{"id":725,"date":"2007-07-20T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-20T09:53:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-20T09:53:11","slug":"soul-sistas-rock-chicks-and-punk-rock-gi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/soul-sistas-rock-chicks-and-punk-rock-gi\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Sistas, Rock Chicks, and Punk Rock Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=long_live_rock_i_need_it_every_night_and&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=long_live_rock_i_need_it_every_night_and&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">If you&#8217;ll recall, <strong>Townswoman Citizen Mom<\/strong> recently wrote<\/a> of an upcoming guest editor stint for Philadelphia radio station WXPN&#8217;s countdown of the 885 Most Memorable Musical Moments. The &#8220;upcoming&#8221; part has now arrived. Here&#8217;s what she posted. Mom knows there&#8217;s lots of important work to get done in the Hall today, so she&#8217;s bringing the rock to us. Thanks!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/885logo_blogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"170\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Welcome to my first turn as Guest Blogger for the <strong>XPN 885 Most Memorable Musical Moments Countdown<\/strong>, where today I offer some significant female musical moments, all of which&nbsp; helped make me the rock and roll mami I am today.&nbsp; No particular order, and some will be more, er, universal than others. But like the lady says, <a href=\" http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=long_live_rock_i_need_it_every_night_and&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1#comments \">great moments are made of small ones<\/a>. And a tip o&#8217; the bra to <strong>Michaela Majoun<\/strong>, who keeps it real for the rock broads <em>every<\/em> Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patti Smith on SNL, &#8217;75.<\/strong> Gloucester County, represent! To my sisters, Terrie and Susan, who as my teenaged babysitters let me stay up way past my bedtime, I remain in your eternal debt.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7mIsN2JHPds?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chrissie Hynde in the &#8220;Brass in Pocket&#8221; video.<\/strong> Life handbook of the girl who&#8217;s never&nbsp; described as &quot;You know, the pretty one.&quot;<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2OpNoT8rbk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Tina Turner and her bad self, 1971.<\/strong> OK, so I wasn&#8217;t born until &#8217;72, but my mother&#8217;s been a Tina fan since way back in the day; imagining this stuff coming out of the TV screen and seeping into my developing brain does explain a lot, methinks.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QoAIeTzOPPg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though I can&#8217;t give you an exact moment when <strong>Kim Deal<\/strong> became important to me, I estimate it as a few minutes after my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/display.php?id=1532 \">Jason<\/a> clapped his headphones on my ears and said something like, &quot;Listen to this, they have a girl bassist.&quot;&nbsp; Then I heard her sing. Even on record, you can hear that smile in her voice.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LK0CJqMK6f0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a post in me somewhere just about <strong>Rock Hotties of the 1970s<\/strong>, but <strong>The Wilson Sisters<\/strong> are for me the most significant. So if we&#8217;re talking looking for the memorable moment here, consider it the one, long ago, when Ann was the hot one, her gorgeous howl the battle cry of brunettes everywhere. And holy drum solo!<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0uvr3dmptvg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Any number of Memorable Moments surround <strong>Janis Joplin<\/strong>, but for me means one thing: WMMR in the 1970s.&nbsp; Feel it, people.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7gsqBEPSrd0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, the &quot;official&quot; memorable rock moment about <strong>Debbie Harry<\/strong> will be her &quot;rap&quot; with <a href=\" http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F-0BLV04vbE \">Fab 5 Freddy<\/a>. However, if I wrote about that, I wouldn&#8217;t get to tell you about when my best friend Laura got <em>Parallel Lines<\/em> and we made a disco in her Barbie Dream House and had our dolls&nbsp; slamdance to this song. And really, how did you ever live before you knew that?<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dRFVPcnCce0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and <\/p>\n<p>OK, this last one is a guilty pleasure choice for me, but I need to include <strong>Suzi Quatro<\/strong> aka <strong>Leather<br \/>\nTuscadero<\/strong>. Her appearances on &quot;Happy Days&quot; didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense to me as a kid, until I found out later what a rock star she was in Europe. But even at the time, she was a badass. And is that <em>really<\/em> Paris Hilton&#8217;s mom shaking her thang in back? 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