My father was a good guitarist too.ĭid you liked the same music that your parents liked? My mother was in a group called the Johnson Sisters, and they performed at openings, parties and fairs. Yes, a sister – and she had beautiful red hair too.ĭid you get your love of music from your parents? I told my parents I didn’t like that because I wasn’t fat like a pumpkin – so they come up with ‘Little Rusty’ instead.
My dad had a bunch of people who worked for him, and any time I stopped by the company office, they would say I was “cute as a little pumpkin” because of my red hair. And that’s where I got my nickname Rusty.
And my mother worked for him, although they were also musicians on the side. My father had his own business – a sheet metal company. And I never corrected them because I didn’t want anyone to trace me back to my family in North Carolina… But really, I’m a proud North Carolinian. They said Georgia because I lived in Atlanta before I moved to New York, and it was easy to say I was a Georgia Peach. Good question…! All the magazines back in the 1970s said I was from Georgia, but I’m actually from North Carolina.
Remarkably, this high-profile dual career was only a small part of Cherry Bomb’s life: she was a regular at Andy Warhol’s Factory, dated musicians like Dennis Wilson and Keith Moon, appeared in the cult X-rated film Chorus Call (1978) as well as several loops, had her own clothing business, and was a stripper.īut perhaps her highest profile came when she joined the cult rock band Thor, one of the great near-miss groups of the 1980s – and married the lead singer.įor the first time, Cherry Bomb tells her eventful life story to The Rialto Report. One moment she’d be adorning the pages in teasing pictorials the next she be reporting backstage from concerts featuring then-up-and-coming rock stars like the Police, Ted Nugent, or the Buzzcocks. Cherry bomb (noun): a round, red, powerful firecrackerĬherry Bomb was all over men’s magazines in the 1970s and 80s – Cheri, Oui, and countless others – both as a model and as a roving rock reporter.
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