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Carol Kaye (née Smith,[1] born March 24, 1935)[2] is an American musician. She is one of the most prolific recorded bass guitarists in rock and pop music, playing on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years.[3]

Kaye began playing guitar in her early teens and after some time as a guitar teacher, began to perform regularly on the Los Angeles jazz and big band circuit. She started session work in 1957, and through a connection at Gold Star Studios began working for producers Phil Spector and Brian Wilson. After a bassist failed to turn up to a session in 1963, she switched to that instrument, quickly making a name for herself as one of the most in-demand session players of the 1960s, playing on numerous hits. She moved into playing on film soundtracks in the late 1960s, particularly for Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin, and began to release a series of tutoring books such as How To Play The Electric Bass. Kaye became less active towards the end of the 1970s, but has continued her career and attracted praise from other musicians.

During the peak of her years of session work, she became part of a stable of Los Angeles-based musicians which went by a variety of informal names, but has since become known as "The Wrecking Crew". Her work with the collective led to her prominent role in the 2008 documentary film titled The Wrecking Crew. 

Carol Kaye was born in Everett, Washington to musician parents, Clyde and Dot Smith, both professionals. She has played and taught guitar professionally since 1949, played bebop jazz guitar in dozens of nightclubs around Los Angeles with top groups (also in Bob Neal's jazz group with Jack Sheldon backing Lenny Bruce, with Teddy Edwards, Billy Higgins etc.), accidentally got into studio work late 1957 with the Sam Cooke recordings and other big recordings on guitar for the 1st 5 years of studio work in Hollywood.

In 1963 when a Fender bassist didn't show up for a record date at Capitol Records, she picked up the Fender bass (as it was called then) and augmented her busy schedule playing bass and grew quickly to be the no. 1 call with record companies, movie & TV film people, commericals (ads), and industrial films. She enjoyed working under the direction of Michel LeGrand, Quincy Jones, Elmer Bernstein, Lalo Schifrin, David Rose, David Grusin, Ernie Freeman, Hugo Montenegro, Leonard Rosenman, John Williams, Alfred & Lionel Newman, etc. as well as the numerous hits she recorded for hundreds of recording artists.

Beginning in 1969, she wrote her first of many bass tutoring books, "How To Play The Electric Bass" effectively changing the name of Fender Bass to Electric Bass and began teaching 100s of Electric Bass students, many of them now famous themselves.

Her tutors are endorsed by such notables as Professor Joel Leach, 10-year winner of the Pacific Jazz Festival Awards with his famous Cal-State Northridge Jazz Bands, and Plas Johnson, jazz/blues studio sax legend ("Pink Panther"). She stepped out to perform live with the Hampton Hawes Jazz Trio in the mid 70s, has given many seminars all over the USA, and is a leader in Electric Bass education. Official Website http://www.carolkaye.com/

 Sib Hashian was of Armenian and Italian ancestry and lived in Lynnfield, Massachusetts 

Sib was the original drummer for the legendary band "Boston".  

In 2003 he appeared on Sammy Hagar's Live: Hallelujah as an unofficial member of The Waboritas.

In 2004 he returned to the stage at the Tremont Theater for the Boston premiere of 9-Ball which he also produced along with Ernie Boch Jr.

In 2005 he appeared in R U the Girl as his daughter Lauren was a contestant trying out to win the chance to perform with TLC.

In 2006 he recorded with Ernie and the Automatics, a band that featured Goudreau on guitar. Sib was also on New England Music Hall of Fame Inductee Barry Goudreau's self titled album. 

  Yellow Box Entertainment is producing a documentary on Sib's life called "Backbeat from above" https://www.yellowboxentertainment.com/n-e-w-s-e-v-e-n-t-s

  Born June 12, 1951
Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S Brad was an American musician, best known as the original lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Boston. He joined Boston in 1970, in which he played and sang on the band's first three albums.  Brad was known for being kindhearted, and contributed to a number of charitable causes . 

• Boston (1976)
• Don't Look Back (1978)
• Third Stage (1986)
• Corporate America (2002)

• Barry Goudreau (1980)

• Orion the Hunter (1984)

• Return to Zero (1991)
• Lost (1998)
• Lost and Found (2004)

• Delp and Goudreau (2003)
• "Rockin' Away" (2007)

• Whatcha Gonna Do! (2008)

• Keith Emerson - Best Revenge - Playing For Keeps (1982)
• Bruce Arnold - Orpheus Again (2010

Goldie & the Gingerbreads was an all-female American rock band from 1962 to 1967.[1] They were the first all-female rock band signed to a major record label.[2]

Whereas most female bands were ignored by the big record labels and their live performances rarely attracted more than gimmick-seeking crowds, the quartet consisting of three musicians and a singer: Ginger Bianco, Margo Lewis, Carol MacDonald, and Genya "Goldie" Zelkowitz (later Genya Ravan), were among the first to break into a domain dominated by men. They were signed to Decca in 1963[3] and to Atlantic in 1964.

Singles

• Skinny Vinnie / Chew Chew Fee Fi Fum – (1964), SPOKANE 45-4005[21]
• That's Why I Love You / What Kind of Man Are You – (1965), ATCO 45-6354[21]
• Can't You Hear My Heartbeat / Little Boy – (1965), DECCA 12070[21]
• That's Why I Love You / The Skip – (1965), DECCA 12126[21]
• Sailor Boy / Please Please – (1966), DECCA 12199[21]
• Look For Me Baby – (1966), DECCA
• Think About The Good Times / Please Please – (1966), ATCO 45-6427[21]
• Walking in Different Circles / Song of the Moon – (1967), ATCO 45-6475[21]
• Think About the Good Times – FONTANA 693[21]

 New England all female band Lizzie Borden and the Axes began with the founder Lizzie Borden. Liz became friends with Joan Jett, and in the early 1980s helped get her a gig at the Rat in Kenmore Square. It was there that Borden met guitarist Rita Lavacchia, and soon it was Borden switching to bass, Lavacchia on guitar, Cyndie Barone on drums, and singer Daria Smith, who was chosen partly due to her two-tone black and blonde hair. Lizzie Borden & the Axes started playing as a quartet at Cantones, the Rat, the Space, eventually bringing in Kathy Perry on keyboards. Then Smith left, with Heather Rice taking her place at the microphone.

But it wasn’t easy being an all-female band at the time, and there were cases of the band members being beaten up. Borden recalls one night at the Rat when a security bouncer started squirting something at them that caused a stinging in her eye, and how her punk attitude came in handy. “All I remember is leaping off stage, onto the bouncer, grabbing a chair, trying to bash him over the head, with him hitting back.” Labels took an interest in their music, and they released one album apiece with Capitol and A&M. But major changes were made. The band was forced to soften their look, from hair to makeup to outfits, because they were told they weren’t -– Borden’s words — “girlie” enough. Then they were told to change their name to Mata Hari. A few videos were released, but Rice wasn’t happy with the new direction of the band, and quit, as did Barone.

Borden remembers: “We were in the studio recording, and I was miserable. Rita looked at me in the middle of the session, then put her guitar down and said, ‘That’s it. I’m done. This is not what I want to do.’ And she walked out. I knew I had to finish the recording but then I walked out, too.” The band’s final gigs were in 1990, but there have been a number of reunions over the years, with Lisa Addario on guitar. Lizzie and the Axes are featured in the New England Music museum  https://www.mmone.org/lizzie-borden-the-axes/

Alex Peterson-Bass

Carole Duckworth-Drums

Janet Robin-Guitar

Susette Andres-Drummer

Mara Fox-Guitar 

Leslie Knauer-Vocal's 

Groundbreaking all female band Precious Metal made quite a name for themselves in the 80’s rock scene of LA’s Sunset Strip.

Together the fearsome five combined glam/rock/pop into a perfect meld of top-tier melodic rock anthems, all while adding their own blend of attitude, hard rock style and of course a dose of glamour. Precious Metal’s well-crafted edgy melodic metal/pop rock proved a successful mix and live they delivered.

Front-woman Leslie Knauer, drummer Susette Andres, lead and rhythm guitarist Janet Robin, rhythm and lead guitarist Mara Fox and bassist Alex Rylance complete the bands original line-up. Then a bit later came Carol Control on Drums.

It wasn’t long before the girls were honing their trademark sound playing LA’s clubs. Word of mouth followed and garnering interest from LA DJ Eddie X, KROQ ho featured the bands demos on all his radio shows! 

That led to a chance hearing by then Polygram/Mercury Records Vice-President Russ Reagan of “Girls Night Out” in his car led him to signing the band in early 1985.

Also signed to a production deal with producer Paul Sabu, Precious Metal’s first album “Right Here, Right Now,” (Mercury/Polygram) was recorded over the fall of 1985 with Sabu at the helm and saw a January 1986 release. 

“Cheesecake” a signature song from the bands live set, was chosen to be the first single, but the was soon overshadowed when another song “Bad Guys” found it’s way onto the soundtrack of a movie of the same name. 

A music video was produced for “Bad Guys” and received much-attention on MTV’s Headbangers Ball and later VH1.

https://preciousmetal.band/

Kathy Auburn-Guitar

Amy Blaze-Drums

Denise Troy-Vocals/ Keyboards

Peepa Jean-Sax/Guitar/Vocals/

A ground breaking all female lesbian band. CT based Sister Funk have been around for 20 years. They have broken down many barriers and  had the privilege's of sharing national stages with acts like: Mellissa Etheridge, B52s, Foreigner, ZZ 

Did you say 20 years? Yes this group has been to therapy and back to keep their high energy show going all these years.

2022 brings their 6th full-length independent CD release to the masses. Tracks off this new CD Wings To Fly are eclectic, more raw then their pervious releases and include some solid country-rock tunes such as Ride With Me & Life On The Road and some funky-blues-rock tunes like Want What I Want and It Ain't You. There are some surprise genres on this compilation such as Frostbite (rock-metal) and One Small Step (electra-pop).

Sister Funk has been nominated for many awards and titles: Best Rock band- Advocate, Best Rock Song- New England Music and has had their song Gone featured on Sirius Out Q as #1 for 15 consecutive weeks. Sister Funk performances are known for being unpredictable, playing multiple instruments and performing medleys of their favorite cover songs with their own creative interpretation. Don't be fooled by the name this dynamic band has something for everyone. 

Website: https://www.sisterfunk.com/index.php

 Bernice de Pasquali (December 7, 1873 – April 3, 1925), born Bernice James, was an American coloratura soprano singer and pianist. She sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1908 to 1917, and was the first American woman elected to membership in the Accademia Filarmonica Romana.  Bernice W. James was born in Hull, Massachusetts, the daughter of William W. James, a sea captain. Her uncle was Joshua James, a noted sea captain and commander of civilian life-saving crews.[1] She played piano, and studied voice with Oscar Saenger in New York.[2][3]  

She made many recordings, between 1911 and 1914, including several duets with German contralto Rosa Olitzka.[12] She wrote on singing, explaining that "From the very start the singer, particularly the one who aspires to become an operatic singer, should endeavor to discard fear entirely," adding "If the singer gives the audience the least suspicion that she is in fear of their verdict, the audience will detect it at once and the verdict will be bad."[13]

In 1924, De Pasquali became the first American woman elected to membership in the Accademia Filarmonica Romana