admin
Joined:
01 Jun 2001
Posts: 525
|
 Posted: 01/09/2008 at 2:21 PM Post subject: Women playing Beans? |
|
|
So BoulderBean posed this question in the somewhat epic (RE:I will pay $15,000 for a wedge) thread.
"Here's a question (perhaps for another thread): Are there any women playing Beans?"
I think this is a great question. The only one that came to mind is Rose from Poster Children. She had an entertaining story of the body actually splitting during a live performance. Also the RTMF enhanced CD shows that Bean.
Thanks!
admin
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wm Weber
Joined:
27 Jun 2001
Posts: 18
|
| Posted: 01/09/2008 at 2:57 PM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
I saw Steve Albini dressed in drag once. But he wasn't playing a bean... but that sorta counts, doesn't it?
I also remember reading an article of some band from Illinois that had a girl that played a Bean bass. She accidentally dropped it and it split in two. Had it repaired and went back to rockin' on it. Lets see, I can't remember the band, the girls name or what Bean!
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
admin
Joined:
01 Jun 2001
Posts: 525
|
| Posted: 01/09/2008 at 3:21 PM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
I think we're talking about the same girl. Rose of PosterChildren out of Champaign, Illinois. Here is her story...
"my story is just that I have broken both my Travis Bean basses in half - one by accident and the other was sort of premeditated. The first one broke in half while I was playing in Florida - the sound started cutting in and out in the middle of a song, and, frenzied as usual, I glanced down at my pedals to make sure they were plugged in, then looked behind me to make sure my amp wasn't on fire (that's another story) and everything looked ok. I jumped and flailed around a little more (like I usually do on stage), we were still in the middle of a song, and then I reached my right hand down to turn up the knobs on the bass, and my hand hit my leg. The bass had broken in half, lengthwise, along the line where the metal neck meets the wood, and the bottom half was hanging down to my knee, by the electronics. I looked up in amazement, grinned because my first thought was, "Wow, that's soooo cool." Then I started crying, because I'm a damn crybaby, and I love my bass. That night we taped it together with duct tape, and it was fine. It sounded the same, for the rest of the tour. Long Live Travis Bean."
http://www.posterchildren.com/
admin
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
Wm Weber
Joined:
27 Jun 2001
Posts: 18
|
| Posted: 01/09/2008 at 8:29 PM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
That is it, you nailed it. Actually I met them "back in the day", but... well, maybe you know how brain cells function...
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
charlie
Joined:
06 Jan 2008
Posts: 202
|
| Posted: 01/10/2008 at 8:25 AM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
I'm sure somewhere there are a few girls who play beans, but no doubt they do not have the gear obsession like us boys. Boys and their toys....sometimes its a little embarrassing, but what the hell, I still love Beans! Hey my daughter plays mine sometimes, does that count?
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
Chris Hall
Joined:
01 Jun 2001
Posts: 111
|
| Posted: 01/21/2008 at 11:46 AM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
That's sort of a stupid assumption that "girls" do not have the same "gear obsession" that guys do.
The original Travis Bean "tribute page" (The cult of Travis Bean site) was run by a "girl". She plays a TB500. She uses it while performing her own music, and with the Glenn Branca 100 guitarist ensembles, etc.
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
|
|
|
charlie
Joined:
06 Jan 2008
Posts: 202
|
| Posted: 01/21/2008 at 12:56 PM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
OK so one girl out of how many? If you have ever been to a vintage guitar show, then you will know what I am talking about. It is basically hundreds of guys and a few bored girlfriends and wives AND very few actual female guitar wingnuts. I am not saying they don't exist, but they are definitely a very small minority. I wish this was not the case, but I have resigned myself to reality and do not pretend that gear obsession has any real existential significance. Fortunately, I still like women more than guitars. (except when I'm in trouble for buying another guitar)
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
Wm Weber
Joined:
27 Jun 2001
Posts: 18
|
| Posted: 01/21/2008 at 1:00 PM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
yeah.... and try finding one that speaks Klingon also
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
samuraiphotog
Joined:
25 Feb 2006
Posts: 1
|
| Posted: 07/23/2008 at 10:40 AM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
"The original Travis Bean "tribute page" (The cult of Travis Bean site) was run by a "girl". She plays a TB500. She uses it while performing her own music, and with the Glenn Branca 100 guitarist ensembles, etc."
That would be me. I play two TB's, but have been photographed with the 500 the most.
(hello, Chris!)
I do not speak Klingon, but I can sing along in Kobaiian.
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
arabonradar
Joined:
09 Sep 2008
Posts: 1
|
| Posted: 09/09/2008 at 7:51 PM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
Andrea Fiset of my old band Arab On Radar played a Travis Bean Bass; it has been sold sadly.
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
okkofx
Joined:
11 Nov 2002
Posts: 5
|
| Posted: 09/11/2008 at 8:44 AM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
I offered my TB2000 to our bass player, she tried it and said it plays and sounds well but is way too heavy and ugly...
@ arabonradar
Great to see you here, I guess you've been the Bean player in AOR? I really dig the records (especially the ones without bass...:-) and I wish I could have seen AOR live. Would you mind telling me something about your setup at that time - guitar tuning, effects, amps/cabs (I saw some weird-looking stuff in youtube videos)?
Thank you
okko
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
|
|
|
Peggy Foster
Joined:
20 Jun 2008
Posts: 18
|
| Posted: 11/01/2008 at 11:46 PM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
I've been playing Travis Bean Basses since 1976. If you google Steve Vai, Discography, Flexible Album, click on the mp3 clip of Salamanders In The Sun, you can hear me playing a fretless, tri-color Koa TB 2000 - the bass has beautiful smooth tone.
I still have #25 TB4000 Wedge Bass. When I play it, bass players line up by the stage to ask me - what is that? You can see a photo of it on The Runaways website, follow the trails to History, Peggy Foster Interview. I was playing for Bob Hodge (Little Feat) when the photo was taken, about 1999.
I'm definately a girl. Mark and Travis nick-named me "Foggy Pester".
I've never thought about it until now, but I don't know of any other girls playing Beans - I would like to meet them if there are some.
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
rlrlrl
Joined:
24 Dec 2007
Posts: 158
|
| Posted: 11/03/2008 at 8:06 PM Post subject: RE:Women playing Beans? |
|
|
Hi Peggy, welcome! Cool story, cool bass, cool everything. Don't you dare let anyone convince you to sell your bass!
|
|
Back to top
|
|
|
|
|
|
