PHE
Donas Putting the Arms in Armageddon
Photo and words
by Wez Lundry
BIG
BEAT
THE
BOUNCING
SOULS
NOFX
HAO
FROM
BADSVILLE
The Cramps
Big Beat from Badsville
LOS
The Bouncing Souls
MILLENCOLN
NOFX
So Long and thanks
for all the shoes
PENNYWISE
THICKER THAN WATER
H20
Thicker than Water
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The Donnas may just be every teenage
boy's dream come true: four 18 and 19 year-
old girls that are cute as all get-out AND play in
a punk rock band. While you were still wettin'
out on Lookout! and Super
Teem. They've toured in Japan and
the US-not too shabby when you consider
none of them have had their twenty-first birth-
yet...
14-18 and 19 year-old
girls that are
cote as all get-ou
AND play in
ринках
band.
me from liking it. My favorite kind of
music is just hard rock music," says
Donna R.
Although they may seem like
young vets, they still get nervous.
before a big crowd, like when
they recently played before
a sold-out crowd at a Buck-O-
Nine show: "It was really scary.
We were up on this tall
tall stage,
and they could see
my whole
body we were so high up there, and
we'd never been that high before,
according to Donna A. "We were
standing around like sticks; we
couldn't dance around or anything."
Their music brings out a 50s or
level innocence that comes out.
But like the music of that time,
the undercurrents of all that made
and roll great always man-
aged to come to the top after a
few listens. It's the kind of stuff
that shocked the parents and
made them kick Junior out of the
house at age 18. Music like the
Donnas' may have lost the shock
value it once had, but it definitely
hasn't lost the appeal.
your pants on the playground, they formed day yr alter-egos the Electrocutes show their early 60s feel in the sort of surface-
Their
their band for a talent show in the eighth
grade, covering stuff like The Muffs, L7 and hessian roots, faster and thrashier, but they
Shonen Knife. That was five years ago, when decided to stick around as the Donnas because
they were called Raggedy Ann, and they've people seemed to "get it" more. "It was more
come a long way since then (including a stint fun with the Donnas because people liked it; rock and
long way?
as the Elect
as the Electrocutes).
cates)
they understood it more. They could enjoy it
it
and have fun!", explains Donna C. Fun is a
good way to describe it. The songs are catchy
without too many chords and punk enough
to pass the test, with just a hint of Kiss/Motley
Crüe coming through at times (especially live!).
"We weren't even alive when Kiss was making
millions of dollars, but still, that doesn't stop
Donna C on drums, Donna F on bass, Donna
R on guitar and Donna A on vocals just
released their second LP. This one's on Lookout!
and entitled "American Teenage Rock 'n' Roll
Machine." It features more of their teen-angst
fueled songwriting than the previous collabo-
ratory effort. They've also got a slew of singles
GLOW
SKUL
Voodo Glow Skulls.
Baile De Los Locos
Millencolin
For Monkeys
FULL CIRCLE
Pennywise
Full Circle
Look for the new RANCID album "Life Won't Wait" in stores June 9, 1998!
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