I told him that I played guitar and that I wanted to form an all-girl band. She said, “Why don’t you talk to Kim? He might be able to help you.” I was very naive. Her publisher and songwriting partner was a guy named Kim Fowley. I thought she played an instrument, but it turns out that she was a lyricist.
I spoke to this girl that I used to hang out with named Kari Chrome. So I started talking to my friends to see if anyone played an instrument. So I thought, “If she’s doing it, than I can do it, and if I can do it, than there has to be other girls here in Hollywood that want to do it.” That was really the impetus. It’s a girl playing rock n’ roll.”Ībsolutely. Then I was thinking, “Here’s a girl doing it. Not to mention, I got to hear Suzi Quatro. They were three-minute songs with big choruses and handclaps and very prominent drums. That’s where I was turned on to a lot of Bowie, T Rex, Sweet, Slade and Suzi Quatro. So I’d go to this club, and all the kids dressed outrageously with huge platform shoes and glitter. They played all the British music that was coming out of England in the early ’70s that the American kids had never heard because it was all disco in America in the mid ’70s. I used to read about a club called Rodney’s English Disco. Well, it was a very long, convoluted process, but I used to read about a club in “Circus” and “Creem” magazines. I was close to Hollywood, so I thought I could make my dream come true. Once I got to LA, I had these stirrings of wanting to be in a rock n’ roll band, and forming an all-girl band. I went from one valley to the other valley. It was the whole band with Johnny Thunders.įirst we moved to Canoga Park. That was one of my first rock n’ roll souvenirs. I was in the front row, and I stole David Johansen’s beer bottle. That’s when I started to get into rock n’ roll.
I moved to Rockville, MD for five very formative years, from age 8 to 12. I lived in Pittsburgh, PA for a couple of years, and then I lived in Erie, PA for a couple of years. So can we just talk about the past a little bit, so that the readers understand? YOU’RE TELLING ME A GIRL CAN’T PLAY ROCK N’ ROLL.” GIRLS PLAY CELLOS AND VIOLINS IN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS. Baby’s been proving them wrong for a long time now, and continues to do so… “SOME PEOPLE WOULD TELL ME THAT I COULD DO ANYTHING, AND THEN SOME PEOPLE WERE TELLING ME THAT I COULDN’T PLAY GUITAR IN A ROCK N’ ROLL BAND. If they say it can’t be done, think again. PHOTOS BY CODY SMYTH and MICHAEL RUBENSTEINĪ Girl, a Runaway, a Blackheart, What some call a rock star… I would think someone who is true to herself, passionate about what she believes, and truly LUVS ROCK and ROLL… for all the right reasons.
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