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

[J Neo Marvin <j_n_e_o AT hotmail.com>]

It also could be that Lois got tired of being confused with that annoying 
person she named her band after. ;-)

-J Neo Marvin

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----------------------------------------> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:07:30 
-0700> To: typicalgirls AT lists.ibiblio.org> From: dbcloud AT panix.com> Subject: 
Re: [TypicalGirls] Riot Grrrl book>>> Yeah, I pretty much agree with you 
there--nobody's wishing harder> than I am for the Go Team stuff to be 
available on a shiny new CD, I> would totally buy a Fertile Virgin ringtone, 
etc. (Note: that looks> like sarcasm, but isn't.) But there are some 
legitimate arguments,> along the same lines, for not reissuing some things. A 
couple of> years ago, I asked Lois Maffeo for permission to post some MP3s 
from> the Courtney Love (-the-band) singles on my blog; she responded,> 
essentially, that since I'd asked, she had to say no: those records> were 
really meant for people who were part of a particular scene at a> particular 
time, and while she was happy to see them being propagated> on mix tapes 
etc., she didn't want to be officially responsible> herself for making them 
available again outside their intended> cultural context. Which seemed fair 
to me.>> Like Tobi, I'd also rather see a new musical/cultural/political> 
movement than more documentation of the old one--!>> On the Yoko Ono front: I 
have probably mentioned this here before,> but she was one of the best, most 
interesting interviewees I've ever> talked to, and pretty much every other 
journalist I know who's> interviewed her has had the same reaction. I'm not 
quite as crazy> about _Approximately Infinite Universe_ as Tobi and J Neo are 
("Death> of Samantha" aside), but _Plastic Ono Band_ and _Fly_ are both> 
mindbendingly fantastic records. _Life with the Lions_ is pretty> riveting, 
too.>> Douglas>> Mike wrote:>>>All good points. And I wasn't really thinking 
about the 50-copy>>photocopy zines, anyway; it's totally understandable that 
the authors>>would be uncomfortable seeing them anthologized or uploaded. 
I'm>>thinking more about the actual music that came out during that era 
->>the cassettes, 7-inches and LPs. It seems to me that the songs and>>live 
shows were generally meant for larger audiences than the zines.>>It seems a 
shame to deprive today's youth of Viva Knieval, Heavens To>>Betsy's 
"Direction" single or the _A Wonderful Treat_ cassette, for>>instance.> 
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