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CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Gail Ann Dorsey

Already a sought-after session musician when she joined David Bowie's band in 1995, Gail Ann Dorsey has also played with Tears for Fears, Indigo Girls, Gang of Four, Lenny Kravitz, Charlie Watts, Gwen Stefani, and many others. But it's Gail's work in Bowie's band, particularly when matched with guitarist Reeves Gabrels, that shines. Like here, when she implants a throbbing, beating heart into Bowie's classic Queen colaboration, "Under Pressure."



Or here. "Heroes."



And we'll just have to see if Bowie's new album kicks off a tour. But if it does, I'm willing to bet that Gail will be there, backing him up.

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CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Sara Lee

Sara Lee was already an accomplished bassist when she joined Gang of Four in the early 1980s, having played with Robert Fripp in League of Gentlemen. "I Love a Man in a Uniform" from the Gang of Four album Songs of the Free showcases Sara's talents--for singing as well as playing the bass--very nicely, though the song was banned in the UK shortly after its release in 1992 because Britain went to war with Argentina in the Falklands Islands.



After Gang of Four, Sara became a sought-after session and touring bassist, playing with such acts as the Thompson Twins, the B-52s, Indigo Girls. and Ani DeFranco. In 2000, Sara released her first solo album, Make It Beautiful on Difranco's Righteous Babe records.

But you really want to listen to League of Gentlemen...


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CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Lyn-Z

Lyn-Z worked as a window display artist and assisted painter Ron English before joining Mindless Self Indulgence in 2001. Often noted for wearing an exaggerated schoolgirl uniform on stage, Lyn-Z is also known for augmenting her aggressive playing style with back bends, stage dives, and pratfalls.



In 2007, Lyn-Z married My Chemical Romance leader, Gerard Way backstage at the final date of Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution tour. The pair have a daughter, Bandit Lee Way, born in 2009.



As Lindsey Way, Lyn-Z regularly exhibits her visual art, including her thirteen-diorama series inspired by Henry Darger, Mary Blair, and Georges Melies, "Hush."



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CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Jo Bench

When Coventry, UK grindcore band Bolt Thrower's founding bass player, Gavin Ward, decided to switch to rhythm guitar in 1987, the replacement bassist he enlisted didn't bother showing up. So Ward encouraged his then-girlfriend to try out for the band. A quarter century later, Jo Bench is still not just showing up, but providing the dark low end that keeps the now-venerable Warhammer-inspired metal titans penetrating eardrums like sonic ballistae.



Although Jo's been playing death metal practically since the genre's inception, female musicians remain a rarity in the world of extreme metal, though that tide may be changing.



When asked in an interview whether she had to work harder to be taken seriously by her bandmates, Jo said, "I don’t think I have to work harder than any of the other members, we all work pretty hard, so just as hard is enough. The important thing is to remember that I’m the bassist first, and being female is secondary when it comes to the band. We’ve never promoted the fact I was female, I’ve never done solo photo sessions, or any kind of self-promotion and I think I have gained more respect because of it"

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CHICK BASSIST celebrates chick bassists: Suzy Quatro

Suzi Quatro changed the game. After playing in Detroit garage bands with her sisters in the 1960s, including chart-hitting act The Pleasure Seekers, Suzy emerged as a solo artist in the early 1970s, becoming the first female bass player to achieve rock-star status. Suzy's success was abroad at first, scoring her first #1 hit in Portugal in 1972. Hits followed in the UK, Europe, and Australia.



It took television to bring Suzy home to America. In 1977, Suzy began a recurrent role on TV series Happy Days, where she played Leather Tuscadero, younger sister of motorcycle stuntwoman (and Fonzie love interest) Pinky Tuscadero. Leather was a rock'n'roller with a troubled past in the show's weirdly-stylized, alternate-reality 1950s. Cynical readers will also note that 1977 was the season Happy Days infamously jumped the shark.



In a 2012 interview, Suzy said: "Before I did what I did, we didn't have a place in rock 'n' roll. Not really. You had your Grace Slicks and all that, but that's not what I did. I was the first to be taken seriously as a female rock 'n' roll musician and singer. That hadn't been done before. I played the boys at their own game. For everybody that came afterward, it was a little bit easier, which is good. I'm proud of that. If I have a legacy, that's what it is."

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