Why did you decide to move to Valley Center?
(by the way Valley Center is a small town in Northern
San Diego that probably has more
horses than it does people)
Peace and quiet. I have horses and I got a really bitchin' house. It was kinda on a whim.
I just saw a picture of the house and I fell in
love with it.
Does frosted have an album out?
We have a Vinyl single out with two songs.
One song is called "Bed" and the other one is "Call
Me Crazy"
Did you form the band yourself-
or did all the members come together on their own?
Well, every one who originally joined either got
fired or quit. I got the three guys you saw-
the latest lineup.
After being in an all girl band,
did you make a conscious decision to play with all
guys?
No, it just kinda happened that way.
I wanted to have some girls. But the ones I came
across didn't work out. I don't really see a big difference between girls and guys.
How did you meet the guys in your band?
John Lowry is the guitar player and I knew
him because my husband used to manage a
band he was in a few years ago and he was
always in like heavy metal bands so I didn't
really think he was going to be good for the band
-but he really wanted to do it and we got
together and everything was fine.
John was the first one and then I figured out I need to
replace the other
guys and he knew Lance and Shawn from L.A.
Everyone is in L.A. but ME!
Do you have a favorite band in San Diego?
I know absolutely nothing about the music scene in
San Diego, in fact, I had never been to
any of the places we've played.
Actually that's not true,
I've been to the Casbah once and
I've been to the Belly Up once-
but the other places we've played I never even heard of ..
And don't even know any of the bands down
here because Valley Center is like an hour
from San Diego, and we never ever went to Sand Diego,
which is kind a shame because in
the last few month I figured out there was kinda
scene happening and I just didn't know
about it.
I had read that your are married and have children,
did that ever change your attitude
towards the music industry?
Well, I don't really have children and
yeah I'm married but being married doesn't change
your attitude. I guess if you had kids it might be different.
So you Don't Have kids?
No, I just have animals
What do you think are the biggest misconceptions
that people have about you from the
time you were in the GoGo's?
People always think I'm taller than I really am.
And they sometimes expect me to be
some kind of cartoon because I have a funny voice and
I'm always jumping around and
smiling everything. Obviously there's a little
bit more to me than that. I mean I'm not all
like Kurt Cobain or anything- all depressed. But I do have more to me than just smiley
Betty Boop.
How accurate was the media in reporting stuff about
the GoGo's and what was the least
accurate thing reported about you or the band?
Well, for a long time the media was all into the
cute bubbly GoGo's and then they found
out we were all a bunch of drug crazed maniacs.
So then it was all "ohhh the dark side" of
the GoGo's and obviously neither of them was totally true. It was a little bit of both so it
seemed like it went from one extreme to another.
They really exaggerate everything. I
can't really think of anything specific, like really
inaccurate things that were said. I can't
really complain about the GoGo's treatment by the
media because they always pretty much
loved us. But as soon as I
quit the band they hated me.
That's what I was kinda asking, they made it
seem like all of a sudden you just got up and
quit and that you were some evil bitch for causing the
breakup of the GoGo's, not that you
just were looking for a change or whatever.
That was the feeling that I got. People were all
offended I quit. It was hard for me.
Everyone loved the GoGo's and when I left it was like I
had no talent...blah..blah..blah...It
was kinda brutal. After having it for the last ten years
it was probably good it happened -
otherwise you start believing your own press.
I kinda figure we weren't Gods gift to the
world and also I'm not the worst thing on Earth.
I'm somewhere in between that, like I
keep saying. I don't think you should take
your press very seriously whether it's good or
bad, it's just someone else's opinion.
Are you still involved the people for the ethical
treatment of animals?
Well, I'm still a member and everything and still do
stuff once and a while, but not quite as
much as I used to. One of the things I've
found in my solo career is like everyone thought
I was Saint Jane of the animal rights movement
and it got to be kinda a fucking bore,
because I'm just a regular person trying to help
out things a little bit and it got turned into
this big thing where it was all everyone...
every time I went to an interview, people were
all "are your
wearing leather shoes?" It was like give me a break -
decided to back off a little bit
because it's not really what I want to be known for -
it was just my personal opinion that
people could be a little bit nicer.
Have you heard the Montgomery Ward commercial?
Ummm...no, but I've sure heard a lot about it.
I think I heard it first on the computer, all
the fans were going the GoGo's sold out or whatever.
I obviously didn't know anything
about it. It was kinda before the band got
back together again - and you know it was
Charlotte's song and her decision, I just wish
I got some of the money! -but what can you
do?
Is there anything that really embarrasses you that
you're willing to admit now?
God- um...I don't know, there's a lot of stuff.
I'm trying to think of a good example. When
I was a kid, I thought Bob Dylan was pronounced
Bob Die-lan.
Are there any juicy secrets you wish to divulge
or any dirty laundry you would like to
air?
Oh, Cool! I got to have sex with some rock
stars when I was famous.
Who!?!? Anyone good???
A couple a cuties, nobody I'd want to have sex with again. I won't name names today.
Maybe the next time we speak.
O.K. last question.
Nobody knows that Jane Wiedlin...?
I don't know that's too hard of a question.
Let's talk about you. So how long have you
been
doing your zine?
About a year now
How do you get it out to people?
Word of mouth, reviews, Factsheet Five and stuff.
Really, when the GoGo's started it
was kind when fanzines got started. At that time, you
knew every fanzine. There was a handful...
and now it's so big.
(Batteries in the tape recorder begin to fail)
It's so funny that punk came back...
(Batteries failing)
I always go that's not punk. Punk was '77, '78...
(Batteries fail)
Still No Word On Who The Rockstars are? Is it That Juicy?
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