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One of the earliest all-women bands was Fanny. Joan Jett's first group the Runaways were also an early all-women band. One of the strangest is undoubtedly the Shaggs, a group of sisters with limited mastery of their instruments as well as song structures, who have a cult following.
Punk and its acceptance of very limited musical skills opened the door wider for women with a desire to rock, spawning groups such as the Raincoats, the Slits, and Lilliput. Some well known all-women bands had men in the band at times, particularly but not limited to drummers.All-women bands exist for a variety reasons — some as a feminist political statement, others, such as the Go-GosThe Go-Go's are an all-women band. They formed in 1978 ( 1978 in music) and first rose to fame in the ska punk community supporting Madness on tour. They played primarily pop punk and retro- 1960s rock. They have had five top-40 hits. Personnel Charlotte, more for novelty. Sometimes women form their own bands due to the limitations of male domination in the music industryThe music industry is the industry that creates and performs music, both in the form of compositions and performances. The music industry is made up of: singers songwriters musicians Musicians' Unions composers publishers Writers' rights organizations lik in general. Women who want artistic control sometimes form all-women bands as a way to reduce challenges to their authority. Oftentimes there is no specific reason or planning for a band to be all-female, the people who came together to form it just happened to be all of the same sex, as is the case with most all-male bands.
Courtney LoveCourtney Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964 in San Francisco, California) was the singer and guitarist for the now-defunct band Hole. Currently performing solo, Love is also an occasional model and actress. Love is the widow of Kurt Cob, leader of HoleThe term hole may refer to: Black hole Electron hole the absence of an electron in the valence band in solid state physics and electronics. Holes a novel by Louis Sachar. Hole a musical group fronted by Courtney Love and disbanded in 2002. A security vuln, has said that it's impossible to find a female bass guitarist. This is belied by her own former bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, famous bassists such as Tina WeymouthA founding member of the influential New Wave group Talking Heads, bassist Tina Weymouth married the minimalist art-punk basslines of Wire and Pere Ubu with danceable, Disco inflected riffs to provide the bedrock of Talking Heads signature sound. She also of Talking HeadsTalking Heads a quintessential New Wave rock band, were one of the most prominent of the genre, marrying punk rock sensibilities with poppy sounds, clipped funk, art school intellectualism, and latterly world music. In David Byrne they had one of the most and Tom Tom ClubTom Tom Club was a new wave band, a side project of two members of the Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz. They began recording albums in 1981 and have enjoyed some success with hits such as "Genius of Love". That song has been used as bumper m, Me'shell Ndegeocello, and D'Arcy Wretzky of the Smashing Pumpkins.