Let's salute the rocking women of music-like Polly Jean Harvey

[bobthedrummer]

Sleater-Kinney, the pioneers like Elastica (had a male drummer though) even The Runaways...

What rocking women do you love?

[bobthedrummer]

1. Melissa Auf du Mer or however that bass player's name is spelled

Isn't there respect for rockers regardless of gender @DU?

[bobthedrummer]

2. Women musicians, like Aretha Franklin and Debbie Davies

[kariatari]

3. Aimee Mann

Think Elvis Costello, but with ovaries.

I saw PJ Harvey open for U2 in 2001 and she fuckin' rocked.

[Placebo]

4. Siouxsie Sioux, Patti Smith...

Siouxsie & the Banshees...



Patti Smith...

[Lady Effingbroke]

5. Chrissie Hynde...

...and Karen Carpenter. Fabulous voice and she played drums!

[Lady Effingbroke]

6. oops!

dupe!

[Longgrain]

7. Agreed! Crissy rocked.

Grew up in the age of The Pretenders Ya know?

Everyone know this one...

I found a picture of you, oh, what hijacked my world that night
to a place in the past we've been cast out of? Oh, now we're back in the fight.
We're back on the train, oh, back on the chain gang.

A circumstance beyond our control, oh, the phone, the TV and the News Of The World.
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh, threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies,
put us back on the train, oh, back on the chain gang.

The powers that be that force us to live like we do
bring me to my knees when I see what they've done to you
but I’ll die as I stand here today, knowing that deep in my heart
they'll fall to ruin one day for making us part.

I found a picture of you, oh, those were the happiest days of my life.
Like a break in the battle was your part, oh, in the wretched life of a lonely heart.
Now we're back on the train, oh, back on the chain gang.

[Lady Effingbroke]

8. Me too! I was a MAJOR Pretenders fan back in the day -

the original lineup, of course, though Learning to Crawl wasn't bad.

Their first two albums (& Extended Play) ROCKED!!!

[bobthedrummer]

9. We are The Books Banned, my wife is Charron-the bass player

we love The Pretenders too, even the overproduced stuff, Chrissy Rocks.
:yourock:

[Radical Activist]

10. Tina Turner

You have to respect Tina. She did some great R&B with Ike and kept making great music on her own.