The 90's Part 2B: Front Women
Ongoing History of New Music
Curiouscast
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. |
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| 0:39.4 | In the summer of love, 1967, anything seemed possible. |
| 0:44.7 | Civil rights issues were being addressed. |
| 0:47.0 | The war in Vietnam could be stopped. |
| 0:49.7 | Drugs and free love were in the air. |
| 0:52.0 | And women were being liberated. |
| 0:56.0 | Amongst all this was Jimmy Hendricks, who became a fan of an all-female rock band from San Francisco called the Ace of Cups. |
| 1:01.6 | Now, wait a second, an all-girl rock band? A bunch of women who wrote their own songs, |
| 1:08.0 | who had a chick out front that could shred like a man and a girl playing drums? |
| 1:12.6 | Even in 1967, this was radical. Hendricks was so impressed by their chops that he invited them to open a couple of his shows. Those really did seem like some kind of defining moments. But then the old sexist attitudes took over. Women groups did not, |
| 1:29.3 | could not, rock. That was just common sense. It was self-evident. Everybody knew that. |
| 1:35.6 | The Ace of Cups gave it a good shot, but by 1972 they'd broken up. And until punk rock came |
| 1:41.3 | around a few years later, the idea of a female fronted rock band was |
| 1:45.0 | considered just, well, silly. |
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