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t how they re chicks but i m still waiting for the female versions of the rolling stones and led zepplin i don t know if it s the marketing if it s the women musicians not having enough confidence in themselves the record labels thinking it won t sell or the public not wanting to believe it but women have been playing music for decades and i don t understand why there hasn t been an all female band that has been held as highly as those guy bands female rock gods are few and far between you have bonnie raitt joan jett chrissie hynde but where s the female keith richards or the female eddie van halen women can play just as well as men why aren t they considered rock gods cheap perfume new york city s first all female punk band july 15 2010 11 12 pm posted in uncategorized tagged 70s punk rock all female bands female punk rockers cbgb cheap perfume max s kansas city tuff darts comments 4 an edited version of this story appeared on venus zine s website back in june of 2007 cheap perfume nyc s first all female punk band discuss the joys and hardships they faced while paving the way for the next generation by bess korey thirty years ago rock n roll was still a boys club even though all female rock bands had existed before 1977 many of these bands were driven into obscurity most were seen as novelty acts had short lived careers and or were not given a proper chance to record their music in recent years the music of many all female garage and psychedelic bands from the 60s has resurfaced including she the ace of cups the luv d ones whom i have also written about and the article is posted in this blog and the daisy chain and has been released by retro themed labels like ace and sundazed but by the mid late 70s this rich musical history of all female bands remained mostly lost female musicians who wanted to play in bands had to create a new path for themselves the members of cheap perfume lynn odell on vocals susan palermo on bass brenda martinez on drums nancy street on rhythm guitar and bunny on lead guitar an all female band that began in 1977 certainly felt like that was what they had to do born out of the early new york punk scene the fact that they were breaking new ground for female musicians made them stand out from other bands but it also sometimes worked against them in regards to this bunny says that there were so few female musicians at the time proved to be helpful but we felt we had more to prove to our audience that we could actually play as well as the next band of male musicians so in a way there was more pressure on the band to shine musically as well as visually but despite this added pressure put on them because they were an all female group bunny still feels that the punk scene was definitely more welcoming to female musicians before punk the music scene was mainly male bands and disco with female singers but without all female bands punk not only opened a door for cheap perfume as female musicians but it s diy mantra proved to be inspiring as well palermo says i was working as a waitress at cbgb and after watching several other bands perform i decided to form cheap perfume i thought hey we could do this just as well everyone was eager to hear and watch female musicians and i was just as anxious to get the music out there through cbgb s scene palermo was fortunate enough to know a few other female musicians who shared a similar goal and desire and was able to find the rest of the members through auditions funny enough both palermo and bunny started playing guitar at the age of 13 and palermo also tried to form her first all girl band at that age as well but unfortunately not to much success bunny stuck to her playing but palermo gave it up for a number of years it wasn t until closer to the time that cheap perfume formed that palermo learned to play bass she was dating the bass player of the tuff darts john desalvo and he played a role in her wanting to learn the instrument the group did not have much confidence in themselves early on palermo says when we started brenda alison was the name of the original guitarist bunny was her replacement and did not join until later and i would play for 3 hours every saturday afternoon at cottage castle no matter what it took us almost a year before we were competent and confident enough to start looking for a singer you have to remember there were few female musicians and we really had no role models at that time once lynn and nancy joined the band we auditioned at cbgb s about 3 months later once they started writing songs the band used influences from both the past and the present to carve out their own sound the fact that they were 5 unique individuals with different musical tastes shows through the versatility of their music unfortunately the group never put out an album but there are a handful of tracks that have been recorded you won t stop me is a straightforward punk song loud and fast with defiant lyrics which could even be considered feminist since the girl in the song refuses to let a boy stand in the way of what she wants to do forever damaged verges on having a metal sound and not only does it rock hard but it also tells the tale of a woman who has lived too hard a cover of the shirelles boys which they make their own completely switches gears from the latter songs by being poppier as well as being heavily influenced by the music scene of 1966 it is a gender bending response to the chocolate watchband s let s talk about girls with a little bit of tommy james and the shondells hanky panky and the capitols cool jerk thrown in for good measure like boys bittersweet also has more of a pop feel and it s verse is reminiscent of johnny cash s ring of fire but it is more like blondie s cover of the song than it is the original their musical diversity doesn t only point out the conflicting tastes amongst the band members it also serves as a testament for the scene they were a part of which had such a wide range of bands with very different influences all being considered punk once the group started playing gigs on a regular basis they would go back and forth between cbgb and max s kansas city every weekend peter crowley who was manager of max s kansas city at the time remembers them as being one of the most popular groups to play at the club the fact that boys found the band attractive only helped their popularity but crowley feels as if there was more to it than that he says i remember they had lots of boy groupies but also because they played with as much energy and skill as any of their competition they attracted a much bigger following than they got from being pretty girls two of the boy groupies who went to see the band play back then were michael zuko and freddie katz both men look back quite fondly at the cheap perfume shows they witnessed in the 70s zuko says i used to see cp at cbgb s and max s kansas city yeah yeah all girl band very cute but the songs really struck me very hooky choruses harmonies good musicianship etc i would remember them from time to time i do shows quite a bit in nyc would talk to people about them and remember the titles of the tunes tommy ordinary girls overnight angel so their songs did stay with me i remember our girlfriends would get in a huff oh you wanna see cheap perfume because they re cute right well yeah sure but they were great live 5 girls full sound always an element of uh oh what s gonna happen here in my opinion better than similar groups that were out there at the time their music also left a lasting impression on katz he says the fact is they were a great rock n roll band part of the proof i can offer of this fact is that although i have no recordings i still can remember many cheap perfume songs all these years later titles like haunted too bad tommy s such a tease i could play them on the guitar and sing them for you right now katz is currently a sound engineer in nyc and has kept in touch with the band after all these years despite their popularity in the city he feels that since they did not have a chance to record an album it made it difficult for them to gain recognition outside their hometown not having an album to promote wasn t the only slight that hurt the band in general they felt very misguided bunny says we were a young band we really did not have the management we had no knowledge of which direction to go in a field that was not really open to female musicians til later the gap that had always existed due to them having differing musical tastes grew larger over time and there were some personnel changes as well bunny ended up leaving the group and things were never the same after that susan was the next to leave and they were unable to recover the band broke up shortly after her departure in 1981 the reunited members of cheap pefume playing together in 2006 flash forward 25 years later to 2006 max s kansas city is long gone and cbgb is on it s last legs the members of cheap perfume were feeling a common bond of heartbreak over the impending closure of cbgb and it ended up bringing them back together this led to them playing cbgb again before it closed for good and wowing both new and old fans alike shaunda is a new fan that witnessed that 2006 show and she says i remember standing in the back area with my friends and cheap perfume went on i could not take my eyes off of of the drummer brenda and guitarist bunny the entire band performed with such confidence and flair i mean new york dolls unspeakable cool brenda and bunny made me want to get up and play right at that moment shaunda is not the only new female fan that the band has gained since they reunited bunny says i feel we have a lot of new young female fans so our audience is pretty well balanced now since there are so many female musicians performing now unlike the 70s and 80s the audiences now are very receptive cheap perfume still have a hold over their former boy groupies as well zuko who is a musician himself recently got to play a gig with them and had this to say about their set when the girls took the stage after midnight it all came back to me the raw energy even as a trio bunny s straight ahead locomotive guitar she also handled lead vocals susie s stylistic bass lines and brenda s powerful backbeat that girl packs a wallop they did a few of the songs i remembered hell i sang along cheap perfume played the way i ve always liked it fast loud kinda sloppy r r and no encores dammit ok they re cute too the group will be playing gigs at nyc venues such as siberia and don hills during may and june of this year 2007 and have also started to work on their long overdue album drummer brenda martinez says we are currently working in the studio recording some new and older material so we will be releasing more music we will keep everyone up to date on our myspace page we weren t able to record all that we wanted in the 70s and 80s which is something to look forward to now because recording has changed and improved so much we are really excited even though the closing of cbgb was quite a blow for the band bunny feels as if rock n roll never dies and we believe the spirit of cbgb and the new york punk scene will always live on and that is proven if you give a listen to some more recent punk bands out there that have kept that spirit alive hopefully everyone will help keep it alive by supporting cheap perfume and all the other bands that are keeping that message out there the secret history of women in rock the luv d ones june 17 2010 3 19 am posted in uncategorized tagged 60s garage music all female bands billy cox charlotte vinnedge dunwich records feminism jimi hendrix luv d ones nitro function sundazed records tremolons comments 17 this story first appeared on bitch magazine s blog during april of 2009 i titled it the secret history of women in rock charlotte and christine vinnedge of the luv d ones and was hoping that it could turn into a series of blogs on that website where i could chronicle underrated all female bands from the 60s 80s but that never came to pass now that i have started this blog as a place for my work i will try and carry out that goal here the secret history of women in rock charlotte and christine vinnedge of the luv d ones by bess korey charlotte and christine vinnedge were two sisters that decided to step outside of traditional gender roles and play rock music together during the mid 60s they became the foundation of two different bands the tremolons and the luv d ones and were acting on feminist principles before the second wave of feminism had even become a national movement being ahead of their time ended up hurting them more than helping and even though the luv d ones had the talent and drive needed to become a huge success their band leader charlotte was not willing to comply with what was proper behavior for women in a man s world and the band ended up paying the price for her rebelliousness charlotte was the eldest of her 7 siblings and the vinnedge girls grew up in an atypical household for the time it may have been the 60s but they came of age during the early to mid part of the decade and the country was still having a 50s hangover when it came to the roles of women instead of being groomed to be housewives and mothers like many of their peers were they were encouraged to follow their dream of playing music by both of their parents and their father even built them a studio in the basement of their niles michigan home in 1964 women that wanted to be involved with music had limited choices for what they could do they could be a folkie and play acoustic guitar like joan baez or they could be a pop singer like lesley gore or they could join a singing group like the supremes the idea of women playing rock music was pretty much unheard of if they did choose to start their own band and play their own instruments they were expected to be cute and wear matching outfits to play cover versions of popular songs instead of writing their own material and to embrace the fact that they were nothing more than a novelty when the tremolons started playing together in 1964 they were temporarily willing to adhere to the guidelines above the group consisted of charlotte on lead guitar and vocals christine on bass guitar mary gallagher on rhythm guitar and faith orem on drums this line up would stick together for close to 5 years and would later morph into the luv d ones christine s son and charlotte s nephew john sorensen was not born yet when the tremolons formed but was raised on his aunt and mother s stories of their 60s musical escapades and had this to say about their earlier band they actually sort of followed the beatles esque type look they had matching outfits and their hair in the 60s bobs that they had back then for girls they were not allowed to do what they wanted to artistically the record labels and managers they were meeting with wanted them to fit a mold and dictate the kind of music that they played 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