All Entries in the "Diaries" Category
Subj: Bio-Degrading-part 2 Date: 94-07-18 18:49:07 EDT From: L7s
(Bio-Degrading part 2)
The L7 story began when Donita Sparks, a Chicago suburbs transplant met former Sacramento resident Suzi Gardner in Los Angeles in 1985. Both had played in various, local bands and the instant chemistry between the two had convinced them to form a new group. Jennifer Finch, who had been playing and living in [...]
Subj: Donuts for All My Friends #25 Date: 94-08-12 01:31:46 EDT From: L7s
We love Philly. We first came here in 1988. We were on a national tour supporting Bad Religion and although those guys are the coolest, the tour was an ass dragger. We would be lucky if 50 people showed up to any given show, promoters would attempt to rip us off and just the general [...]
Lollapalooza Diaries- Words- Jon Stewart Show Date
Hey Ya’ll, I just wanted to remind everyone that we will be on the Jon Stewart show on Tue. Oct.4th. I am in NYC right now (we flew in from Mpls. this morning) and boy am I excited, I dig this town big time! BTW, for all the NYC locals in the house, if you [...]
Lollapalooza Diaries: Subj: Introduce the Band”SUe meet DEe” Date: 94-07-13 14:43:46 EDT From: L7s
Let Me Introduce the Band..”SUzi meet DEe…”#3 (non-dated material)#3 This injection is designed to give you an idea about who we are, the names, the sights, the smells, the sounds, if you will… Suzi Gardner (L7 guitarist and vocalist), Dave Ratt (soundperson), Joe Double-O’Neil (SnowRangler, HinkleyTech and stageminder), Donita Sparks (L7 vocalist and guitarist), John [...]
Lollapalooza Diaries: Subj: Pre-show FLAKING Date: 94-07-11 04:51:59 EDT From: L7s
STINKY LOG STARDATE July 4th – 6th We said goodbye to our friends, dads, lovers and dogs on, Monday July 4th and headed east on the 10 freeway. The first show and the pre-show rehearsals are in Las Vegas and you know what that means!! Ka-ching! Ka-ching! One armed bandits til’ the sun comes up! [...]
Lollapalooza Diaries:Subj: Stinky Log Date: 94-07-09 00:21:48 EDT From: L7s
Subj: Stinky Log Date: 94-07-09 00:21:48 EDT From: L7s
Hey, So here I am in Denver with an evening off with every good intention of writting out a tour diary ( a “log” if you will) but wouldn’t you know it, Star Trek is on, oh well, I’ll try again after tomarro’s shows. finch-
Intro to the Lollapalooza Tour Diary- Words
Sometime in the 90’s I was aksed by AOL to be a tour correspondent for Lollapalooza, a big-ass out-door concert event that toured the US. I am pretty sure no one used the word “blog” back then, but that was basically the low down. I have a bunch of official enteries that I copied from [...]
Introducing Jennifer Finch’s Lollapalooza Diaries.
In 1993 when I was playing with L7, I kept a diary of our Lollapalooza tour. Pictures of people and year book style notes written to me fill the pages along with photos of our adventures, people on the tour and other generally weird shit.. Think Nick Cave drinking Slimfast. Or the alienation in the [...]