Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in hair Metal L.A.
When Axl Rose proclaimed, 'You know where you are? You're in the jungle baby! You're gonna diiieee!,' he was talking about Los Angeles. That's where Anne Thomas Soffee found herself in the early Nineties on her way to being the 'next Lester Bangs.'
"...(the tacky A&R rep from Spinal Tap, played by Fran Drescher), Soffee responds: "I am worse: blithely telling musicians..."
Oct. 21, 2005 Books Review by Audra Schroeder