Louise Post

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Louise Post
Louise Post (left) performing with Veruca Salt in late 2005.
Louise Post (left) performing with Veruca Salt in late 2005.
Background information
Birth name Louise Lightner Post
Born December 7, 1966 (1966-12-07) (age 41)
Origin St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Genre(s) alternative rock
Associated acts Veruca Salt
Notable instrument(s)
Pink Velour Guitar

Louise Post (born Louise Lightner Post on December 7, 1966 in St. Louis, Missouri) is the lead vocalist and guitarist for alternative rock group Veruca Salt. She is a graduate of Barnard College, holding a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

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[edit] Musical career

Post formed the alt-rock band Veruca Salt in the early 1990s along with Nina Gordon, Steve Lack and Jim Shapiro. Veruca Salt released two successful albums -- American Thighs (1994) and Eight Arms to Hold You (1997) -- prior to splitting up.

Post reformed the band and released two more studio albums with different line-ups: 2000's Resolver and 2006's IV.

She performed a rendition of the song "Spiderman '79" for the independent film The Still Life (in which she also had a small role).[1] The song was performed with Dizzy Reed of Guns N' Roses fame.

During her career, Post has collaborated with other indie rock acts including The Drowners and Frogpond.

[edit] Personal life

Post was best friends with Veruca Salt bandmate Nina Gordon, however the latter left the band following acrimonious personal disagreements in the late 1990s; Post also cited creative differences as a reason for the split.[2][3] The next Veruca Salt album, 2000's Resolver, included lyrics that implied hostility towards Gordon. The two had apparently reconciled by 2003 and were friendly once more "but not at the same intensity."[2][4] In October 2006, Post complimented Gordon's pop music.[3]

Post was previously in a relationship with Foo Fighters front man/former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, which ended in a painful break-up. Grohl wrote the song "Everlong" about her. Post also wrote the song "Used to Know Her" with lyrics regarding both Gordon and Grohl. During a combative, inebriated performance in Melbourne in 1997, she announced that Grohl had left her for actress Winona Ryder.[5]

After leaving her old label (Beyond) and the departure of Veruca Salt band members with whom she had made Resolver, Post struggled with weight gain, depression and prescription drugs: "I was definitely exhibiting self-destructive behavior: I saw a doctor who prescribed a lot of supposedly helpful medication, and it didn't do well with my chemistry. I feel like I crawled back from a dark place -- or I didn't crawl back, but I came back with strength returning to me tenfold," the now 39-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist continues. "There was a time when -- how do I put this? -- I just wasn't in love with myself, or even really in like with myself. I had to learn to love myself again, and I needed to do that in order to continue making art. But playing music always sort of kept me afloat. When I play even now, if I'm not in the best of moods, and I go to practice, as soon as we're playing, I have a smile on my face. It just makes me really happy."[3]

Post and Courtney Love were friends[5] and one-time musical collaborators: "I moved to L.A., and I was in a band with Courtney Love for about five minutes."[3]

On the 30th of March 2008, Post married boyfriend Tony Parks in Vegas. Post commented on the wedding as "a desperate attempt for me to get married and have a child before it's too late. I just turned 41 and things aren't as fresh as they used to be." Post has been dating Parks since 2001. Parks fronts another banned called The Firetrucs.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Veruca Salt

  1. American Thighs (1994)
  2. Victrola (1995)
  3. Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt (1996)
  4. Eight Arms to Hold You (1997)
  5. Resolver (2000)
  6. Officially Dead (2003)
  7. Lords of Sounds and Lesser Things (2005)
  8. IV (2006)
  9. The track "Burned" on Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity (2008)[6]

[edit] As Louise Post

  1. The track "Sugar Mountain" on Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young for Charity (2008)[6]
  1. The song "Touch" with Dave Grohl.

[edit] References

[7]

  1. ^ Louise Post of Veruca Salt Interview. Heat Beat Entertainment Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
  2. ^ a b Grohl schmoll. The Sydney Morning Herald (2003-07-11). Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
  3. ^ a b c d 'I crawled back from a dark place'. Chicago Sun-Times (2006-10-01). Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
  4. ^ Veruca Salt.. dBMagazine.com.au. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
  5. ^ a b From pillow to Post. The Age (2004-12-31). Retrieved on 2007-11-23.
  6. ^ a b Female artists cover Neil Young on compilation. NME.com (2007-12-05). Retrieved on 2007-12-09.
  7. ^ "I Crawled Back From a Dark Place", Chicago Sun Times 1 Oct, 2006. Retrieved on 6 June, 2007.

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