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ick jagger said an interesting thing in a recent interview and that is that musicians all through the ages never really made tons of money but there was that one window in time in the sixties and seventies when groups like his were able to become extremely famous and extremely rich by making music but that time seems to have come and gone now a musician is just lucky to be making a living at all by way of his or her music there are of course the lady gagas and the atomic toms who come along now and then but most of their success is based on a gimmick not on the music and even they are not racking up the sales like a michael jackson or a mariah carey once did how do you feel that you ve changed the most since the 60s and 70s as an artist i am no longer about glitter glam sex and seduction and i guess the same can be said for me as a person and that s probably a good thing at my age once i lost the desire for sex i of course lost the need and the desire to seduce and that changes everything about one s attitude motives conduct and style i feel so free now free of the need to be sexy seductive and in fashion i am what i am and if someone doesn t like it that s their problem i m happy to be in my wrinkled 67 year old skin and confident in my talents accomplishments personality experience loyalty integrity and dependability i m at that point in life where i can say exactly what i feel and what i think without the fear of judgment or rejection as an artist i m still financially very insecure but i understand that sort of comes with the territory and i accept it but socially i am way more secure than i ever was when i was young and hot my aim was always to convey a relatable truth of the human condition through my art but there was a time when i felt it also had to be a little bit shocking now i just feel like i have to strive to tell the truth it still may shock some people but i am in no way consciously trying to do that i m just trying to inform and relate and i think that s the goal of most artists young or old then or now what projects are you working on now currently i am giving my all to promoting my book lick me i spent two years writing it and i would like to see it get into the hands of as many people as possible i ve been traveling around the states doing readings signings and interviews i m hoping someone will want to make a movie of my story and that i ll be involved in that and i m beginning to think about my next book the one that will continue the story from 1977 to present mostly though i m working on staying healthy so i can accomplish all of these things and that s the most important project of them all for all of us interview with donita sparks of l7 september 23 2010 3 45 am posted in uncategorized tagged donita sparks l7 punk rock riot grrl rock for choice comments 3 an edited version of this interview originally appeared on venus zine s website in january of 2008 donita sparks with l7 on the backburner the guitarist vocalist talks about the 90s flashing controversy rock for choice and her forthcoming solo album transmiticate by bess korey on the afternoon during early october 2007 that i had made a date to call donita sparks for a phone interview i found myself incredibly nervous her former all female band l7 had changed my life when i was a teenager and i had always found sparks tough rocker chick image to be admirable but at the same time i found it to be quite intimidating hence the sense of anxiety when i made my call it turned out that my initial perception of sparks was completely wrong this rock n roll veteran whom has paved the way for so many other female musicians and has helped prove to the world that women can rock just as hard and as well as men if not better was about as modest and friendly as could be l7 had an amazing 16 year run which lasted from 1985 2001 and during that time they put out 6 studio albums including 1992 s bricks are heavy that album featured the sparks penned hit single pretend we re dead which landed the band on mtv and launched them to international superstardom a definite influence on the riot grrl movement both musically and politically l7 decided to use their fame for good by founding the pro choice organization rock for choice it may seem as if sparks hasn t been in the public eye as much since l7 s disbandment but that doesn t mean she hasn t been busy she has spent quite a few years working on her solo debut transmiticate which is due to be released in january of 2008 and has also added the title film composer to her lengthy resume a recent example of this being her scoring work for the film the life of reilly during the fall of 2007 she embarked on her first tour as a solo artist and had her new band the stellar moments backing her up this may be a new phase in sparks life but the fact that she has chosen former l7 bandmate dee plakas to be the stellar moments drummer proves that her musical past is never too far behind her bk after being in an all female band for so many years what has it been like for you to switch to a co ed line up with the stellar moments ds i think it s been great with l7 we were all equal partners and with this band i m in charge it takes on extra responsibility when you have to be boss and that s been interesting as far as the co ed thing i ve found that the guys in the band have been really respectful it s been totally cool do you see any major differences between playing with male and female musicians i don t think i ve played with enough different musicians to have an opinion on that l7 were all women for a very long time even though our first drummer was a guy he was problematic because he was an alcoholic was he problematic because he was a guy or because he was an alcoholic i don t know i just haven t jammed with enough people i m not a big jammer i get a band together and that s what i stick with i can t really say gender wise if there are issues or if there are just personality differences with each individual person how do you think you ve changed the most as a person and artist since you stopped working with l7 i used to work out a lot of my aggravation with songwriting for l7 and i haven t done that as much i guess if i do it let her aggressions out it s always been in a humorous way i think there s more spirituality on this record there s more of a spiritual level to it than l7 l7 was about a lot of raw emotion and this is a bit more about channeling some other strengths there has definitely been much anticipation for the release of transmiticate and during your fall 2007 tour you sold a sampler ep at your merchandise booth that gives a preview of some of those songs it definitely shows off how much you can rock but it also gives us a peek at your softer side as well as the fact that you have great pop sensibilities how much of this is reflected on the new album the songs we didn t put on the ep that are going to be on the record there s a lot more pop and there s some really slow pretty songs we made the ep for the tour rocking the rest of the record is a little bit of that and some other stuff too we wanted the tour ep to pack an exciting punch and the rest of it is going to be exciting in a different way it s newer directions for me do you still consider yourself a political person when l7 started rock for choice a lot of the shift interview wise started to go to politics and it got really frustrating for me as an artist because i wanted to talk about the music i have no problem with playing benefits and i m really glad we started rock for choice i think activists are great i ll vote and i ll go to marches but at this time i don t feel like getting involved in any organizations i think it s a very heartbreaking industry to be in you have to have a lot of strength to fight the power and it s really fucking tough and i m going to leave that to the activists i just want to be an artist and contribute in that way sparks performing with l7 when you were in l7 there were some rather shocking incidents that occurred which led to you getting unwanted media attention such as flashing your vagina on live tv in europe as well as a separate incident where you threw a used tampon at the audience during an l7 show do you think these things were blown out of proportion dropping my pants on live tv was part of the absurdity of the show they had a buns contest going on with a bunch of guys i ve always been an absurdist people are like oh what s that supposed to mean but i just felt like doing it it was absurd and it amused me and the tampon thing too we were having a bad show and i wanted to amuse myself and do something completely absurd i got a little performance art in me they were throwing mud at us and i went performance art on their ass as far it being blown out of proportion i don t know i guess it is pretty shocking i wouldn t want my mother to know about it and i don t think she does do you feel the need to have shock value on stage today well sometimes you just get in a zone and do weird shit on stage it s kind of an out of body experience as far as something like that now i don t feel the need for it shock value and i would purposely not throw a tampon i had never done it before the incident or since it was a bad time it ll never happen again and it certainly won t be part of my act do you see l7 as being permanently broken up as john lydon says about the sex pistols i reserve the right to do l7 whenever i want to that could be next year that could be whenever i ll do it when i want to and hopefully it would be with the original people who were involved or whomever right now i don t want to do it but you never know how you re going to feel in 5 years the sirens and 70s female glam rockers july 16 2010 12 39 am posted in uncategorized tagged 70s glam rock bonnie st claire david bowie fanny female musicians kristine sparkle noosha fox roxy music suzi quatro t rex the gore gore girls the sirens leave a comment an edited version of this story appeared in the fall 2007 issue of girlistic some of the information in this version especially pertaining to 70s female glam musicians has been recently updated the sirens and 70s female glam rockers by bess korey part 1 a brief history of 70s glam women the genre of 70s glam rock despite all it s gender bending and female posturing was still inherently a male dominated movement the trinity of glam consisted of david bowie t rex and roxy music and they are known for pioneering the genre and for being influential on many of the groups who came thereafter but there were many different factors that influenced the movement which remain both known and unknown and these elements go back to way before the 1970s oscar wilde hollywood glamour of the 1920s 1940s 50s rock n roll and the 60s warhol factory scene to name a few the latter element having one of the greatest affects on the feminization of the male musicians in the scene warhol superstars like jackie curtis and candy darling whom also happened to be drag queens proved as models for this feminization and both were immortalized in lou reed s glam anthem walk on the wild side jackie curtis who was light years ahead of his time represented the glitter in the gutter aspect of glam that would later be portrayed by the new york dolls and other groups that wanted to be glamourous on a junk shop budget but jackie also was said to have an influence on bowie s high brow glam image as well especially since he had bright red hair and wore glitter make up before ziggy stardust did candy darling represented old time hollywood glamour and could even pass for a 40s screen siren in her photos unlike jackie candy wanted to live her life as a female and pass as one where as jackie was all about androgyny and acting out the gender of which he felt most comfortable being that day when he was female he played that role in a campy over the top way and was never interested in passing for a real female the feminization of the male musicians of the glam movement mixed the styles of candy and jackie but had jackie s attitude even though they were fine with dressing like females they didn t actually want to be that gender what about the flip side to all this gender bending the female musicians that dressed butch and or took part in the movement well as most people know there was suzi quatro and she played an important part in the scene she didn t wear make up always wore pants and exhibited behavior which at the time was considered quite male including playing the bass writing her own songs and being very raunchy on stage you have to remember that during the early 70s the idea of a female playing an electric musical instrument was seen as an anomaly even the bass guitar which later went on to be thought of as a more so feminized instrument was still seen as a male plaything so the fact that suzi knew how to play it and did so in a very sexual way was seen as very revolutionary for the time suzi is often remembered as the only female that was part of the glam rock scene but the truth is that she was not the only female participating she was just the most well known there were women behind the scenes like angie bowie and june bolan who each played a hand in shaping the images of their famous husbands after all the best way for a man to learn how to dress female would be from a woman and it is very possible that there were other image makers in the scene who were female as well as far as other female performers go there were quite a few and unfortunately most of them have been forgotten which could have to do with the fact that glam was a male dominated movement and could also be attributed to sexism towards female performers causing inaccuracies and omissions from the annals of rock music history fortunately there are some websites out there like glam rock bear which was one of my favorite sites and is sadly now defunct crazee kids sound which has a page dedicated to glam girls here http crazeekids music blogspot com search label glam 20girls and 70s invasion which features all kinds of music from the 70s but specifically mentions female glam rockers here http www angelfire com vt2 70sinvasion page4 html that remember these female glam performers and pays tribute to them performers such as noosha fox of the band fox dana gillespie lynsey de paul bobbie mcgee aka gladys glitter zenda jacks kristine sparkle fanny bonnie st claire cherry van gelder smith and more as an american record collector i have had much difficulty finding music by most of the above artists there have been some recent re issues by some u k labels that i have been able to get my hands on though like kristine sparkle s devil woman which was put out by rpm records within the past few years and cherry red records recently re issued fanny s glam album rock n roll survivors so there have been some efforts in recent years to get the music of some of these women out there but in general their music and ...
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