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Re: (TV) woman-with-guitar sightings { > random thoughts}
I've been following this thread with interest--I ran a guitar store for
seven years, and the amount of young girls that would come in and want
to play guitar was dramatically outnumbered by the amount of young
boys. The one thing that changes that, though, is idols. When Hole was
top of the charts, we saw a huge rise in the amount of girls wanting to
play and be Courtney.
I would venture to say that it's partially cultural, and partially the
strange and arguable differences between the sexes. For instance, as a
(n extremely) general rule I've noticed that women guitarists tend to
be less aggressive, more melodic and more rhythmic--thinking about a
larger picture than men, who tend to play harder, looser and are more
solo oriented (as Frank Zappa noted in his bio, that's what got them
BJ's).
I'm always totally turned on by women guitarists who don't necessarily
do the witly-witly-woooo schtick. Couldn't stand Lita Ford for
that--why try to prove that you're more male than the men? So, my faves
are women who crafted unique sounds, or have a different take on it. My
list would include quite a few of the already listed, but also:
Shannon Wright
Judie Sill--her sense of timing and rhythm was truly remarkable
Poison Ivy (Va-va-voom!)
Joan Jett (rhythm still counts!)
Ani di Franco (whom I actually don't like very much musically, but
she's a great player, and I dig that she did her own thing with her
label)
I also loved the ladies of Frightwig way back when, although that was
mostly attitude!
Thank goodness, though, the whispy-voiced, scrubbah-scrubbah strummy
pseudo-folk singer with tender lyrics movement has seemed to mostly
pass for now.
And, I'm sure I'll think of many others the second I send this!
Best,
Martin
On Mar 22, 2005, at 3:12 PM, robin dunn wrote:
i'd add patty griffin to this list...and does anyone
here remember phranc?? but still, it's for the most
part a list of singer/songwriters. none of these
folks (excepting happy rhoads, who i don't know --
sister of randy rhoads???) are thought of principally
as guitarists.
r
--- Russ Van Rooy <russvr@pop.nwnexus.com> wrote:
List o' favorite women guitarists - not all of them
are necessarily sexy
but all of them are great !
1. PJ harvey
2. Joni Mitchell
3. Sandy Denny
4. Chrissey Hinde
5. Happy Rhoads
6. Melissa Etheredge
7. Joan Armatrading
8. Tracy Chapman
9. Shawn Colvin
10. Janice Ian
11. Suzanne Vega
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