Unheralded rock goddesses and gods

Mike Ness (Social Distortion), Reach for the Sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRK8P94QXxQ

She was the opening act for a tour that featured Twisted Sister & Ratt as co-headliner. Good show - the first concert I went to.

Great show and I agree with you. :hi:

that sounds like a show

with Lucero and Frank Turner. It was cold out and sold out. ;-)

...front person for Angel Of The Odd - AOTO, a Monrovia CA based band circa 1988-90something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtsYhlBcMEA&feature=related



I was in Cecilia's solo band (we performed her song compositions outside of AOTO), and she was the lead vocalist in my totally obscure art/rock/experimental band called Pendu Femelle, late-80s into the early 90s.

Cecilia Plus Minus was "goth" before I ever heard of it, but me and the band were not "goth" at all, which led to some interesting moments with her primarily "goth"-populated audiences.

Unfortunately, Cecilia passed away in early 09 from a long undiagnosed (or misdignosed), until it was too late, rare and deadly mystery disorder.

Had she been correctly diagnosed a decade earlier, she might still be around...

Thank you for posting this. She was beautiful, great voice and presence.

...I wish she were still around, was in good health and happy, and we could work some more together.

Now I feel like crying...

http://www.freshwidow.com/PenduFemelle/

The song called "Hinterland" features Cecilia on vocals.

BTW, these are downloadable mp3s.

...in Hollywood, CA, back in the early eighties.

My band played there numerous times back then, and Duce would often be hanging out. He had a set of Camco drums, like me, so we would talk drums.

Don Bolles (Germs, 45 Grave, Celebrity Skin, Fancy Space People), often did the sound for the Cathay. In retrospect, it was a great place, but, at the time, it just seemed like another dive.

If you don't mind me asking publicly.....I am continually amazed at how many musicians (or at least ex/retired ones) are here at DU.

...and the one before that (and which still exists, at least as a recording project), Benedict Arnold & The Traitors, both of which played at the Cathay, although the Monkey played there much more than the Traitors.

I'm still flailing away, just played a live show in Costa Mesa last Saturday with a band consisting of the original guitarist from the Traitors (which started in late 1979), who is now playing bass and singing, along with his 28 year old son, who is the lead guitarist, and I'm the drummer.

Lastly, I'm working with the current Traitors' guitarist on another project called "Green Sparkle Frog," which I hope will be releasing a CD by the end of the year/early 2011. It's all happy, melodic, rock/pop with a little country edge, or something like that.

good way to put it...me too.....from the god-forsaken outpost of Albuquerque(Actually a lot of surprisingly good musicians here and Santa Fe, but short on good places to play)

...on my drive back to Los Angeles, from the truly depressing Bible Belt-buckle hellhole called Springfield, MO.*

Albuquerque...? I think I stopped there overnight at some corporate chain hotel next to the interstate. Wish I could see the real Albuquerque, where you live.

As far as good places to play, Los Angeles and the surrounding urban jungle sprawl ain't necessarily Heaven, although there is no lack of places to play, for better or worse. This little strip mall rathole in Costa Mesa the other night actually had a good vibe, and despite heavy rain through the day, there was a good crowd on hand for my first live gig with this particular band. Plus, we actually got paid!

Most of the stuff (actually, not most, ALL), of the stuff I've been involved with in L.A. since 1978 has been all original, diy/indie label, underground, "non-commercial," non-cover tunes (except for the occasional one or two for fun), which is, needless to say, a hard sell.

I had one project get to a Columbia Records development deal, with Sandy Perlman (sp? Blue Oyster Cult producer), producing...but our singer (not Cecilia Plus Minus, somebody else) could not satisfactorily finish her vocals on the demo recordings, and the band dissolved rapidly thereafter. That was 1995, and I was already too old to be doing this, now it's fuckin ridiculous, no?

*Long story, won't bore ya with it, and no offense about that "hellhole" thing to Springfieldians, if there are any actual humans living there, I'm kidding, of course. But I won't be going to Springfield MO anytime soon.

We should try to meet sometime in Burque or Santa.
:hi:

Duce was there, but seems to me the rest of the Mentors didn't show up or something...or maybe were too fucked up(?) Anyway, actually had a brief (maybe a couple of minutes) conversation with him; real nice guy.

The guy was a ficking visionary. Check this out.

Carolyn can play guitar as well as anyone ever and sings like Janis and Aretha on a three day bender. Her cohorts in the TGW are Shelly King, another incredible guitarist,songwriter as well as a great singer, and Cindy Cashdollar who is one of the best steel guitar/dobro players in the world.

http://www.carolynwonderland.com/

http://www.shelleyking.com/


http://www.cindycashdollar.com/home/

Gidget Goes to Hell, etal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnuC-VpCXuM

straight from New Hampshire!

almost made living in Orange County bearable

The taught precision of their playing is still stunning. Besides the humorous lyrics and the quircky tunes, this was one baddass band.

His voice was just so unique.

Colin Blunstone of the Zombies - definitely underrated

Emily Haines - Metric's Fantasies could be a rock classic

Paul Revere of Paul Revere & The Raiders

Buddy Holly, as far as influence goes

Kelly Ogden of the Dollyrots

and others I'm sure.

Jeff Buckley - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

Zombies - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5IRI4oHKNU&feature=related

Paul Revere - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP8G4clUJBY

Buddy Holly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3WDCHF1vDE&feature=related

Emily Haines - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHt5caARmh0&feature=watch_response

Kelly Ogden - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzQPEau4lAE&feature=related

Hüsker Dü, Sugar, his solo stuff...

It's amazing that he isn't a household name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefkvjcjNj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7dJ17W43iI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDnNr6lNxvc

What a great singer, and a great band....I just posted this song on facebook a couple of weeks ago suggesting/imploring one of my female vocalist fiends to learn it, and also recently watched Cold Blood's spellbinding performance at the closing of the Fillmore West show (shows?). Lydia Pense was at one of the casinos here a couple of years ago but I wasn't able to go. Another old sax player buddy of mine (Rick Metz; based out of Reno) has played with her on occasion over the years, and says she's still "got it".

:rofl:

both gone now....but never forgotten...






Tikki

great singer, player, writer and performer. And a really nice woman, too.

belongs in the R&R hall of fame

Mike Ness is definitely a god, BTW! :)

in 1987 (believe so)...Dude's Welsh IIRC...

We remember the music as being very cerebral.

The Tikkis

In all her incarnations.

Here's some 50 Foot Wave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpavSO-vXns&feature=fvst

Of Babe Ruth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTPE2pNtKWQ&feature=related

the one everyone knows (and loves) without knowing who sings it (linda perry w/ 4 non blondes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwCt0YQPn7g

and some of her other unheralded offerings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTxUVJ6Ti8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdKBIwXTtZ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c084zlok4DQ&feature=related

Happy Thanksgiving
:hi:

Exile - I Wanna Kiss You All Over (1978) Original before he passed. Saw them many times at Club 68.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJQpSzDgC0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6mDBeeApBA
"Once Bitten, Twice Shy"



Tikki

And, Once Bitten... is from his first solo album. He did awesome work on the 2nd through 7th Mott the Hoople albums too.
GAC

Lead guitarist of The Cars. IMO, the most underrated guitar great in rock history.
GAC