Typical Girls: Women in Punk/Post-Punk/Underground Music (Circa 1975-1980s)

[jim fouratt <jimfour AT gmail.com>]

I do understand how the Slits represent so much so many people on this
list .. and deseivingly so both musically and  for theiir
outrageous gender _expression_. ( personally think the Hags and the
Mudwomen were more outrageous)

But I have a memory not so nice of one night when the band Pylon .. and
if you want to look at another punk woman who refused to conform to
female woman rules including brit punk st lye fashion .. than you
should become familiar with Vanessa Pylon's lead singer . and her
unique singing/shouting/moaning/over the edge singing stlye .. HITS is
a collection of the best of Pylon .. and they have in the last year
reformed and are playing out dates in the Atlanta area .. well back to
the memory .

Pylon was playing one night at Thier 3. They did their set and went to
eat and came back to pick up their equipment. On stage they had a
littler B&W old classic TV.  Well as they got to the club they
saw Ari sneaking off with it. She got away before they could ask for
their TV back. 
 
I remember how bummed out Vanessa was that this could happen .

Pylon had no trust fund or upper class brats in the band .. and everything they did was on a tight shoe string budget.

One might ask why Ari would do this .. did it go to the dope dealer ..
or perhaps she was mad collector of everything that shouted US TV
classic. What ever the reason, she did.

I might suggest there is a class aspect to this story. Rich punk
kids  were always best at letttng go of material things and
believing they were entitled to anything tand take whatever they wanted
.. you know .. the old property is theift...

Now you may ask why would I tell such a story on a revered artist ..
well one would hope that a typical girl would respect the rights and
property of another typical girl .. or boy for that matter.

Note/ I was always excited to see and hear the Slits.

jim fouratt

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