ANNIEVOX

If you get bored reading...shtop' NOW: It is waffle to even those who know me so...dooh..dooo..dooooooooooooooooo.........Born in R.I.(Providence line) Sang in (R.I.) "Six Feet Under" (Metal? Punk?) in '90' Livin' in Nottingham UK for over 13 years (out of choice) Still sing with "Spazzmatics" (Its punk: mate of mine says it sounds a bit like Social Unrest...not the intention but thats very cool to me) Ended up havin discovered punk on my own as a youngster. Didnt really know what I listened to as a kid was called 'punk'. I had no older brother/sister or cousins or even any mates that listened to anything specific or anyone around to call it anything. So for me it just never came in conversation. "Dead Kennedys" in '84 or 85' at an all ages show which I dragged a friend with me who was more interested in hanging in the parking lot n talking to boys (yawn). "Circle Jerks" (made a hefty drinking game in their honour - 'well I WAS a little kid') "Suicidal Tendancies" etc... I didnt really talk to anybody so I didnt know that was punk either except that I loved it! Plus it didnt help that I WAS a girl (who looked 12), not old enough to be picked up (not intrested) and I looked more like a outta date 70's scruffy stoned rock kid anyway. At that age I didnt even know 'The Ramones','X', or'The Clash' was called punk (which can still be debated by some anyway). Sounds ridiculous to me now... Even though I had their records, cassettes, but still didnt know it was something defined. The only thing I saw was the Sex Pistols & kids on the streets of London on MTV. Oi mohicans n nasty angry heavy makeup that wasnt 'rock'. That was just something that looked very cool to me but very far away and very foreign. It wasnt like I grew up in the boondocks either. Providence was just more a factory working class shithole like any Northeastern city at the time and alot, and I mean ALOT of candy/cock rock Motley Crue type assholes around (one music I will despise till I die...and I mean that) I loved "Black Sabbath" at around the age 12 or 13, early summer I hung out in their car with older boys(well 16 or 17)& they played it on the cassette stereo. When I first heard it I loved it. It blew me away cos it was so dark and so heavy. But of course I was a kid and when I asked them very excitedly 'What was that?!', they couldnt resist telling me who it was... "The Grateful Dead" ..... I went with my best mate to the second hand record store in Pawtucket (Lukes Record Exchange) the very next day! The first thing I did was buy two used "Grateful Dead records" I thought, 'It's got skulls on the cover, it must be it!' When I took it home and played them..I went back to those boys all confused saying "NO, which record were YOU playing in the car?" "I must've bought earlier records or something coz this music sounds totally different ((??!!!???))" To my demise, and as they were rolling on the ground laughing that their joke went much further than their expectations, I finally got what they were laughing about...bastards... I think theres something to this, to all those clueless kids like I was then; that liked any music that had alot of raw power, that was fast, and/or dark, stated and loud, or just plain angry as f*&%! If you love music but there is nobody around to tell you what the hell you're hearing, how are you going to know there is more music (and people) just like it out there? It makes me think that at least I like my music choices for all the right reasons. I think it is alot easier now that kids growing up have the internet and a plethoral world size amount of connections. If they dont know what they are hearing, listening to, or what the hell someone is talking about, all they have to do is look it up...I suppose I coulda' used something like 'My Space' back then...hahahaaaaaa.. 'Think positive (RKL)' .. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Copied from MySpace.com -- Find me on MySpace and be my friend! I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4