Every so often we pinch ourselves, and say, “Can you believe we’re doing this?” But really it all came back so quickly and naturally. It doesn’t even feel weird to be doing interviews or to be in the studio together. But we had so much music to make together. We were cut short, you know? Just for personal reasons. I think I had at some point reached my limit and just felt like, I want to do this.
I think we both had kind of written it off … except obviously there was something stirring under the surface all these years. I also had dreams that I was on stage with the Beatles. I definitely had dreams about it, strange dreams where I would find myself on stage with Louise. NINA: I did not really think it would ever happen. Did you assume this would never, ever happen? Or did you always feel like maybe it might? STEREOGUM: So it must be very surreal to finally be making music together - and doing press together - again. Maybe with Live or with Bush? Opening up for Live or Bush? I remember being in Oklahoma City. LOUISE: I think we played in Oklahoma City, didn’t we, Nin? I think I once drove with a bunch of people to Dallas to see you play, because nothing ever came to Oklahoma, so we always had to drive. I saw you guys play a couple of times during that era with different people. NINA: So when American Thighs came out you were 20-ish? STEREOGUM: I will be 40 in just a couple of months. Your band meant so much to me when I was younger and I have a very emotional attachment to American Thighs, so I’m really pleased to be able to write about it. Well, I’m very happy to be talking to you. STEREOGUM: So this is the very first press thing that you’ve done together for a long time … Read the interview below then check out “The Museum of Broken Relationships,” directed by Gary Kordan, at the bottom of this post. I had the good fortune of chatting with Gordon and Post about their reunion and their enduring friendship, for their first interview together as Veruca Salt in 17 years. They’ll also be hitting the road this summer. As a result, the band just released a special 10″ vinyl for Record Store Day (including two brand-new and classic-sounding tracks, “The Museum of Broken Relationships” and “It’s Holy”), and are currently hard at work on material for a new Veruca Salt LP with producer Brad Wood (the same person responsible for producing American Thighs back in 1994). In 2013 the two women re-teamed with their other original bandmates - drummer Jim Shapiro (who is also Gordon’s brother) and bassist Steve Lack - to make some new music. Twenty years after the release of American Thighs, Nina Gordon and Louise Post officially reunited as Veruca Salt, having quietly rekindled their friendship over the past several years. Sadder than the end of their musical partnership was the end of their friendship, something that both Post and Gordon mourned for the better part of the next two decades.īut this story has a happy ending. After releasing their Bob Rock-produced sophomore album, Eight Arms To Hold You, and doing a lengthy round of touring, Gordon abruptly left the band in what she now describes as some real Behind The Music bullshit: “It was drugs and cheating and all that junk.” Both Gordon and Post would soldier on making music (Gordon under her own name, Post under the Veruca Salt moniker), but it would never really be the same. Still, the story of Veruca Salt - like so many of their ’90s brethren - would turn out to be a cautionary tale of sorts.
They sold more than a million records, they toured with other, similarly great bands (Hole and PJ Harvey among them) and played an arena show in front of 10,000 people in their hometown of Chicago. Given that “Seether” - the band’s breakthrough single - was one of the most omnipresent songs of the ’90s, the future seemed (at least in that moment) to be Veruca Salt’s for the taking. Not only were Veruca Salt ostensibly just very cool - a band fronted by two badass guitar-wielding women, Nina Gordon and Louise Post - their music was oddly prescient as well, neatly ushering in a swarm of other bands who understood the benefit of marrying snarly guitars with undeniable pop hooks and gooey vocal harmonies. In 1994, I was enduring my first year of college, and American Thighs - Veruca Salt’s much-beloved debut album - was basically the unofficial soundtrack of my life.
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If you came of age at a certain time - say, that musical sweet spot around 1993/’94 when the “Alternative Nation” was just coming into full bloom - chances are Veruca Salt were/are very important to you.
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