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This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trapset, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I want to play something for you. Every night I see you are walking by, walking by, you hold your hair so close to her.

I could cry.

You're hearing how much more by The Go-Go's, featuring my guest, Gina Shock on drums.

Gina joined the Los Angeles band in 1979, and due to her inexhaustible drive

was the galvanizing force that transformed the Go-Go's from local punks to world-renowned

superstars. Her mighty groove and superb pop sensibility proving indispensable to the band's

sound. The Go-Go's iconic debut album, Beauty and the Beat, was released in 1981 and eventually spent six weeks at the top of the charts.

Over the next few years, they established an unrivaled legacy that has influenced generations of pop songwriters and riot girls alike.

Throughout the past two decades, the go-goes have toured and recorded writers and riot girls alike.

Throughout the past two decades, the Gogos have toured and recorded intermittently, and Gina has also stayed busy with other projects, leading her own bands, such as House of Shock and K-5,

and composing breakout hits for pop stars, including Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez.

I spoke to her recently as she was preparing for an appearance on the Billboard Awards

and gearing up for what might be the Go-Go's final tour.

And now our conversation with Gina Shock.

I don't know.

Crazy.

I don't remember the first thing that the first song that I learned on drums, except I do remember playing that Leonard Skinner's song,

Give Me Three Steps over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

Did you ever meet any of the guys from Leonard Skinner later in life?

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