Book Review: Life as the world’s first female roadie
Tana Douglas found her calling in 1973. Before she was 21, she had worked with Carlos Santana, Neil Diamond and Iggy Pop
By Jenny Valentish / The Guardian
In recent years there has been a barrage of self-help books by former Navy Seals, applying their hard-fought techniques of leadership, discipline, problem-solving and survival to the lives of us everyday civilians.
Even though she served in the trenches of rock, Tana Douglas’s memoir, LOUD: A Life in Rock’n’Roll by the World’s First Female Roadie, could easily serve the same purpose a kind of Gaffer Tape Your Life.
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âShe seems to have taken it to heart,â Douglas laughs, of the woman who would become a notoriously hard-nosed manager. âOops!â
When Guardian Australia speaks to Douglas, sheâs at home in Los Angeles, her hair fashioned into long white dreadlocks. These days sheâs pretty settled: a consultant for the production industry, sometimes working in artist development. Itâs a far cry from her âferalâ start as a teenage hitchhiker who felt unwanted by her family. Her preferred song of that era was the Animalsâ We Gotta Get Out of This Place, and she needed to become a hustler and a grafter to do the same.
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