Rock And Roll Hall of Famer Gina Schock of The Go-Go’s tells Nestor the girls are head over heels about putting the band back on stage in 2025 as she prepares in Dundalk for a spring at Coachella and Cruel World Festivals that’ll show they’ve still got the beat. Our lips are no longer sealed about the West Coast reunion of the five ladies who paved the way in the early 1980s.
Gina Schock, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and drummer for The Go-Go’s, discussed her preparations for upcoming shows, including performances at Coachella and the Cruel World Festival. She highlighted her recent induction into the California Hall of Fame, which she found significant. Gina shared her health challenges, such as TMJ and arthritis, and her dedication to rehearsing for the upcoming gigs. She also mentioned her involvement in charity work and her love for her service dog, Penny. Gina reflected on the band’s 50-year history and the special bond among its members, emphasizing the joy of performing together.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Go-Go’s reunion, Hall of Fame, Coachella shows, California Hall, TMJ issues, rehearsal preparation, service dog, Baltimore home, rock star life, band dynamics, upcoming concerts, health challenges, charity work, family legacy, tour plans
SPEAKERS
Gina Schock, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. I’ve lost control of the programming. Here we are. We’re at Costas in. We are in Dundalk. We are with royalty, rock and roll, Hall of Famer Gina shock, my friend, is here of the go, go’s. You’re so short I feel like I need to sit back here. You got your dog? Oh, you got you take that up. I wear mine too. Bothering in here. It gets on. Yeah,
Gina Schock 00:26
actually, this is for my TMJ, it’s a whole nother thing
Nestor Aparicio 00:29
as a drummer, is that like a like, you know, do you? I
Gina Schock 00:33
don’t you don’t know what you do, drag, though. What is the TMJ, MJ, and sleep apnea.
Nestor Aparicio 00:39
Keep show up. Well, you look beautiful. You look great. What’s going on with you? Well, you’re going back on the road, are you?
Gina Schock 00:46
Well, get myself together, you know what I mean? Like not not eating a lot, just eating the right things and doing the right stuff and getting myself together. Start playing drums, trying to play drums every week, playing, playing, playing, to get myself worked up for doing, you know, an hour and a half and
Nestor Aparicio 01:05
just, it’s a marathon being a rock star at this point. Well, at my age, why the hell would you are I’ve Googled you. I’m not gonna give you away here. Oh, I don’t care,
Gina Schock 01:14
man, I look, I look good for my age. I don’t feel bad about that.
Nestor Aparicio 01:18
She’s got a lot of energy. You bring energy to me. Your home, ham for the holidays. You got Penny, your beautiful dog. So give me an update on the go, Go’s thing because and I’ll tell you a funny little story. I’m gonna begin with this, and I’m not never gonna let you listen to it. Go ahead, I have been over the last four weeks, going through my music classic. So I had all of these interviews with rock stars back in the 80s. You did the documentary. Maybe you’ve watched it. If you did, you’ll see yes. So anybody wants to watch a documentary, my backup, but I never knew Gina until three years ago. John Allen and I didn’t know Gina till three years ago, but we had friends who knew Gina. There’s a whole thing we did here at Costas two years ago. And you can go watch all of that with beyond words and with George good deal is and well, eating the eggs, eating the eggs and and the other band. Your band was called shock, no no, the band with George back in Oh,
Gina Schock 02:08
scratch and sniff, scratching.
Nestor Aparicio 02:15
So Gina and I got to know each other a little bit. And so I’ve gone back. I have all these interviews with Hall of Famers, of which you’re one now, but you weren’t 12 years ago, right? So 12 years ago, when Jen got sick, they’re all in these little mini tapes, and they’re like little Radio Shack, and they’re all were off of my my recorder. I lived on Kane Street, right around the corner where you were on Kane Street. And if you had called me at that point in your life and said, I want to talk to the Baltimore Sun guy at home. You would have been my interview. You would have called, or your publicist would have said, I’m giving the phone to Gina. And you would have been in a hotel room in Cleveland, and I would have said, Hey, you’re coming home. Well, we’re out on the road. We’re promoting a new album or whatever, right? Right? 15 minutes of that, right? Not radio, not stick, not Hi, Miss shock. Nice to meet you. My name. I found the Belinda Carla, oh, Belinda called me in 19 maybe 91 she was solo. And oh, she’s she was so record. It was solo. She was doing, Mad About You, maybe, and like in that she was open for somebody that was a bigger story. She was open Merriweather. She
Gina Schock 03:19
was open for Robert Palmer bingo. Thank you. I interviewed
Nestor Aparicio 03:24
her on that piece. She was very brief. She wasn’t a very good mood that day. Well, yeah, it was doing the road. It’s rock and
Gina Schock 03:31
roll. She does not like I was gonna say it had to be for silver because it was for the Go, go, to be hard to get her. Okay, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, she does not like interviews. Well, you do with me. I don’t mind doing interviews. Give me the load. What I was gonna say
Nestor Aparicio 03:47
is I found all these old interviews, and some are better than others, and some are really brilliantly beautiful. And a lot of I found the one that David Bowie and he talked about spirituality his life, it’s all up in Baltimore positive. All you do is put David Bowie and a Baltimore positive. It’ll pop up. You can listen all 30 minutes, but it’s not like talking to me. Now, on the radio, I was, you know, I was, was on the phone. It was a phone interview. I’m trying to act
Gina Schock 04:10
those are weird. I kind of, like, disconnected. Never really. But
Nestor Aparicio 04:14
when I was 17 years old, I was like, this shot. I’d like to, you know, try. I was trying to sound like an old guy, you know. But for you with the band, all these years later, I’ve known you a couple years, but I have never known you in the band where I’ve seen you and known you once. I’ve seen your band 10 times over the years, all over the place, but I never knew you, right? I’ve only interact with Belinda for six minutes on the phone one time, right? But for you with the band at this point, the last three years, I didn’t really think you were going to put the band back together. You know, when I got together with you, it felt like we’re all getting older, moving away. We all had our warts and our rough spots in life and whatever. But there’s money, and then there’s this hall of fame thing that happened to you that can really you can make a lot of money, you can have a lot of fun. And you can really create more of a legacy for the band by going out working, right?
Gina Schock 05:03
Well, look, you know, if it was up to me, we’d be working every year, okay, but one person in five, and you know, you’d like to play, I like to play. I like to play. But finally, you know, I mean, it’s sort of been mounting up to ramping up to where, you know, the Hall of Fame. And we got inducted earlier this year into the to the California Hall of Fame, which is actually, I was a beautiful night. I didn’t even know that existed, but that is, like, really cool. Was it Sacramento? Yeah, because, like, I walked into the to the area where they have all the people that have been inducted, and the first person that I saw was Jonas Salk, and I was like, whoa. This is the real shit. This is the real deal, right? Oh, my God, the guy that created the polio vaccine, we’re in with the likes of someone like that. I mean, these clowns
Nestor Aparicio 05:53
are trying to get rid of but that’s a political thing. That’s whatever that bullshit, yeah, but, but, but, yeah, that
Gina Schock 05:57
really, that kind of blew my mind, because I didn’t realize the gravity of that. Like, Rock Hall of Fame is really important. Really important in music. But this is, like, a life thing, you know what? I mean, like, we were there with the guy that invented the internet. I mean, it was just crazy stuff. So, so there’s that, there was, and we did, you know, our documentary, and we’ve been been talking a lot more. We’ve been being
Nestor Aparicio 06:19
that the Hall of Fame bring you together in some way. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gina Schock 06:23
And we started talking more, because everybody look. Kathy lives in London or right outside London. Belinda lives in Mexico. I live in San Francisco. Jane lives in Hawaii, and Charlotte lives in
Nestor Aparicio 06:32
LA it’s that’s not a band anymore. That supplies old friends. It’s tough to get
Gina Schock 06:36
us all in one room, you know? So, um, actually, an offer was made for Coachella, which we didn’t think they would give a shit about us at Coachella, but you’re cool. An offer was made to play both weekends at Coachella and then to do the cruel world festival in LA so wanted to go to the Rose Bowl, right? Yeah, yeah. So we’re like, Well, this is something that, actually, I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s good money, but, like, it’s, these are kind of kind of important gigs, yeah, you know what? I mean, like, in the scheme of things, in the big picture, they’re good, well, in
Nestor Aparicio 07:15
your era of the US festival, Live Aid, those kinds of things, did you have you would have been a band that could have played any of, I mean, invited at that point in the mid age to play those big things you didn’t know, right?
Gina Schock 07:27
Well, we broke up in 85 you broke up in 85 together in 90 so bad
Nestor Aparicio 07:30
times during Live Aid. That was a It happened to 85 Uh huh,
Gina Schock 07:34
because I remember being there with my friend Tom Morris. Tom and I were backstage hanging out in Philly or London? No, there was a US festival in LA
Nestor Aparicio 07:43
Oh, the US festival live a year, the Van Halen one with Triumph and all those fans.
Gina Schock 07:51
Yeah, the pretenders were playing. I was there. So, God,
Nestor Aparicio 07:54
I love her. Chrissy, yeah, I
Gina Schock 07:57
have we played with them, but she wasn’t the friendliest. Put it that, oh, I can imagine, but that’s cool, man. She’s a legend. I love her. I think you know which her legacy or her music is.
Nestor Aparicio 08:11
When I call you a legend, what does that mean to you? I don’t
Gina Schock 08:13
know. I don’t really know, but once you go
Nestor Aparicio 08:16
into rock and Hall of Fame, it’s a whole different gig here, and that’s why you’re making more money into people putting together? Are you touring or just doing a couple of just doing six or seven shows? Oh, I didn’t fill me in, because I don’t. First time I talked to you, she walked through the door here five minutes ago. We haven’t caught up. We’re doing
Gina Schock 08:35
the two weekends at Coachella and then cruel world, and then we’re doing a gig in Vegas. We’re doing one in San Francisco. We’re doing one in LA
Nestor Aparicio 08:45
and where else? Well, I want to come to one with none of them around here at all. No east
Gina Schock 08:49
coast. No, they’re all West Coast. All west coast the first so there’s not going to be a tour of that. No, there’s no tour set up. But these are, these are good ways to start something if it’s going to happen. You know what? I mean, yeah. I mean, let’s just see how it goes. That’s where we all are. I mean, truly, we all are just living our lives. I
Nestor Aparicio 09:06
had no idea like that. This was the because I was looking on the internet a little bit for that thing, and I saw things. I’m like, Well, I mean, they’re all getting in shape, they’re all rehearsing, they’re putting this together. Yeah, maybe there is going to be a 28 show August, you know? I mean, maybe it’s going to be you and Thomas Dolby and eight other bands. I don’t know what
Gina Schock 09:26
it’s going to be, but I can’t really talk about anything right now, but I can tell you that there are offers on the table. Okay, that’s all I’m going to say at this point, because I can’t speak for everybody. What
Nestor Aparicio 09:38
leads you to believe that, you know, when you hit the stage at Coachella, it’s going to still be great, because
Gina Schock 09:43
when we get on stage together, it’s fucking Oh, it’s magic, fine. It’s magic. It’s like nothing else. It’s like you can you can play with whomever you want, but when the five of us are on stage playing, there’s no feeling like that. I mean, the
Nestor Aparicio 09:59
time. Was it the Hall of Fame? Have you played a gig? No, I
Gina Schock 10:03
played the Hall of Fame, and then I played in January, February, when we did California Hall of Fame.
Nestor Aparicio 10:09
Oh, you played that night? Yeah, we played, okay, I saw that we did, like,
Gina Schock 10:16
five, four or five songs, I think, like,
Nestor Aparicio 10:18
how much do you have to rehearse in order to get together and do that,
Gina Schock 10:21
well, I need to rehearse now, because I haven’t played, because I had neck surgery and then I had thumb surgery, just bad timing for the show. For me, we talked about that last year. So I’m just trying to get everything together. I got, you know, got arthritis. Talk to my friends at
Nestor Aparicio 10:37
curio wellness. We did a whole if you want to see something awesome, Google. Gina and I with Michael Brown fine and Wendy brown fine from Curie, because we were just talking about, like, the rigors of and John Allen talks to me about this all the time with plantar fasciitis. And he’s a drummer, man. You get to be a little older at 56 I can’t they were talking about duck pin bowling over there, Mr. Stadium was here. You want to go duck. And I’m like, on my back. I don’t think that that like that
Gina Schock 11:05
I can’t bowl at all. It makes
Nestor Aparicio 11:09
me sound old as hell that I can’t bowl. You know what I mean. And for you to be a lifelong Hall of Fame drummer said, has it sort of taken away from you a little bit?
Gina Schock 11:17
Start playing drums when you’re 13 and tell me how you feel in your 60s. You know what? I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 11:21
how often have you played when you’re not playing? Never, never. You put it down. You only pick it up to work. Kind of story, but get ready to work. That’s
Gina Schock 11:31
what it’s been really. I mean, since I’ve been living in San Francisco, it has been because I don’t have a studio there. I had a studio at my house in LA Okay, San Francisco, I live in, you know, a Victorian home, and, you know, a regular place, yeah, it’s, you know, it’s nice. It’s not a drum house, two floors, but you know, you know, houses are right next door to each other in San Francisco.
Nestor Aparicio 11:55
Are you a drum pad person? The quiet pad? No, no, no. Never did it that way. No.
Gina Schock 12:00
I just been living my life and doing, you know, and I wrote the book. I did my maiden Hollywood book. My daughter in law loves her book, and I and, you know, so I did that for a couple years. And then I’ve done, I’ve been doing comic cons for the last couple years and book tours for the last couple years. And so what I do now, really Nestor, is I spend half my time working, working, you know, music stuff, and the other half doing things for charities. Like I played for Maria Shrivers. Came up, did a couple songs for Alzheimer’s in the Sonia studios in LA Maria Shriver’s thing, sure her dad, her dad had Sergeant triad had Alzheimer’s, so I did that. My parents had that. So I’ll do that. I did something for the Heart Foundation, which I’m going to be doing every year. I had heart surgery. So those things are real to me, very real. So I will donate my time whenever I’m asking. It’s reasonable and I have the time to do it. I do it. Does it feel good to have some time at this point in your life? Yeah, man, I deserve it, right? I mean, I was gonna say, if you had a
Nestor Aparicio 13:03
45 show tour and you were doing three weeks in Europe at the you know, it would eat your year in life up. And as I think we get older, for all of your band mates, your professional partners, it’s a hell of a commitment for any of them to say, I want to leave Hawaii for six months. We’ve
Gina Schock 13:19
done it for the majority of our lives, you know? So you know, taking a break doesn’t bother me at all. But on the other hand, I want to get back together. I love to work, right? I tell you, when we get together, it’s like five kids in high school together. We’re we’re cut well, all we do is laugh and torture each other and play some good music. We have a good time when we’re together. I
Nestor Aparicio 13:43
love hearing that, because it wasn’t always that way, right? No, no, yeah, bad vibes for a lot like, literally, the band had bad vibes. That’s a nice thing that I’ve never talked to you about this project and all that. For the
Gina Schock 13:53
most part, it’s been really good. I would say, out of 100% maybe 20% was kind of messed up. But the rest over 50 years, that’s been, I gotta say, I mean, we’re still together.
Nestor Aparicio 14:05
Well, that my point is this, you’re all live, and you’re hard another and you’re well, and you’re gonna be able to go out and do this again. And I know, God forbid anything happens to any of you. What the next time you go and do it, it’ll never be the same again, right? So while you have it ever do it. I mean, look at Russian, look at these like but you are alive and you are well, and you’re gonna go do it again. And I can sense and when I talk to you, but I see this, you’re getting
Gina Schock 14:31
everybody still looks good. Everybody looks great, you know? I mean, that’s pretty cool too. Yeah, you know, everybody’s taking care of themselves. Well, that’s good. That’s not the case with a lot of folks, but I don’t know, man, my life has been this incredible ride that I feel so grateful and blessed to have had, and I’m still living that, you know, I can’t I can’t mess it up. I got to do the right thing, take care of yourself, take care of myself, and take care of people that I love, and try to do things that are important to me and. I appreciate you
Nestor Aparicio 15:01
help me with the documentary that was fun. Gotta be kidding. No way. Tell me about penny. You have beautiful little service dog. Here you brought. She’s She’s older too. She’s
Gina Schock 15:10
probably 17. I’d say she, yes, she, I got her. She’s a rescue. Hi, she’s a rescue. And I’ve had her for 13 years. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 15:22
she’s been with us a couple times, every time. And I don’t know, you bring her back and forth, East
Gina Schock 15:26
Coast, West Coast, everywhere, every, every single place I go. And she is the best dog. I swear to God. She is just an angel. Well, I look at her now you
Nestor Aparicio 15:36
back home for the holidays. Give everybody the lowdown on that, because they like, what is Gina shock doing it cost us in right now. And Dundalk, I’m here
Gina Schock 15:42
because you asked me, Nestor, I
Nestor Aparicio 15:45
appreciate that. That’s why. Well, but I mean, you’re home in Baltimore. Well,
Gina Schock 15:49
my parents are both going and that’s really hard for me. But you know, over the last three years, I have spent fixing our shore home up, you know, my dad built this house on the Chesapeake Bay, you know, and told me about it, I don’t know. Oh, my God, I’ll show you. Show you. He built this house with his own two hands, right? And you’re not selling it, and that’s that. No, God damn way, I’m not. I’m not selling that, and I’m not selling the house I grew up in on 45th Street either. Where
Nestor Aparicio 16:20
is the the Eastern Shore house? It’s,
Gina Schock 16:24
well, the the the addresses is Annapolis. Oh, it’s an okay. It’s okay. It’s like, yeah, it’s right. It’s not Ocean City right before you go over the Bay Bridge, okay? It’s right off of 51 Point Park, kind of exactly. Okay. I’m on the other side. Okay, right, okay. And it’s, you know, my parents bought that like, in 46 or 47 years. They got married in 45 they had to borrow the $1,000 off my, my father’s sister to buy that property. Right, in the 40s, this is 46 right? Wow, 1000 bucks. And so they bought it. They bought that property, and then my father worked on it for years and built this home, which he continued to make better. And it’s just beautiful. They go down their weekends. We went, we went there all summer, winter, all the time, on the weekends, always there, you know. And dad would have parties. They’d sit out on that big loan and drink gin and tonics. And in
Nestor Aparicio 17:19
the summer, I want to come down get some crabs and beer with you. Let me tell you I’m a shame. I didn’t know you. I mean, you’re telling me stuff here. Oh, you know, you would mention it to me. You know, when we had the other one day best,
Gina Schock 17:30
it’s the best. It’s the best. And I was just down there. Oh, my God. How about this? Do you think
Nestor Aparicio 17:35
in the end here, 10 years from now, you’re going to be here most of the time, instead of San Francisco most the time, because you got two homes here and
Gina Schock 17:41
well, three homes is enough to deal with, trust me, so three homes and three cars, that’s enough. But let me show you. So I think I might wind up spending more time here, because this is my home. And no matter where I go, can be the house that I live in, that I love, but this is my home, so let me show you something real quick, and you’re gonna see.
Nestor Aparicio 18:04
I can see where San Francisco would be fun for you, kidding. San Francisco
Gina Schock 18:08
is gorgeous. It is my that, and New York City are my absolute favorite places in the world. As you can see, I have no makeup on.
Nestor Aparicio 18:17
It still looks like royalty. Yeah, I don’t have any makeup on either I know, but you don’t need it. Trying to find me pictures is what you’re trying to find. Yeah, hold on
Gina Schock 18:25
guys. Because what I’m going to show you is a video of that someone just took of the short home because I had it. The had the lawn blown, all the leaves blown off. Oh, for Christ’s sakes, come on. Where is
Nestor Aparicio 18:34
she? No, that’s all right, no, I’m gonna get it right now, baby. Why she’s gonna she gonna work it out. She’s working it out. It’s gonna happen right here. All right, here we go. We’re gonna have videos. Come on, you mother, yeah, hey now, come on now. Oh, I’m sorry. She’s showing her done dog, I think that’s what she’s doing here. This is funny. I was picking out the wrong one. God, you know, I’m gonna say something to you while you’re doing this, because I always do that. You remind me of my mother in a really good way. This before, yeah? So when I’m with you, especially during the holidays in Dundalk, right? Because you sound like my mother, and you have these, oh, my God, you have her at all my you use your accent. Is my mother’s accent a mile away from where
Gina Schock 19:13
you grew up in your show this. Oh, you could do it here.
Nestor Aparicio 19:17
Show me here. Just bit play and this play. So I did, did? There we go? Well, I’m trying to get it to go in. There you go. So this is your shore house. Yep. Look at this your childhood. You get it all fixed up. That’s landscaping you need over there. Look how big the lawn is. Is this right out on the water? Yes, there’s some water right there. Do you have a boat? Yeah, oh, all right. Well, I want to go out on your boat. There you go. Gina shock is here. We’re at Costas. She is a legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame royalty with the Go Go’s band. She’s so proud of her. When you say Eastern Shore, it’s not on the East I didn’t
Gina Schock 19:52
say it was in the east shore house. I still call it the shore home. That’s what it is. It’s a shore home. But so on this side of the shore. Though this side, I didn’t say to Eastern Shore. All
Nestor Aparicio 20:03
right. So what happens between I want to educate our audience, the young, aging rock star, Hall of Famer, getting ready to play. What do you do as a drummer now? When’s Coachella? Coachella? Yeah.
Gina Schock 20:19
April, yeah. So we’ve been starts rehearsing March, April, March, and
Nestor Aparicio 20:27
you’ll do that in LA, yes, okay, well, you have to gather. You
Gina Schock 20:32
have to we’ll be in LA. Will be
Nestor Aparicio 20:33
rehearsing in LA. All right, I’m gonna come out watching rehearse. What do
Gina Schock 20:38
I do to get ready? Here’s what I do every day. Now. I’m doing these hand exercises for arthritis, you know, because I, you know, you can’t, there’s nothing you can do, and it hurts all the time. My doctor’s like, You got to lube it. You got to lube the joints, move them around. So I’m doing that, and I’m playing. And, you know, I do this shit all the time, and I do all this, everything I can to keep these
Nestor Aparicio 20:58
Do you have a jump stick in your hand any when’s less than me, touch a drumstick today.
Gina Schock 21:03
Yeah, yeah, eat. And then I’m gonna go home and I’m gonna play the set or try to get through it.
Nestor Aparicio 21:11
Wow, that would be neat for me to just watch that. You know, just watch a bang on
Gina Schock 21:15
them. Well, you can after, give me another week or so you want to be good at it. I just started, you know, and whoo,
Nestor Aparicio 21:22
I since I’ve known you and we, you know, we’ve had some drinks together at drug city. You celebrated my birthday with me last year. I was so pleased. I’ve watched the videos, and I watched the Hall of Fame video that night. And I know I’ve talked to you about, like, your energy, about me, think
Gina Schock 21:39
I’m like, high on blow or something like them, they floating like
Nestor Aparicio 21:44
you, like you, grab a stick, get ready. It’s like, did you have this rage about you because you, you’re so soft and feminine and pretty and smiley and like, you know, you got your done dog, rough edge and all that. But you look possessed when they get like, a different like a football plaster.
Gina Schock 22:00
You know, I did not remember playing. The adrenaline was so hot. I was I felt otherworldly
Nestor Aparicio 22:07
a couple 100,000 people, right? Like I played
Gina Schock 22:10
in front of that. I’ve played in front of that many people before. That’s not what it is. It actually, when it’s like that, it’s better, because they look like little ants. So it’s better. You know, it’s just you and the girls, when you’re up close, when you’re playing a club, that’s scary, because you can see people, okay, but when you can’t really see it all. So it’s okay for me anyway. We’re not looking at much anyway, and I don’t have my glasses when I can’t see shit. So you play,
Nestor Aparicio 22:34
you’re blind when you play, yeah?
Gina Schock 22:38
Well, not blind, but, you know, I can’t I can see a face, but can’t distinguish features that put it that way. You wouldn’t
Nestor Aparicio 22:46
want to wear glasses where you could see. Hell, no, don’t look right. I can’t, I can’t. You’ve never worn glasses on stage.
Gina Schock 22:52
No, no. Plus you sweat, nah. Can’t happen. All right, all right. Well, I don’t know. I’ve never, yeah, I don’t know who would do that, but I know if you sweat, they’re gonna come off.
Nestor Aparicio 23:03
Okay, see, this is why I want to learn. It’s a little behind the scenes rock star stuff I don’t know about, you know? Oh, I think any Trevor would tell you that. Well, getting ready to play, you know, yeah. I mean, so last it’s been a year since, event you always crazy, how’s last year been? And put the band back together and getting all that, that’s it feels like it’s a pep in your step, because I think it is. No, it’s disappointing when they’re not playing.
Gina Schock 23:23
I’m, I’m, I’m not really disappointed because I’m busy doing stuff all the time. Don’t ask me, how or what, but Wendell keeps me busy doing stuff all the time. It’s like, Wendell please for two months. Don’t book anything because, like, Let’s go on a vacation. You know, I got to tell them to stop. Yeah, been on vacation a while? No, that’s gonna happen next year, damn it, after we do Coachella, where
Nestor Aparicio 23:46
you’re gonna go with your band, right? You, there’s very few places you played Japan, yeah. You played Australia, yeah, you’ve done all South America. No, no, yeah. Rio.
Gina Schock 23:55
We did first Rock in Rio. Wow. 85
Nestor Aparicio 23:58
All right, you’ve done all where would you vacation? What’s a vacation? Oh,
Gina Schock 24:02
me, I’m gonna go to to Europe. Okay, all right. So, you know, I like, I don’t like the rough it, man, I’ve never been camping. I don’t like the rough. So it’s, we’re probably gonna go, might go to London first, because Kathy there visit her for a bit. But I guarantee you, we’re gonna go to Spain and Italy. Okay, do that definitely go and gonna spend like a month. Gina
Nestor Aparicio 24:31
shock is here, rock and roll royalty. We’re in Dundalk, our homeland. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I have Raven scratch offs to give away. She mugs with me. Gives me such a hard time, I tell you what? And her beautiful dog, Penny here as well. See her. There she is. We’ve gone to the dogs here at Costas. I have to get you out of here in a couple minutes, so I just sort of parting shots and all of that stuff for you. What? What is your favorite part about your band mates if you’re getting back together? My
Gina Schock 24:58
favorite part? Yeah. Well, I don’t know. They’re like, We’re family. They’re like my sisters. It’s we have done things together that we’ve done with no one else, but the five of us. Think about that special. Think about that a life, a lifetime, almost 50 years, right? Since 79
Nestor Aparicio 25:18
how long is that? That’s 45 years. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, we’re getting you’ll make it to 50,
Gina Schock 25:25
though, I don’t know, man, but I tell you what, it’s been a beautiful ride that, like I say I’m grateful for every day,
Nestor Aparicio 25:30
90 minutes of rock and roll on the way, Coachella, a couple shows, well,
Gina Schock 25:34
Coachella, you’re only allowed an hour, but then for where we’re gonna do an hour and a half, and the other shows, we’ll probably do an hour and a half because, like, Coachella is, like, where you have, they have, like, it, like, at the Hollywood Bowl, they have a digital clock in front of you, so you’re, you know, Hollywood Bowl. Oh, we played there plenty of
Nestor Aparicio 25:51
time. That is my bucket list thing, right? That and Royal Albert Hall, those are the two,
Gina Schock 25:57
but, but, yeah, the Hollywood Bowl is a great it’s one of those moments when we first played, because I think the Beatles played there. So that’s a cool thing, and it’s just
Nestor Aparicio 26:05
a beautiful venue. Oh, my God, I can’t wait to go. That’s why it’s on my bucket. But they have this huge digital clock at the foot of the stage. It tells you get off stage.
Gina Schock 26:14
It starts at 60 the minute you walk on, and you watch it count down, and you better get off the stage. When it’s done, it’ll turn the lights off. Well, you ever had that happen? Well, no, because it’s union, yeah, union. So you can’t mess you know,
Nestor Aparicio 26:26
don’t mess with the times. Nah. Don’t mess with them. Don’t be late with Donna show up at midnight. So
Gina Schock 26:30
bless with the unions. They built this country.
Nestor Aparicio 26:34
Not a girl spoke only real Dundalk champion. I’m gonna let Jesus get out of here. We are at Dundalk at Costas. We’re having crab cakes. It is the Maryland crab cake tour. You are my last guest before Christmas. This is the end of the holiday visit. I’ve had so many friends here the last couple of weeks, and I want to thank Cocos. I want to thank our friends at Gertrude, as well as our friends at fate. Leaves yesterday to meet me. She didn’t even have a crab cake and I did the show there. Did the crab cake tour. I was dragged her down there, but she’s done dog through and through. Gina shot, get out, see the band east coast. Maybe, maybe,
Gina Schock 27:06
you know what, here’s the way I figured. Go ahead. Figure putting this back in. Figure it. TMJ, you can tell I’m comfortable. You know, if he shoot, if these shows go well, if the shows go well, then, you know, we’ll see,
Nestor Aparicio 27:21
okay, well, I want to come see one of them. Okay, I don’t know which one it’s gonna be. I’m thinking it’s gonna be cruel world because, like, that’s a roster, right? That’s all two days, yeah, there’s always in their bands of your era. They’re always, Oh, yeah. I mean, the Coachella thing’s not really, you’re, you know, it’s always weird. It’s all sorts of different. Well,
Gina Schock 27:39
let’s see, he’s put in our Gaga is opening our the day that we play Friday, both Fridays. It’s Gaga and Missy Elliot.
Nestor Aparicio 27:48
Oh, I love Missy Elliot. I love
Gina Schock 27:50
Missy Elliot. Cruel
Nestor Aparicio 27:53
world. Let’s see cruel world 2025 who’s playing that way.
Gina Schock 27:57
What you call it? New orders, headlining. Oh, I feel so extraordinary. Is that, who said New Order,
Nestor Aparicio 28:04
hold on here. I’m trying to line up the go, Go’s are the lead the Go Go so we’re not the go. Go’s are the first band. It’s meant. Oh no, I’m sorry. New Order, Nick Cave, and then the Go goes third. I’m sorry. Devo OMD, if UV, garbage, madness. Till Tuesday, I have such a crush on her. Love who? Allison Moyer, or till Tuesday, I love
Gina Schock 28:28
them both. Yes. Oh, my God, are you kidding?
Nestor Aparicio 28:33
Buzz, Cox, yeah, there you go.
Gina Schock 28:35
Meet Shelley’s going. So, man, I don’t know about that. Mid your Oh, loved Ultra box. Nice. Them. As a matter of fact that what Jane and I, when we were living together on Hollywood Boulevard, we were so poor. We shared an apartment. We went to see 79 going into 80 we went to see Ultra box at the whiskey, and we came back and we were robbed.
Nestor Aparicio 28:56
I was never I’ll leave you with that. Should I go to the whiskey or the troubadour? If I could pick one or the other. Oh, the
Gina Schock 29:02
troubadour. The history there is all right. I mean, that you know the
Nestor Aparicio 29:06
LA with you. That’s it. I’m taking you to pinks for a hot dog. But I don’t know
Gina Schock 29:11
troubadour. Think of Elton John sitting first coming to LA and playing the troubadour. We play the troubadour. I mean, like, I don’t know the troubadours history is just, all right, that is royalty, I’d say. All right. Well, then and then,
Nestor Aparicio 29:24
so the night I go to the Hollywood Bowl, the next night, or the night before I go to the Troubadour see something good, I gotta figure all that is the coach house in San Juan Capistrano, yes, good. I’m gonna go there too. Good.
Gina Schock 29:33
One, good one. We played there. All right. All right. Well, good. Lot of good bands. There.
Nestor Aparicio 29:40
Six shows you signed up for. Is that right? Next? Six? All right. Well, I gotta go see one of them. Gina shocks, got her teeth back in her retainer, her TMJ, her arthritis, her broken heart that’s been fixed and healed. Her healed heart and her mask on and her dog. And it’s the holidays, and I love our friendship.
Gina Schock 29:59
Thank you. And. You, Nestor, thank you. Thank you. And I love being home. You guys. Well, said it’s
Nestor Aparicio 30:03
the right way. She loves being home. Dundalk. From Dundalk, do you do the bridge went down. Don’t tell anybody. But I am, Nestor. We are W, N, S, T, A of 1570 Towson, Baltimore, signing off from Dundalk at Costas. Stay with us. We’re Baltimore positive. You.
