-Melissa wrote that part, I didn't.

Vance's parts in red.

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GINA: Hi, you guys, this is Gina Schock!

VANCE: And this is Vance DeGeneres, and we're uh, House Of Schock.

GINA: House Of Schock. Don't forget it.

VANCE: Yeah, that's us, and uh, and what we got here is we got an engineer over here about 10 feet away from us and the engineer will be playing cuts from our new album entitled "House Of Schock".

GINA: Yeah, and it's a pretty good album, and the first thing we're gonna play for ya is our first single and it's called "Middle Of Nowhere" and its pretty dang good.

plays MIDDLE OF NOWHERE:

GINA: "Middle Of Nowhere" was really a fairly easy song for Vance and myself to put together. I drove across country a couple of years ago and that's where it started. I just started jotting down these lyrics as I was driving, and then I had a guitar and I had some musical ideas, and then I brought it back to Vance and showed it to him and then we finished the song.

VANCE: And then I took a trip across the country to finish it up and uh...

GINA: Yeah, right!

VANCE: It's an expensive way to do a song but we felt that we owed it to the public.

GINA: Yeah.

VANCE: We go that extra mile.

GINA: We have Marshall Crenshaw doing all the backing vocals. Marshall's an old friend of mine. We toured a little bit when I was with The Go-Go's and he happened to be in town. And Richard Gottehrer is one of the producers. We used two different guys.

VANCE: As far as producers, Richard Gottehrer produced part of the album and Chaz Sanford also produced part of the album and did all the mixing on it. and uh...

GINA: We got them both! Richard did two of The Go-Go's records. He did our first album "Beauty And The Beat" and the second record "Vacation". He's done I think two of Marhsall Crenshaw's records and he did a couple Blondie records.

VANCE: He wrote some classic songs in the 60's, like, what, "My Boyfriend's Back"?

GINA: Yeah, he's great. He co-wrote "My Boyfriend's Back"...

VANCE: And Chaz Sanford has worked with Roger Daltry and Stevie Nicks and John Waite.

plays NEVER BE ENOUGH:

GINA: Well, after The Go-Go's broke up, uh, it took me awhile to secide exactly what I wanted to do with my career. I knew I wanted to be in music but I wasn't sure exactly whether I wanted to still just play drums or whether I wanted to start writing, and I had started writing in The Go-Go's in the last couple of years, so I really enjoyed writing. Anyway, I just started writing and I had met Vance and uh... actually I was trying out other singers, because I wasn't sure whether or not I could do it, and in the process my voice started to really develop, and then Vance just said "Why are you bothering to look for vocalists? You handle this very well.". And I'm still a little bit nervous about it -- I feel a lot more comfortable now than I ever had about my voice. I mean I know it's not the greatest voice around, but I think I have a unique voice, and I guess it's because I'm involved, I have written most of these songs, pr co-written, and so they all mean something to me.

Plays LOVE IN RETURN:

GINA: "Love In Return" is a song I wrote in 1983, and it was while I was still in The Go-Go's. And it was -- probably woud have been on The Go-Go's fourth album had we stayed together, so it's probably the oldest -- one of the oldest songs on the record, and its the only one I wrote by myself.

GINA: Ever since I could remember I always wanted to be a musician. I wasn't sure exactly what instrument I wanted to play but I knew I wanted to be in the music business, and uh... the first thing I started out with was the banjo, then I moved up to the bass, then I got a regular 6-string guitar and then I got drums and when I got the drums I knew that that was um... it was really easy... it was easy for me.

VANCE: It worked better because the banjo and the bass, she was still beating on those with drumsticks and it just didn't sound as good as the drums.

GINA: Yeah, yeah... I have to put up with this all the time.

Plays JUST TO DREAM:

VANCE: Before I moved to Los Angeles I was still in New Orleans. I started working on this song -- no lyrics, just strictly the choral progression and the melody and sound. And I kinda put it away until I moved to Los Angeles and Gina and I started working together, and I yanked it out and said "What do you think about this?" and we worked on it. The lyrics, as a matter of fact, took, what, two weeks on this song?

GINA: The lyrics took quite a while on this song...

VANCE: Yeah...

GINA: We had problems with the lyrics on the...

VANCE: Yeah...

GINA: But we worked it out.

VANCE: Yeah, yeah. It came out great.

VANCE: I started playing in bands in junior high school. I started out playing guitar until I was in high school, and then I broke... you see this finger here? You can't see it on radio, but everyone else in the studio here can see it -- it's uh... it's broken. I broke it in school playing baseball, and when the cast came off I couldn't play guitar anymore so I had to switch to bass. Which turned out great because I love bass... it's my instrument. Um... what else did I do... uh, I did the original "Mr. Bill Show" which was on Saturday Night Live. And I was the original Mr. Hands. That's what I did besides music.

GINA: "Where Love Goes", that song was written by myself and this friend of mine. She just had this piano riff that she kept playing over and over and she was just telling me "Oh God, man, this guy just left me... duh-duh-duh..." you know, just this terrible, sad story about how this guy just left her that she was crazy about. And I just said "Man, you know, you wonder where love goes. You can't figure it out. You know, you think everything's going to work out." and that's how that started. So her and I sat down and wrote these lyrics right away, like, in five minutes I had teh lyrics done.

Plays WHERE LOVE GOES:

GINA: We really think that the record, uh, is really pretty interesting because the songs are all... they all say something different, they're not about just falling in luuuuv...

VANCE: Yeah,it's a pretty diverse album. And uh... it's not exactly what you might expect it you were a Go-Go's fan. I think you'd like it. But if you weren't a Go-Go's fan, and you're thinking "Well, Gina Schock from The Go-Go's...", don't think that. Well, I'm not gonna tell ya how to think!

GINA: (laughs)

VANCE: O.K., go ahead and think like that! Go ahead, be my guest...

GINA: You know what? The only thing is that my... the drumming style is... sounds like me. Its my style of drumming, even though Steven played, you know, half the tracks but they're mostly done my drum parts.

VANCE: She beat him mercilessly until he acquiesced to play like Gina.

GINA: (laughs) Nooo, Steve's a great drummer. I mean, we obviously think these are good songs. We've worked hard to put together and we hope that everybody else really enjoys themas much as we did. I guess that's the bottom line, really.

VANCE: And not only that, but there are fishes on our album cover. And how many albums can you say that about these days? Not too many.

Plays MIDDLE OF NOWHERE again:

GINA: You know, the toughest thing, like, is to... forget -- the songs are easy to write! It's thinking of the name, right? So, anyway one day we were over at my house and in my house I have a studio which is where we did all of our demos, and a friend of ours was over there and they like couldn't believe how good they sounded, and they said "God Gina, where... *where*...WHERE did you do these?!"

VANCE: What emphasis you put on that, too. That was very good acting on your part.

GINA: Thank you. "Where... whee could you have possibly done these high-quality tapes?" And I said "Well, we did them right here at my house.". And then Vance butted in and he said...

VANCE: ... right here at the House Of Schock.

GINA: And then I jumped for joy because I knew that our prayers had been answered and that was the name of our band.

VANCE: Answered prayers, right here.

GINA: Yep, yep.

VANCE: Mmm, hmm.

GINA: (laughs)

GINA: OK, we're at the end here. It's time for us to uh, to go on tour and come out there and see you folks and I guess its time for you to go to your record store and pick this record up. (laughs)

VANCE: There's one right around the corner from you too, I think on 4th and Elm, I think I saw one. So go there and ask for the House Of Schock album.

GINA: Hey! We'll be out on tour in June and...

VANCE: July, August...

GINA: ... and probably through the next year. So we'll be around. We'll be there in your home town, so we'll see ya soon.

VANCE: Yes, we will.