I can't believe these guys don't have a thread for them yet. (And if they do, I couldn't find it searching bags -- lots of great stuff about Messenger bags and Jazz Bags tho!) So, raucous Alice Armandariz, LA punk in 1977. I say total classic after seeing some recordings of live shows and listening to All Bagged Up: The Collected Work 1977-1980.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.artifixrecords.com/images/bands/bags/Bags-Album-cover.gif
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll take the Bags from Boston.j
― janswers, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
the four existing studio tracks are some of the best that LA 70's punk has to offer, live stuff from The Masque benefit is also great. total classic.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i.e I mean "Survive"/"Babylonian Gorgon" 45, "We Will Bury You", and "We Don't Need The English", not the posthumous "Disco's Dead" 45.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
"Babylonian Gorgon" is tremendous.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Genuinely disappointed this thread isn't about the Boston band. Who not only were classic, but are still/again performing and recording!
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Did anyone see this recent Experience Music Project Pop Conference presentation about Alice Bag (of the Los Angeles Bags) that was blogged about here:
http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=740
The first, “Dance Floor Democracy,” featured my old friend Michelle Habell-Pallan, talking about Chicana punk singer Alice Bag, from the early-80s Los Angeles scene, and about the influence of “ranchera” music (the Mexican mariachi sound she listened to as a child) on her performances — a whole hidden history of women’s emotional expression and how this complicates the history of punk.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
also, Alice Bag has an awesome website:
http://www.alicebag.com/mainindex.html
― sleeve, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
the four existing studio tracks are some of the best that LA 70's punk has to offer
Definitely, especially We Will Bury You
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 5 June 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Alice Bag was blogging up a storm a couple months ago, talking about the early days of the Bags. She's since pulled it down and hopes to republish it as a book.
― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 June 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Still need to hear her solo album from last year
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22069-alice-bag/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAEEY4aJTg
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 January 2017 06:00 (seven years ago) link
Kinda like some of the more musical efforts from the 2016 album better than some Bags cuts. <ducks>
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 January 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
Alice Bag is on a US acoustic & book reading tour now. Coming to DC on the day of the Womens March, January 21
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 January 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
I won tickets to see Alice Bag in Philly this evening so despite the very late weekday time (the internet said 10:45, the venue had a sign saying 11:15 and it was actually a little after that when they hit the stage) I attended and I was glad I did. She was full of righteous fury even as she is past 50 and the crowd was a delightful mix of old punks and young feminists. She apparently spent a couple decades as a teacher and from the stage she uses her experience as a punk rock veteran and educator connecting with everyone in the very diverse crowd.
Alice was nice enough to sign a copy of her book and CD that came out last year on Don Giovanni Records. We spoke briefly about her labelmates Screaming Females, Decline.
I am super glad I went to the show, she was inspiring.
Setlist
http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17626676_10158433306150597_4154175166014830318_n.jpg?oh=2bb8c0fcf9ee8a7242185ab083542680&oe=599A822E
Live Pix
http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17554093_10158433254070597_7982377091573904435_n.jpg?oh=795eb2529c943c149d9733fa22b585e5&oe=594C85A2http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17553565_10158433254105597_5521038482866623655_n.jpg?oh=1130d1da9df1f388e59f2a11ede8d384&oe=595EFD6A http://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17553867_10158433254065597_3242236606096927879_n.jpg?oh=85bb56e9aa97ebce9cfba9001219499a&oe=5953219E
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 05:39 (six years ago) link
Camera Phone footage of her band performing "Xx"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPxQEbfvUs
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 06:13 (six years ago) link
awesome
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link