GIRLSCHOOL-ABROAD!
Things were hectic in Girlschool's dressing room. In an hour or so they'd be opening a show for Deep Purple—a spot previously occupied by Giuffria. But Giuffria had left the tour two weeks earlier, mostly because Ritchie Blackmore had been generously rewriting their set list, in the same sense that Hitler’s Luftwaffe generously plowed the fields of Poland.
GIRLSCHOOL-ABROAD!
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J. Kordosh
Things were hectic in Girlschool's dressing room. In an hour or so they'd be opening a show for Deep Purple—a spot previously occupied by Giuffria. But Giuffria had left the tour two weeks earlier, mostly because Ritchie Blackmore had been generously rewriting their set list, in the same sense that Hitler’s Luftwaffe generously plowed the fields of Poland. That Ritchie’s quite a guy...as Gil Weston of Girlschool told me, “Anything we want, we get.” It kind of makes you wonder what they’d get if they asked for a guest guitar solo by Giuffria’s Craig Goldy.
But, like I said, things were hectic. Jackie Bodimead—the lead singer and one of the new members of Girlschool—was fighting a throat infection. Tim Warhurst, the road manager, was also sick. Come to think of it, I wasn’t feeling that great myself. Kim McAuliffe was reading Pet Sematary and was only on page 64.
So there they were, trying to get ready for the show, trying to talk to me and trying to get over being sick. And it’s not that easy to get over being sick after talking to me. But I digress.