Post by petrolino on Jan 17, 2020 22:55:13 GMT
< Girls Of L.A. : Belinda Carlisle & Susanna Hoffs >
Interview with the Bangles
Five months ago today, it was my pleasure to be able to celebrate the career of Belinda Carlisle, here and in writing, on her 61st birthday - the 17th day of August, 2019. Today, her old friend Susanna Hoffs celebrates her 61st birthday, on the 17th day of January, in the year 2020.
"The problem with the Bangles is that we had a lot of juicy stuff but nobody knows about it because we were very discreet. But the GoGo's were less discreet [laughs].
The funny thing was the Bangles had less of a good girl image on the outside, and the GoGo's had this Little Miss Sunshine, sweet American pie image. But they were just crazy! I mean, they were just wild, wild chicks, and they'll tell you that themselves. [laughing]. And the Bangles had this other image of kind of being a garage rock band a little bit less you know, 'shiny with a bow in our hair.'
I know Belinda and she's great and I can tell you I've had some of the craziest nights of my life with her, oh my God! She's completely fantastic."
The funny thing was the Bangles had less of a good girl image on the outside, and the GoGo's had this Little Miss Sunshine, sweet American pie image. But they were just crazy! I mean, they were just wild, wild chicks, and they'll tell you that themselves. [laughing]. And the Bangles had this other image of kind of being a garage rock band a little bit less you know, 'shiny with a bow in our hair.'
I know Belinda and she's great and I can tell you I've had some of the craziest nights of my life with her, oh my God! She's completely fantastic."
- Susanna Hoffs, PlanetOut
Micki Steele, Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson & Debbi Peterson
Molly Ringwald, Susanna Hoffs & Belinda Carlisle
'Blades' | The Go-Go's
"I think that unfortunately we were up against a lot of people who also looked at us as a novelty and that was just a constant battle. The fact that we wanted to do the all-girl thing was viewed by some to mean that it was a gimmick of some sort as opposed to just us being musicians. I mean we grew up on plenty of female musicians who were solo artists and weren’t viewed that way. I guess it was the fact that there were more than one of us (laughs), I really don’t know what it was but there was something different about the way that bands like the Go Gos or us were treated. It somehow became something that we couldn’t get past and I don’t know why that is. I just recently reconnected with Belinda Carlisle which was so much fun and it turns out she was at the same Sex Pistols show in 1978 that I was, the final show at Winterland in San Fransisco! It’s just so weird but so cool for me to think that we were both in that same room at that same time for this historic show. It was such a crazy thought to consider for me because it was so incredible just to be there to begin with."
- Susanna Hoffs, Legendary Rock Interviews
Ming Tea
Susanna Hoffs & Belinda Carlisle
'Getting Out Of Hand' - The Bangles
Happy Birthday, Susanna!!