"Well, I was 21 and showing up at the Mubuhay Gardens with [ John Waters actress] Edith Massey. Every character in San Francisco was there! I was beside myself. My head was spinning. So many people were talking to me, I was being pulled in every direction, and loving it."
"My perspective from that throne is all-encompassing. I see and feel everything. I'm basically guiding the band. That's a woman with power!"
"The exhibition unfolds like a tour diary brought to life. Visitors move through spaces evoking backstage dressing rooms, concert halls, and life on the road, surrounded by walls of posters, handwritten letters, stage costumes, and hundreds of photographs Schock shot herself while the band traveled the world."
Gina Schock, drummer for The Go-Go's, is presenting A View from the Throne, an immersive exhibition at San Francisco's Haight Street Art Center honoring Women's History Month. The exhibition features hundreds of photographs, artifacts, and tour ephemera from her personal archive documenting the band's rise to fame. The title carries dual meaning: the drummer's stool is called a throne, and it represents Schock's vantage point witnessing the band's history. The exhibition recreates tour experiences through spaces evoking backstage dressing rooms, concert halls, and life on the road, filled with posters, letters, stage costumes, and photographs Schock captured during world tours. The show functions as a lived memory of the band rather than a conventional museum display.
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