Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer
At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be.
After quitting her going-somewhere advertising job, getting a going-to-band-practice retail job, auditioning every musician in the greater Los Angeles area—including the deluded, deranged, and underaged—Jenny finds the perfect lineup, and 60-Foot Queenie is born.But while reveling in free tequila shots, autograph hunters, and other perks of minor stardom, Jenny realizes with a shock that 60-Foot Queenie is poised to become even bigger than she imagined. Suddenly, she’s learning the real lessons of Rock and Roll High School, including the danger of trusting a record company executive who ties a ponytail in his goatee, and the ten telltale signs your bass player is living in your practice space.
Part diary, part crash course in rock stardom, Don’t Sleep with Your Drummer is a hilarious, no-holds-barred guide through the pleasures and pitfalls of the music industry—from the beginning to the bitter end, and back again.
