Girl groups. Girls actually playing all the instruments. I imagine it just like in football. It's going to be ridiculed by some oafs for a period of time (like the Stones were) and then people will come around and realize that here they have the real thing. It's still there. Way more real than Kanye can ever hope to be. What do you think?



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I feel like it's been tried many times before but it just never really catches on with males or females.

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Girl groups. Girls actually playing all the instruments. I imagine it just like in football. It's going to be ridiculed by some oafs for a period of time (like the Stones were) and then people will come around and realize that here they have the real thing. It's still there. Way more real than Kanye can ever hope to be. What do you think?

so you think rock music is in a similar situation like pop music was shortly before the Spice Girls were casted? (the were casted after producers realized that there hasn't been a successful girl band for a long time)

I don't really see where rock music is generally, having been so fixated on the Stones for the last 8 years. But I think it is pop music that has run out of ideas of what you can do when you go full digital and I refuse to believe that the art of playing an instrument will die out. So it becomes a question of who will pick it up next and that is where the football analogy comes in. It could be mostly covers at first because people will be looking to hear these songs. Keith also made some remarks in his book how the bubblegum pop of the 50s was a completely dead end to him and it was the american artists on the radio and the music that his mom listened to that got things started for him.

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Girl groups. Girls actually playing all the instruments.

Where have you been the last 58 years?











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I know it's been done, but I think the time for it is now. I have seen a Led Zeppelin cover band called Lez Zeppelin that was all women and they were amazing. They made a considerable effort to actually look exactly like LZ looked in 1973. It is quite a trip and certainly better than some holograms or whatever that is supposed to be the next thing

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I know it's been done, but I think the time for it is now. I have seen a Led Zeppelin cover band called Lez Zeppelin that was all women and they were amazing. They made a considerable effort to actually look exactly like LZ looked in 1973. It is quite a trip and certainly better than some holograms or whatever that is supposed to be the next thing

Perhaps we can also have all-male tributes for The Supremes, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, etc... on second thoughts, scrap that idea!

Here's a fine early female musician (Rockabilly pioneer Charlie Feathers cited her as an influence):

Any Slade fans on here?

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Girl groups. Girls actually playing all the instruments. I imagine it just like in football. It's going to be ridiculed by some oafs for a period of time (like the Stones were) and then people will come around and realize that here they have the real thing. It's still there. Way more real than Kanye can ever hope to be. What do you think?

Welcome to 30 years ago when girl groups started making up roughly half my purchases.

However, am I the only one here who thinks rock doesn't really need saving and that it's OK to take it off life support and let it die?

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I know it's been done, but I think the time for it is now. I have seen a Led Zeppelin cover band called Lez Zeppelin that was all women and they were amazing. They made a considerable effort to actually look exactly like LZ looked in 1973. It is quite a trip and certainly better than some holograms or whatever that is supposed to be the next thing

Perhaps we can also have all-male tributes for The Supremes, The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las, etc... on second thoughts, scrap that idea!

Here's a fine early female musician (Rockabilly pioneer Charlie Feathers cited her as an influence):

Love that performance!

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Any Slade fans on here?

Wow, they're pretty good. Singer sounds like Noddy!

let's not forget peggy "lady bo" jones

the queen mother of guitar

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Gotta hand it to Bo, he sure has a lot of songs named after himself! Hey Bo Diddley, Diddley Daddy, Story of Bo Diddley, etc.

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I feel like it's been tried many times before but it just never really catches on with males or females.

Hole, Belly, Elastica, L7, Veruca Salt, Sleator Kinney, Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland, The Breeders, Shonen Knife, Bratmbile and another 20 bands rubbish that notion.

First Aid Kit. 2 sisters from Stockholm Sweden with backing musicians. Amazing band and Johanna has the best legs of any bass player on the planet. I am off to Oslo, Gothenburg, Malmo and Stockholm to see them next month. I saw them cover The Boys of Summer at Rock Werchter last summer after seeing the Eagles a week early. Their version blew away the Eagles and was filled with raw emotion.

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Warpaint. I have seen them a few times and they are fun. Radiohead influenced.

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These are two bands who would be great openers for the Stones. The Ghost Hounds are far inferior on their best nights.

It's an utopia. Especially since rock and roll is a dying genre. And rock, for some stupid reason, was always based around girls idolizing boys. Not the other way around.

Thanks for the input, guys and gals. I have had Veruca Salt tracks on my ipod for years but never bothered to look them up. I guess it's important to loosen up a bit with the vibe these days that you don't get to idolize your stars in a sexual way when that has been at the center of it since the mid sixties as pointed out by Stoneage just now. So I'll certainly have a look at the bass player with the legs.

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I feel like it's been tried many times before but it just never really catches on with males or females.

Hole, Belly, Elastica, L7, Veruca Salt, Sleator Kinney, Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland, The Breeders, Shonen Knife, Bratmbile and another 20 bands rubbish that notion.

I loved Belly in my early 90s college days but I think they had a couple of guys in the band as well as with the breeders

Go-go's??

edit: plz excuse I didn't realize that's what the band is called.



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I feel like it's been tried many times before but it just never really catches on with males or females.

Hole, Belly, Elastica, L7, Veruca Salt, Sleator Kinney, Bikini Kill, Babes in Toyland, The Breeders, Shonen Knife, Bratmbile and another 20 bands rubbish that notion.

I loved Belly in my early 90s college days but I think they had a couple of guys in the band as well as with the breeders

Last Splash is one of my top 3 favorite albums ever and I go see them every chance I get. Even if they are really sloppy live. Love Kim, Kelly & Josephine.

Laura Cox Band ... really cool and rocking

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As women continue to find a more assertive voice in today's world, the more motivation and acceptance there will be for more "serious" and unmanufactured female bands.

Rock music has always been guilty of misogyny, be it overt or subconscious...much more so that other genres such as Soul or Folk.

Female "Rock" bands have not been taken very seriously in the past "...oh they're just girls " but that's thankfully changing .


Whether this will result in Girl Bands saving Rock N Roll is another question ...

..but it probably does need saving and greater artist diversity can only be a good thing.



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Girls with Guitars [Samantha Fish - Cassie Taylor - Dani Wilde], with a song y'all might know!







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I’ve been called much worse things than oaf.

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Any Slade fans on here?

Saw them before Christmas and they were great!

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Girls with Guitars [Samantha Fish - Cassie Taylor - Dani Wilde], with a song y'all might know!

Samantha Fish with long hair, damn.... Speaking of her and her band, they are another one the Ghost Hounds should be opening for, not the Stones.