READING | FREE | ALL AGES | You’re invited to the launch of the much anticipated release of the memoir All Roads Lead to Punk. This event will have a reading, a moderated Q&A with your host Eden Hain and a book signing with a limited edition matching bookmark. You can click here to pre-order your copy of All Roads Leads to Punk in advance.
As a founding member of one of Los Angeles’ earliest female-led bands, BACKSTAGE PASS, Genevieve Schorr lived and breathed rock’n roll growing up like a lot of teenagers at the time. What set her apart was forging her unique band so early in the punk timeline (a direct shot from her glam & pub rock influences) and eventually evolving her life into becoming a professional rock’n roll stylist to the stars. Genny’s book reads like a lost diary trapped in a punk house time capsule from the era, complete with tales of dereliction and unsuspecting victories along the way. Crossing paths with such wildly diverse characters such as The Screamers, The Mumps, Dr. Feelgood, The Damned, The Quick, Jon Stewart, Jim Carrey, The Bangles, and Linda Ronstadt, All Roads Lead To Punk is an invigorating flash through a wild life not to be forgotten. This book comes also with a limited edition BACKSTAGE PASS 7″ single featuring the original 1977 studio recordings of “Legend (Come On Up To Me)” (immortalized by Redd Kross’s version in Desperate Teenage Lovedolls).
Genny Schorr got her start in music in a mostly female band that helped launch punk club, The Masque. Two years later, after meeting Antoinette Laumer, who was a Rock ‘n Roll clothing designer, she found a new calling as a wardrobe stylist. Together, they both opened and co-owned LA clothing store, Strait Jacket, along with Jake Riviera of Stiff Records. When the shop closed in 1983, Genny began a 10-year career as an independent wardrobe stylist and landed a gig with Linda Ronstadt after a chance meeting at a Tom Petty concert. She worked and lived with Linda Ronstadt for the next four years and dressed her for the Get Closer summer tour as well as a trilogy of albums and videos in collaboration with The Nelson Riddle Orchestra for What’s New, Lush Life, and For Sentimental Reasons.
In 1993, she left the business to pursue a career in the health industry for two decades. In 2018 she reunited with Backstage Pass and recently rebooted her career as a wardrobe stylist. Her memoir chronicles her Rock ‘n Roll journey based on some of her performances with storytelling show, Our Lips Unsealed produced by her bandmate, Marina Muhlfriedel. She currently resides in Los Angeles.
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