The B Girls

Bad Not Evil

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Yeah, but it was a shock. He turned into a polite guy after the show again. Those sunglasses that he wore were as thick as coke bottles. He would take them off and put them on the amp on the side of the stage so it would allow him….

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He could do whatever and was oblivious to the audience. I moved to New York for the B-Girls. I was the only one that drove. You mentioned that Stiv was jealous. Did you have that issue with him? One of my friends that was close to him back in the day told me that every time he walked away, Stiv would be hanging all over his girlfriend. I always say this thing about our relationship: I realized much later on that I was too naive and trusting.

I thought because he was so jealous that he would never cheat on me.

The real Johnny was a conservative, Italian macho guy. He was a good friend.

He was a serial monogamist. Very possessive of women. I met him when I was eighteen at a place called Nobodies on Bleecker Street. He was in the New York Dolls already.

It was and their drummer had just died in England. I was on my first trip to New York with my pal Maria. I remember the record company man, Jimmy Iovine and Johnny were the only people in the bar. I can buy my own drink. Yeah, but it was always a friendship. I think it was a love relationship between friends.

No guy was good enough for me, and neither was he. He cried to me about a lot of things about his life. He was a really good person. I tell Suzanne and his daughter Jamie that I never saw him as happy as when he was with them. He loved her so much. It was just his inability to stay clean.

He was more of a disappointment to himself than he was a disappointment to other people. He looked good in anything. We traded clothes all the time.

Also they were very punk rock, where a lot of the other bands in that scene were pop. They earned their stripes. If you were walking down a back alley in those days, you would want a Dead Boy next to you, having your back. The B-Girls were pop and the Cramps were garage. Anybody that knows Stiv, knows that he was really super intelligent. He was into quantum physics and conspiracy theories. He would talk about the Masons and how only three men really ruled the world.

The politicians are just puppets and how the corporations ran the world, and low and behold look where we are now.

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A lot of police department and fire department members are Masons. He would talk about the power of money and how money runs everything. This scrawny, little guy. Never got an answer. I just wanted to take a photo at his house. His biggest influences were Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop. He always told me that he handed Iggy that jar of peanut butter at his show but I thought he was lying.

So when I saw the film Gimme Danger , I started crying because I saw him with his long hair and glasses on the side of the stage. That movie made me angry to be honest because people can be made to look in a positive light when their friend is making the movie. When Bowie was with Iggy.

There were drugs in the car and Iggy was acting crazy. He snorted the entire vial in one shot and asked me to pull over so he could drive, but I refused. He kept insisting that he was a great driver. Everyone was thanking me when we got there. She was one of the most influential women in my mind. She gave me a lot of advice. One thing she warned me about was to be very careful about who we signed with. I can believe what a badass she is. Somehow she was able to have all those qualities.

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Her voice maintained after all these years. It warms my heart that she took you girls under her wing. Because I hear that there were a lot of competitive women in music in NYC back then. Which is a bummer. We were the good girls next door. We were very motivated. Girls in the punk scene would be mean to me for having long hair and looking like a girly girl.

They would pull on my ponytail at shows.

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I remember being furious for being called pretty. We had long hair too. Nobody ever tells you that you are basically gonna be eighteen for the rest of your life. You grow up, but the bands, writers, and art that you worshipped back then usually remain the same! Tell me about some of the bands you used to play with…. Unexpected people would get up and play with us. Girl bands were seen as a non-threatening opener.

So we pretty much opened for any band that was really great. Not the art bands like Patti Smith and Television. I feel like if you are in an all-girl band today, you are even more of a threat. There was a moment of time in when girls realized that we did have the power. We wanted to be good and not just fluff.

Getting back to the rules: B-Girls did not wear short skirts or shorts on stage. They were not political. They were like the Shangri-Las. We were writing about what we were experiencing. We were popular in Japan but never got there. We played the Whiskey on the West Coast but that was as far as we got. We learned together and I think it was better that way. We had no idea what we were doing. There was a band called the Diodes in Toronto and one fella from that band, Johnny Catto actually came up with our name.

B-Girls were girls after World War Two who were hustling drinks in bars. They had a deal with the bartender where they got men to buy them drinks and would drink ginger ale instead of champagne. Then they split the money with the bartender at the end of the night. The name had a great ring to it.

Further demos were produced by Debbie Harry and Mick Jones but possible record or production deals with Bomp! Records and Phil Spector fell through. Line up changes would lead to Lucasta leaving after the single and being replaced by Xenia moving to vocals, Rhonda having already left and been replaced by Marcy Saddy who had previously played in the London, Ontario band Demics.

The reformed band carried on until before breaking up and returning to Toronto.

Lucasta formed a new band called Minutes From Downtown who had a hit with "Wrapped In Velvet" breaking up a few years later. Marcy Saddy returned to London drumming in various bands and becoming an artist. The rest of the band dropped out of music although Cynthia Ross has since returned with a new band, New York Junk. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. Learn how and when to remove these template messages.

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