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| Love, Canadian Style, With Blinker The Star Rolling Stone #758 Last September, Blinker The Star had just finished a New York show and were being told to �get the hell off the stage� to make way for another band when a woman in the audience pushed her way to the front. �You guys were one of the best bands I�ve seen in years,� she told singer and guitarist Jordon Zadorozny. He looked down and was astonished to discover his new fan was none other than Courtney Love, who was there with her bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur, a former band mate of Zadorozny�s from his hometown of Montreal. Two months later, he was on his way to Love�s manse in Los Angeles to write a song with her for Stevie Nicks� upcoming album. |
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| A native of Pembroke, Ontario, an isolated logging town straight out of Twin Peaks, Zadorozny spent his youth hanging out in his parents� music store. Blinker�s engaging new album, A Bourgeois Kitten, reflects those years with its quirky sensibility and encyclopedic array of influences (the Beatles, the Pixies, the Police, My Bloody Valentine, Fleetwood Mac). |
| Although Zadorozny, who recorded his first CD alone in his mom�s basement, is used to working by himself, songwriting with Love went surprisingly quickly. �The first thing she said was, �Play something Stevie,�� he reports, and those chords became the chorus of the song he describes as being, like Nicks herself, �in your face but wispy.� |
| Although he thought Love might be mad after rumormongers claimed he was recruited to write Hole�s new record, Zadorozny was recently assured by Love that everything was OK. He�s now back in Montreal, his Los Angeles adventure over, writing songs for Blinker The Star�s new album. |