Meet Gina Schock, Drummer For Iconic Go-Go's 80s Band, In Person At Harley Laguna Beach

LAGUNA BEACH, CA—Go-Go's drummer Gina Schock is coming to Harley Laguna Beach on November 5 to celebrate the seminal band's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The local after-party is also a book launch for Schock's "Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go's."

Gina Schock, drummer and historian of the iconic rock band from the late 70s and early 80s, still has the beat. Her coffee-table-style pictorial is a trip through the band's history. Her book opens with the band's beginnings when Schock added the group's definitive beat. Each page is a work of art, taking readers through tours, with photos and essays from some of the biggest bands of their era. She gives readers a pass, sharing backstage life with the Go-Go's, through break-ups and make-ups, into the Playboy mansion, outside the hospital operating room following her heart surgery. "Made in Hollywood" is an intimate portrait of how this group has managed to stay together through thick and thin in a time when not everyone carried around a camera everywhere they went.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame VIP After Party & Book Launch at Harley Laguna includes a signed copy of Gina's book "Made in Hollywood: All Access with the Go-Go's," along with two premium drink tickets, and tray-passed appetizers. With any luck, Harley's roasted cauliflower will be included. The hors d'oeuvre just won the Foodie Award for Best Vegetarian bite. If not, there's always a chance to win some signed merch.

Drew Barrymore is slated to induct the band at the Rock Hall's October 30th ceremony and concert in Cleveland, Ohio. The show will be aired sometime later on HBO and streamed on HBO Max, with simulcasts via satellite radio.

Schock's bandmates, in alphabetical order, are Charlotte Caffey (lead guitar, keyboard), Belinda Carlisle (lead vocals), Kathy Valentine (bass) and Jane Wiedlin (guitar, vocals). Unlike their contemporary "boy bands," they have always been DIY to the core, tearing up live shows since the band's founding in 1978.

"As the most successful all-woman rock band of all time," stated the Rock Hall when announcing the 2021 inductees earlier this year, "the Go-Go’s performed catchy, well-crafted songs that formed a bridge between the brash urgency of L.A. punk and the dark melodies of new wave pop."

Those catchy tunes were largely due to the drumbeats that set the tone for such iconic melodies as "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We've Got The Beat."

The Go-Go's are the first of the original Los Angeles punk bands to be inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame. And it's about time.

"The Go-Go’s circumvented record label sexism and signed with IRS Records in 1981," continued the announcement. "Their debut album 'Beauty and the Beat' was released later that year and became the first (and, to date, only) album by an all-woman band that played its own instruments and wrote its own songs to top the Billboard albums chart."

The irresistible LP and their charisma took them from playing "dive bars to Madison Square Garden" in less than a year, as Wiedlin says in the trailer to "The Go-Go's." The feature-length documentary debuted at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was directed by Alison Ellwood.

During the lockdown, Schock's bandmate Valentine released a book called "All I Ever Wanted," a more personal story of life as a member of the Go-Go's than Schock's group scrapbook. Both Go-Go's writers will be signing books at the Rock Hall at an event the day before the induction ceremony.

On October 29, the entire band will be interviewed live by Rock Hall Director of Education Mandy Smith and SiriusXM host Lori Majewski. Tickets to that outdoor interview sold out almost immediately, and Rock Hall is streaming it for free on its YouTube and Facebook channels. Unless it rains or snows, which is possible entirely possible with Cleveland weather.

Will you go to the Harley Laguna signing: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame VIP After Party & Book Launch. ? Tickets are still available.