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They Want to Burn the Witches Inside Us
For all the women in rock n roll who put a spell on you
Courtney Love, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Kat Bjelland, Kim Gordon, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Belinda Butcher, Suzi Gardner, Kim Deal, Kathleen Hanna, Patti Smith, Wendy O. Williams, Lydia Lunch, Ari Up, Poly Styrene, Dee Plakas, Carrie Brownstein, Chan Marshall, Exene Cervenka, Corin Tucker, Cher, Nico, Fiona Apple, Joni Mitchell, Patsy Cline, Donita Sparks, Jennifer Finch, Lorna Doom, Poison Ivy, Stevie Nicks, Ani Difranco, Janis Joplin, Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Norma Jean Wofford, Siouxsie Sioux, Nancy Sinatra, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Grace Slick, Gwen Stefani, Warpaint, Cherie Currie, Lita Ford, Kazu Makino, Alanis Morissette, Yoko Ono, Shonen Knife, Mazzy Star, Tina Turner, Mama Cass, Beth Ditto, Karen O., Kate Bush, Marissa Paternoster, Brody Dalle, Christine McVie, Patty Schemel, Darcy Wretzky, Shirley Manson, Buffy Sainte Marie
Courtney Love, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Kat Bjelland, Kim Gordon, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Belinda Butcher, Suzi Gardner, Kim Deal, Kathleen Hanna, Patti Smith, Wendy O. Williams, Lydia Lunch, Ari Up, Poly Styrene, Dee Plakas, Carrie Brownstein, Chan Marshall, Exene Cervenka, Corin Tucker, Cher, Nico, Fiona Apple, Joni Mitchell, Patsy Cline, Donita Sparks, Jennifer Finch, Lorna Doom, Poison Ivy, Stevie Nicks, Ani Difranco, Janis Joplin, Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Norma Jean Wofford, Siouxsie Sioux, Nancy Sinatra, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Grace Slick, Gwen Stefani, Warpaint, Cherie Currie, Lita Ford, Kazu Makino, Alanis Morissette, Yoko Ono, Shonen Knife, Mazzy Star, Tina Turner, Mama Cass, Beth Ditto, Karen O., Kate Bush, Marissa Paternoster, Brody Dalle, Christine McVie, Patty Schemel, Darcy Wretzky, Shirley Manson, Buffy Sainte Marie
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I was with Tobi [Vail] and Kathi [Wilcox]. We really bonded on the fact that we had just experienced such an amazing, life-changing thing. That show! Kat Bjellend played guitar better than Greg Sage from The Wipers! She was wearing a tiny dress with a huge bow in her hair and she looked so beautiful and so fucked up; she was doing the craziest shit with her voice. Lori Barbero hit the drums harder than anyone I had ever seen and Michelle Leon was just sexy as hell and could totally play the bass. I was like, wow! You really can have it all! You can make this amazing music which was about how beautiful anger can be to me. I’d never heard anything like it and haven’t heard anything since like it. It was just at somebody’s house in the middle of the woods.
Afterwards we went outside and there was this bonfire. I didn’t really know Tobi and Kathi very well but somehow we ended up standing together because everyone else at that show was talking about how much they hated it and how bad the band was. They were like, “They’re too pretty”. That was the big thing: they’re too pretty to be in a band. I didn’t even get it. They were totally stunning women but that wasn’t the main thing to us, it was definitely the music. It was also the fact that they were women and they looked how they wanted to look, they didn’t have to hide the fact that they were women to play this totally intense music; the combination of the femininity with the strength in the music in saying that femininity and strength weren’t the opposite of each other. It was really an intense experience. Me, Tobi and Kathi were like, that is the best thing we’ve ever seen! Everyone else thought it was the worst so it kind of became clear that we were going to be in a band together. No one else probably wanted to be in a band with us.
Kathleen Hanna on how seeing Babes In Toyland live inspired her to create Bikini Kill (via sassyandpunk)
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