We Got the Neutron Bomb by Marc Spitz

Author:Marc Spitz [Spitz, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-56624-9
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2001-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

DAVID ALLEN: Margot Olaverra, who took over John and Exene’s room at our house on South Van Ness, had designs on learning bass and had already started an all-girl punk band, and so Kittra’s days as the Go-Go’s discoverer/manager began. The early publicity material, logo, et cetera, was all Kittra. She was involved with Herb Cohen’s brother Martin, who got the Go’s all connected.

MARGOT OLAVERRA: I’d just gotten back from a trip to London where I saw the Sex Pistols. I was a new punk rocker, still a little self-conscious about being around these wild catwomen of London, but I always wanted to play in a band. I thought starting a girl band would be less intimidating because being a nonmusician was okay in punk and that was what was so beautifully democratic about it, but that’s what made me think in those terms. It wasn’t the commercial value of having an all-girl band. I met Elissa Bello through a friend from high school. She played the drums, so I said, “Oh, great.”

ELISSA BELLO: I came out to Los Angeles from Buffalo on my own. I wanted to put an all-girl rock band together. I initially wanted something more rebellious. More political… not English political. I couldn’t understand the obsession with everything that was English. I had a cousin out here who was about my age and we went to a party one night and she introduced me to Margot. Margot and I talked about it and we got together and started writing songs in her house.

MARGOT OLAVERRA: I was also attending Valley College, where Gerard Taylor, a classmate and friend, told me, “My friend Jane wants to start a band. Why don’t you meet her?” So I talked on the phone with Jane Wiedlin, who was calling herself Jane Drano at the time, and we decided to meet.

HAL NEGRO: I had a little crush on Jane. She lived right near me in the Valley, so I’d see her waiting for the bus back from Hollywood. She called herself Jane Drano. I asked for her number and she wrote it down on the back of the first Generation X single, which I’d just shoplifted.

EXENE CERVENKA: Billy Zoom would always give Jane guitar lessons and she was just the cutest, most sweetest person.

KITTRA ALLEN: I found out that Jane was fucking Billy Zoom and it really pissed me off. Billy had used her. Jane came to the Go-Go’s rehearsal one day and said, “I went over to Billy and Pandora’s and took groceries. It’s so sad. They didn’t have any food in the house.” To which I responded, “You are kidding! What makes them any better than you that you go to work every day to pay for your groceries but Billy Zoom is too good to get a job. The only reason they don’t have any groceries is because they spent their money on drugs. That is their problem, not yours.” I’m sure Jane thought I was a cold-hearted bitch and saw herself as a wet-pussied compassionate.

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