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First, I see over in GD how Joan Jett is going to run as a Dean delegate from New York. THEN, someone posts on the thread that The Bangles are going to do a Dean fund-raiser in California sometime in December.
Damned if these two things haven't done my battered heart more good than almost anything that's developed on the political front for the last six months!
For openers, Joan Jett has been a hero of mine ever since I first heard "I Love Rock And Roll." She showed the world that it was Way OK for girls to to ROCK--as opposed to being window dressing for a mixed gender band or being simply Pretty Things Who Sing (in a girl group) while the boys do all the heavy lifting musically.
Jett has stayed true to her art, never giving Shit One about what "people might say." She has become a role model for young women who want to get serious about their music. She's got the credentials and she carries some weight among the young. When she says she wants to learn more about the political process, I say ROCK ON, JOAN!
Then, there are The Bangles, :loveya: my favorite band, male, female, animal, vegetable or mineral, of the last twenty years. (Sorry, Pogues, there are just some things a man's gotta do!)
If The Bangles decide they're gonna raise money for Dean, that just kicked them up about another six notches in my eyes. They have quite a large fan-club following that existed even during the years of their breakup. Those former teenagers who loved them in their "Egyptian" days are now old enough to vote!
BTW, if anyone here is on the lookout for some great "new" music, The Bangles' "Doll Revolution" is as good or better than anything they've ever done.
And it ain't like all these pretty female faces have turned my head; I've been for Dean since I first heard him speak. It's just a great confirmation to have some of my favorite rockers come out in support of him!
Cheers, :bounce: dbt
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