Motorcycle Boy (Live) - Courtney Love (Lois Maffeo + Pat Maley band) *Audio*
For more of the works of Lois Maffeo, check out the Strumpet playlist here: www.youtube.com or visit my blog at grrlbandgeek.com Courtney Love - Motorcycle Boy (Live) Note: This is the band Courtney Love, not the Hole singer. From the 1992 K Records compilation album "International Pop Underground Convention" Recorded August 20-25, 1991, in the Capitol Theater, North Shore Surf Club and Capital Lake Park at the International Pop Underground Convention, Olympia, Washington. Label: K Catalog#: KLP 11 Format:CD, Album Country:US Released: 1992 Courtney Love is: Drums - Pat Maley Guitar, Vocals - Lois Maffeo Q: "Where does the name Courtney Love come from, anyway?" A: "Straight out of nowhere." - Lois Maffeo/Mike Applegren interview, early 1991 The story as I have heard it: in the mid 1980s, 2 young aspiring punk rockers lived together in Portland, Oregon. Lois Maffeo and Love Michelle Harrison (who went by the somewhat less hippie-recalling "Michelle") used to joke about the perfect rock star name: Courtney Love. Eventually things would go sour (from the accounts I have heard, Harrison was not the easiest person to live with... Go figure) and one of the women would escape to a quiet life of indie-rock obscurity, while the other would go on to full-blown rock stardom with every last one of the attending cliches thereof, complete with the biggest and most controversial rock-and-toll marriage since John and Yoko. Both would go on to use the name they'd created. The Courtney <b>...</b>
