hell yeah
― brimstead, Thursday, 19 November 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
June millington’s album Running from 1983 has some jams, it’s pretty smoooooth tho
― brimstead, Friday, 20 November 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
I have become addicted to their cover of "Badge" which I put on par w/ the original (high praise from me since the original is pretty much the only thing I rate from Cream). Standard line on them back in the day-at least from Christgau and Metal Mike-was that they were terrific live but mediocre on record, supposedly the result of R. Perry playing down their rockin' aspects in pursuit of getting them on AM stations. I've only listened to their covers but that's part of what I find intriguing about them: the contrast between slick vocals not far from say Rita Coolidge or Nicolette Larson and a heavier instrumental attack that could fit nicely on any hard rock station.Also, did they change the gender of the kid married to Mabel from he to she? I believe they did!
― Indieland Phil and Indieland Don (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 November 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
I bought a used copy of Charity Ball 30-35 years ago, shelved it after one play--just not for me. The documentary's pretty good, though. The Millington sisters started out in some all-female band in the mid-'60s called the Sveltes; don't think they ever recorded. One of them, Jean, after dating Bowie, went on to marry Earl Slick (June was already out in the '70s). Suzie's sister Patti Quatro was in the band for a time.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
Patti's on their last album, which spun off their biggest hit, "Butter Boy".
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link
I adore “come and hold me”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UHw0fbZHPE
― brimstead, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
Beat Club just put this up, one my favorite Fanny things, their cover of Ike & Tina's "Young and Dumb" (a live staple, a studio version came out as b-side I think?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4l6FU74pUY
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 November 2021 23:50 (two years ago) link
Thanks! Also, you've somehow reminded me of Goldie and the Gingerbreads, one of the first all female bands--I only knew of them via mentions and quoted in Scaduto's Mick Jagger---Everybody's Lucifer, from during their tyme as house band(?) in an NYC rock disco, I think---um, point is: I somehow thought they were only that, but just now found a bunch of tracks on YouTube:https://www.google.com/search?tbm=vid&q=goldie+and+the+gingerbreads&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwitrLv8sK30AhXMQ_EDHauvCaMQ8ccDegQIchAD&biw=1094&bih=510&dpr=1.25
I knew that Goldie was later known as Genya Ravan, promoted as NOO YAWK's answer to Janis, later, Lou Reed showed up on at least one of her tracks.Goldie history here---origins in Richard Perry's (!) college band, The Escorts:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldie_and_the_Gingerbreadsnote to self:Compilation Album
Thinking About The Good Times: Complete Recordings 1964-1966 Compilation, Goldie and the Gingerbreads, 2021 Ace
― dow, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
Can't resist:uture careersGenya Ravan went on to form Ten Wheel Drive and a career in record production and radio. She produced the Dead Boys 1977 debut album Young Loud and Snotty. She now hosts two radio shows on Little Steven's Underground Garage channel on Sirius/XM: Goldie's Garage and Chicks and Broads. Ravan's memoirs, entitled Lollipop Lounge: Memoirs of a Rock and Roll Refugee, were published in 2004 by Billboard Books.[17]
Carol MacDonald and Ginger Bianco later formed the nucleus of jazz-fusion band Isis.[18]
Margo Lewis is owner and president of Talent Consultants International, Ltd., a talent booking agency in New York, and a partner in Talent Source, Ltd, which manages the estate of Bo Diddley. Lewis toured with Diddley as his personal manager and as his keyboard player for the last 10 years of his life.
― dow, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 02:17 (two years ago) link
It was Trude Heller’s (discotheque) on 6th Avenue and 9th St. in Manhattan where Goldie & the Gingerbreads played in the ‘60s. You can see the place in the Goldie Hawn film Cactus Flower (1969), where it’s renamed The Slipped Disc.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
There was a Goldie track on the Rhino Girl Groups box.
Iirc, during one of their British tours, Margo Lewis was brought in to do organ overdubs on "Midnight To Six Man" by the Pretty Things.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 03:05 (two years ago) link
Thanks yall! What Goldie told Scaduto incl. that New York girls would go crazy while the Stones were onstage, dirty as hell, with grease dripping off their hair under the lights. and they'd go strutting off that way---come back way later in tailored suits, perfect hair, shining like they'd been in the shower for hours."I said, 'Wow! Why didn't you guys clean up like that before?' 'It's good for business.' What could I say? It was true."
― dow, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 03:52 (two years ago) link
A friend's Facebook link also sent me down an, er, deep fanny wormhole on YouTube
This is wonderful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YH-MJmWVhw
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 21 April 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
Look at the haze over LA haha
Would have been fun to see them at the Whisky.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 April 2022 15:25 (one year ago) link
so good. all their live clips are always so much tougher than the records. would love a cleaned-up archival live release from them.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 21 April 2022 15:35 (one year ago) link
I've posted this elsewhere, but their cover of Hey Bulldog is fucking amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdwzko9DZ0s
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 21 April 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Trailer for doc, finally finished and shown in 2021:
― dow, Friday, 22 April 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
Sorry! Here tishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zspd9hFRtkw
― dow, Friday, 22 April 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
Neat vintage British tea ad w/cool Fanny footage (no sound unfortunately)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRPznaQKtag
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
Finally on my PBS:https://aptv.org/apt-news/fanny-the-right-to-rock-2/"> https://aptv.org/apt-news/fanny-the-right-to-rock-2/
― dow, Thursday, 18 May 2023 23:00 (ten months ago) link
Dunno why dup--the one after> works.
― dow, Thursday, 18 May 2023 23:03 (ten months ago) link