Post by wasted on Aug 31, 2009 5:41:55 GMT -5
Sonic Boomers interviewed Kim Fowley recently and said a German film company was in Hollywood recenlty working on a Runaways documentary!
Read Kim's entire interview:
Kim Fowley, The Runaways & The Silver Screen SONIC BOOMERS
www.sonicboomers.com/onthecorner/kim-fowley-runaways-silver-screen
SB: Why does this band the Runaways still resonate with fans, record buyers and musicians? A German film crew was just in Hollywood doing a documentary on the Runaways. And now there will be another round of media coverage shortly.
KF: We were first. There were women in the American Civil War that followed armies around and played music for the troops around famous battles. There was Ina Ray Hutton in Groucho Marx movies and her all-girl band but they were women over age 21. There were people like Bertha, Fanny, girl singing groups, the Spector groups, the Gordy groups, the Brill Building groups. And in 1964 my own girl singing group, the Murmaids topped Cash Box and Record World with "Popsicles and Icicles" that I produced. .
The Murmaids were the last all-girl singing group that ever had a top 5 record in Billboard before the Beatles came along and conquered America. I had done girl and women-themed work before. But the Runaways was the first time that girls under age 18, females, played guitars, bass, drums, sometimes keyboard, sang and wrote or co-wrote their own material. That was the news. It was brand new.
Because it was brand new and never done before, and because teenagers have no legal rights to anything, and girls and women have had a hard time all these years, and this was at the beginning of the feminism movement, there was no sympathy for this concept anywhere.
Read Kim's entire interview:
Kim Fowley, The Runaways & The Silver Screen SONIC BOOMERS
www.sonicboomers.com/onthecorner/kim-fowley-runaways-silver-screen
