abundant charisma and actress' nuanced delivery put the crowd in a polite frenzy -- a few ladies looked dazed by proximity.
"If there weren't the barriers there, I think they might have rushed the stage," Gershon said after the show, delighted. "Did you see the girl with the tape on her tits?"
) is 41? Dang! All the hottest females are.
Outby cattwoman98111 » Sun Mar 07, 2004 4:02 pm
Your smile got stuck in my eyes and your mouth makes me forget what i'm saying and your lips make me wonder if your taken, so tell me, are you taken?
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"Hard work often pays off after time but laziness always pays off now!"
by maudmac » Sat Apr 10, 2004 3:01 am
Also, hot as hell. sighQuote:
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Have you ever dreamed about leaving the daily grind behind and being a rock star?
Who hasn't??
Gina Gershon decided to stop dreaming and start screaming...into a microphone, that is. And IFC followed her every step of the way to create our new documentary series, Rocked with Gina Gershon.
This documentary series follows the actress on a multi-city tour across the US with her band. Along the way, Gina encounters the highs and lows of touring: a crazed fan calls in a bomb scare at one of the venues, the House of Blues has to shut down temporarily for crowd control and she jams with Lenny Kravitz til 3am at her NYC show at Joe's Pub.
It's a riveting glimpse in to a world most of us only dream about, and a tribute to taking a leap of faith.
dreams of the drifters die hard, y'all / bodies dance through the dark to submission
fast feet and saturday night leave you nowhere to stand / but nobody here is leaving
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