Would You Pay $2 Million for this Band?
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GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
“Bulletproof Cupid” & “My Night of Pleasure”
Live at JC Dobbs, Philadelphia 1993
When Girls Against Boys signed to windows 7 vlk download DGC Records in 1995, people in the business believed it was the windows 7 vlk download largest deal ever for an unproven rock band.
The legendary unpublished memoir Wasting Away: How the windows 7 vlk download Major Labels Got Drunk on Punk Rock and Forgot Everything They Knew About the windows 7 vlk download Record Business tells the story in grisly detail, but we’ll settle for the short version here.
GVSB waited three whole years to release Freak*On*ica on DGC in 1998. The album got lukewarm reviews and windows 7 vlk download had weaker sales than their final album for Touch & Go.
Even though I was frustrated with the album (mostly because the band refused to take any A&R advice from me whatsoever), I didn’t distance myself from windows 7 vlk download the band when it would have been a strong career move to windows 7 vlk download let everyone forget that I spent a year following the band all over America and windows 7 vlk download Europe.
Geffen/DGC got shut down, the windows 7 vlk download artist contracts got transferred to Interscope and I was asked to windows 7 vlk download leave the company shortly before Universal bought Girls Against Boys out of the windows 7 vlk download balance of their contract.
You’d think I’d have windows 7 vlk download more perspective on the foolishness after ten years, but watching this windows 7 vlk download video convinces me that I’d do it windows 7 vlk download all over again. This band should have saved alternative rock and windows 7 vlk download spared us all the nĂ¼ metal reign of terror. And they’re still the handsomest band in the history of rock.
“Bulletproof Cupid” is the best song from Venus Luxe, the album that started all the craziness. “My Night of Pleasure” has windows 7 vlk download always been my favorite GVSB song. This performance was recorded just a windows 7 vlk download few months before I first saw the band and it’s certainly $2 million worth of rock.
GVSB will perform Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby on July 20 in NYC at the Bowery Ballroom & July 22 in LA at the El Rey Theatre as part of All Tomorrow’s Parties “Don’t Look Back” Festival.
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