Letters to the Editor
-
Lots of female LED bands though
Even if they have male members (heh heh).
Heart, the Donnas, Sleater Kinney, Veruca Salt, Evanescence, Elastica, Sade.
Didn't a lot of these bands write their own material?
-
PBS need to do their homework
Mariachi Estrella de Topeka, Kansas was already performing in the early 80s. Someone at PBS needs to do their homework...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20060718/ai_n16537825
-
CompaNeras??
The name of the film is "Compañeras".
Why, oh why, do you have to replace the ñ with an n? I know it's not in many keyboards, but really, this is HTML, it isn't that hard to put in.
Why, I even managed to do it! I'm sure a professional online writer can do it, too.
A minor thing, I know. Still, why?
-
uh...........
Hole, kittie, The cranes, The primitives, the darling buds, yeah yeah yeahs, garbage le tigre, the sounds, the gossip, cocteau twins, tegan and sara, the cranberries, the Cardigans, Indigo girls, the cowboy junkies, 10,000 maniacs, arch enemy, walls of jericho, paramore, wicked wisdom, siouxsie and the banshees, fleetwood mac(the girls wrote everything), jefferson airplane, metric, noisettes, the eurythmics, buzzcocks, Janis joplin's band, joan jett and the blackhearts, the dresden dolls, L7, shengri-Las.....
ok, I'm done...I might start repeating..
-
Cataract
Not many of the bands you list are all female, most are female led. And the Buzzcocks aren't even that.
-
Uh...
The post reads "all-female" bands on the "mainstream music" scene.
-
Macho macho man!
I want to be a macho Man!
Got to be a macho macho man!
-
so what?
reality is there aren't many all girl bands.....
but co-ed should be good enough....
-
mainstream?!?!
who the hell listens to mainstream anymore.
-
Question for Brightstar
Do our read jezebel.com? Just wondering.
-
Cataract
And the Buzzcocks are all male.
-
sorry lynx.....
BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGG BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD wrongo on my dumbass part...
excuse me while I go blow my brains out....
-
Slightly off topic, but...
Oh my F'ing GOD did the Breeders rock.
Sorry, that's a pre-programmed response. Every time I hear them mentioned, I have to say that. They totally killed. That bass line from Cannonball...man, that was...dude, I can't even talk about it.
(Sorry, I'll stop being 23 again in a minute).
-
Lucha broke that ceiling 70 years ago
Lucha Reyes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucha_Reyes_(Mexican_singer)) broke the lead male mariachi glass ceiling in Mexico in the 1930's. At the time it was rather controversial, but it hasn't been since then. An all female mariachi band is nowadays more of a curio than anything else (say like an all blonde mariachi band).
-
Lucha Reyes
I believe Lucha Reyes sang accompanied by mariachis but was not a mariachi as such. That is, usually mariachis all play and sing to some extent and if I am correct Lucha Reyes was only accompanied by them. A mariachi accompaniment is a common place among almost all Mexican singers. Most singers, including pop or such and female and male, at some point in their career record with mariachis.
-
Breeders
erm, Jim MacPherson (founding drummer) and current drummer and bassist (Jose Medeles and Mando Lopez, respectively) might bristle a bit about the notion that they are/were in an "all-female" group. Just sayin'.
-
Bit of speculation...
I've spent a fair amount of time around "bands" and band-people. Two things became obvious to me.
1) Most bands suck
2) Bands that suck don't get gigs and have to really work/practice/compose all the time if they want to work
Given those facts, I'm not at all surprised that there aren't a huge number of all female bands. I think the narcissistic impulse that drives sucky bands to really struggle to succeed is more often found in males.
Most of the sucky bands I knew that were functioning had at least one wacked-out-enthusiastic dude devoted to making sure the other musicians showed up and stayed involved. I don't think I've ever known of a band where that character was a female. (Obviously just personal anecdote, speaking of the 60 or so bands I've known.)
So the all-female bands might have less of a chance of surviving long enough to break out.
-
how could you forget...
The Dixie Chicks.
They were not only good, they were SO GOOD they did the accompaniment on their own (first) album(s)--something almost ALWAYS done by professional studio musicians.
-
this has been on my mind lately
A lot of my buddies are into guitar hero, which led to the question, "Where are the guitar heroines?"
Legendary female electric guitarists... well, there aren't any. There are a couple who aren't bad. But there's no female Jimmy Page. The only female electric guitarist Rolling Stone could come up with for its Top 100 Guitarists list was Joan Jett, who doesn't even play lead for her own band. (Actually, I think the writers of the Rolling Stone article may have been on crack, since the girls of Veruca Salt are both better guitarists, but I digress.)
I went looking for the girl groups. Along the way, I encountered the wiki page mentioned in the article. Go-Gos? Please. By their own admission these ladies formed a band without knowing how to play their instruments. Beats hell out of begging the boys to play for you, but it's a long way from Eddie Van Halen sitting home every weekend of his teenage life with his guitar and a six pack while everyone else went on dates.
I found an article by Nancy Wilson of Heart in which she says that she feels uncomfortable playing lead guitar as a woman, that she feels like it's an ego trip.
I found a site devoted to guitars for girls - they're called Daisy Rock - with heart shaped guitars and flower shaped guitars and very, very crappy electronics, and a female demonstrator who is easy on the eyes but doesn't play very well. Don't girls who want to rock deserve decent pickups? Everything about this site made me sad.
Anyway, I'm off topic. Yay for Mariachi women! I can't imagine that hauling around a guitarron is easy for anyone, male or female. But there have been female marching band tuba players for years, why not guitarron players? My only concern would be that the traditional sound involves male voices, which means that a female group by definition can't replicate the traditional sound.