Geez, I didn't want to respond to all of these... but, I just can't help myself!

This, of course... is a Tori Amos song. (What I heard/watched my neice dance to - and I like Tori because [to ME] she was the "new" Kate Bush.)

Anyway, this video actually reminds me of my sister and myself as children. She was/IS a wonderful dancer, and would "make me" do the "male" part of any dance. lol...

How much fun we had. I wouldn't trade my memories in for NOTHING!!


*WC

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N6W4CJFWm4"]YouTube- Roisin Murphy - Ramalama Bang Bang[/ame]

It was great in person too. My honey is a fan of the show "So You Think You Can Dance". They were going to be touring in our area, so I got her tickets. She was psyched. I honestly didn't want to go, but I did (for her). In any case, that performance was great and happened to be my favorite part of the show. Very powerful piece.

I love this quote Snow and REALLY can identify with it. I was alone, alone, alone as a kid - except for when I listened to music. I was COMFORTABLE then and comforted by my musical haven...


This is my favorite early Jackson Five's song:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1DCv2JED0"]YouTube- Got to be there- Jackson five[/ame]

We were all trying to hit that one dang high note in this - without going falsetto!! SMILE... and I was such a little queer, dreaming of "her" already then! :love1:

I grew up on Motown, and my oldest sister just left the radio on all night (even school nights), with the Casey show... She had an 8TRACK portable player (our early BOOM BOX!), and the tape (not called cassettes yet, those were the SMALL tapes yet to come) "The Best of the Supremes". While I was cutting out the little 45 records off the back of cereal boxes - where I got the very young Stevie Wonder's "Uptight, (Everything's Alright)", and The Temptations "My Girl", which absolutely MELTED my heart. That Detroit sound... and the beat is unmistakable.

And I started building those drumsets!


:heartbeat:

*And I'm still very sad about losing Michael.

Girlschool!!!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i69l6xEjBnQ"]YouTube- JOHNNY TERRIS: GIRLSCHOOL GUITARIST KELLY JOHNSON TRIBUTE RIP[/ame]

I've been listening to a lot of Angie Aparo lately

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbYMp8VgNc0"]YouTube- Angie Aparo - "Rocket Man" - Live at Room 5 Lounge[/ame]

Here's what I'm listening to right now. Maybe this will catch my cat's attention from trying to climb the friggon Xmas tree....

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWzGlkzpjA"]YouTube- Christmas Jingle Cats[/ame]

Hey Jerrie!!
 

WOOO-HOOOO! Who says ya can't have FUN when you get older!!!????

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYZkFOZoP-o"]YouTube- 91 yr. old female drummer - Allee Willis Presents "Hey Jerrie"[/ame]


*Allee Willis tribute...

Pretty cool...
 

A woman sat down in a music store:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2vvse45Qyk"]YouTube- Female Drum Solo Sam Ash[/ame]


In my day, this would have been called "a happening" walking into this...

:drummer:

* I love it hearing the women cheer here... :cheesy:



WILDCAT

Sorry!
 

Nope!

This was an extremely good choice though. Very sad about the loss of Kelly Johnson, she was so good! And really ROCKED. But, I'm talking back further than this.

Think, "relative" to time periods too. For example, how we thought of Jimi ,The Who as being "hard rock", some of it is considered "pretty now" by some current standards.

Just like when Black Sabboth and Deep Purple came along, today some of "that" is very "beautiful"...

Seriously, this was the first all women's band accepted for major mainstream recording - a difficult pathway to establish for the time. They wrote their own music and all played there own instruments. And although there surely were other women's band's then playing rock, this was the first "hired" for recording.

Other all female bands were accepted for this band paving the way.

More clues lined up, but keep trying first. I gave a VERY good clue to start off with.


Sincerely!

WILDCAT

Mad World
 

The children are our future...


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4"]YouTube- Mad World - Gary Jules[/ame]

Snowy, I thought REM sang this version, and did not know that Tears for Fears did this originally, AND that this guy Jules really did this song - not REM. (Half the world got that wrong though, just punch it in by REM and this version/song comes up for them with this song title.)


Here's my favorite Tears for Fears song:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOA4ixV-3jU"]YouTube- Everybody Wants To Rule The World[/ame]

*I was always CONVINCED that this song had a dual meaning and ONE of them was about being queer and having to be in the closet. This is a beautiful song to me and had political relevance for it's time. (Well, much of their music did.)

WILD

You're with a winner, so baby, you can't lose.
 

BLACK SABBATH!!!
 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FApakDW37BI"]YouTube- Black Sabbath - Laguna Sunrise[/ame]


:weightlifter:


;)

More than you'll ever know...
 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg4T_B9D1TE"]YouTube- More than you'll ever know[/ame]

Hmmmm.... I was thrown by your query about the first mainstream successful HARD rock band. Which I believe is Girlschool. The Runaways were later and not as successful. I believe one of the members of Girlschool (the drummer?) later joined the Go-Go's and after that played some lez festivals?
Unless you mean The Slits which were certainly HARD but considered more punk than rock.
Back further than Girlschool, and mainstream and popular? And HARD rock? And all-female? No one that I know of.

Now if we are talking about regular blues-based rock, history of rock and (non-hard) roll and all, then the first mainstream all-female rock band would probably be the GTO's.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCC0lihHBwQ"]YouTube- the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), 1969[/ame]

But I'm thinking you mean the Fannies. Blues based rock remarkable for existing in a man's world circa 1970 (or whenever). They rocked! In a 70's Tv friendly non- hard way! lol. But seriously, they totally rocked.

oops
 

OK they were FANNY, not "the fannies":
And they were damn cute.
They probably awakened a million girl's rock dreams on the Sonny and Cher show!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9VM1rYcPGA"]YouTube- FANNY "Charity Ball" 1971[/ame]
Now, what do I win?
;)

Thanks Gemme!
Here's an oldie fer ya:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN-nJld8czw"]YouTube- The Slits - So Tough[/ame]

Now, that's one cool, old lady! Awesome Wild! :drummer:

That's one of my favorite Xmas songs Miss Diva... :goodpost:

gives me chills everytime...
 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI"]YouTube- Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice[/ame]

Afterglow by INXS
 

One of my favorite songs



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnTelUJrDhc"]YouTube- INXS - Afterglow[/ame]

This is my second favorite song ever.
Many of my views on live in general came from this music.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw"]YouTube- Imagine[/nomedia]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxLnIRVVwIM&feature=related"]YouTube- Imagine ~ John Lennon[/ame]

I just noticed today is December 8, the 29th year since John Lennon's death. It seems like yesterday.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBgjysQA6Cc&feature=related"]YouTube- The Beatles - Let it Be (1970)[/ame]

My favorite song!

Thank you for posting this and reminding me. I will light a candle... I was torn UP for several months after John came out with his last album [alive] and was shot right after that! I buried the album and was upset that they just kept playing his songs over the airwaves. It felt like a violation to me.

Ramdom thoughts, special announcements and more trivia:

*The JACKSONS are coming out with a new special "series" on the A&E channel this Sunday. I'm going to keep quite about this, but I do feel for me personally this is JUST TOO DAMN SOON for the "bro's" to do this... IMHO.

*For some of you Idol fans, Allison, the young wild red head from last season has her own band now, and has a new album [CD] out. She was on the Ellen show last week. She has a woman drummer, one woman guitarist... and another guitarist I am not sure of... (he/she looks like a very tall slender ADAM L), and I believe a male keyboard player. Nice to see the mix, that she chose this! So, you fans of hers... She belted out a rock song. Perhaps a little too teenie-boppy for me, but (?) I don't know what the rest of the CD is like though.

*Scorp, will adress you "guessES" now... Give me a bit of time here please. (Thanks for "playing"!)


PEACE

:snowysmiley:

Well, well, well...
 

Another good choice here with the "GTO's", but the key was "major recording labels". Back in the day there were only a few of them - ya got in, or ya "didn't"! One gal from this band here [you posted] was a nanny to Frank Zappa kids, and I'm sure that HE was considered an "independent" label then. So when these "girls" here from Haight Ashbury got bored, they did record one album... yes. Frank produced it. Actually, I can hear his "influence" in this one song you posted.

QUOTE BY DAVID BOWIE: (Rolling Stone magazine 12/99)

"One of the most important bands in American Rock has been buried without a trace. And that is Fanny. They were extraordinary. They wrote everything, they played like motherfuckers. They were colossal and wonderful, and nobody's ever mentioned them. They're as important as anyone's ever been, ever; it just wasn't their time. Revivify Fanny and I will feel that my work has been done."

Whoa.

Now, you were a little bad here by stating a couple different choices in one post. (i.e. Could be this one, but might be that one... lol!)

HOWEVER, YOU WIN THE PRIZE!!!!!!!!!!

:happyjump:

:clap::clap::clap:

Fanny recorded rock from 1970 - 1975. Sisters June and Jean Millington originally formed the band (called Wild Honey, pre-recording).

Bands and artists from that time period such as David Bowie, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Rod Stewart, George Harrison, etc... all helped to promote them. They were blown away by them.

Warner Brothers record producer (of artists like Leo Sayer, Carly Simon, Barbra Steisand) was wanting an all women's rock band. He signed them under contract to WB's subsidiary "Reprise Records".

Prior to Fanny, NO all female band in any genre of music playing their own instruments and writing their own material had ever known true success.

Their 3rd album was recorded in the Beatle's Apple studio, (a now major label in itself, recording artists to follow such as Badfinger, etc...)

Fanny's one single "Young and Dumb" was banned by the BBC and they were banned from performing that at Albert Hall, for it was considered "too provocative".

After their Reprise contract was up, Fanny moved to Casablanca for their final recorded album. Popular 70's bands such as KISS, Village People, Donna Summers, etc... recorded for this label.

By them putting their foot in the door opened to artist like Joan Jett, etc...

Here is a historical film recognizing them as "Women Legends In Music". The quality of the film is terrible, but bear past the first few minutes of sound in and out for the first song, and the "sound" at least does get better. It is rare footage and worth the historical significance IMO:.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWl5Rr0iIi8"]YouTube- FANNY "Legendary Ladies of Rock & Roll"[/ame]

Scorp, with all due respect, I think you will find this "sound" a bit more "hard rock" than the GTO's. Yes? I guess you could say this has a southern blues rock sound to it too... It's the guitar sound, the drumming and bit of belting it out at times in this genre - all not very "lady like" for the time that appalled folks. Literally. They were seen as "freaks" at first, but eventually fought through the harsh criticism to be accepted once people went to their concerts and saw them perform and felt their rock energy.

(Remember the "MONKEES" didn't even all play their own instruments!! Just a little more trivia here.)

They fought very hard to stay away from that "cutesy" feminine look and behavior that was expected of them - to be seen and respected as "musicians FIRST".

Regarding this Charity Ball hit (which I had the 45 record), can you BELIEVE what CHER SAYS AT THE END OF THIS?!! I bet she would take this back in a heartbeat today!! Kind of funny now though...


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTA0PHkZbt0"]YouTube- Charity Ball by rock group Fanny[/ame]

____

NEW TRIVIA, but spin-off from this... (?) (Might as well keep doing your homework.) What very popular female vocalist [front woman] went on at this time to do her own solo "rock" career in the mainstream - who has a connection to this band? (No, not June Millington... we know where her shift in music went.)

:deepthoughts:


WILDCAT

*Oh, someone to contact you soon regarding your prize! :phonegab:

**P.S. ETA, I don't know what that red symbol is in the topic/post title here, must have bumped something and not here in editing to delete. Disregard please. It looks like a "thumbs down". No, no, no... not at all - from me. K?!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOzayDpWoI"]YouTube- Fiona Apple - Criminal[/ame]

Bianca Ryan
 

For those that remember the very first America's Got Talent, this is the winner, who was 9 at the time.

This song is pretty much my anthem.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrLzS2ejiFA"]YouTube- That's Not Me (Full) - Bianca Ryan (Lyrics in Description)[/ame]

Me and the feet have some years to reclaim. . .
 

Also by Sia. . .
 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so92EDJpu_A"]YouTube- Led Zeppelin - Kashmir Original Recording[/ame]

YAY I Won!!!
Yeah, our frames of reference for "hard rock" are very different. But thanks for the historic info, I had forgotten all about Fanny. That's so cool that you have one of their 45's. Have you ever had opportunity to listen to one of their albums? I haven't. Nor the GTO's.
One time years ago I spent hours sorting through boxes of "one-dollar" albums and found a mint copy of the GTOs. Unfortunately the jerk-off who owned the store decided to refuse to sell it to me because he "didn't realize he had it". Uh, yeah, that's what dollar boxes of records in used record stores are for, jackass, finding a gem. I never went back.
Hope he enjoyed his record. He lost a TON of business over it and must have pissed off a lot of collectors because he soon went out of business. The landlord kept his stock in leu of rent and probably sold it en mass at auction.
Bad karma!
So I get a Fanny album as a prize, right???
ha!
:rockband:

I love music! When I was a kid, I played piano, but I wasn't real good at it. I took up guitar and liked it but then decided I'd also like to try bass guitar. I fell in love! I learned how to play and I can play pretty well. I had 3 different bands ask me to play in their bands, but I either didn't like their band or didn't like the music they played. One had a terrible singer and I just couldn't play in a band where I couldn't stand to hear the singer, one was a country band and they played that whiney, twangy stuff I don't like, the 3rd we were actually working on getting an all gal band together but couldn't find a drummer, male or female. Then when I moved to Illinois it seemed I never got time to practice and ended up selling it. I miss my bass, a lot!