Ladytron - Discotraxxx
The Bulgarian + electropop use to drive me crazy. Good times.
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Babes in Toyland - Bruise Violet live
Great quality video of Kat up front. I wish the person would have tried to include her guitar as well.
Talk is Cheap
All I have to say is if I make the effort to hunt you down, bring my guitar, and we end up not practicing after talking about it for months then I’m no longer going to make that same effort. In fact I won’t bring it up again. I shouldn’t have to remind and pester. If you want to play then play. I’m tired of people just talking about it.
Any Ideas on Halloween Songs?
I may have found a girl singer for the Halloween show. You may notice that I’m saying Halloween show verses shows. This potential singer advised me yesterday to not get ahead of myself. I think that’s a good idea. Let’s just have one show - Halloween night - at the local dive venue, Mango’s. Luckily years of going to that shit hole, I’ve become friends with the guy who runs it. I’m going to email him today asking for a spot on the list. That way there’s no backing out. I’m settling the official list of songs to cover this week. So far I have:
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Night of a Vampire – Roky Erickson
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I Was A Teenage Werewolf – The Cramps
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Pet Cemetery – The Ramones
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Children of the Grave or After the Dead– Black Sabbath (Maybe)
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Monster Mash – Misfits
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I Put a Spell on You - Creedence Clearwater Revival
I’m thinking six songs will suffice. If you guys have any ideas of fun Halloween-esk songs to cover, please email me. I would love to hear from you. Thanks.
I can’t help but get girl crushes on girl guitarists (in an admiring way).
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I was with Tobi [Vail] and Kathi [Wilcox]. We really bonded on the fact that we had just experienced such an amazing, life-changing thing. That show! Kat Bjellend played guitar better than Greg Sage from The Wipers! She was wearing a tiny dress with a huge bow in her hair and she looked so beautiful and so fucked up; she was doing the craziest shit with her voice. Lori Barbero hit the drums harder than anyone I had ever seen and Michelle Leon was just sexy as hell and could totally play the bass. I was like, wow! You really can have it all! You can make this amazing music which was about how beautiful anger can be to me. I’d never heard anything like it and haven’t heard anything since like it. It was just at somebody’s house in the middle of the woods.
Afterwards we went outside and there was this bonfire. I didn’t really know Tobi and Kathi very well but somehow we ended up standing together because everyone else at that show was talking about how much they hated it and how bad the band was. They were like, “They’re too pretty”. That was the big thing: they’re too pretty to be in a band. I didn’t even get it. They were totally stunning women but that wasn’t the main thing to us, it was definitely the music. It was also the fact that they were women and they looked how they wanted to look, they didn’t have to hide the fact that they were women to play this totally intense music; the combination of the femininity with the strength in the music in saying that femininity and strength weren’t the opposite of each other. It was really an intense experience. Me, Tobi and Kathi were like, that is the best thing we’ve ever seen! Everyone else thought it was the worst so it kind of became clear that we were going to be in a band together. No one else probably wanted to be in a band with us.
—Kathleen Hanna on how seeing Babes In Toyland live inspired her to create Bikini Kill (via sassyandpunk)
Oh lord I can feel an obsession coming along.
Here’s Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland.
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I don’t know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer
—Robert Plant (via rocknrollicons)
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Always in leather, I love it.
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