[TypicalGirls] Goldie & The Gingerbreads
Alan Korn
aakorn at igc.org
Thu Mar 29 20:39:29 EST 2007
Genya's also one of the few (only?) punk rocker's who's a holocaust survivor.
There's some great stuff on her website, including audio clips from
Ten Wheel Drive and her early solo albums.
- Alan
At 05:30 PM 3/29/2007, Michael Howes wrote:
>>It's too bad Beeber didn't interview you for his book. His chapter focuses
>>mostly on two punk women Goldie (Genya Ravan) from Goldie and the
>>Gingerbreads (whom he claim is the "earliest women-only rock band to be
>>signed to a major label" but I've always thought Fanny had that feather in
>>their cap) and Helen Wheels.
> Fanny signed in 1970
>
> I don't know when G&Gs signed to a major and couldn't find it but
> they were around in the 60s and I think no longer existed by 1970
>
> this looks like an official site of Genya's
> <http://www.genyaravan.com/goldie.html>http://www.genyaravan.com/goldie.html
>
> from the site;
>>First Major Label All-Female Rock Band
>>With their first single, "Can't You Hear My Heart Beat?" this
>>trailblazing '60s quartet earned a #25 hit in England and a place
>>on concert bills with The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The
>>Yardbirds. In doing so, Goldie & the Gingerbreads broke new ground
>>for all subsequent women rockers. The group was recently
>>immortalized in rock music history by The Rolling Stone Book of
>>Women in Rock (Random House).
>I have never heard them but if that guitar lick on the flash intro
>of her page is any indication I would love to (the guitar lick
>sounded much more 80s Runaways than 60s though)
>
>mike
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