Ross E. Lockhart's Blog, page 16

Cait O'Riordan joined Irish band The Pogues in 1982, appearing on their albums Red Roses for Me, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, and several singles before leaving the band in 1986 to join Elvis Costello in his band. And a marriage that lasted until 2002. Here she is in a 1985 Pogues concert.



Cait also provided vocals to a handful of Pogues songs, including "Haunted," from the soundtrack to Alex Cox's film Sid and Nancy. She also appeared in Cox's 1987 film Straight to Hell as dance hall girl Slim McMahon.



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Lori Black, AKA Lorax, replaced sludge-metal mavins the Melvins' founding bassist Matt Lukin in 1988, after playing for punk crossover band Clown Alley. She played on the album Ozma, which was released in 1989. Lorax split the band in '91, then rejoined from 1992-1993, when this performance of "Zodiac" was recorded.



It's debatable whether Lorax played on 1993 Melvins record Houdini. What's not debatable is that Lori Black is the daughter of child star Shirley Temple and aquaculturalist and oceanographer Charles Alden Black. Today she apparently works as a freelance photographer making occasional cameos in the audiences at bay area rock 'n' roll shows.



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One of the defining punk rock bands to come out of Los Angeles in the late 1970s was The Germs. Fronted by self-destructive singer Darby Crash, the lineup also featured Pat Smear (who would go on to play with Nirvana and Foo Fighters), a succession of drummers including Donna Rhea, Belinda "Dottie Danger" Carlisle (Go-Gos), and Don Bolles, and bassist Lorna Doom (née Terri Ryan), who had her hands full keeping up with and playing in the shadow of Crash's commitment to living up to his pseudonym and his ill-fated interpretation of a Five-Year Plan.

The Germs only released a single album, 1979's GI (produced by Joan Jett), and the band were featured in Penelope Spheeris' 1980 documentary film, The Decline of Western Civilization. The end came on December 7, 1980, when singer Darby Crash committed suicide. In the aftermath, Lorna moved to New York City, and the band's members went their separate ways.

Lorna doesn't get much screen time in this twenty-minute concert video from 1979, the videographer preferring instead to focus on Crash's onstage antics, but watch for her in the background, holding a tight bassline while all hell breaks loose.


In 2005, What We Do is Secret, a biographical film about The Germs, began production. Played by actress Bijou Phillips in the movie, Lorna Doom soon reunited with her bandmates, and, along with actor Shane West standing in for the late Darby Crash, toured extensively, giving a second life to a band that had existed longer in legend than reality.



And that's Lorna (circa 1979) on the front and back cover of Chick Bassist, courtesy of photographer Theresa Kereakes.

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Patricia Morrison was a founding member of LA punk band The Bags (as Pat Bag) before leaving to form Legal Weapon with "Janis Joplin of Punk" Pat Arthur, then moving on to stints with The Gun Club and Fur Bible. In 1986 she played with Andrew Eldrich in The Sisterhood and in '87 she played on the goth dancefloor breakout, The Sisters of Mercy's Floodland. Morrison's gothic pinup-girl looks featured prominently in The Sisters of Mercy's visual aesthetic, her teased-out hair, black lipstick, and fetish wardrobe drawing many listeners as the music video era reached its apex.



By the ealy 90s, Patricia had left The Sisters of Mercy, and released a solo album, Reflect on This, in 1994. In 1996, she joined legendary punk band The Damned, marrying lead singer Dave Vanian later that year. In 2004, Morrison gave birth to daughter Emily Vanian and she retired from The Damned in 2005.



I'll readily admit that Patricia's a big influence on the look of both Erin Locke and Terrri Terrrors in Chick Bassist.

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Wed, 15:00 : CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Bianca Butthole… http://t.co/Mbkb8lJlgK Wed, 18:28 : Thanks for electing me Pope and all, but you should probably know hat I'm only in this for the red shoes. Wed, 22:04 : Graham Harman goes all Edmund Wilson-on-Lovecraft on Melville. Marvellous and ridiculous. http://t.co/ShMwMgVMuP The hero of the book... Thu, 00:57 : Provocative, but was Minerva even still held in such regard? http://t.co/synmXcyHWt “In symbolic terms, Great Cthulhu should replace... Thu, 01:21 : For the late shift: CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Bianca Butthole… http://t.co/Mbkb8lJlgK Thu, 01:54 : Randall on the Bench. http://t.co/um4jgEsHny Thu, 04:00 : And yet: When a clown falls alone in a forest, does anybody laugh? http://t.co/lQi60RkpDV Quite aside from the evidence of figures su... Thu, 05:02 : Sometimes you hit a sentence--or cluster of sentences--that resonates & begs rereading. Like this. http://t.co/tfxS1oYvvc “The Call o...

Bianca "Butthole" Halstead was one of two badass bass-playing broads in the controversy-courting band Butt Trumpet. In 1998 she quit Butt Trumpet and started all-girl group Betty Blowtorch with Butt Trumpet cohorts Blare N. Bitch (lead guitar) and Sharon Needles (rhythm guitar, bass). Betty Blowtorch lived up to its name, astonishing concertgoers with raw intensity and a home-made pyrotechnics set that sent club owners into paroxysms of panic.

Can't think of a better showcase for Bianca and her unique brand of showmanship than the "Betty Blowtorch Anthem":


Sadly, Bianca Halstead was killed in a car crash December 2001, effectively ending Betty Blowtorch. A documentary film, "Betty Blowtorch and Her Amazing True Life Adventures" was released in 2003.

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Tue, 16:11 : CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Kira Roessler (Black Flag): http://t.co/9M9SW81dJu Tue, 22:25 : Sphere. http://t.co/M8OR5IMS0O Tue, 23:21 : For the late crowd: CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Kira Roessler (Black Flag): http://t.co/9M9SW81dJu Wed, 02:17 : Revealed in tonight's class on business formations: Metallica's "Damage, Inc." actually an LLC. Who knew? Wed, 04:41 : In the Memphis area? I'll be Editor Guest of Honor at MidSouthCon next weekend, March 22-24. Let's talk tentacles! http://t.co/6ItwbtKIVK