trusting music!!!

[Tea Cake]

I'm exploring the girl-side of playing music- lately----wow WHAT A FUN escape...

O I wonder if any of you play gigs en girle?

I might just try to head in that direction----any advice?


------PEace!!!!!!!------------ Tea Cake

[Virginia]

OH! Anita!!!!
Love,
Virginia

[SilverLady(SO)]

Oh, yeah - this one is definitely for Anita to handle!!

Anita, honey, where are you?!?

- SL

[Anita]

Did someone call? Nice to see you pop in, Teacake, and you can see we're still here.

Playing music in girl mode is wonderful, for me personally. I'll cut right to the down side--you can no longer just show up at the gig, set up, and play. No, you have to do that, AND, you have hour and a half to two hours doing makeup, costume, eyebrow tweaking, you name it. The other guys went out to dinner after soundcheck, and you're slaving over a hot backstage mirror. Fortunately I have another "girl" in the band, so there's usually company in the dressing room.

There's a lot of upside to it, though. I personally feel like as soon as I look like a woman, there's a whole range of extra moves and emotions I can do, and it's entertaining to people

It really is the best of both worlds, because I can still do much of what I grew up doing as a guy, but there's that added dimension.

Lastly, people are more accepting of crossdressing when it's used for entertainment. And that allowed me to go out sooner than I might have otherwise, because I felt "justified" by the fact that I had to be dressed for the gig I was driving to. It gave me a confidence that I wouldn't have had otherwise.

So PM or email me about it if you want to know more.

[Absaroka]

I play the trumpet in a few different band but it would never occur to me to mingle this with CDing.

I do love playing however. Some folks can blow a horn as if they were holding a conversation with you. I'm nowhere near that good but still the music can definitely say what words can not at times.

Absaroka

[Tea Cake]

HEY!!

I so value being able to come here more often now---( my "SO" even registered last night which is HUGE to me.)

Virginia I had actually remembered some cool posts about music from Anita in the past---it was a guitar thread I think, so thanks for the shout out---( and I do hope you are well, thanks for the Solstice greeting too!))


Anita thanks for the reply---sounds like a cool gig to me---what kind of venue is it? I'm just full of questions cos I'm also wondering what are your fave styles to play?

I gig a lot around here where I'm living but its low key places and I don't think it would be much fun dressed up...the right place would be lovely though, I care much for music and would love to experiment with a creative outlet with my cding. It would be the icing on the cake in some ways----plus it could help me focus on a look---I play lots of instrumental music and love to imagine what cool beatnik-chic style I could come up with if all the planets lined up and it was possible to give it a whirl.

As far as the trumpet goes---I just picked up some clifford Brown the other day---I'm wild for horn phrasing.

Crazy for Coltrane too!-----hmmm might have to find a cool black beret to round out an outfit!


------------------------So long for now, great to be back!

----- Tea cake


( where's Beauty?!?!)------hi also to CJ ( that poet to the east!!)

[Kendra Lynn]

Anita and Tea Cake: I am not a musician, but a music journalist covering folk/roots/world music from the British Isles, continental Europe and the middle east. My specialty is British Isles folk/folk-rock: Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Oysterband, Billy Bragg, Richard Thompson, Albion Band, etc., etc. , but over the past decade I've also become interested in and enjoy music from: Spain, Germany, Italy, the Scandanavian countries, and Israel.
So... I don't sing or play instruments.
But as some of you know, one of my favorite activities as a CDer is dressing up as a cheerleader. And I wondered how to combine that with my interest in music.
The first thing that happened was that I got invited to jump up and down and wave pompons during the third encore at a Billy Bragg concert several years ago. Billy is very political and a lefty, so a cheerleader outfit with RADICAL on the front and a peace sign on the back fit in very well with his show.
Then I wondered if any of the bands I knew were associated with particular colors. Then it hit me-- Fairport Convention has a song called RED AND GOLD. Those are fab cheerleader colors, so I ordered red and gold and red/gold/white cheerleader outfits. Went to a few FAIRPORT gigs in full regalia and got some groovy photos with band members. AND THEY STILL TALK TO ME AFTER THAT !! COOL!!
More recently, residents of my apartment building produced a skit based on the beauty pageant scene from LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. I appeared as the cheerleader and am proud to report that I actually learned the dance routine we did to Rick James' SUPERFREAK.
But I'd really like to dance to world/fusion stuff like AFRO CELT SOUND SYSTEM! ("Riverdance goes to the multi-ethnic pep rally!"-- YEAH!!-- what a concept!)
I have seen THE KINSEY SICKS and enjoyed them, but they perform in a more or less conventional (?) "drag queen" style. I would love to see bands with CDers who are just accepted as members of the bands. I know there are rock bands composed mostly of CDers, but none of those have appeared in the Washington, D.C. area. I am also aware of several transsexual (M to F) musicians, both in this country and in England.
I have also gone to a few music events cross dressed in more ordinary attire (not cheerleader outfits) and had a great time interacting with the musicians! (I saw Texas swing band ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL at an outdoor event and they were really cool about it-- I saw them a few months later in "drab" and asked if they recognized me??!!).
I wonder if we should start a music subssection of this forum? There seem to be more than few real music freaks here.
I could ramble all night about music, but will stop now
because my typing finger is exhausted.
Let's keep talking music (and CD'ing!)
Peace-- Kendra Lynn.

[Absaroka]

I love Asleep At The Wheel.

More Maynard than Clifford when it comes to trumpet preferences. But Clifford was truly brilliant.

Absaroka