Don't Sleep With Your Drummer [Paperback]

Jen Sincero (Author)

Book Description

Release date: July 30, 2002

At twenty-eight, Jenny Troanni has decided to become the rock goddess she was always meant to be. Items on her new to-do list include:

1) Quit going-somewhere copywriting job and get going-to-band-practice job.

2) Break up with Hootie and the Blowfish-lovin' boyfriend.

3) Hang out in skanky bars. Meet musicians.

4) Cash in pension and buy kickass guitar amp.

5) Team up with sex-crazed guitar genius/best friend Lucy Stover Hanover II.

After auditioning every musician in the greater Los Angeles area---including the deluded, deranged, and underaged---Jenny finds the perfect lineup, and 60-Foot Queenie is born. But while reveling in free tequila shots, autograph hunters, and other perks of minor stardom, Jenny realizes with a shock that 60-Foot Queenie is poised to become even bigger than she imagined. Suddenly, she's learning the real lessons of Rock and Roll High School, including the danger of trusting a record company executive who ties a ponytail in his goatee, and the ten telltale signs your bass player is living in your practice space.

Part diary, part crash course in rock stardom, Don't Sleep with Your Drummer is a hilarious, no-holds-barred guide through the pleasures and pitfalls of the music industry---from the beginning to the bitter end, and back again.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jen Sincero is a musician, comedienne, and the author of the novel Don't Sleep with Your Drummer. At the moment she lives in California and can be found on the web at www.jensincero.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: MTV Books; Original edition (July 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743453913
• ISBN-13: 978-0743453912
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 1.1 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #627,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jen Sincero is a Bestselling author, success coach and motivational cattle prod who gave up her home in California in early 2011 to travel the world indefinitely and encourage people to live lives of unbridled awesomenes.

Over the years, Jen has helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her private sessions, public appearances, newsletters and books such as, "You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life". She's spoken on stages all over the world and has helped her clients build their dream businesses, become NY Times Bestselling authors, navigate million dollar business deals, find their soul mates and forgive their bitchy mothers who they now realize were doing the best they could. Jen has run her business from all corners of the globe and is really sick of writing in the third person.

I got my first real job, one that didn't involve wearing a hairnet or bending over the hood of a wet car with a towel in my hand, in the early 90′s working for CBS Records. While there I started my first of several rock bands and eventually wrote my first book, the semi-autobiographical novel, "Don't Sleep With Your Drummer."

When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn't pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn't pull that off either, and wrote my second book, the national Bestseller "The Straight Girl's Guide To Sleeping With Chicks".

My hope is that by speaking, coaching and writing about all the things that make me excited to be spinning around on this planet of ours, I'll inspire you to recognize, and pursue, whatever it is that floats your banana, to tap into your own little badass, to be you times two, large and in charge, huge like The Nuge.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Scathingly Brilliant September 15, 2002

By "fabulousluckyboy"

Format:Paperback

My stars and garters.... Miss Sincero held me in her relentless
grip to the very end. It was JAWS meets IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.

On the first page she dedicates this book to her "excellent mom"
and then spends the next 30 pages dissing her... I am in love!!!

It's a splendid trot through the hot spots that pepper this
glorious globe of ours! An incandifferous attempt at turning
chicken caca into chicken salad! ...P>I LOVED this book. I can't wait for the next one.
I haven't laughed this hard since "Lust in the Dust"

"Don't sleep with your drummer" is spectacular... a hilarious
look at the music industry, secret love, overbearing parents,
and the staggering throb of best friends....

Santa Claus is coming to town....

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars You Wish You Were This Funny August 10, 2002

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

This is laugh out loud funny writing - not just some dopey chick book. The characters all have texture. The language is whip smart. There's core drama that keeps you turning the pages. And great images -- "The building was eerily silent when I walked in. As terrifying as I find the death rock band across the hall, it's almost more upsetting when their not jamming and I'm alone. At least when they're making noise, you know where they all are. If it's silent, they could be lurking around every conrer. Or hanging by their feet from the ceiling of their practice space sleeping with their wings wrapped tightly around their bodies."

Much more where that came from. You'll be a 60 Foot Queenie fan.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and brilliant! September 8, 2002

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

It's about time someone exposed the music industry for the hell hole it is and band life for the soap opera it is! This book was laugh out loud funny, insightful, touching, and romantic! Oh yeah, and really well written. I've been in bands for years and this is the first time I've read anything that does all the craziness justice. I loved all the characters too. I miss them now that I'm done with the book! Bravo.