Everybody Violet is reborn!!!
PERFORMING LIVE at the Casbah in San Diego 8pm on May 29, 2009
and will record their debut Cd this year!
The new band is a sextet featuring three founder members:
*Miss Kristi Maddocks: lead vocals (Blues Gangsters, Burlap & Pearl)
*Joey Miller: drums (Injections, Noise 292)
*Carina Burns-Randolph: Guitar, vocals
The new additions!
*David Flemminger: Guitar, Producer (The Answers, Lemons Are Yellow)
*Kristin Martin: bass, vocals (Noise 292, Lemons Are Yellow)
*Heather Vorwreck: Cello, bass (The Commupance)
Influences
Everything from Satie and DeBussy to Can and Velvet Underground and Nico....Jefferson Airplane, Love, 13th Floor Elevators, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Chocolate Watchband, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, T Rex, Beatles, Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield...other garage, soul, psychedelic & British Invasion from the 1960's. Many other more contemporary artists like Blondie, Chrissy Hynde & the Pretenders, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Kendra Smith, New Order, Public Enemy, Cabaret Voltaire, Dream Academy, Dream Syndicate, Everything But The Girl, The Smiths & Cocteau Twins.
Local artists such as San Diego's Crawdaddies, Penetrators, Tell Tale Hearts, Answers, Mirrors, Manual Scan, Gravedigger Five, Morlocks, Walllflowers, Noise 292, Hair Theater, THRT, and Nashville Ramblers...to name a select few!
Sounds Like
A musical cocktail that after one swig goes straight to your head.
Everybody Violet was an all girl band that emerged on the music scene in San Diego in the eighties. Playing all originals, they blended new ideas with the psychedelic/mod sensibilities of the time.
The band members were:
Kristi Maddocks, vocals
Kristi wrote & performed her first original tunes at age 6.
For years she was just an observer in the SD undeground scene. Then, in 1983, Kristi was invited by Jimmy, former lead vocalist of the punk band Sacred Lies, to help form a new band. The group featured Jimmy on guitar, Kristi with lyrics and vocals, a fellow named Greg on drums, and a shifting line-up of bassists. Loosely called "Fate Gallery", this group remained a largely unknown garage band-Tom Ward was one of only a few people that ever saw them play live.
In 1984-85, Kristi became more attracted to and involved in the psychedelic mod movement. It was like kismet when Kristi and her friend & room mate Michelle jumped up and dow on their bed singing "White Rabbit" to a Jefferson Airplane record, then looked at each other and exclaimed "Let's start a band!'. Two days later Kristi was introduced to Anni & Carina...and a great musical partnership of "Everbody Violet" was born!.
Anni, guitar & vocals
Anni came onto the scene drumming for the Mirrors. After forming Everybody Violet with Kristi & Carina, she found an outlet for her melodic & harmonic inspiration by composing, playing guitar & singing.
Carina Burns, guitar
Carina for the most part was self taught having only mere months of classical lessons. Since she knew no rules musically, her chord progressions were far from standard. She and Anni formed the music writing core of the band.
JoAnne Norris, drums
JoAnne was an intense and gifted drummer bringing verve to the violet's music.
Michelle, bass
Michelle was also self taught but quickly melded with JoAnne into the backbone of the band.
just saw your friend request...lol. neat that we both requested....ha ha ha...i didn't mention it before in my last comment because i didn't see you in my requests b/c they were so backed up...neat! :) have a good weekend! xx/luv-jm.
Yes, but this one came to me because it has actual meaning to myself, and I knew right when it did that it would be the band name. Anyways, take care, Jim.
TERVE! Hello from Finland! I just released my new cd featuring Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Lanegan, Steve Berlin (los lobos), Chris and Carla from the Walkabouts, Peter Case, Scott McCaughey (YFF, REM)and Jim Roth (built to spill). CD has liner notes by Biographer Charles R. Cross (BackStreets-Springsteen...Heavier than Heaven-Cobain...Roomful of Mirrors-Hendrix...etc. Also I have finally put "Passing Thru" on my site as well for you to hear...this is the one with Eddie Vedder, Victoria Williams, and Carla Torgerson trading verses with me...it has not been availablé for a long time, and I also have it on i-tunes, etunes, amazon and rhapsody. Okay...I hope you are doing well!
what ever happened to the morlocks? what does it mean? is it like a wizard who specialises in MORE as opposed to WAR? i mean everyone knows war is bollocks but it'd still be pretty cool to be a Warlock. worth the death and destruction in my books.
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