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Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story
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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.
Minneapolis in the eighties was a musical hotbed, the land of 10,000 lakes and 10,000 bands that gave birth to Prince, the Replacements, and Soul Asylum. For Laurie Lindeen it was the perfect place to launch her rock-and-roll dream. 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. But unbeknownst to her friends, Laurie has a secret in her past -- a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis that fuels her passion to make it big on the local, national, and international rock scene.
With inspiring determination, Laurie and her Zuzu's Petals survive the many challenges of being underdogs in a man's world. 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.
Minneapolis in the eighties was a musical hotbed, the land of 10,000 lakes and 10,000 bands that gave birth to Prince, the Replacements, and Soul Asylum. For Laurie Lindeen it was the perfect place to launch her rock-and-roll dream. 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. But unbeknownst to her friends, Laurie has a secret in her past -- a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis that fuels her passion to make it big on the local, national, and international rock scene.
With inspiring determination, Laurie and her Zuzu's Petals survive the many challenges of being underdogs in a man's world. 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.
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Laurie Lindeen
Laurie Lindeen holds an MFA in creative writing. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone's anthology Altarockorama and the online magazine The Morning News. She lives with her husband, Paul Westerberg, and their son in Minnesota. Visit her online at www.laurielindeen.com.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Author, songwriter, founder of Zuzu's Petals, Laurie Lindeen, does NOT lead a charmed life. Yes, she's married to Paul Westerberg of The Replacements. Although she's got MS, Lindeen decided pretty early on that she wanted to be in a rock and roll band - an all-women band. Laurie taught herself and nagged others to show her the bare minimum needed to play guitar without being able to read music. She recruited two talented bandmates, a "pretty one", a childhood friend, and a "funny one", a waitress-slash-drummer. Their male musician friends from Minneapolis were The Replacements, Soul Asylum, and other notable pre-grunge era bands. A highly praised first album brought them a British tour, moderate fame, and a bunch of leaches and cling-ons in the form of miserable managers and thieving tour promoters. Unlike their first album, which grew organically from years of songwriting, a record contract brought them misery because there were no new songs in the pipeline. Band harmony was also not in play for their sophomore effort, and the endless touring made Zuzu's Petals prefer the hotel room to the stage. Lindeen's an entertaining writer who doesn't hold back on the personal details, and it must have been painful for her to admit that perhaps some bands are just meant to be flashes in the pan.Quotes: "My definition of punk is about going on stage as you, full of rage, heartbreak, and laughs.""Each member of the band attracts a different demographic. I get the quiet introverts, pseudo-intellectuals, and the undiagnosed, untreated mentally ill."
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Choppy and sometimes incoherent, Laurie Lindeen recounts her story of the turbulent beginnings of her Minneapolis all girl rock and roll band, Zuzu's Petals. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is the anthem screamed by Lindeen's book, regardless of Lindeen's own lack of confidence and obligatory 1980's angst.. There is no doubt, You, the reader, are along on this journey--the good, the bad, the frequently ugly and incomprehensible. Sometimes juvenile, always brutally honest, the story evolves and grows up, finally, leaving the reader with a sense of relief that Lindeen, finally, is at peace with her past and ready to face the future with her head held up high.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved this book! Couldn't put it down - fascinating tale of life on the road, life in an all-girl alt rock band. Also details the mid 80s Minneapolis music scene.