![]() ![]() To narrow in, these are the younger brothers and sisters of the south Californian Sixties, who grow up on wars, riots, and murders on the nightly news, and pop music on AM radio. The Peterson sisters, from Northridge Sue Hoffs and David Roback, from Brentwood Susan Thomas (the one-day Michael Steele) of Pasadena Annette Zilinskas, from Van Nuys Michael Quercio, of Carson Steve Wynn, from LA via Santa Monica. These are the children of the south Californian Sixties. To KHJ, 930 AM, “Boss Radio”: the Top 40 booming from Simi Valley to Yorba Linda. ![]() To KLRA, home of Casey Kasem and Bob Eubanks. We won’t have made it till we’re on AM radio.Įach Bangle was once a kid in the back seat of a car, en route to school, singing along to the radio. We are-in the sense that there’s no mass transit in Los Angeles, so we became aware of music listening to AM radio in the back of the station wagon. You asked whether the Bangles are representative of their generation. If she knew what she wants he’d be giving it to her…. He’s crazy for this girl ( but she don’t know what she’s looking for) Or there’s nothing she wants ( she don’t want to sort it out) She stresses a word early in each line, they land their weight on the last three notes.īut she wants everything ( he can pretend to give her everything) Hoffs narrates, other Bangles color in details. She wants too much from him, he knows it, he lacks the strength and imagination to pull it off. They become the mutual friends of the couple, those with the clearest eyes. Jules Shear wrote this one, in the voice of a man trying to puzzle out his girlfriend (“if she knew what she wants, I’d be giving it to her”). They sing a chorus of “I Fought the Law,” segue into “If She Knew What She Wants.” We decided to become The Bangles and keep singing four-part harmonies. This never happened before! This is a very good sign. And much to our surprise, as soon as we started to sing, it came out in four-part harmony. On a cold January night way back in 1981, in California, this great state, in the garage of my parents’ house in Los Angeles, we met for the very first time there, in this garage…So we’re sitting around trying to get to know each other…we decided to sing some old songs from the Sixties we like. Peterson’s guitar is the sole accompaniment, apart from snaps and claps and stomps. “Snap your fingers! clap your hands! stomp your feet!” Vicki Peterson exhorts the audience, which, as the papers often report, is greatly composed of teenage girls. Midway through the set, they do a regular bit: The Herstory of The Bangles. Even the vocals, always their core strength, are frayed. The second of September 1989, at the Redwood Amphitheatre in Santa Clara, California. “It’s just an overall feeling I get sometimes.” I don’t want to belittle that in any way.” No, our label didn’t force “Eternal Flame” down our throats-I wrote “Eternal Flame.” “People kind of lump us and then push us to the side: ‘Oh yeah, they’re an all-girl band, isn’t that cute.’ …We have a tremendous number of Bangles fans out there who really appreciate what we do. ![]() No, we do write our songs, and those we cover are by songwriters we like. She’s said variations on this for nearly ten years. And it’s sort of annoying, to be honest.” We’re like in the strange all-girl-band category. “People can’t really view us in the same breath as Guns ‘n’ Roses or U2 or even female artists like Suzanne Vega and Tracy Chapman. “We’re lumped into some kind of weird category,” she tells the reporter, Steve Appleford. She’s asked about The Bangles more precisely, as she often is, she’s asked What The Bangles Are. Her band, which got a #1 hit earlier in the year, is cracking apart. Late August 1989: Susanna Hoffs sits in a hotel room in Kansas City, doing a phone interview. ![]()
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